Content on Self
Spherical Senility
Despite the pandemic and creeping decline, why are some of us tenured elderly so lucky, so unreasonably effective? And cheerful? And productive?
What Does It Mean to Be a Person? Views From Psychology
How can both psychology and Judaism help us look at freedom of choice, happiness and gratitude?
Why Rites of Passage Are Painful
In the modern West, the initiation into adulthood is a long, messy, and rather undignified process with no clear endpoint.
The Power of Regret: A Conversation With Daniel H. Pink
What can regret teach us?
Re-Acquainting Ourselves: A Conversation With David Rosmarin, PhD
How can religion and spirituality help us repair our connections within ourselves, with others and with God?
Distant Beliefs in Everyday Life: A Conversation With Helen de Cruz, PhD
What does it take for us to change our beliefs, and how is it tied in with our identity and community?
The Embodied Brain: A Conversation With Annie Murphy Paul
What is the interrelationship between body and mind, and how much thinking happens outside of our brains?
Spiritual Technology: A Conversation With Kate J. Stockly
How are new technologies — like virtual reality and spirituality apps — changing the religious landscape?
What Does Memory Look Like?
As Pesach approaches, what actually happens when you remember?
The Animal at Unease With Itself
How are Genesis 2 and 3 are crafted to deal with the stress of human awareness of its own creatureliness and mortality?
Somatic Experiencing in a Pandemic
We can support our mindfulness practice with what neuroscientists and other biophysiologists will tell us, and also what spiritual traditions tend to appreciate, which is that we are wondrously made, or magnificently evolved, as, in a way, self-healing organisms.
What Does It Mean to be “Human”?
If humans aren’t self-contained units, what’s our responsibility to the other elements that we’re connected to?