For millennia humans have been trying to figure out the nature of the human condition. What exactly makes us, us? How is the human being best described? If you’ve been along to my Settling Sail introductory course you’ve heard me ramble on about our body’s three brains and how it’s beneficial to view ourselves as a bunch of processes, not as a fixed and permanent Self. In this system I literally mean to think of ourselves as a set of three individual process-driven machines made of cogs and...

Did you know that spirituality has proven neurological benefits? It might sound far-fetched, but it’s true. “How can this be?” I hear you ask. Before we get into the nuts and bolts, let’s understand what spirituality actually is in this context, because it's notoriously vague and means different things to different people.  Researchers who study spirituality and its effects define it along the lines of, “ A relationship with or connection to something greater than the self, primarily...

It came to me recently that I hadn’t actually written a down-the-middle article on the benefits of meditation yet. I reflected that I had...