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What’s This, a Door?
On Laughter, Fishing, Norm Macdonald, and Soap
25 Unconventional Meditation Prompts
Meditation is easy! Just patiently relax the invisible eyeball with infinite pupils in the center of your brain until is-ness softens.
The Crane Dance
On Kidnappings, Lucid Dreams, and having a 'Goyishe Kop'
The Emotionally Regulated Person’s Guide to Lifting Perfectly
She will claw at your chunk
Some Things You Can Try When it Gets Really, Really Bad
Surrender to the momentum of the typhoon of shit coming your way, harness some of it, and allow yourself to do taboo things you wouldn't normally do.
My Most Beautiful Goodbye, or: How to Properly Inhale Nitrous Oxide
Pneumatic trough, glass collecting cylinders and other equipment used by Priestley in his experiments on gases, including nitrous oxide This is the story of the most beautiful goodbye I have ever experienced. It started, of course, with a hello. I was having a rough time in school. I was 8 or 9 years old, and my third-grade class had two kids in it, five if you count the children from other grades…
Monstrous Hermits & Lilies That Fester
Leonard Cohen’s Rant
Jerusalem Syndrome
Hope and Despair for a City I Love
Everyone Around You is Screaming on the Inside: A Guide to Working With Social Anxiety
All the world’s a stage, but far too many of us have crippling stage fright. Social anxiety is a bitch. I am grateful to say I have experienced it a lot more in my distant past than in my recent past. This is due in large part to a few frames and skills that helped me learn to ride and regulate it. Here are a few of my favorites: Recognize that everyone is often screaming internally, especially…
From the Melted Hairs of the Fractal Flower
not to eat but to taste, taste so wide it slips its chains and colors sounds
You Can’t Break the Sky: Notes From Retreat
How I became an enlightened Teletubby
The Laughter in the Leaves
What a strange time it is to be a dead star, reanimated by chance and patience
Green Flags
If they stop walking and say 'woah' at stuff, that's a green flag.
Systems Sluts and Qualia Whores
What do we do about The Mystery?
Life on the Dead Sea Part 2
It arrived alongside a gigantic noise that threatened to shred apart the fabric of reality. For a moment we just stared, like deer in the headlights of a car the size of the moon.
Life on the Dead Sea, Part 1
I felt as if someone had gently removed the top of my head. I could see from the horizon in front of me, to the horizon behind me, from Jordan to Israel, and every glorious thing in between.
Torn in the Center: On Gematria, Insanity, Meaning and Emptiness
“The sort of mental sharpness you need for the kabbalah is almost perpendicular to sanity, more like a very specific and redirectable schizophrenia. I stayed functional by keeping my mind in a very specific state that probably wasn’t very long-term healthy.” - UNSONGBOOK, Chapter 1, by Scott Alexander
5 Things Photographing Spiders Taught Me About Humans
It is easier than you might think to quickly redefine for yourself what is beautiful and what is monstrous.
Ay Chavrusa, Ay Meesusa
A chavrusa is an intellectual spouse, a spiritual colleague, and a second brain.