An Invitation to Being Human: Ep. 3 - Be a Burden
We receive endless messages about the importance of being independent, standing on our own, making something of ourselves and so forth that it is easy to forget this is all nonsense at best and life d...
22 Juni 55min
Reading The Bhagavad Gita: Books 11, 12 & 13
The fascinating parallels with the Book of Job in Chapter 11 of the Gita helps to highlight the profound differences between the Hindu and Christian tradition and the concept of the divine at the cent...
19 Juni 25min
An Invitation to Being Human: Ep. 2 - Make Something
It is commonplace and true that we live in a consumer society. Less noticed is that being a consumer casts us in a role as passive non-makers who do not produce and participate but simply define ourse...
15 Juni 51min
Reading The Bhagavad Gita: Books 8, 9 & 10
The Atman, Brahman, and Karma are presented quite clearly in book 8 and the implications are then extrapolated in Nine and Ten. These are the key ideas at the heart of Hinduism. The Atman is a challen...
12 Juni 27min
New Series! An Invitation to Being Human: Ep. 1 - Go Outside
This series is a concrete extrapolation of the ideals of Humanism within the context of our contemporary society. While it might seem like we can’t help but know how to be human, the pressures and str...
8 Juni 52min
Reading The Bhagavad Gita: Book 7
It sounds a lot like monotheism, and perhaps this is what Krishna is arguing, but it is a conceptual framework very much different than the Christian concept of monotheism (the Jewish people did not h...
5 Juni 26min
“How Things Mean” - Live Lecture From Maastricht, The Netherlands - 4.30 26
I want to share the live audio of the 2nd lecture I gave at The University of Maastricht, the Netherlands a month ago. This one is from Thursday, April 30.The focus of this lecture is the deep ontolog...
1 Juni 47min
Reading The Bhagavad Gita: Books 5 & 6
While slightly repetitive, the importance of the idea of holy work and doing as superior to not doing is central to these two books. I spend extra time on the concept of ‘Sin’ and how this is a mislea...
29 Maj 36min
