Author Archives: Jack

Most of our education, at least in the school system, happens at the conceptual level. So the question arises: what does it mean to learn a concept? I’m not trained in the theory of education, but my sense is that … Continue reading →

I’m teaching a course right now for Mangalam Research Center on the Rhetoric of Experience and its relation to the practice of meditation. This has me thinking a lot about experience. There is something like a “cult of experience” in … Continue reading →

One thing I’ve notice about growing older is that I think a lot about growing older. It’s a very interesting and ever-evolving transition, offering many opportunities for reflection, and one that most of us will have the chance to experience. … Continue reading →

In a podcast I listened to recently, the speaker made the familiar point that the age of adulthood in our culture has been pushed back, so that young people live in a state of arrested development. With no real grip … Continue reading →

Most people find it difficult to make positive changes in their lives—whether in terms of patterns of behavior, ways of thinking, or ways of acting and reaction. Again and again, we act against our own values and ideals, our own … Continue reading →

As children of scientific materialism and the Newtonian enlightenment, we are used to thinking of space and the universe as objectively real. But that is only a story we tell, a way of interpreting experience. It’s a good story for … Continue reading →