Graduate Redux
December 29, 2023
(audio available for paid subscribers) I wrote a thing a while ago about The Graduate, specifically the last few seconds when it is revealed to be a very different movie than we
(audio available for paid subscribers) I wrote a thing a while ago about The Graduate, specifically the last few seconds when it is revealed to be a very different movie than we
(audio available for paid subscribers) If you like nonduality, you’re gonna love Advaita Vedanta, or so you might suppose, but that’s not been my experience. Whenever I look into Advaita, I start
(audio available for paid subscribers) Ralph Waldo Emerson makes the point that some people are materialists and some are materialists and idealists, but no one is just an idealist. That’s an interesting
(audio available for paid subscribers) These questions were sent to me with a note saying they are AI-generated questions meant to challenge a nondual teacher. There are no challenging questions, so I
(audio available for paid subscribers) There’s a difference between playing your role and identifying with your role. When you’re in the world and of the world, unseen forces drag you around like
(audio available for paid subscribers) I think back to before my second-stage birth and try to remember what it was like to be unsighted. Not surprisingly, it’s all a blur; nothing
(audio available for paid subscribers) Before I begin, I’d like to point out two words in the above title which I know to be fraudulent and which I fully intend to ridicule
(audio available for paid subscribers) Although that which appears to exist knowably does not, appearance itself knowably does. The content of a dream does not exist, but the dream itself does. There
(audio available for paid subscribers) The Transcendentalist is a lecture and essay by American writer and thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is one of the essays he wrote while establishing the doctrine