A Deeper Dive: Reflections on a Four-Year Silent Meditation Retreat

"Wherever we may be in our practice, we’ve all at times asked ourselves: What would it be like if I sat a little longer? Perhaps after our first afternoon, or daylong silent retreat, we thought—'I was really able finally to settle in there and experience stillness. It was powerful, and some interesting thoughts arose. What … Continue reading A Deeper Dive: Reflections on a Four-Year Silent Meditation Retreat

Imagined Possibilities & One Bad Storm

"Docility no longer emanates from priestly magic, it results from a mass of minor hypnoses: news, culture, town-planning, publicity, mechanisms of conditioning and suggestion in the service of any order, established or to come."—Raoul Vaneigem, "The Revolution of Everyday Life." Oakland, California: PM Press, 2012. I was reading an article in The Guardian on the problem … Continue reading Imagined Possibilities & One Bad Storm