Jun 18The Painbender’s ManifestoChanneling Chronic Pain Can Change Our Lives — Chronic pain is a pervasive drain on human potential, ability, and joy. It takes lives that are full of promise and ruptures the whole landscape. Chronic pain patients lose their lives as they know them and, as they are buffeted about by pain and societal complications, they largely become victims…Chronic Pain6 min read
May 11The Pragmatic Revolution: How We Can Overcome Chronic PainIf you are living in a pit of despair with chronic pain, there is a way out. There is a way to reverse the chronic pain cycle. We can find a way to nurture optimism and live our lives, free from the suzerainty of our pain issues. …Chronic Pain5 min read
Feb 3The Wounded Wolf Response: Why Men Tend to Hide in Chronic PainTraditional masculinity does not play nice with chronic pain. In fact, it doesn’t harmonize at all with illness, disability or other forms of vulnerability. They are seen as forms of weakness, of character defects. We internalize the sense that we should be ashamed of pain, illness and hardship. A few…Chronic Pain3 min read
Dec 18, 2021Member-onlyA Defense of the MetaverseHow Virtual Worlds Can Offer Us Hope, Refuge, and Transformation This last month or so, we have seen an incredible surge of interest, discussion and debate about the metaverse — what it is, what it will be, and whether it will do any good or not. That last question has…Metaverse5 min read
Jan 21, 2021Member-onlyMeditating as a MountainIn this meditation we are invoking a very powerful archetype: the mountain. This is a meditation practice I love. It is a very special one because it is effectively a union of a body scan and visualization practice. …Meditation4 min read
Jan 5, 2021A New Year Meditation on Study, Pain & ProgressFor everyone, the year 2020 has been chaotic, destabilizing, and even ruinous. The breakout of the coronavirus pandemic changed the whole world almost overnight. It has acted as a catalyst to turn minor issues into major problems. Political instability here in the US was another factor in this mess. Between…Chronic Pain5 min read
Oct 29, 2020Accelerationists are Endangering the United StatesRecently, the FBI foiled a plot concocted by right-wing militiamen, where they intended to capture the governor of Michigan and take down the state’s elected leadership in an audacious act of insurgency. …US Politics3 min read
Jun 25, 2020On George Floyd, Racism, and Where We Go From HereGeorge Floyd. Breona Taylor. And now, Rayshard Brooks. Yet another preventable tragedy has unfolded before our eyes. The list of names of murdered Black Americans has become a mantra against egregious abuses of police power, and lives extinguished because of skin color. The “American Dream” has been a nightmare for…Racism4 min read
May 26, 2020Becoming Human: On the Age of Coronavirus & Finding a New HumanismHumanism, noun: 1. An ideology or outlook that values human life, rational solutions to problems, and emphasizes common human needs A pandemic unlike anything we’ve seen since the Spanish flu of 1918 has scourged the entire world without discrimination, spreading quickly and causing massive suffering and disruption across the globe…Humanism5 min read
Feb 19, 2020A Golden Opportunity in CaliforniaRediscovering Meditation & the Art of Painbending It’s 2020 — and it feels like stepping into a new sci-fi saga. Our society sits on the cusp of a new chapter of the Information Age. We have immense technology now, social interactions have massively evolved in just a decade, and the…California4 min read
