From Quantity to Quality, Finding a New Process
When I set out to write my first book, I didn’t think much about the quality of my process. Of course, I wanted the book to be good and as well written as possible, but I mean that inwardly, I...
The Story of Matt the Meditator
Back when I attended ten-day silent meditation retreats, I once met a man named Matt.Matt was a young man but an old student, experience which earned him a cushion at the front of the class.A newer student at the time,...
The Lucid Dreamer
I once knew this guy who became amazing at lucid dreaming. He thought if he could lucid dream, then he could do all sorts of cool stuff he couldn’t in real life. He said he practiced every day. He journaled his...
The Story Behind True Nature: What I Learned About Love & Enlightenment
After three years of writing, I recently released my second book, True Nature.The art isn’t finished—I could have kept working on it for years.But there comes a time when something grabs ahold of us and says,You’ve held onto this for...
What I Learned From My Eight-Day Water Fast
I recently completed an 8-day water fast. No food, tea, coffee, or supplements. Just water.In this post, I’ll share with you the why and the results.Warning: This content is not advice. I do not recommend unsupervised fasting and take no...
My First 10-Day Vipassana Meditation Course & What I Learned About My Mind
It is April of 2015, in the days leading up to a 2,650-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail, when something called Vipassana is brought to my attention by my college fraternity brother and soon-to-be hiking partner, Bradley. He begins...
Spiral Dynamics: Memes, Worldviews & The Information Age
I first came across Spiral Dynamics during a late-night YouTube binge, thanks to my friend Bradley. The video entitled The Grand Model of Psychological Evolution ran an hour and twenty-six minutes long and I just so happened to have that...
My Waking Up Experience: No-Self, Thanks to an iPhone App
In the Buddhist teaching, there are three primary characteristics of existence: impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and no-self. I’ve experienced these characteristics to varying depths and degrees in my practice of Vipassana, a body-scanning meditation technique and a Pali word meaning “to see...
Imposter Syndrome: Lessons Learned from Showing Up to Book Club
I had the wonderful opportunity to share yesterday evening with this book club of lovable ladies who have successfully read one book every month for the last twenty-five years, except November, and months when the book failed to meet their...
The Story Behind The Book: How I Wrote A Thru-Hiking Memoir
The day I received the first copy of a book that took me three years to write, I cried. But I didn’t cry from first glimpsing the book. Instead, I was brought to tears by writing this reflection. Writing this...
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