Writing
Series
- Beyond Social Media
- Bible
- Buddhist Jew Trilogy
- Horary Question
- Horary: Cat
- Horary: Lost Object
- Horary: Right
- Horary: Wrong
- Householders
- How to Build a Fire
- Music
- Spiritual Spectrum Dialogues
- Torah Posting
- Torah Posting: Bereishit
- Torah Posting: Dvarim
- Torah Posting: Shemot
- Torah Posting: Vayikra
- Torah Posting: ba’Midbar
What’s Up With Writing “G!d”?
“G-d” spread pretty far because of its usefulness as a way of saying, “Not the bearded man in the sky you’re thinking of.”
Q: What Is Buddhism? In One Sentence
A: The belief that buddhas can transmit actionable information about the process by which they became buddhas.
Emoji for the 10 Sefirot
I have selected emoji to represent the 10 sefirot correctly, Jewishly, rooted in Hebrew, and free of false occult meanings.
Tashlich and Transmission
Time to go do weird stuff in an American public park dressed in all white.
Vayikra (Leviticus)
It’s a manual for building, maintaining, operating, and living next to a nuclear power plant.
Dating a Stripper
Absolutely the key experience that formulated my masculinity into something I could use to be a husband and father.
Kabbalah in Practice
I did some good learning today about why Kabbalah has these cultural restrictions around learning it, and I kinda get it now.
Kingdom of Priests
I kinda think the other shoe is yet to drop as far as the Jewish contribution to humankind.
God’s Name as Form of the Verb “To Be”
Forms of “to be” in Hebrew carry much higher metaphysical freight than they do in modern languages we’re used to.
When When-Buddhism-Goes-Bad Essays Go Bad
I see we’re still doing “Meditation™ is dangerous” instead of “culturally denuded brain hacking is dangerous.”
What Is Kabbalah?
To the extent that Kabbalah is mysticism, it’s a mis-application of the wisdom.