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What Is The Point of Being Alive? Reflections on God, Death, Meaning and Spirituality

“Do you pray?” I once asked a patient.

“No, I’ve never been able to for some reason” she paused. “Do you?”

“No,” I said. “Because I don’t know if anyone is listening.”

February 26, 2021 Uncategorized

What Getting Old Means To Me

I am outside, wandering Richmond, British Columbia. The ocean stands before me, a shimmering field of blue that rolls in

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February 23, 2021 Buddhism / mental health / Alan Watts / Taoism

Alan Watt’s Backwards Law And 3 Ways It Can Help With Your Mental Health

“When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you

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February 22, 2021 mental health / psychotherapy / Shadow Self / Spirituality

Facing Humanity’s Darkness: Struggles With My Personal Demons and The Jungian Shadow Self

I no longer think humans are innately good. This is a new belief, developed over the last 10 years.  For

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February 16, 2021 Christopher Nolan / Cinema / film

The 5 Best Christopher Nolan Movies According To Me

Christopher Nolan is a rarity in today’s Hollywood. He is the rare big-budget director that pushes the craft of filmmaking

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February 9, 2021 Absurdism / climate change / collapse

Reflections On A Dying World: Finding Meaning In The Climate Crisis

The climate is collapsing. Most of us live in denial of this. But it is inevitable. What does climate collapse

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February 8, 2021 Buddhism / meditation / mental health / mindfulness / Spirituality

5 Things I’ve Learned After Twenty Years of Meditating

I started meditating when I was 21. When I was in Kathmandu, Nepal, I bought a copy of Kathleen McDonald’s

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February 2, 2021 Cinema / Federico Fellini / film

The 5 Best Federico Fellini Films According To Me

(I wrote this in 2013 on an old film blog and thought it would be fun to repost it. Many

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February 1, 2021 capitalism / socialism / television / the wire

The Proletariat Life of Bodie Broadus

I just finished my 5th rewatch of The Wire, the critically acclaimed HBO drama that ran from 2002-2008, and it

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January 28, 2021 Buddhism / meditation / mindfulness

Exploring My Inner Demons : A Journal Entry from Today’s Meditation

Meditation is my balance. It’s hard to fully articulate what it actually does for me, except that I am more

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January 26, 2021 Buddhism / meditation / mindfulness / Spirituality

What Meditation Isn’t: 5 Common Misnomers of the Ancient Practice

So you want to meditate… kudos to you for wanting to improve your mental health and life. When I’ve practiced

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