Category Archives: Dialogue

The human observer has a specific neural architecture (brain) which is instantiated in a specific perceptual system (body). Allowing for neural a-typicality, which happens, all human observers are having an approximately similar experience – language-based, tribal, biased, et cetera. Thus, the world that you see and think about is not vastly different than the worldContinue reading “Spiritual Teachers, Spiritual Parents”

In a way, the so-called spiritual process is akin to noticing – and then sustaining in awareness – the distinction between what is happening and an observer’s description of what is happening. The description is not the thing. Say that I am sad. You say, “Sean is sad. I can tell by the tears flowingContinue reading “Observation and Description of Phenomena”

A lot of my thinking over the past year rests on an assumption about observers, namely, that cognition and perception are observer-dependent, and thus cannot provide access to any absolute Reality or Truth. Yet notice that for this assumption to justify the conclusion, it has to be interpreted as being actually real – that is,Continue reading “On Being Wrong (And What Comes Next)”

Recently I wrote this sentence: There is no other way because we are already what we seek: are already the very home in which we long to rest. It was in the same paragraph as this little gem: We are love. Sigh. I try to be careful when writing that way. It’s not that theContinue reading “Dialogue as Love”

The inclination to judge something – a person, an idea, a situation – as either good or bad and then to react accordingly is part of our biological heritage. It is what the brain does. Viewed in terms of evolution, one can appreciate why this happened. The organism – our body – has a survivalContinue reading “Why Coherence Matters”