Essays/Ramblings

Here are some essays written in answer to questions or common concerns. I hope they are of some benefit to you. The essays each have little titles and blurbs that explain what they are about and generally attempt to give the reader enough information to get started without, I hope, being overly didactic.

An Open Letter. Some ponderings loosely organized.

Open Letter.pdf

Basic Meditation -- Ideas for getting started and staying started.

Basic Meditation.pdf

Intermediate Meditation -- Bumps in the road sometimes encountered

Middle (and later) Stages of Meditation.

Advanced Meditation -- Some ideas about post-awakening practice

_Advanced_ Meditation.pdf

Sensuality, Sex, Sexuality, Intimacy and Relationality

Sex, sexuality, sensuality, and intimacy

Resilience, Trauma and Affect Theory and why those topics matter to all people as both individuals and citizens.

trauma, affect theory, and resilience3.p