Scientific Animism

<p>This Communal New Year’s Poem has become a bit of a tradition in the sense that I’ve tried to do it for the past two years. When does something become a tradition? Either way—it has felt especially important lately...

<p></p><p>The world is alive, and we are its witnesses! Meaning, myth, & spiritual community based in reality, no supernatural convictions required or forbidden.</p><p></p><p>Push me to boil down the movement to one...

<p>I still can’t believe Sophie Strand saw—and responded to!—my DM. Me! With my 150 subscribers. Her! With her 37 thousand. I’m humbled.</p><p><p>Thanks for reading, listening, being here with me. Let’s co-imagine...

<p>Hello friend! It’s been a busy summer and I haven’t shared anything for a while. Here’s a short post just to say: I like this time of year, and I like you. I hope you’re safe and well-fed and spending your time with...

<p>I’ve been thinking about this episode of The Great Simplification about living off-grid and about how all my medicine causes more illness (the “high efficiency” gas boiler in the first house, the mini-splits full of...

<p>I imagine the emergent philosophy that is Scientific Animism growing into a collective movement where we create shared spaces, shared containers, to hold all our awe for the world and our grief at its senseless...

<p>Hey friend, thanks for being here with me, learning to ask better questions. This is one of my favorites.</p><p>When my four-year-old says it slow, you can hear the misplaced consonant, the "K" at the beginning of...

<p>For me, right now, at my life stage, I want to embrace slow hedonism. Do things for pleasure! Pleasure is good! But I don’t need the easiest, fastest return on investment. Some of life’s most rewarding experiences...

<p>one day this feedback loop will end. one day these neurons will stop whispering to themselves a story of their own existence. the dance, the process, the performance will end, and nothing resembling a coherent Agent—...

<p>The sunrise happens. You can’t control it. You can’t make it come quicker or make it come later, you can’t speed it up or slow it down. It happens.</p><p>The question is: are you gonna be there to be a part of...

<p>About nine years ago, I heard a news story about the surprising number of people identifying as both pro-choice AND pro-life.</p><p>Being in a fairly soft, in-between place myself at the time, I loved it. If I recall...

<p>When I started this Substack I also had the goal of</p><p>sort of</p><p>LARPing, with friends,</p><p>what we thought Scientific Animism might look like</p><p>if it were some sort of</p><p>organized /...

<p>I have been practicing a Daoist meditation called the Microcosmic Orbit. As part of this practice, I visualize a pearl forming and growing in my sacrum—the Pearl of Consciousness.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to...

<p>a whole winter, this constant companion— every morning out delivering papers, every exit from school— breath made visible, maybe a little, maybe a lot, but almost always there, still warm but cooling, bits of...

<p>The tree makes 10,000 seeds. Sometimes, the yard is filled with seedlings. Sometimes none take.</p><p>It’s not that God / The Universe wanted you to have this one new opportunity, and you just needed to trust and...