Emotional Well-Being
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Bringing meditation techniques into his new role as a middle school teacher, a former academic finds some resolution despite a new crisis.
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As a recently laid-off academic becomes more immersed in a sangha, he tries to reconcile his newfound zazen practice with his western background.
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Faced with his wife’s cancer diagnosis, a lack of affordable housing, and losing his job in academia, Donovan Irven turns to Zen Buddhism to resolve…
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Whether we are religious or claim no sense of the spiritual, sacred spaces help us to better confront the transient nature of existence.
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Amidst a pandemic, Albert Camus’ novel The Plague suggests that we can find courage, community, and hope while embracing the absurd.
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William James offers a way to evaluate the fruitfulness of ideas by tethering them to the common ground of lived experience.
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Fears halted research on psychotropic compounds in the 60s. The Second Psychedelic Renaissance is now validating their psychological benefits.
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To address rising atomization and alienation, we must account for radical inadequacy and experiment with more totalizing communities.