Let’s resist the temptation of slotting that phrase into its former usage, and consider whether going counter-culture in our current situation simply means identifying things in our society which we find destructive and choosing real alternatives to them.
A HUMAN MEANING PROJECT
From transformation
An Uncovering
More than any year in my (admittedly short) life 2020 felt interminable. I feel like I aged at least a decade that year, and talking to my friends and family I don’t think I’m the only one. So much has happened, so much has changed; how are we to make sense of it all? One…
A Call to Wake the Sleeper
Jesus’ Sayings Read as Zen Koans ____________________________________________________________________ This problem is easily recognized by Zen Buddhism. It is for this reason that Zen does not ask the practitioner to earn their own enlightenment, for how can enlightenment come from the self when the self lies sleeping in the vale of illusion? Rather, the practitioner is…
Pushing Through Suffering…
…entering the Other Sides of Human Meaning. The work of Dr. Edith Eger. Why did I survive? What is the purpose in my life? What meaning can I get from my suffering? How can I help myself and others endure the hardest parts of life and experience passion and joy? Dr. Edith Eva Eger wrote…