Selected articles

This is a curated selection of articles from Mystery of Existence, organized by theme. These writings explore awakening, healing, psychology, ecology, culture, partnership and domination orientations, and civilization.

Why is a selection needed? Because there are more than 10,000 published articles on this site, with the first entry in 2002. (As of August 2026, there are about 10,500 published posts with 6,500,000 words, which would take about 54 eight-hour days to read or 2.5 working months.)

This page is a work in progress. If you want to explore some topics beyond this smaller selection of articles, use tags and the search function.

Index

Introductory Articles

Selected Articles – Personal

Selected Articles – Finca Milagros

Selected Articles – General

Selected Articles – Long Journey Home

Introductory Articles

The following articles can serve as an introduction to some of the central themes I explore on this website.

Our nature: What are we in our own first-person experience? | Talking about the inevitability of what we are | The logic of what we are: Consciousness & capacity

Who and what we are: The relationship between who and what we are | The experience of our human self when we notice our nature

A secular and grounded view on awakening: A secular view on awakening | Why don’t awakening teachers more often differentiate between small and big interpretations of awakening? | The nature of different parts of reality

Direct noticing and practice: Notice & allow | Basic meditation: Notice and allow what’s here, and notice it’s already noticed and allowed | How I experience the sense field

Healing and awakening: Befriend & Awaken: The essence of many healing and awakening traditions | Befriending and awakening contractions: How it works | Waking up issues, parts, and subpersonalities

Awakening process: Threads of awakening | What has changed since the initial shift? | Why the spontaneous awakening shift?

How we relate to others: Others are likely like me: We are all fundamentally consciousness to ourselves | Seeing them in me, and me in them: Actively using the world as a mirror both ways

Knowing and not knowing: Don’t know as context – the rest are questions about the world

A brief autobiography: A brief personal history / autobiography | My own story: Before and after initial awakening, and the awakening itself

Civilization, ecology, and systems change: The beauty and madness of civilization: Thoughts as tools vs thoughts as truth | A suicidal & ecocidal civilization: Finding a more real, grounded, and kind way to relate to it all | Climate change or not: We need to transform our civilization anyway

See also The Long Journey Home, a project imagining a regenerative civilization in the far future.

Selected Articles – Personal

Autobiography

Why the spontaneous awakening shift? (2022)

A brief personal history / autobiography (2022)

My own story: before and after awakening and the awakening itself (2020)

What has changed since the initial shift? (2024)

What happened just before and after the initial oneness shift? And how has it changed over the years and decades? – the period surrounding the initial oneness shift at sixteen and how the process has changed since (2025)

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Autobiographical Snippets & Oddities – Chronological

Between lives – Flashbacks

My before-life experience – A fuller account of childhood flashbacks to before this life, their connection with the later oneness shift, and their influence on my life (2026)

A memory from between lives – from between incarnations (2022)

Flashbacks to before this life & a familiarity with all as consciousness – same topic (2025)

Flashbacks to before this life and oneness – same topic (2023)

Infancy – Out of Body

Out-of-body experience and noticing my nature – when I was four or five months old (2024)

Out-of-body experience as a child – another on the same topic (2022)

Pre-teen – Universe

Pre-teens: one with the universe – a figure-ground shift in the mountains (2026)

Fifteen & Sixteen – Observer & Oneness

Teenage experience: the shift from simplified duality to oneness – age fifteen & sixteen (2022)

From observer to oneness – same topic (2021)

Witness, then oneness – same topic (2018)

Is there a connection between CFS & an experience of the world & self as dreamlike (derealization/ depersonalization)? (2026) – I am adding this here since it explores how (a) an Epstein-Barr infection may have set the stage for CFS and a strong brain fog, the brain fog came with (b) a sense of the world as distant, unreal, and dreamlike, which in turn may have set the stage for (c) the later oneness shift

Fifteen – Observer-Observed Split & Energies

How I started seeing energies – age fifteen (2019)

My story with seeing energies (auras) – same topic (2018)

Seeing energies in my teens – same topic (2026)

Is awakening binary or gradual? Seeing energies & why I tend to focus on the degree – includes seeing energies and how awakening appears in varying degrees (2024)

Sixteen & Later – Oneness Shift

Initial awakening phase: strong energies and lots of noticing – age sixteen and later (2020)

Awakening as a pressure valve – why the shift may have happened (2026)

Why the spontaneous awakening shift? – same topic (2022)

After the initial oneness shift: A massive influx of energy, inspiration, and insights – the intense energy, insights, and artistic inspiration that followed the oneness shift, and the challenges in being unprepared (2026)

Late Teens & Early Twenties – Explorations

Inviting my soul, Christ and Spirit to work on me – teens and early twenties (2014)

Tongues of fire – teens and early twenties (2006)

Flame above crown of head – teens and early twenties (2018)

An I Ching experience – age nineteen? (2022)

Birth mark reflecting an injury from a past life? – from my forties & teens (2020) (see also the dream)

Big dreams from my teens: Apollo & gold fish – early big dreams involving Apollo, Aphrodite, soul connection, gold fish, individuation, and awakening symbolism. (2006)

I was a student of Odd Nerdrum in the ’90s – around twenty (2024)

The Heart Sutra and the dreamlike quality of reality – mid-twenties (2024)

Late Twenties / Early Thirties

Premonition dream: cat in Wisconsin – from when I lived in Madison 2001 (?) (2019)

Thirties – Return to Practice / No-Self Shift

Conscious through deep sleep – early thirties (2023)

Stream of consciousness through deep sleep (2005)

Reflections on when the no-self aspect of my nature came strongly to the foreground – an overview of the no-self shift in 2005, with links to articles written during that period (2026)

When no-self comes into the foreground – mid-thirties (2024)

Transition to No Self – mid-thirties (2005)

No Self & Habitual Patterns – mid-thirties (2005)

Deepening Of No Self: Remarkable & Unremarkable – mid-thirties (2005)

Now – snapshot of my current experience in my mid-thirties (2005)

Don’t Know – mid-thirties (2005)

Inside & Outside Of A Vase – mid-thirties (2005)

Softening – mid-thirties (2005)

Initial oneness shift and current process – notes on the initial oneness shift, later process, energy, light, synchronicities, deeksha, and visualizations during an intense phase of opening and clarification (2005)

Synchronicities – mid-thirties (2006)

Currently into… – mid-thirties (2006)

Shaktipat – mid-thirties (2006)

Shift in taste and smell | Other senses changing also | Dr. Wolff on ambrosia – mid-thirties (2007)

Forties – Dark Night

Second vs first dark night (2012)

A “dangerous prayer” – how the darkest part of the dark night started (2024)

A crop circle synchronicity – from 2014 (2015)

Own UFO experience: Tic Tac UFO sighting in California 2015 – from 2015 (2015)

Chronic Fatigue & Lyme Update – CFS, Lyme, infections, tests, and treatment during 2015–2016 (2016)

Vortex Healing – beginning with Vortex Healing 2016)

Vortex Healing woven into daily life – Vortex Healing as part of daily life (2016)

A real-life ghost story: repeating sounds – from 2016 (2017)

A core veil experience – from 2017 (2023)

Fifties – Regeneration of Land and Self

See Finca Milagros articles in a later section.

“Supernatural” things that are part of my daily life – ongoing (2021)

The school from my dream decades back – a premonition dream from my teens (2022)

Health crisis & shifting the center of gravity into my nature as a safety valve – sepsis (2022)

It’s all a bonus – a personal reflection after surviving septic shock: not just this life, but all of existence, is a bonus and a miracle. (2023)

Nature spirits & Finca Milagros – experiences with nature spirits, beginning with seeing energies at sixteen and continuing at Finca Milagros (2024)

Connecting with people who recently died – ongoing (2023)

My experience of the world, this body, etc. – No-self strongly in the foreground and the later dark night of trauma (2023)

An example of dream telepathy (?) – (2023)

Talking with the ants – ongoing (2023)

A repeating ghost experience: sounds at night – ongoing ghost story 2010s-2020s (2024)

The stories we put on weird experiences – reflection (2024)

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Autobiographical Themes

Dreams where “I” am someone other than my waking life identity (2026)

My nature noticing itself, and finding views that match (2024)

Have I found myself? – a personal reflection on finding myself through inner guidance, healing, belonging, meaningful work, ecology, and noticing my nature (2026)

A fantasy and longing that someone will take me seriously and be on my side – a recurring fantasy as a pointer to deeper longings, including being taken seriously, understood, and having someone reliably on my side (2026)

The layers of who and what I am (2025)

When things are what I am – (2024)

He is living his own life (2024)

I have never known human life (2025)

Feeling a million things at once (2024)

Spiritual practices 24/7 including in dreams (2024)

Always a beginner & a personal reflection (2025)

The oneness I am to myself colors how I perceive the world (2024)

Why I see awakening mostly as a degree (2024)

How I experience the sense field (2024)

When the dreamlike nature of reality becomes ordinary (2026)

A selection of my own dreams from 2002 to now (2026)

Meditation sickness & my experience with it (2025)

My quarter-century long dark night (2024)

Reversals in the dark night of the soul – reversals during the dark night (2013)

Second vs first dark night – comparing the first and second dark nights (2012)

A deeply human process – dark night, humanness, and the unfolding process (2011)

From realizing to being – moving from realization into deeper embodiment (2011)

My Big Five personality tests – a revisiting of three Big Five / NEO PI personality test results, reflecting on a consistent pattern of high openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, low neuroticism, moderate extraversion, and how physical energy may affect their expression (2026)

Is there a connection between CFS & an experience of the world & self as dreamlike (derealization/ depersonalization)? – an exploration of derealization and depersonalization as symptoms of CFS

Chronic Fatigue & Lyme Update – CFS, Lyme, infections, tests, and treatment during 2015–2016 (2016)

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Family

My father – Memories, photographs, grief, and gratitude following my father’s death (2026)

Auds erindringer – My mother’s own memoir and account of her family background, childhood, education, marriage, and family life (2026)

We are multitudes – Grief, gratitude, family wounds, intergenerational trauma, and the many layers of my mother and our relationship following her death (2025)

Journals & A Day in my Life

Oslo Journal August 2026 (2026)

A day in my life – Oslo (2026)

Oslo Journal May 2026 (2026)

London Journal (2026)

A journey to Amritapuri / Amma’s ashram in Kerala (2025–2026)

A day in the life, Norway edition (2025)

Personal notes vol. 1 – a collection of brief personal notes and autobiographical reflections (2026)

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Amma Journey

A journey to Amritapuri / Amma’s ashram in Kerala (2025–2026)

Amma London 2025 (2025)

An update on the Amma experience (2025)

Dream: At Amritapuri, Amma’s ashram (2025)

Dream: At Amma’s ashram (2026)

Who is my mom? (2025)

An Amma experience: no words – (2023)

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A Few Dreams

Dream: Group of women healers (2006) – a group of women healers seeing me deeply following the Amma journey (2026)

Recurrent childhood dream: Falling into a witch’s cauldron (2026) – a theme for my life

I know for certain I will die within a few weeks or months (2026)

Deep dives with James Cameron (2026)

At Amma’s ashram (2026)

Flourishing seedlings (2026)

Invited to a private meeting with a guru (2026)

Any action shifts my world, sometimes dramatically, and it’s all the divine and my nature (2026)

At Amritapuri, Amma’s ashram (2025)

A Zen center is now at the place where I grew up (2025)

Community (2025)

Magical seeds (2025)

Two women healers help me with the side effects of the awakening and transformation process (2025)

I am the nursery, growing (2024)

Unlimited embodiment (2023)

I am black (2023)

A woven shirt encodes ancient sacred texts (2022)

A Tibetan teacher asks me to lead a meditation (2022)

Art exhibit and shamanic training (2020)

Going with the Tibetan to find a treasure that will change all (2019)

Out of Norwegian dreams (2012)

Gathering of yogis (2007)

The feminine face of God (2006)

The Master (2005)

Bhagavan (2005)

Old growth forest, overview, and embodiment (2005)

Note: Looking at these, I am surprised of the number of dreams where I was a Tibetan yogi…!

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From My Personal Archive

From the archive: a few early drawings – some of my drawings from my teens/early twenties (2024) **

From the archive: some early drawings – more drawings (2024) **

From the archive: A few books from teens & early twenties (2024)

A few things from the archive: books important to me in my teens, a signed book, a lending list (2024)

From the archive: Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi (2025)

From the archive: I Ching (2024)

Tibetans in Kathmandu – an article and photographs from Loshar in Kathmandu, published in 1997 in the Salt Lake Tribune

Outline of a Holistic Worldview: Ecospirituality, Sustainability, Ecopsychology & Deep Ecology (1997) – An exploration of oneness, living systems, ecospirituality, sustainability, and human and planetary health, originally published on my first website in 1997

Ecopsychology, Ecospirituality, Deep Ecology, and Health (1997) – a shorter article from 1997

From the archive: a presentation on the universe as a living system – a presentation from 1995 (2025)

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About These Writings & This Blog

Welcome to Mystery of Existence (2023)

What’s unique in these writings? (2021)

What I write are pointers for myself (2019)

How I benefit from what others share (2012)

A few notes on writing (2022)

A quiet revolutionary quality: an AI perspective on these writings (2025)

A fantasy and longing that someone will take me seriously and be on my side – one reason I write so much here (2026)

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Selected Articles – Finca Milagros

This is our 15-hectare (37 acres) food forest and regeneration project near Barichara in the Andes mountains.

Finca Milagros | Rewilding / Regeneration | Permaculture / Sustainable Building

Finca Milagros

Barichara plant database – for regeneration, reforestation, and food forests – a plant database I have developed with 260+ plants and many ways to sort and list them by use and location (2026)

How we are creating a food forest on Milagros (2024)

Plants for the Milagros food forest: How we select and a provisional plant list (2024)

Why we plant densely in the Milagros food forest (2024)

Our food forest is medicine (2024)

A day on Milagros (2024)

A day at Finca Milagros (2024)

All the beings on Milagros (2024)

How we deal with grass in the Milagros regeneration, and food forest (2025)

Playfulness, regeneration, and the food forest (2025)

The ancient roots and vital future of food forests (2025)

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Rewilding & Regeneration

Regenerating the land and people (2025)

What’s the personal in rewilding and regeneration? (2024)

Food forests & revolution disguised as gardening (2024)

Our food forest is medicine (2024)

Rewilding ourselves (2021)

Rewilding: Nature protecting itself (2023)

Rewilding and cultural differences (2022)

A regeneration synchronicity (2022)

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Permaculture & Sustainable Building

How we stay cool in the tropics (2024)

Underground houses for hot days (2024)

Adapting to climate: Warm weather construction and lifestyle (2023)

How a food forest manages water as it matures (2024)

Weeds? Pioneers? Foreshadowing a mature and rich ecosystem? (2024)

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Selected Articles – General

Our Nature & Layers of Being

ONENESS & SEPARATION

What does “oneness” mean? Some examples of different forms of oneness (2022)

Some aspects of what we are – oneness, love, bliss, capacity, and so on (2022)

The loops of consciousness create a sense of separation within oneness (2022)

Many and one onenesses (2023)

Is oneness a state? (2022)

Can you find the separation? (2015)

No inner and outer (2025)

Forms of oneness (2014)

Levels of oneness: all as Spirit, and everything I see out there is also in here (2006)

Levels of No Separation (2005)

CONSCIOUSNESS & REALITY

The big problem of consciousness & a simple and elegant solution that doesn’t fit our current worldview – A reflection on consciousness, materialism, and consciousness-as-primary views, noting that all of them pale next to the deeper question of why anything exists at all (2023)

The simplest view – A reflection on the view that all is Spirit or the divine, and how even this view does not explain the deepest mystery: why there is something rather than nothing (2023)

I have never known human life (2025)

One or many consciousnesses? (2024)

The nature of different parts of reality (2024)

Life is like a dream (2023)

The dreamlike quality of reality (2022)

The Heart Sutra and the dreamlike quality of reality (2024)

The body as capacity, space, and consciousness (2022)

John Lloyd: Oneness, consciousness, void (2016)

Western ideas about consciousness vs direct noticing of ourselves as consciousness (2025)

Perception of capacity and consciousness when I notice my nature (2022)

OUR NATURE

More real than waking life (2024)

When things are what I am (2024)

When there is awakeness, why does it appear that others – and all of existence – are awake too? (2024)

Talking about the inevitability of what we are (2021)

The logic of what I am (AKA consciousness & capacity) (2025)

The nature of different parts of reality (2024)

My nature seems far more real than anything else, for good reasons (2025)

What are we in our own first-person experience? (2022)

As what I am, all is subject and object (2021)

Monkeys are Buddhas too (2022)

Why do many scientists and psychologists ignore our nature? (2023)

EMPTINESS & CAPACITY

Emptiness (2024)

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form (2023)

What does the Buddhist emptiness mean? (2021)

The body as capacity, space, and consciousness (2022)

Adyashanti: emptiness is… the bottom of separateness falling out (2020)

Forms of space: physical, mental representations, and what we are (2021)

NO-SELF

Self & No-Self – Human self, no-self, and Self with capital S (2024)

A more nuanced view on no self – A differentiated view of self, no-self, and what the phrase can point to (2024)

When no-self comes into the foreground – No-self strongly in the foreground for about six months (2024)

Is the self an illusion? – What is and is not meant by saying the self is an illusion (2024)

My experience of the world, this body, etc. – No-self strongly in the foreground (2023)

From observer to oneness – From observer or Witness to oneness (2021)

Deepening Of No Self: Remarkable & Unremarkable – Deepening of no-self and no-I (2005)

Inside & Outside Of A Vase – Vase analogy for no-self and no-I (2005)

Fluidity Of Self & No Self – Fluidity between self, no-self, human self, and Big Mind (2005)

Stomach Pain & No I – Pain, awareness, and no “I” anywhere (2005)

Diksha – Diksha, Witness, and the experience of no-self becoming clear (2005)

No Self & No I – Clarifying the difference between no-self and no-I (2005)

No Self & Habitual Patterns – No-self and the remaining habitual patterns of the human self (2005)

Unremarkable – No-I and no-self as simple and unremarkable shifts into what is (2005)

Identification – Human self, Absolute, Big Mind, and no “I” anywhere (2005)

No Self – No-self as the dissolving of absolute boundaries between this human self and the wider field (2005)

Transition to No Self – One way the transition into no-self can unfold (2005)

WHO & WHAT I AM

The layers of who and what I am (2025)

Self & No-Self (2024)

Who am I? (2024)

The logic of what we are (2023)

Some aspects of what I am: Capacity, oneness, human self, etc. (2022)

What’s the relationship between the divine and the human? (2023)

The relationship between who and what we are (our human self & consciousness) (2023)

The experience of my human self when I notice my nature (2022)

This human self is happening on its own (2022)

THOUGHTS

Thoughts as an evolutionary experiment (2021)

The beauty and madness of civilization: Thoughts as tools vs thoughts as truth (2024)

My nature and the nature of thoughts reveal each other (2023)

Thoughts: a risky evolutionary experiment (2017)

No value beyond the practical (2008)

Looking at a thought from its outside and inside (2008)

Inquiry: I can go to a thought for answers (2007)

Thoughts as Innocent Questions (2006)

Thoughts as Questions (2005)

THE DREAMLIKE NATURE OF REALITY

When the dreamlike nature of reality becomes ordinary (2026)

(Some of) The many ways dreams and waking life are the same (2025)

The Heart Sutra and the dreamlike quality of reality (2024)

Life is like a dream (2023)

The dreamlike quality of reality (2022)

LILA & PLAY OF EXISTENCE

The purpose of humanity? (2026)

Lila as projection (2025)

Lila here and now (2021)

Ibn Arabi: None loves God but God (2024)

The play of life (lila) & finding ourselves as capacity for our world (2021)

Lila as a (kind of) projection (2019)

Lila (2006)

MYSTERY OF EXISTENCE

Mystery of existence (2023)

I am a mystery to myself (2022)

Demystifying and pointing out the mystery as needed (2022)

Why do we crave mystery? Do we crave the mystery we are? (2024)

The simplest view – A reflection on the view that all is Spirit or the divine, and how even this view does not explain the deepest mystery: why there is something rather than nothing. (2023)

I am a mystery to myself – A more personal article on how who and what I am is mystery, and how the question of existence itself leaves the mind silent. (2022)

Where do I come from? – A short exploration of origin — as a human self, as what I am, and as mystery — ending in the question of why anything exists at all. (2022)

Fascinated by mysteries in the world, and the mysteries of existence – A reflection on ordinary mysteries in the world, the mystery of what we are, and the ultimate mystery of why there is something rather than nothing. (2021)

In what way is existence a mystery? – An overview of different kinds of mystery, including the greatest one: that anything exists at all. (2020)

What’s most amazing: That anything exists at all – A direct and concise article on what may be the greatest mystery: How can it be that there is something rather than nothing? (2018)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious – A short reflection on mystery, the name of this website, and the profound mystery that anything exists at all. (2012)

No User Manual – A reflection on the weirdness of finding ourselves dropped into existence without any final user manual, with the mystery that anything exists at all at the very top. (2005)

Existence – A brief early reflection on the most astonishing mystery: that anything exists at all — this universe, this planet, life, and this life. (2003)

KNOWING & NOT-KNOWING

Don’t know as context – the rest are questions about the world (2023)

St. Augustine: If you understand God, what you understand isn’t God (2024)

What I know is very little, what I don’t know is infinite (2025)

Finding safety in not knowing (2024)

I don’t know anything for certain (2022)

Byron Katie: “I don’t know” is a lot of freedom (2023)

Byron Katie: Not knowing is the way to understanding (2021)

Not knowing applies to all of us (2019)

Admitting to not knowing (2018)

The taboo against not knowing (2009)

I know, you don’t (2007)

TALKING ABOUT

Why is it difficult to talk about our nature? (2025)

My nature is difficult to talk about only if the recipient doesn’t have a reference for it (2025)

Talking about the inevitability of what we are (2021)

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Awakening Process & Pitfalls

AWAKENING

Awakening is “permanent”? (2023)

Is awakening binary or gradual? Seeing energies & why I tend to focus on the degree – how awaking is both binary and gradual, and autobiographical account of seeing energies and how awakening appears in varying degrees (2024)

If we lived for eons, would awakening be inevitable? (2023)

Everyone is already enlightened? (2023)

Awakening comes from and is a kind of maturity (2022)

Threads of awakening (2025)

Themes in an awakening process (2022)

Awakening doesn’t change our life? (2022)

What will I get out of awakening? (2024)

General awakening vs parts awakening (2024)

Is awakening inherently better than not being awake? (2021)

Awakening is a habit (2021)

The future of awakening (2023)

Awakening makes the separation consciousness left in us more painful (2021)

STATES

States highlight characteristics of who and what we are (2023)

The role of states in the awakening process (2019)

Awakening and altered states (2022)

Supported by states, independent of states (2012)

Inquiry: Awakening will control states (2011)

Ground awakening – state or not? (2007)

MYSTICAL EXPERIENCES

Mystical experiences – an overview and some reflections (2024)

MAPS OF AWAKENING

Maps for the awakening path – On the usefulness and limitations of maps, stories, guides, and fellow travelers on an awakening path. (2023)

The problem with stages – A caution about stage models in awakening and development, and how they can be useful when held lightly and misleading when taken too literally. (2021)

Phases – A compact map of phases in an awakening process, using Tozan’s five ranks and Western mystical language as reference points. (2005)

St. John & Tozan – A personal exploration of awakening phases, dark nights, rehumanizing, and integration through St. John of the Cross and Tozan’s five ranks. (2005)

Dark Nights – A map of dark nights as part of the awakening process, especially the movement from identification as Big Mind/Heart into a more human and integrated phase. (2005)

The Three, Two, One, Zero Relationships With God – A fluid map of different relationships with God, Spirit, Big Mind, and existence: talking about, relating to, being one with, and no-separation/no-I. (2005)

QUOTES FROM MYSTICS

Isha Upanishad: He who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, he does not hate anyone (2025)

Rumi: Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still one (2024)

Ibn Arabi: None loves God but God (2024)

A few quotes from Ramana Maharshi (2022)

Gospel of Thomas: When you make the two one (2021)

Gospel of Thomas: The Father’s kingdom is within you and it is outside you (2020)

Gospel of Thomas: When they find, they will be disturbed (2020)

Gospel of Thomas: If you bring forth what is within you (2015)

Meister Eckhart: The eye by which I see God is the same as the eye by which God sees me (2021)

Meister Eckhart: We are all meant to be mothers of God (2021)

Meister Eckhart: If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough (2015)

Upanishads: Who sees all beings in her own self and her self in all beings, loses all fear (2021)

William McNamara: Every person is a special kind of mystic (2021)

SMALL & BIG INTERPRETATIONS OF AWAKENING

The big and small understanding of awakening: Upsides and downsides of each (2024)

Secular and spiritual understandings of awakening (2023)

A secular view on awakening (2024)

The small understanding of awakening: Simplicity and honesty (2024)

Understanding awakening independent of spirituality and most worldviews (2023)

The sobering quality of the small interpretation of awakening (2021)

Why don’t awakening teachers more often differentiate between small and big interpretations of awakening? (2022)

Intellectual honesty and big & small interpretations of awakening (2019)

Psychological and spiritual interpretations of awakening (2018)

Divine awareness is in all things? (2023)

PERCEPTION SHIFTS

Perception of capacity and consciousness when I notice my nature (2022)

How I experience the sense field (2024)

Perception of causality when I notice my nature (2022)

The experience of my human self when I notice my nature (2022)

The body as capacity, space, and consciousness (2022)

Recognizing others as capacity for their world (2021)

CHANGES & MATURING OVER TIME

When the dreamlike nature of reality becomes ordinary (2026)

Center of gravity shifting from separation to oneness (2022)

Themes in an awakening process (2022)

The transformations of awakening (2022)

Awakening doesn’t change our life? (2022)

Always further to go (2024)

BEGINNER’S MIND & NO FINISHING LINE

Always a beginner & a personal reflection (2025)

Always further to go (2024)

I am only scratching the surface (2024)

Infinite simplicity and infinite complexity (2025)

The more you know, the more you know how little you know (2022)

I am a mystery to myself (2022)

DARK NIGHTS

The dark night trainwreck (2022)

The essence of the dark night: Viscerally getting any experience as the divine (2022)

The dark night of embodiment (2021)

Enlightenment is a destructive process (2021)

Trauma-related dark nights (2018)

Dark night and recognizing what’s surfacing as Spirit (2017)

Dark Night (2012)

A tough one III: the dark nights of the soul and senses (2007)

Big Mind process on the Dark Night (2012)

Dark nights and patterns (2007)

Dark nights and beliefs (2007)

AWAKENING MISCONCEPTIONS & SPIRITUAL FANTASIES

What will I get out of awakening? (2024)

Is awakening overrated? (2022)

Spiritual fantasies (2022)

Does my timeless nature mean I won’t die? (2021)

Why are there so many ideas & misconceptions about awakening? (2021)

Awakening doesn’t have anything to do with spirituality or religion (2021)

Is awakening inherently better than not being awake? (2021)

Awakened, and expert in only one thing (2007)

SPIRITUAL & EMOTIONAL EMERGENCIES

Tools for emotional emergencies (2020)

Meditation sickness & my experience with it (2025)

When teachers of meditation and yogic practices are not informed about spiritual emergencies and trauma (2023)

Spiritual fantasies (2022)

Emergency measures (2015)

Spiritual emergency and discernment (2014)

A center for spiritual emergency (2014)

A collective spiritual emergency, and possibly dark night (2014)

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Meditation, Inquiry & Direct Noticing

BASIC MEDITATION / NOTICE & ALLOW

Notice & allow (2026)

Aware of the field & that it’s already allowed (2024)

Basic meditation: Notice and allow what’s here, and notice it’s already noticed and allowed (2022)

Failing in basic meditation and finding what’s already here (2023)

Hakuin: What is true meditation? (2022)

How it works: Basic meditation (2021)

Adyashanti: If we’re not trying to control so much, a lot of the meditative experience is actually naturally occurring(2021)

OWN INQUIRY

Exploring in the sense fields: Me (2025)

From seeing to visceral (2022)

Restful inquiry (2016)

Simplified explanation of inquiry (2016)

The purpose of the Living Inquiries (2016)

Talking about Living Inquiries: Get to see how my mind creates the experience of X (2015)

How do the Living Inquiries work? (2015)

Living Inquiries: A different logic (2015)

Metaphors and the Living Inquiries (2014)

Inquiry and healing & maturing (2010)

Inquiry and three centers (2008)

Inquiry Becoming Alive (2006)

Inquiry (2005)

Specific inquiries

Own inquiry on the victim (2021)

Inquiry: Life is not going my way (2010)

Inquiry: They shouldn’t see me as lost (2007)

SENSE FIELDS

How I experience the sense field (2024)

Exploring in the sense fields: Me (2025)

My nature and the nature of thoughts reveal each other (2023)

Perception of capacity and consciousness when I notice my nature (2022)

Perception of the physical when we notice our nature (2022)

HEADLESS WAY

What I enjoy about headlessness (2024)

Headless, so what? How the headless experiments work (in my experience) (2024)

In deep gratitude of Douglas Harding (2007)

Headless Way – Headless Way, direct experience, and the absence of a separate self (2005)

DIALOG

Only Lovers Left Alive: a dialog with someone who has lived for centuries (2019)

Dialog with someone who has lived innumerable lives in many places in the cosmos (2020)

Dialog with one who has lived eons and has a mystic streak (2019)

A dialog with Lila – the dance of existence (2020)

BIG MIND PROCESS

Big Mind process & awakening – What the Big Mind process is, and how it relates to awakening (2022)

Genpo on the Big Mind process – Genpo Roshi on the Big Mind process (2011)

Big Mind process and Kensho – The Big Mind process, kensho, and the realization component of awakening (2007)

Big Mind book – Short excerpts and notes on Genpo Roshi’s Big Mind book (2007)

Meditation in Action – The Big Mind process as meditation-in-action and everyday-mind practice (2006)

Paths To Big Mind – Different paths to Big Mind, including meditation, Big Mind process, and Universe Story (2005)

Awakening of Mind & Heart – Big Mind, Big Heart, and the awakening of mind and heart (2005)

BEFRIEND & AWAKEN / BEFRIENDING

Befriend & Awaken: The essence of many healing and awakening traditions (2022)

Befriending and awakening contractions: How it works (2021)

Befriend & awaken contractions – a simplified version (2021)

Befriending life… through befriending our contractions (2021)

How contractions appear depending on how we relate to them (2021)

Awakening = befriending life (2019)

Why befriending life (2019)

Befriending struggle (2018)

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Devotion, Prayer & Heart Practices

GIVING IT TO THE DIVINE

Giving it over to God (2016)

Giving it over, guidance, asking (2013)

The Delphic Oracle: Bidden or not bidden, God is present (2024)

PRAYER

Pray “through” (2019)

A “dangerous prayer” (2024)

Forms of prayer (2019)

Prayer for receptivity, transformation, alignment (2019)

Prayer (2010)

Prayer is worth more than ten dollars (2009)

Teresa of Avila: I just allow myself to be loved (2020)

DIVINE FEMININE / BHAKTI

Teresa of Avila: I just allow myself to be loved (2020)

Anthony de Mello: “I just allow myself to be loved” (2019)

Forms of darkness (2010)

Divine feminine (2007)

Jnana and bhakti as 1+3 and 1+2 (2006)

HEART (JESUS) PRAYER & CHRIST MEDITATION

Christ Meditation (2014)

Heart Prayer (2006)

Christ Meditation & Prayer (2005)

Flame above crown of head (2018) | Tongues of fire (2006)

Spiritual practices 24/7 including in dreams (2024)

HEART-CENTERED PRACTICES

Inviting the heart to open (2024)

How do I keep my heart open with all the terrible things happening in the world? (2023)

How it works: heart-centered practices (2018)

Heart centered practices (2016)

Heart Centered Practice: Fullness, engagement and embodiment (2006)

TONGLEN

Tonglen with myself in a contracted state (2026)

Tonglen, the unpredictable nature of the world, and transforming my world (2025)

Breathing in suffering to the heart (2024)

Tonglen (2024)

Tonglen (2018)

HO’OPONOPONO

Ho’oponopono: Healing how I relate & my world (2020)

Ho’oponopono (2020)

How does ho’oponopono work? (2016)

Ho’oponopono (2011)

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Teachers, Traditions, Practice & Pointers

Spiritual Practice | Teachers & Traditions | Medicine for a Condition

SPIRITUAL PRACTICE

Spiritual practices 24/7 including in dreams (2024)

Simple pointers I find helpful (2025)

Returning to the basics (2022)

True Meditation & Meditative Self-Inquiry (2006)

The ancient roots of meditation, inquiry, and therapeutic tremoring (2019)

TEACHERS & TRADITIONS

Testing teachings and teachers (2024)

Taking the role of a spiritual teacher: Upsides, downsides, and pitfalls (2023)

Do you experience paradoxes? An encounter with a spiritual teacher (2022)

No rules, yet good to have a seasoned teacher (2007)

Teachers, Privileged & Not (2005)

MEDICINE FOR A CONDITION

Spiritual pointers & practices are medicine for specific conditions (2021)

Waking up issues: medicines for a condition (2021)

Medicine (2011)

Medicine, and medicine for the medicine (2010)

Inquiry as medicine, applied more fluidly (2012)

Demystifying and pointing out the mystery as needed (2022)

How It Works

An informal series exploring how different approaches to healing and awakening work, based on my own experience.

Headless, so what? How the headless experiments work (in my experience) – How the Headless experiments help us notice ourselves as awake space and capacity for the world (2024)

Waking up issues, parts, and subpersonalities – How inviting issues, parts, and subpersonalities to notice their own nature may help them reorganize and heal (2022)

Befriending and awakening contractions: How it works – How befriending contractions and noticing their nature can support healing, awakening, and embodiment (2021)

How it works: Basic meditation – How noticing and allowing can train attention, reveal the dynamics of the mind, help unprocessed material find healing, and support noticing what we are (2021)

How it works: Pray for your enemies / Love your enemies – Loving your enemies while having healthy boundaries (2021)

How does The Work of Byron Katie work? – A step-by-step look at how the questions and turnarounds help us examine stressful beliefs, hold them more lightly, and open to other perspectives (2020)

How it works: Awakening – An attempt to demystify awakening as what we are noticing itself, including the awakening process, embodiment, interpretations, myths, and supporting practices (2019)

Working with dreams – How dreams may digest experience and emotional issues, and how we can explore them through active imagination, inquiry, parts work, and other healing approaches (2019)

How it works: heart-centered practices – How heart-centered practices can reorient us from seeing something as a problem or enemy toward befriending, kindness, openness, and alignment with reality (2018)

How does The Work work? – An earlier and more concise exploration of how The Work helps identify and question stressful beliefs, find the validity in their reversals, and act with greater clarity and kindness (2018)

Health, CFS & Disability

Health | Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) / ME

HEALTH

Daily activity in nature: gardening & regenerating ourselves and our ecosystems (2024)

Eating to 80% full (2024)

What gives me energy (2024)

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME (CFS) / ME

Recovering from Covid 19: post-viral fatigue pointers from someone with CFS (2020)

Living with an invisible disability, and how to communicate it (2025)

My body is here for me and doing its best (2025)

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & two types of rest (2024)

CFS requires a different lens (2025)

CFS and brain fog, and its impact on talking and writing (2025)

CFS as a correction to our collective orientation (2024)

Something I notice in my energy system related to the fatigue (CFS) (2024)

How CFS feels (2023)

What happens when I have less energy? (2022)

Finding an easier way: chronic illness as a guide (2022)

Chronic fatigue retreat in Norway (2019)

How do I experience chronic fatigue? (2018)

My approach to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (2018)

Chronic fatigue (2013)

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Psychology, Projections & Embodiment

PARTS WORK

General awakening vs parts awakening (2024)

Waking up issues, parts, and subpersonalities (2022)

Who or what is unawake? Or has emotional issues? (2021)

Our inner monsters need love too (2021)

When curiosity and parts language is misunderstood (2021)

The beauty of parts language, and when to use it and not (2018)

Parts work (2013)

Fragmentation (2013)

PROJECTIONS & SHADOW WORK

Forms of projections (2026)

The reverse of everything I write is also true, as is the reverse of every thought and what parts of me identify with (2025)

Grounding speculations in what’s here and now (2022)

Exploring the world like a dream (2022)

Projections are how I (imagine I) know others & the world (2021)

The Work of Byron Katie as shadow work (2020)

Shadow of a thought (2012)

Projection of awakening (2011)

WOUNDS & TRAUMA

Awakening and trauma (2025)

Tonglen with myself in a contracted state (2026)

Trauma and awakening (2020)

Physical tension to maintain beliefs, wounds, and trauma (2018)

How contractions appear depending on how we relate to them (2021)

Befriending and awakening contractions: How it works (2021)

Rumi: Even then tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one (2021)

Contractions and dreams (2021)

Body contractions follow and make possible stressful beliefs (2015)

Exploring knots (2013)

Contractions (2005)

Contractions & Openings (2005)

HOW WE RELATE TO EACH OTHER

Others are likely like me: we are all fundamentally consciousness to ourselves (2023)

The universality of consciousness (2023)

Recognizing others as capacity for their world (2021)

Oneness and how we experience others (2021)

A few ways to think about others to bring a grounded understanding (2024)

Seeing them in me, and me in them: Actively using the world as a mirror both ways (2026)

Song: If I didn’t have you (someone else would do) (2010)

TENSION & TRAUMA RELEASE EXERCISES

Tension & Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) – a brief overview (2022)

JUNG & ALCHEMY

The real alchemy: the transformation inherent in existence itself (2024)

Forms of projections (2026)

CG Jung: Where your fear is, there is your task (2020)

Divination and wanting to know the future (2018)

Dream: Hooded figure (2012)

The joy of figuring things out (2007)

Alchemical vessel, three phases, and The Work (2007)

Alchemy, and who and what we are (2007)

Ego & Id -> I and It (2005)

LIFE 101 / PSYCHOLOGY 101

Psychology 101: My culture is inside me (2023)

Life 101: Playing roles in life (2023)

Life 101: different kinds of validity in different views (2023)

Psych 101: We are more than and different from our labels (2022)

Psych 101: Assigning unconscious motivation to others (2022)

Psych 101: Feelings don’t tell the truth (2022)

The outer is (also) inner (2022)

Life 101: Notice + allow (2019)

Life 101: How we think about the world (philosophy of science) (2018)

Life 101 (2017)

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Energy Healing & Vortex Healing

Energy Healing & Sensing at a Distance | Vortex Healing

ENERGY HEALING & SENSING AT A DISTANCE

Healing from emptiness (2024)

Healing from oneness (2020)

How I visualize when I channel for distance healing (2023)

Worldviews and how we experience distance energy healing (2022)

VORTEX HEALING

Vortex Healing (2016)

Is Vortex Healing too good to be true? (2018)

Inquiry, TRE, Vortex Healing etc. vs talk therapy (2018)

Vortex Healing for my brain (2016)

Using Vortex Healing for myself through the day (2016)

Everyday experiences with Vortex Healing: Fixing divine lines (2019)

Vortex healing experience: after a healing session (2019)

Vortex Healing experience: Connecting with underlying fear (2020)

Working on infections with Vortex Healing (2023)

A core veil experience (2023)

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Dreams, Synchronicities, Reincarnation & Before-Incarnation Experiences

Dreams & Sleep | Synchronicities | Reincarnation | Before-Incarnation Experiences & NDEs

DREAMS & SLEEP

Dreams where “I” am someone other than my waking life identity (2026)

Exploring dreams as I explore waking life (2024)

What’s the purpose of dreamwork? (2024)

Spiritual practices 24/7 including in dreams (2024)

Conscious through deep sleep (2023)

The dreaming process seems ongoing through the day and night (2023)

An example of dream telepathy (?) (2023)

Exploring the world like a dream (2022)

The dream of the divine (2020)

Our mental activity is a kind of dream (2021)

We cannot escape the dream, but we can learn to recognize and find appreciation for it (2022)

If I could decide the content of my own dreams (2010)

Dreaming as an analogy (2006)

Dreams & Ground – how dreams point to our nature (2006)

SYNCHRONICITIES

Synchronicities (2006)

Forms of synchronicity, and the dark night (2014)

Coincidence or synchronicity? (2021)

Synchronicity: Are you Jesus? (2008)

Reverse synchronicity (2008)

Two synchronicities (2023)

REINCARNATION

Making pragmatic use of the idea of reincarnation and rebirth (2023)

Some ways to look at reincarnation (2021)

Reincarnation as projection, guide, and question (2008)

Past lives as metaphor (2017)

Working on past lives (2012)

Reincarnation and soul (2012)

Karma and reincarnation as teaching strategy (2008)

Soul and rebirth (2007)

Reincarnation – all happening here now (2008)

Rebirth (2005)

Reincarnation (2005)

BEFORE-INCARNATION EXPERIENCES & NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES (NDEs)

Flashbacks to before this life & a familiarity with all as consciousness (2025)

A synchronicity & reflections on Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) (2025)

In my experience: Heaven is here and sometimes includes hell (2025)

Flashbacks to before this life and oneness (2023)

A memory from between lives (2022)

Before life experience, awakening, and finding it here and now (2021)

Spiritually Transformative Experiences (2014)

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Ecology, Evolution & Ways of Knowing

Ecopsychology etc. | Evolution | Science / Bias / Truth | Maps

ECOPSYCHOLOGY / ECOSPIRITUALITY / EPIC OF EVOLUTION / UNIVERSE STORY

The awesomeness of being part of the web of life (2026)

Natural resources belong to “everyone” – all humans or all life? (2026)

Regenerating the land and people (2025)

The web of life: The real context for our lives and everything we care about (2024)

Nature: A luxury? Or what we are? (2024)

Language, woke, pandemics & ecology: Snapshots vs the long view (2024)

Inter-species communication (2024)

How old am I? (2023)

Wolfwalkers & our relationship with the wild in nature and ourselves (2022)

How we see ourselves in relation to the rest of nature (2021)

Nature spirituality in a oneness context (2020)

Deep ecology, ecopsychology, ecospirituality, healing, sustainability & nonduality (2018)

Thomas Berry: The story of the universe is the personal story of everybody (2016)

Inquiry and Deep Ecology (2014)

Deep Ecology & Kant (2012)

The Universe Story & The Transdual Breaking Into The Nondual (2006)

Humans as a speck (2005)

The View from 2205 (2005)

EVOLUTION

Thoughts as an evolutionary experiment (2021)

Abstract thinking in evolutionary perspective (2011)

Evolution of the spirit (2012)

Compassion and meaning through the story of evolution (2009)

Big Mind As Empty & Full And Evolving (2005)

Big Mind & Small Self: individual, collective and cosmic evolution (2005)

SCIENCE / BIAS / TRUTH

What I know is very little, what I don’t know is infinite (2025)

Science used with a domination vs partnership mindset (2025)

An accurate story about something is not the same as knowing it (2024)

Three aspects of science (2024)

Would it hold up in a court of law? (2022)

Confirmation bias in healing and awakening (2021)

Reality has a left-leaning bias? I think of it as a oneness bias (2025)

DEVELOPMENTAL & WORLDVIEW MAPS

New Worldview – A reflection on the shift from mechanistic to organic worldviews, and how an organic worldview naturally connects with ecology, systems thinking, and a more participatory view of life. (2005)

Aqal only for second tier folks? Not likely. – A pragmatic view of AQAL as a useful tool for including quadrants, lines, and levels, rather than as something only for supposedly advanced stages. (2006)

Spiral of problems and resolutions – A Spiral Dynamics-based reflection on how problems and resolutions appear differently at different developmental value-meme levels. (2006)

Spiral Dynamics – A brief summary of Spiral Dynamics and its main developmental points. (2005)

Dangers of models – On how maps and models can become tools for identity, superiority, projection, and division when they are not held as provisional tools. (2006)

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Overshoot & Systems Change

Overshoot | Systems Change | Ecological Crisis & Response | Collapse, Unraveling & Regeneration | Civilization, Limits & Deep Time

OVERSHOOT

Global ecological overshoot: the most overlooked global crisis? – Global ecological overshoot as the central and overlooked crisis behind many other crises (2024)

Ecological overshoot & collapse preparedness and acceptance – Overshoot, possible collapse, preparedness, and finding a grounded relationship with uncertainty (2024)

Our ecological crisis: Distractions and misconceptions, and food production in partnership with nature (2024)

A world of ecological limits & abundance (2024)

Population, sustainability & margins – Population, ecological margins, and the need to organize civilization within Earth’s limits (2023)

SYSTEMS CHANGE

Systems change from an ecocidal civilization to a more life-centered civilization – Systems dynamics, ecocidal civilization, and the shift toward a life-centered civilization (2024)

Our ecological crisis and what could be – The ecological crisis, systems transformation, and what a different civilization could look like (2024)

The green political compass – A political compass centered on ecological reality and regenerative orientation (2024)

The only way for us to survive – Sustainability as the only realistic way forward, requiring deep changes in how we live and organize society (2024)

Climate change or not: We need to transform our civilization anyway – Why civilization needs ecological transformation regardless of climate-change debates (2023)

ECOLOGICAL CRISIS & RESPONSE

Natural resources belong to “everyone” – all humans or all life? – Natural resources as belonging to all life, not just humans (2026)

“People have been warning about the collapse of ecosystems for decades” – Response to dismissive comments about long-standing ecological warnings (2025)

The psychological impact of our ecological crisis – Stress, grief, anxiety, trauma, and other psychological impacts of ecological crisis (2024)

What’s insane? Destroying our life-support system or protesting against the destruction? – The insanity of destroying our life-support systems versus protesting that destruction (2024)

The banality of evil and our ecological crisis – Ecological destruction as something ordinary people participate in through ordinary systems (2020)

COLLAPSE, UNRAVELING & REGENERATION

Peak civilization: enjoying & making use of it – Peak civilization, appreciating what is here, and using it well while it lasts (2024)

A suicidal & ecocidal civilization: Finding a more real, grounded, and kind way to relate to it all – Seeing our civilization as ecocidal/suicidal while finding a more grounded and kind way to relate to it (2023)

Dark Night of the Civilization – Ecological bottleneck and civilizational dark night as old patterns stop working (2006)

CIVILIZATION, LIMITS & DEEP TIME

The beauty and madness of civilization: Thoughts as tools vs thoughts as truth – The beauty and madness of civilization, and the role of taking thoughts as truth (2024)

Shifting baseline syndrome: When we don’t realize how much nature is changing & learning to see with deep-time eyes – Shifting baselines, ecological memory, and learning to see with deep-time eyes (2024)

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Partnership & Domination Orientation

Partnership & Domination Orientation | Partnership with the Living World

PARTNERSHIP & DOMINATION ORIENTATION

From domination to partnership: Understanding fascism, colonialism, overshoot, and the path forward – Domination and partnership as deep cultural orientations shaping fascism, colonialism, overshoot, and possible ways forward (2025)

Domination culture, global ecological overshoot, and violence toward ourselves – How domination culture shows up in ecological overshoot and in violence toward ourselves and the living world (2024)

A deep partnership approach: Valuing partnership and domination cultures and making use of what works – A nuanced view of partnership and domination cultures, valuing what each can contribute while moving toward deeper partnership (2024)

PARTNERSHIP WITH THE LIVING WORLD

Rethinking food production: from domination to partnership with nature, and using the best of what’s gone before – Food production as an example of moving from domination over nature to partnership with the living world (2024)

See also: The Long Journey Home for a fuller exploration of domination culture, partnership orientation, overshoot, unraveling, and regeneration.

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Culture, Society, Politics & AI

CULTURE / ART / MUSIC

Art and match with the person experiencing it (2020)

The depth of popular culture (2019)

AI art and disability (2023)

SPECIFIC MUSIC, POETRY, FILMS ETC.

A Few Favorite Movies – A personal overview of formative and favorite films, including Kurosawa, Tarkovsky, Kieslowski, Wenders, Ozu, Studio Ghibli, Almodóvar, Kiarostami, Pan’s Labyrinth, Persepolis, Lunana, Certified Copy, and more. (2026)

The Life of Chuck (2025)

Short film: Love at First Sight (2025)

Movie: Train Dreams (2025)

Kiarostami’s Certified Copy (2024)

Stranger Things and the shadow (2025) | Stranger Things & the shadow (2022)

Andrea Gibson: Tincture (2025)

Mary Oliver: My work is loving the world (2025)

Mary Oliver: What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? (2024)

Chelan Harkin: The worst thing we ever did was put God in the sky (2023)

Nicolette Sowder: May we raise children who love the unloved things (2023)

Sting: You could be me in another life, in another set of circumstances (2023)

Wolfwalkers & our relationship with the wild in nature and ourselves (2022)

Jane Goodall: Lost in awe at the beauty around me (2020)

Wendell Berry: To go in the dark (2020)

Short film: Thursday Appointment (2020)

Ariana Grande: thank u, next (2018)

Leonard Cohen: Dance Me to the End of Love (2016)

SOCIETY & POLITICS

When we live in information bubbles, those in other bubbles can seem like idiots (2025)

A healthy and deep conservatism: not so different from healthy and deep progressivism (2024)

Why I love woke & why there is woke-bashing (2024) | Why I love woke (2023)

There is a reason we have rules, and that reason is more important than the rules – A reflection sparked by the Norwegian film Blücher, using it to explore conscience, rules, responsibility, appeasement, boundaries, and moral courage. (2025)

It’s always in your best interest to advocate for a more accessible world (2024)

Israel & Palestine: Hurt people hurt people (2023)

CONSPIRACY THEORIES & MISINFORMATION

Conspiracy theories – why people get into them & a few more reflections (2023)

When progressives are seduced by misinformation (2024)

Disinformation campaigns to turn people away from renewable energy (2024)

Why do some get into conspiracy theories, and why do we see a blossoming of conspiracy theories? (2020)

A few reflections on conspiracy theories (2021)

Conspiracy theories make dumb people feel smart (2020)

TRUMP & AUTHORITARIANISM

A few resources to understand Trump’s authoritarian takeover (2025)

Fascism eats its own (2025)