Philosophy of Alignment

A friend and former colleague recently said to me, “Yeah, that all sounds nice, but I still have to pay my bills—probably in a job I […]

If the universe is pure consciousness—as many mystics, physicists, and philosophers now suggest—then what does that mean for the idea of a “higher power”? If we […]

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”— James Baldwin In uncertain times, we are tempted to […]

Hot take: You don’t have to choose between hard-headed rationality and a sense of the sacred. Here’s a stance I’ve been refining: consciousness isn’t a late-breaking […]

Somewhere between the distractions of dopamine and the promises of perfection, we’ve lost the thread. For years, I’ve been circling the same existential fire, wondering what […]