The metaphysics or worldview at the heart of my own approach to spirituality is just plain good old-fashioned Idealism.  This view is...

One of the most important mythic images we have, perhaps the central one, is the myth of the Human.  The Human represents simultaneously...

One of the skills that supports neurotypical functioning might be described as ‘social deference.’  It refers to the way people...

I love my autistic brain.  The way I experience sensory, emotional, and imaginative data is extremely dense, rich, and satisfying.  When...

My entire life I have been uncomfortably aware that I was different.  I could not understand how to enter into conversations that were...

Most people, at some point in their lives, experience a kind of existential roomnesia. You know, when you walk into a room, stop and look...

Many people are skeptical of religion.  Religious institutions are corrupt and rife with scandal and abuse.  People who self-identify as...

The mind is like a cathedral, with vaulted ceilings and an architecture of brilliantly complex geometry.  But not just the main chapel:...

Observe the thoughts and feelings and sensations flooding your mind right now.  Try and take a census of their voices.  Who are these...

Our waking existence is like a golden city.  It has high-rises and slums, theaters and grocery stores, museums and malls.  It has beauty,...