At first glance, my title this week might seem like an odd question or the opening to a joke. In fact, the question is asked and answered in...

In the two preceding essays, I have explored the role that sensory deprivation (or monotony) might play in Buddhist practice, especially in...

The city of Cambridge is old. The University of Cambridge was founded in 1208, but the town dates from centuries earlier. We have the rem...

In discussing Vitalism and science I mentioned the threshold between living and dead matter. I've already written at some length abo...

This is the 250 th post on this blog. That's 250 raves in a little less than six years, one per week since the beginning of 2008. I sta...