Spirit & philosophy
People have been working on the problems of the mind and the self for a very long time, and most of that work predates psychology by a few thousand years.
Wisdom traditions had developed detailed accounts of anger, attention, desire, grief and self-governance long before anyone ran a controlled trial on them. Some of it maps onto what we now measure. Some of it goes places the measurements don't reach.
This section takes those frameworks seriously and reads the primary texts carefully, rather than explaining them away in psychological terms or quoting them decoratively.
Comparative frameworks
The God Models Map
Four answers to what ultimate reality is, compared across eight questions: existence, consciousness, suffering, morality, purpose and death.
Panentheism vs pantheism
One syllable apart, and it changes whether you can pray to anything, whether you survive death as yourself, and what relationship even means.
Physics and metaphysics
Does consciousness create reality?
What quantum physics actually says, what the recent Wigner's friend experiments show, and where that leaves the older traditions.
The simulation hypothesis
What the simulation argument actually claims, the assumption it hangs on, whether it can be tested, and why a simulated reality might still be real.
AI and consciousness
Examining and understanding artificial intelligence and the question of machine minds.
Scripture
More on philosophy, contemplative practice and metaphysics is coming. See also Mind and Body.