Is Consciousness Evolving?
“You have to have confidence in your own ability to be able to go it alone, to go against what the rest of the culture is doing.” – Eunice Baumann-Nelson, Penobscot Nation A few weeks ago, […]
Jeff Warren
The Promise and Peril of Spiritual Belief
“Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work.” – W. D. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn I know a man, a Buddhist […]
The Case for Animal Personhood
“There is nothing more alone in the universe than man. When we were children we wanted to talk to animals and struggled to understand why this was impossible. Slowly we gave up the attempt as […]
The Neuroscience of Suffering – And Its End
“Do not pursue the past. Do not usher in the future. Rest evenly with present awareness” (Tibetan meditation instruction) It was 1972, and Gary Weber, a 29-year old materials science PhD student at Penn State […]