Being an Earwig in Astronomy
On the proposal that we should think about how we're thinking before we get too sure about what we're doing.
Behavioral Education
If we can embrace all our flaws and inabilities, and take these into account when we design our environment, we can create a much better world.
An Invitation to Learning Secrets
Learning Secrets is an email sequence that extracts lessons from The Learning Project and sends one out each week. If you’re interested, sign up for it.
Beyond The Hypnotic State
Hypnosis is an attempt to extend the limits of intention, to amplify what is sometimes called “the placebo effect” to cause lasting change.
Walk in the Woods
Love is hugely misunderstood, but closely related to harmony and balance, and grows from those things. I’ve created an audio file to bring to you some of the ideas and associations that came to me during this walk.
To Put You To Sleep
"Spontaneous fainting, an unexplained phenomenon, is a clue to the nature of consciousness... I guess 30% of us will instantly "faint" with nothing more than a touch and a few quick words. It's called 'rapid induction'..."
Becoming Lucid
"Over the years I’ve read much about lucid dreaming, but I’ve been frustrated that it’s mostly portrayed as an amusement park ride. Surely, there has to be more to it than spectacle and entertainment..."
Our Lack of Sleep
Many of the consequences of insufficient sleep are highlighted in Matthew Walker's 2017 book is titled, Why We Sleep, Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams. The extracts I'm quoting come from his penultimate chapter, "Sleep and Society."
Free Hypnosis
I do not reject objectivity, I just don’t believe it, because there is no need to.
Season of Dreams
"Living systems, like us, engage our environment. We interact, express, modulate, and are modulated by our environment... We are not just 'subject to' or 'creatively imagining'; we do both. Their combination is how we control our world..."
Three Forms of Stress
Stress comes as tension, compression, or confusion. Each type is different and calls for a different resolution. Consider their differences and their different needs.
An Entirely Airborne Life Form
I have concluded there is a single-celled, diatomic plankton that lives its whole life in the stratosphere.