Poet Identity
Guest Blog. This essay was written by a recent student-friend, as he explores one of those areas by which we establish meaning in our...
How Do You Think You Are?
We all take as a given, like fish in water, a cultural and historical preoccupation with the “self” as something to nurture, protect,...
Monkey Mind II: Mysticism, Childhood, and Mental Health
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creation out of void, but out of chaos." -- Mary Shelley We are all mystics...
Monkey Mind I: Subjectivity and the Brain's Default Mode Network
So, what do you think about when you’re not thinking about anything else? Where does your mind go when it isn’t busy with goal-directed...
What We Do Not Want to Know about Ourselves
""...the dividing line between good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his...
How We Know Ourselves: d. Intimately
There is a real paradox in intimate relationships. No one wants to be alone, but for someone to be really with you, especially to be a...
How We Fool Ourselves
Knowing ourselves must surely include knowing not only that but how much our very sense of ourselves is a “mythic reality” by which we...
How We Know Ourselves: c. In the World
We know our bodies intimately. It is through our bodies and our nervous systems that we are aware of and come to know anything at all....
How We Know Ourselves: b. Bodily
The tender pragmatisms of flesh have poetries no enigma--human or divine--can diminish or demean. Indeed, it can only cause them, and...
How We Know Ourselves: a. Limits
The Socratic maxim, gnothi seauton, “know thyself,” was originally intended to emphasize its importance, over time wasted on things like...