Rabbit Hole

I was a ridiculous person back then. I just was interested in partying and whooping it up and so I didn’t really let my accidents slow me down. I didn’t stop to take any lessons from them. I didn’t have the language to talk about growth and consciousness and any of it. Nobody in my circles talked about this stuff.

Talk with Erik Davis and Maja D’Aoust. Gets right into big questions around the experience of meditation, the vastness of the territory, the multiplicity of practices, the relationship between insight and ethics, the mystery of human enlightenment and – to keep it modest – science and the nature of reality.

Fun talk with writer scholar Erik Davis, including riffs on hypnagogia, lucid dreaming, scientific vs spiritual knowledge, the role of science journalists in describing the nature of reality, how ocean may shape mind, and more.

Jennifer Dumpert teaches a course on dreaming at Pacifica Graduate Institute in California. A short video interview I did for her class, talking all about Aristotle and houses on wheels and “memory catching” Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.

Blah blah. Interview with the California Literary Review