Here are my best links and resources about a variety of topics.
Psychoactive Worldview Myths, Inspiration
- The Egg by Andy Weir (Original Text)
- A Gathering of the Tribe by Charles Eisenstein
- Your highest light (Words by Peace Pilgrim, video collaboration with Michael Curzi)
- Coming Home: From Cells to Societies by Jordan Strasser
- LSD and the Mind of the Universe by Christopher Bache
- Null Call by Drew Schorno: advice for the vestigial shamans among us
Meditation, Buddhism, Spirituality
- Brightmind: a meditation app teaching Shinzen’s Unified Mindfulness system
- Metta App: a meditation app focused on loving kindness; includes some of my guided meditations
- Maple Seeds
- U Pandita on The Value of Metta for Westerners (notes)
- The Buddha’s Teachings: An Introduction by
- Peace Pilgrim’s Book
- Access to Insight
- Dharma Seed
- The Four Protective Meditations
- Introduction to Alexander Technique – It’s Not Posture
- The Power of Focusing
- Gendlin Focusing Instructions by Vivid Void
- Help for Insomnia: Yet Another use for Mindfulness
- Five Ways to Know Yourself: An Introduction to Basic Mindfulness by Shinzen Young
- Manifestly Urgent by River Kenna: a manifesto on somatic-imaginal practice
- Around Here We Take Our Phenomenology Seriously by Sadalsuud
- Ultimate Meditation Resource Guide
Culture
- Rolling Your Own Culture and (Not) Finding Community
- Being Your Selves: Identity R&D on alt Twitter
- The more beautiful internet our hearts know is possible
- The Best Way To Save People From Suicide (notes) [CW: suicide]
- A Friendly Ghost Story
- Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
- In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub
- Seeing Like a Superorganism
Productivity, Work, Business, Strategy
- Learn Wardley Mapping
- Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg by Malcolm Gladwell (notes)
- No more Hot Potato networking introductions: the why and how of Double Opt-ins
- Management for Startups
- The Land and Expand Strategy for Reading
- Want to Improve Your Career? Become an Uncertainty Killer
Movement and Embodiment
- 5 Minute Flow–How and Why it will change your life by Max Shank
- Ido Portal’s Squat Challenge
- Ido Portal’s Hang Challenge
- ATG / Kneesovertoesguy
- Move Better Project / Sam Martin
- Stanwood Chang’s Online Qi Gong + Tai Chi classes
- Corey Hess’ Online Qi Gong, Zhan Zhuang, + Non-Directed Body Movement classes
- Videos from Master Lam Kam Chuen
- Massaging Yourself and Your Loved Ones by Jane
The Environment
Music
- (EDM) Sets I Love
- Recommended Videos From My Friends
- Chanting
- Heart Sutra by Lama Khenpo Pema Choephel Rinpoche
- Sicut Cervus by Palestrina
- Weapon of Light by Nida Chenagtsang
Writing
- An Open Letter to Jesus Christ by Ben Ratkey
- The Gift of Life by Jess
- The Queen, the Engineer, the Poet and the River: A meaningful life on de-institutionalised time by Jess
- Becoming a Magician by Jess
- Never Enough by A Lady on Fire
- How to Lose by A Lady on Fire
- Torn in the Center: On Gematria, Insanity, Meaning and Emptiness by Hormeze
- When Your Favorite Fighter Beats Conor McGregor by Jane
- attending to the other by Jasmine Wang
- 5 tips for how to have great conversations!!! by Qiaochu Yuan
- Michelangelo’s shelter by Michael Curzi
- Paean to Alpacas by Marie
- Why I Love Capybaras by James Stuber
- Contact Tracing by Drew Schorno (Contains Content Warning)