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2026 48

  1. Speaking in Asheville NC on Thursday
  2. Lindsay Clancy: A Siren in the Theater
  3. The Lost Subject: AI and the Human Being
  4. Oops -- story not essay
  5. The Ancestors are Watching
  6. In-person Events in New York, Spain
  7. More Beautiful World for Chamber Ensemble -- Wow!
  8. The Myth of Tara
  9. It takes two to speak the truth...
  10. Writing a new book
  11. Memories of the future
  12. A few offerings and notes
  13. Preparing for the future? Or, preparing the future
  14. Mindsight and the Polycrisis
  15. Speaking in Portugal next week
  16. Audio version of When the Rituals Stop Working
  17. When the Rituals Stop Working
  18. With Rutendo Ngara and Orland Bishop
  19. In-person events in TX and Maine, and a video on Hope
  20. The Age of Peace is Very Close
  21. Letter #18: Try to put out the fire and you will only get burnt
  22. A couple videos I made about Iran war and earth shrines
  23. Betrayal, Refusal, and the Yes that Follows
  24. We Are Done With This
  25. Health not War
  26. The Iran War: Power and Blowback
  27. From Depravity to Redemption
  28. Missing drawing for Reality is Breaking
  29. Audio version of Reality is Breaking
  30. Reality is Breaking
  31. Letter #17: Coming soon -- Epstein
  32. Things are getting kinda crazy
  33. Ontological Shielding in New-paradigm Research
  34. Artificial Division -
  35. Letter #17: Source Temple
  36. Political Bypassing-
  37. Your Heart Knows It-
  38. Geese and Wholeness
  39. Speaking in Rhode Island on Saturday
  40. An Intelligence Beneath the Surface -
  41. The Moment When Everything Makes Sense -
  42. Presence Cannot be Simulated
  43. When the Old Consensus Falls Apart -
  44. Drunk on the Narrative
  45. Sanity Project 2026
  46. Solar Flares and the Child's Mind
  47. Venezuela: An Evil Omen
  48. Letter #16: Separation and Reunion

2025 57

  1. Undefeated
  2. The Spellers Panel
  3. Live call tomorrow 11am EST
  4. Letter #15: For you and to you
  5. Audio version: UAPs and National Insecurity
  6. UAPs and National Insecurity
  7. Audio version, Letter #14: How Newsfasting Sharpens my Hearing
  8. Letter #14: How Newsfasting Sharpens my Hearing
  9. World-renewal and the Indigenous
  10. Fei Long: A Dragon is Born
  11. Join me live tomorrow (Tuesday) morning
  12. Letter #13: Moving On
  13. The Pingho Dragon
  14. The Grapes of Wrath
  15. Letter #12: Astrology
  16. Commons of the Heart gathering and live call
  17. Letter #11: Trust-walking to Corporate Headquarters
  18. Half Moon Podcast, Taoist folk tales, and NAAS migration
  19. The Spellers
  20. Letter #10: Politics? Sanity? Something else?
  21. Virtual Intelligence
  22. Letter #9: Companionship
  23. A Moment in Washington
  24. Letter #8: Our Salvation will Come from the Margins
  25. Letter #7: A Weird Week
  26. Never Again? Or Again, and Again, and Again?
  27. Letter #6: Who are You?
  28. Oops -- Audio version of Letter #5
  29. Letter #5: The transmission of the listener
  30. The Staggering Implications of Non-Deterministic AI
  31. Peace
  32. Addendum to Letter #4
  33. Audio version of Letter #4: Peace
  34. Letter #4: Peace
  35. Moving Beyond Two Sides-ism
  36. Audio Version: Immigration, the Plutonium Seed, and a Parable
  37. Immigration, the Plutonium Seed of Othering, and a Parable
  38. Letter #3: Grasping a Live Wire
  39. Riots, Sacrificial Crisis, and the Festival
  40. Audio version of Letter #2: Iboga
  41. Letter #2: Iboga
  42. First letter
  43. Makin’ a few changes around here
  44. Seabed Mining, Health Mining, and Health/Enviro Unity
  45. Audio version of "There is nothing wrong with anyone, and..."
  46. There is nothing “wrong” with anyone, and…
  47. It Takes Two (Audio version)
  48. It Takes Two
  49. Activating the Subtle Senses
  50. When Politics Becomes War
  51. Update. Blackmail. Human Potential.
  52. In-person event, an interview, a personal note and a political comment
  53. "Greatness" after the Bulldozer
  54. Trusted Disclosure Agreement
  55. At the Crossroads: Nine short recordings
  56. The Spreading Cracks in the Facade of Reality
  57. Intelligence in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

2024 46

  1. Partial Intelligence and Super-intelligence
  2. Standing in the Center of the Unknowing as the World Cries. What to Do?
  3. On News-fasting
  4. Something special for paid subscribers
  5. More on Unlearning
  6. Transcript of "The election may not mean what we think."
  7. The election may not mean what any of us think
  8. On Political Bypassing (Audio version)
  9. On Political Bypassing
  10. Personal update: on leaving politics and what's next
  11. Dr. Clint's Miracle Story
  12. The Man without a Leg -- A Medicine Story
  13. The Snipers are the Lucky Ones
  14. More Naivete, Please
  15. Trump and the Tempests of Hate
  16. Shades of Many Colors
  17. Patience Please
  18. Off-beat response to question on getting people to care
  19. The Sith: A political allegory
  20. Audio version of An Us that requires no Them
  21. An Us that requires no Them
  22. Resuming paid subscriptions -- Thanks everyone!
  23. The New Human: Regeneration
  24. Message for Tumultuous Times
  25. How to Heal the Wound of Gaza
  26. Degeneration and Love
  27. Two interviews: Upshift and Gateways to Awakening
  28. Update for readers, Kennedy, plastics, hiatus
  29. Live on line Monday, and a short reflection
  30. A break from normalcy -- join me in person for a 5-day retreat in May
  31. Speaking in Kingston, NY on April 16
  32. Hope Begins in the Unknown
  33. Find the common thread
  34. More Beautiful World Progress Report -- Live broadcast on Tuesday
  35. Audio Version of "Machines will not replace us"
  36. Machines Will Not Replace Us
  37. The Turning of the Age
  38. An unbelievable opportunity
  39. Free online webinar and a peace seminar
  40. An eruption of the implicate order
  41. Curiouser and curiouser
  42. An uncanny glitch from the hinterlands of weirdness
  43. State of the World Address -- Live Call this Saturday
  44. Village of Lovers, and The Opening
  45. Horror and the process of compassion
  46. On bringing a child into the world: Earth knows what she is doing

2023 63

  1. Friends Don’t Let Friends Destroy Themselves
  2. Transcript of conversation with my son Philip
  3. Coming of Age -- A Father/Son Dialogue
  4. When Only Love Remains
  5. The Andes-Amazon Ecocultural Corridor
  6. The America that Almost Was and Yet May Be
  7. War is Always Justified
  8. Life is a Gift (gorgeous short video)
  9. A Story Told a Hundred Thousand Times
  10. Whose Reality Is It?
  11. If the victor had fought, she wouldn't have won
  12. "In my name, I want no vengeance."
  13. If We Really Want It to Stop...
  14. A correction on Hamas
  15. Hamas, Israel, and the Devil on my Shoulder
  16. Image, Memory, and Dementia
  17. On "Creating" Culture
  18. On Mobs, Cults, and Russell Brand
  19. Warning: Dangerous Content
  20. Visions for a More Beautiful World -- A Wake-up Call
  21. Palestine and the Politics of Guilt by Association
  22. In conversation with Dr. Iain McGilchrist
  23. Homogeneity and Bedlam: AI and the Self-referentiality trap
  24. Sanity Repatterning
  25. Bulletin from the Shark Tank
  26. Privilege and Fortune: A Confucian View
  27. The upside-down privilege narrative in alternative health
  28. The Fall -- more interpretation
  29. Interpretations of The Fall
  30. My New Short Film -- "The Fall"
  31. Notes on privilege
  32. Contact Tour audio, live in Massachussetts., unusual interview...
  33. UFOs, Planetcide, and the Maturation of the Human Species
  34. Short Sanity Project Video
  35. The Sanity Project
  36. Staying Sane in the Next Five Years
  37. Why we care: A conversation with RFK, Jr.
  38. A Major Life Change
  39. The Farthest Shore
  40. oops, correction
  41. Live event in NC, also Sacred Economics talk, other stuff to watch
  42. Safety Third
  43. The Next Five Years
  44. On the cusp: a trialogue about the future of AI (and humanity)
  45. An Edifying Thought on AI
  46. The Next Five Years -- Livestream Today
  47. Live in Boulder, Live in Austin, Live on Instagram (?)
  48. How the Environmental Movement Can Find Its Way Again
  49. Peace, AI, Money, Ecology on deck, and some live events and recorded offerings
  50. The Robot Who Wanted to Be a Man
  51. The Forest Protectors
  52. When the Cause is Everything
  53. Life is Sacred and a couple short films and a note on future essays
  54. German Versions of my Essays
  55. View from the Other Side
  56. To Happen Everywhere it Must Happen Somewhere
  57. Someone is impersonating me -- Do not respond!
  58. The Sun is Alive
  59. They're Just not Jaded
  60. Lovingly Crafted Video of "What is the Next Story"
  61. Blood Root and a Raven
  62. What is the Next Story?
  63. 2023: The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible

2022 71

  1. Handfuls of Dust and Splinters of Bone, Part 6
  2. Handfuls of Dust and Splinters of Bone, Part 5
  3. Handfuls of Dust and Splinters of Bone, Part 4
  4. “Handfuls” Intermission – Self-pity and self-righteousness
  5. Some podcasts and a short film: Belonging, Money, Love, Metaphysics, DMT
  6. Handfuls of Dust and Splinters of Bone, Part 3
  7. Handfuls of Dust and Splinters of Bone, Part 2
  8. Handfuls of Dust and Splinters of Bone
  9. Touched by the Sun
  10. Oops...
  11. Victory Will Not Solve the Problem
  12. I Like to Fight
  13. The Meaningful World
  14. The Mask of Reason
  15. Amnesty, Yes—And Here is the Price
  16. To Be at Home in the World
  17. Feminine Power
  18. Oops, actually I did want to say something serious
  19. My Brilliant Invention, Political Maturity, and Other News
  20. The Courtship of Tara
  21. The Heartland
  22. There's No One Driving the Bus
  23. Neither Hero nor Journey
  24. Inverting the Energy Paradigm
  25. Quick note to subscribers
  26. Audio version of Pandemania, Part 5
  27. Pandemania, Part 5
  28. Live in Salt Lake City, plus other places, words, and thoughts
  29. Monarchs and Lightning Bugs
  30. July 28: Live with Dr. Zach Bush
  31. Pandemania, Part 4
  32. Political Hope
  33. Pandemania, Part 3
  34. Pandemania, Part 2
  35. Pandemania, Part 1
  36. Post-pandemia
  37. Some interviews, events, and random philosophical & personal comments
  38. Audio version of Transhumanism and the Metaverse
  39. The Heart of the Fawn
  40. Transhumanism and the Metaverse
  41. Why I Won’t Write on You-Know-What
  42. Facebook hacked, IG spoofed
  43. Actually, on further consideration...
  44. Audio Version of Compartmentalization, UFOs, and Social Paralysis
  45. Compartmentalization: UFOs and Social Paralysis
  46. A Puncture in the Bubble of Separation
  47. Audio Version of I, Orc
  48. Audio Version of The Good World
  49. The Good World
  50. Audio Version of Reinventing Progress
  51. Audio version of The True Story of the Sith
  52. Central Bank Digital Currencies
  53. When the Struggle Ends, Who Am I?
  54. I, Orc
  55. My New Book: The Coronation
  56. The Economy Series
  57. Peace-building
  58. Reinventing Progress
  59. The Spirituality of ________
  60. Parallel Timelines
  61. The Field of Peace
  62. Love-gift to the Future
  63. The Paradox of Busy
  64. On the Great Green Wall, And Being Useful
  65. Reunion
  66. Division, Reunion, and some other stuff
  67. Volatility
  68. Into the Space Between
  69. Wanna Join Me in a News Fast?
  70. And the Music Played the Band
  71. Comet of Deliverance

2021 21

  1. Not an Essay, A Letter
  2. Divide, Conquer; Unite, Heal
  3. A Path Will Rise to Meet Us
  4. A Gathering of the Tribe
  5. The True Story of the Sith
  6. The Human Family
  7. The Tide has Turned
  8. Elements of Refusal
  9. The America that Almost Was and Yet May Be
  10. Sanity
  11. Time to Push
  12. The Rehearsal is Over
  13. Some Stuff I'm Reading
  14. Beyond Industrial Medicine
  15. A Temple of this Earth
  16. The Sacrificial King
  17. How It Is Going to Be
  18. What I'm doing here
  19. Charles Eisenstein, Antisemite
  20. Mob Morality and the Unvaxxed
  21. Essays on civilization. myth, politics, ecology