The second half of life typically brings with it a strange paradox. We may have achieved what we set out to do in life, by raising a family, establishing a career, and building a personal identity. Yet, as middle age arrives, persistent trolls with names like meaning and purpose arise out of nowhere, and wake …
There are times when the “me”-ness of our everyday experience weakens. Life feels a bit like it is being lived in third person. Our selves feel a bit unreal, and reality itself feels a bit unreal. The former condition is referred to as depersonalization, and the latter as derealization. Both of these phenomena involve a …
It is a curious phenomenon that the bodies of nearly all higher animals manifest a shape best described as an asymmetrical hourglass. A head, a relatively larger torso, and separating them, a narrow constriction called the neck. Exceptions, such as the bizarrely intelligent octopus, are few. In the head lies the brain, the organ that …
The arc is unmistakable. Voluntarily or involuntarily, humans are isolating. The last century has seen a stratospheric rise in humans living by themselves, and spending most of their time alone. In cities across the world, solo households are the norm now. More than half of all adults in the Western world call themselves single. A …
The über task of every human is to play a game called Individuation. The game lasts for the entirety of his or her lifetime. Participation is not optional. As life begins, each player is dealt a unique set of cards, all face down. Everyone is born whole, but wholly unconscious. In childhood one sits in …
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