Neuroscience
The Evidence from Within
How contemplative neuroscience watches the default mode network quiet as the self dissolves — and why the meditator's report became data.
Neuroscience
Consciousness
Science Approaches the Summit: Is Consciousness Fundamental?
Is consciousness fundamental or produced by the brain? Inside the quantum physics, IIT, and lab evidence that's loosening materialism's grip.
Consciousness
The Western Return: How the Hard Problem Reopened Consciousness — From Depth Psychology to Analytic Idealism
How modern Western thought — from James and Jung to Chalmers's hard problem and Kastrup's analytic idealism — reopened the question of consciousness.
Consciousness
The Eastern Vision: From the Upanishads to the Living Sages
Why the Eastern path is empiricism, not religion — a rigorous account of consciousness from the Upanishads to Ramana, Nisargadatta and Yogananda.
Two Paths to Consciousness
Two Paths to Consciousness
An eight-essay series tracing the convergence of Eastern and Western thinking on consciousness — and what it requires of us in the age of artificial minds.
Neuroscience
The Default Mode Network: Neuroscience of the Self and Its Dissolution
What is the self — and what happens when it dissolves? Explore the neuroscience of the Default Mode Network and what happens when this self-referential brain system goes quiet during meditation, psychedelics, or mystical experience.
Consciousness
When Quantum Physics and Consciousness Converge: Physics, Mysticism, and the Nature of Reality
What happens when the language of quantum physics begins to sound like ancient contemplative wisdom? Explore the surprising convergence between modern physics and mystical traditions — and what it means for our understanding of reality.
Consciousness
AI Alignment & Consciousness: The Hard Problem Meets the Alignment Problem
AI systems are becoming more capable — but do we understand what we're building? Explore the intersection of the hard problem of consciousness and the alignment problem, and why solving one may require solving the other.
Consciousness
The Neuroscience of Mystical Experience
What happens in the brain during mystical experience? Explore the neuroscience behind states of transcendence, unity, and the dissolution of boundaries — and what they reveal about consciousness itself.