spiritual search

Awareness of the sacred in times of crisis

I the interviews I conducted with spiritual exemplars as part of my PhD research, one of the questions I asked was: Did you have in your...

The best place to start from

Recently I had conversations with a few dear dharma friends, who nowadays are putting much of their time, energy and comfort into trying...

A comment that made a difference

Years ago I published in an Israeli newspaper an article about meditation, and in it I wrote that, when I sit in meditation, I connect...

Enlightenment and Newton's Apple

One of the main paradoxes of enlightenment or awakening is that one awakens to what had always been the case and what they had always...

Only When You Reach the Source

Years ago I visited, together with a friend, Father Marcel Dubois (an Israeli Dominican monk and philosopher), who was well-known, among...

Psychedelics and Meditation

In a paper by Chris Letheby with the above title, he suggests that psychedelics and meditation can both (1) disrupt self-binding...

My Morning Chant

A friend told me I should share my morning chant, so here it is. I chant the first part before meditating and the second as I come out of...

A dangerous experiment in overcoming fear

During my morning hike it started raining and I suddenly remembered a pretty crazy adventure I had some 30 years ago on Mt. Tamalpais in...