If Home Base is the community and the ongoing studio, this is the archive. The field notes. The accumulated experiments.
Books. Interviews. Old radio documentaries. Guided meditations scattered across various apps. A “How to Meditate” course. Oh, and my favourite: a free community practice start-up guide, so you can start your own group.
Meditations:
Some of my meditations live on apps. Some live on YouTube. Some were made at 2am because I couldn’t sleep and figured maybe someone else couldn’t either. Here’s where to find them:
home base
This is where all my new meditations live, a continually growing library of practice.
Home Base is my community of continual practice and support. It’s where I make and share short, practical meditations, usually paired with a reflection about the baffle-wonder-challenge of somehow existing. They’re meant to be used, reused, happily pilfered and shared with others.
It’s free to join, with additional meditations for paid subscribers.If you want community support to keep your meditation practice going, this is the place.
Other Meditation Hot Spots:
YouTube (Huge Do Nothing Project archive + assorted wanderings)
Calm (Daily Trip, 30-day Mindfulness for Beginners course and a lot more)
Kid Evolve (Meditations for little kids, with sound effects)
Happier Meditation (Lots of video with Dan and guided courses)
10% with Dan Harris (Meditation & community)
Or start right now:
I dare you to stop your scroll and press play on one of the field tested greatest hits below:
The Junior Cult Leader’s Guide to Beginner Meditation
Notice Your Story
12-minute meditation
What irrefutably true shitshow is going on in your life?
11-minute meditation
Disarm the mind with maximum accessibility
Gradual Transitions
5-minute meditation
An ADHD-friendly meditation for when you’re too jumpy to sit still.
F*ck It
9-minute meditation
On the joys of giving up.
Community Practice Activation Kit
If you’ve ever had the thought, “I wish there was a place in my town where people could sit together and practice… but also I don’t want to join a weird cult,” then this kit is for you.
It will help you start your own weird cult!
Just kidding. But it will help you start a practice group with a few pals or coworkers. This is my practical, human, slightly scruffy guide to starting (or strengthening) a community meditation group — with real-world guidance on how to welcome people, hold a room, guide a simple practice, and keep things sane, kind, and workable over time.
what this kit is (and isn't):
This is not a certification. It’s not a guru starter pack. It’s a set of field-tested principles, prompts, and scripts to help you begin, then learn by doing, with enough structure to feel safe, and enough flexibility to fit your actual community.
what's inside:
- Why practicing in a group changes things (motivation, accountability, being less alone)
- How to start small: place, pals, start — then repeat
- Who can guide a meditation (spoiler: normal humans, with humility and basic guardrails)
- Intention + values (ie, how not to become a deranged fundamentalist cult leader)
- How to write and guide meditations in a simple, direct way
- Common challenges (pain, sleepiness, boredom, “am I doing this wrong,” etc.)
- Trauma-sensitive principles and what to do when someone is having a hard time
- Interactive practices + sharing prompts that build real community
- Appendix: a few actual scripts you can use as scaffolding (concentration, mindfulness, do nothing, loving-kindness)
who this is for:
Therapists, teachers, social workers, organizers, coaches, coworkers, artists, parents, community-minded humans — and anyone who wants to make practice less of a solo sport, and more of a shared, doable thing.
Course:
The Elements of Meditation:
There are many ways to meditate. Which is beautiful. And sometimes confusing.
If you’re new, it can feel like wandering through a spiritual hardware store where every aisle promises clarity, calm, transcendence, nervous system repair, and possibly abs.Even if you’ve been practicing for years, it’s not always obvious what you’re actually training. Why does one technique feel stabilizing and another destabilizing? How do these styles relate? What are the underlying skills?
The Elements of Meditation is an early attempt on my part to simplify the landscape without flattening it. In this course, I break meditation down into four core approaches — concentration, mindfulness, loving-kindness, and “Do Nothing” — and explore how each one develops a different attentional capacity, how they reinforce one another, and how to adapt them to your own nervous system and life.
Books
I have written a few books. Some of them intentionally. They span meditation road trips, the neuroscience of consciousness, mystical academic anthologies, nature essays, and at least one wildlife guide written for beer money. If you want the meditation-adjacent stuff, start with the two main books below. If you’re curious about the more eclectic side quests, there’s a page for those too.
choose your own adventure:
& randoms
Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics
A skeptical road trip into meditation — with Dan Harris — featuring real people, real resistance, and surprisingly workable practices.
The Head Trip
A guided tour of waking, dreaming, sleep, and the strange permutations of consciousness we call “normal.”
Other Random Books
Mysticism, nature essays, wildlife guides, and a few literary side quests that made sense at the time.
Interviews
Over the years, I’ve been interviewed by journalists, podcasters, radio hosts, skeptics, enthusiasts, and the occasionally suspicious professional thinker.
Sometimes we talk about meditation.
Sometimes we talk about ADHD, bipolar disorder, trauma, and creativity.
Sometimes we wander into neuroscience, psychedelics, parenting, or the general weirdness of being conscious.
I try to answer honestly. Occasionally coherently.
Also check out my podcast with Tasha.
Articles & Journalism
Some short and longer-form pieces about meditation, neuroscience, sleep, mysticism, psychedelics, activism, consciousness experiments, spiritual ambition, and the many ways humans attempt to wake up (or at least cope).
Some of these articles are reported features, others more random and personal. Enjoy!
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