Alchemy for the modern world
Connection, identity and becoming alive. I am beginning this discussion from the understanding that all experience is mental. This is mainstream science. Experience is a result of interaction between the world-in-itself which is beyond my reach, my senses, my brain...
Words, Death and Staying Alive
Sailing is like writing. It allows me to pause. Facing into the wind is like facing the page on the screen. Extraneous story lines, which would twist me this way and that, often criss-crossing in contradictory ways, become irrelevant. I empty myself to welcome in...
Why We Need Angels
We all create hypotheses and theories about life which we then test. If a hypothesis proves useful and make good sense of our experience, well then we adopt it as real. A hypothesis that leads to poor life outcomes and predictions is discarded. This is the way of...
Mindfulness and the Prefrontal Cortex
A lot of us have heard about mindfulness and its possible benefits. Recently I have learned a few interesting things about the brain that have made the benefits of mindfulness meditation even clearer to me. Meditation produces a thickening of the prefrontal cortex –...
The Four Noble Truths and Modern Life
The relevance of Buddha’s four noble truths in our modern lives The fundamental and most important teachings of the Buddha are disarmingly simple. There is suffering There is a cause of suffering There is an end of suffering There is a way to the end of suffering. It...Volume One of the Anchors in An Open Sea trilogy
Volume Two of the Anchors in An Open Sea trilogy
Buddha and a Boat: What is this human life? Digging into the mystery when life gets sticky.
Volume Three of the Anchors in An Open Sea trilogy
