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June 2016

June 30, 2016
(image credit) So imagine you are driving on autopilot, as we all do much of...
June 23, 2016
(cc) Alan Turkus I have been writing about meditation, spirituality, and inner resources for about...
June 16, 2016
As we rode home on the bus, I knew that we had made a difference.  ...
June 06, 2016
The Tao Te Ching is the most popular book outside the Bible, with over 100 translations into...
June 01, 2016
Episode 9: Stephen Batchelor is a Buddhist teacher and writer, known for his secular or agnostic...

May 2016

May 26, 2016
Series: Find Your Purpose Jerome is desperate. He drags himself to his office job every...
May 19, 2016
At the beginning of her article “Are Animals ‘Things’?: The law evolves” (Harvard Magazine, March-April...
May 12, 2016
by Kabir Edmund Helminski. Book Review by DT Strain. Book link in SNS Amazon Shop...
May 05, 2016
You probably have heard of it under of its many different names, mindfulness meditation, Buddhist...
May 01, 2016
Episode 8: Many people associate non-attachment, equanimity, or acceptance with passivity or inaction. So how...

April 2016

April 28, 2016
Series: Evaluating Reality Rationally Written by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, Intentional Insights Co-Founder and President. Graphics...
April 25, 2016
(cc) skagitrenee Near the end of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, the character known simply as...
April 19, 2016
(cc) Mike Sinko A spiritual experience can be emotionally powerful. Some have concluded from this...
April 07, 2016
The yin-yang symbol is technically and more accurately called Taijitu, meaning “supreme ultimate diagrams.” The...
April 01, 2016
Episode 7: Professor of philosophy and author Donald A. Crosby has written many volumes on...

March 2016

March 24, 2016
Wikimedia Fatalism. It is a broader attitude in life, of letting things take their own...
March 17, 2016
I like lichens. So do many people. Descriptions of them are full of likeable achievements:...
March 10, 2016
Book Review: Pema Chödrön is an American ordained nun of Tibetan Buddhism. At nearly 70...
March 04, 2016
Spirituality is about knowing and connecting with reality, a reality of nature and human beings....
March 02, 2016
Episode 6, Part 2: What is secular Buddhism and how does it relate to spiritual naturalism?...
March 02, 2016
Episode 6, part 1: What is secular Buddhism and how does it relate to spiritual naturalism?...

February 2016

February 25, 2016
I remember how in November 2013 my wife (and fellow Intentional Insights co-founder) and I,...
February 19, 2016
(cc) Jarvist Frost In the dystopian world of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, the reading of classic,...
February 11, 2016
In a passage from Chapter 22 of the writings of Chuang-tse, the philosopher Lao Dan...
February 04, 2016
Viktor E. Frankl was a psychiatrist, who founded a school of psychotherapy based on humanity’s...
February 01, 2016
Episode 5: Have you ever thought about the vibe you’re putting out into the world? Demeanor...

January 2016

January 28, 2016
How can you find purpose and meaning from a secular perspective? Mike meets regularly with...
January 21, 2016
We know that we carry inside us the history of our bodies—the chemistry and bones...
January 14, 2016
Guest article by Michelle L. LeBlanc… If you are anything like me, I enjoy a book...
January 07, 2016
It’s a New Year. Did you make a New Year’s resolution? Some of the more...
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