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67 from 23 Jul 2022 to 28 Nov 2025
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2025 6

  1. The most joyous portrait of love I’ve ever heard
  2. Goodbye, for now
  3. Sound Bathing, Minus the Nonsense
  4. Confessions of a Cringe Soy Redditor
  5. Gentle Math for Meditators: Vibration
  6. Insights from a Week-long Silent Retreat

2024 14

  1. Five Advanced Meditation Techniques (also, drugs)
  2. Macro and Microphenomenology
  3. Fear and Healing on 5-MeO-DMT
  4. Exegesis: Five Albums to Meditate To
  5. Three Degrees of Freedom
  6. Two Years of Superb Owl
  7. Energy Healing, Minus the Nonsense
  8. Exegesis: The Master and Margarita
  9. Phase Blindness
  10. Two Paths out of Hell
  11. Mix Math and Morality in Moderation
  12. The Intersubjective Continuum
  13. Ego Death by Any Other Name
  14. Exegesis: The Paintings of Hilma af Klint

2023 24

  1. Suffering = Pain × Resistance
  2. Navigating Manic Psychosis
  3. How to Start a Meditation Practice
  4. Exegesis: Funkadelic's "Maggot Brain"
  5. The Link Between Meditation and Inner Work
  6. Behavioral Theology
  7. Exegesis: Stalker and Roadside Picnic
  8. One Year of Superb Owl
  9. How to Enjoy Things
  10. The Nitrous Revelation
  11. Why Does Depression Suck So Much?
  12. Church of Reality: Ernst Mach on Mind, Matter, and the Illusion of Self
  13. Contra Ozy Brennan on Ameliatarianism
  14. The Science of Emergent Phenomena
  15. Ayn Rand Will Kill Us All
  16. You Don't Always Have to be Rational
  17. The Shapes of Stories with ChatGPT
  18. Taoism, Minus the Nonsense
  19. Beware the Variable-Maximizers
  20. Who will be first AI to earn legal personhood?
  21. Active Dreaming: Methods, Habits, and Drugs
  22. Jungian Psychology, Minus the Nonsense
  23. Church of Reality: Max Planck on Idealism and the Role of Faith in Science
  24. Free Will, Willpower, and Randomness

2022 23

  1. Time is a Wheel, Time is an Arrow
  2. Causal Explanations Considered Harmful
  3. The Psychosocial Beauty of r/AmITheAsshole
  4. Active Dreaming is More Powerful than Meditation and Safer than Psychedelics
  5. Can we Trust Self-Reported Mystical Experiences?
  6. Church of Reality: Barbara McClintock on Scientific Mysticism and Plant Consciousness
  7. Links for October
  8. You Awaken in a Room
  9. A Different Kind of AI Risk: Artificial Suffering
  10. Church of Reality: Cantor on Infinity and Divine Freedom
  11. Church of Reality: Schrödinger on Free Will and Pantheism
  12. Links for September
  13. Psychedelics are Becoming a Touchpoint Between Science and Religion
  14. The U.S. military is growing concerned about UFOs. Should we worry?
  15. Digging into the Drake Equation
  16. The Future of Art is Artificial
  17. Religion is an Ego-modulator
  18. Split Brain Psychology
  19. Links for August 2022
  20. The Mysticism of Scott Alexander
  21. What is Mysticism?
  22. Links for July 2022
  23. Book Review: Facing the Dragon