Deconstructing our World

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Deconstructing our World
Human beings inhabit two realities at once: the immediate world revealed by our senses and the mental world woven from ...

Broadening Experience at SNS

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Broadening Experience at SNS
As an online community, what kinds of shared events can we realistically build, which address ritual and the experiential side ...

Mindfulness of Butterflies

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Mindfulness of Butterflies
Take a moment to admire our invertebrate relatives ...

The Spiritual Impact of AI

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The Spiritual Impact of AI
There is a profound difference between using AI as a tool to save yourself a little time and using it ...

What Roadside Flowers Teach Us About Waiting

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What Roadside Flowers Teach Us About Waiting
If the coreopsis can hold both the ones blooming with color and the ones already fading, all in the same ...

A Better Basis for Community

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A Better Basis for Community
When we identify with our fellow humans on the basis of our weaknesses rather than our supposed strengths, we open ...

Un-selfing

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Un-selfing
Losing oneself in the beauty of nature or great art is only one specific form of un-selfing, but there are ...

The You Without an I

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The You Without an I
Large language models carry the risk of a critical distortion of reality that can lead to real cognitive hazards. Guardrails ...

What Matters Most

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Blindenbrunnen statue
In this thoughtful reflection, Allen Simon explores an unconventional understanding of religion, drawing on years of study and personal experience ...