Essay Collections

New! How to Stand While the World Falls Down

Essays on seeking, finding and letting go

Included in this collection:
1. When in Doubt, Do Something Beautiful
2. How to Stand While the World Falls Down
3. Why God is an Anarcho-Communist
4. The Spiritual Case for Police Abolition
5. In Search of a Spiritual Theory-of-Everything
6. The Problem with Fixating on “Natural” Things
7. No Class War on a Dead Planet
8. Why Personal Lifestyle Changes Still Matter in the Face of Climate Chaos
9. We Can’t Eat Rights
10. It’s Time to Put an End to Economics
11. Why I Trust the Future
12. On Looking for God in the Age of Extinction
13. Goodbye to All That
14. The Power of Recognizing I Don’t Exist

On Healing, volume 1: Advice for Being Human

Essays on emotions, addictions, healing and getting along with yourself (and others).

On Healing, volume 2: Advice for Transcendence

Essays on emotional transformation, exiting harmful cycles, healing the mind and changing one’s relationship to reality.

Included in this collection:
1. Meet Your (Real) Needs
2. From Suffering to Satisfaction
3. The Art of Emotional Alchemy
4. How to Break Out of Harmful Cycles
5. What to Do with Uncertainty
6. When Someone Says “You Create Your Own Suffering”
7. How to Transmute Suffering
8. The End of Guilt
9. The Ultimate Life Hack

How To’s

How to essays with tips and tricks to make your mind more conscious and life more enjoyable.

Included in this collection:
1. How to Meet Your (Real) Needs
2. From Suffering to Satisfaction
3. How to Change a Belief
4. On Setting the Right Goals
5. How to Manifest
6. How Not to Burn Out
7. How to Be More Emotionally Present
8. How to Live a More Conscious Life
9. How to Care About People
10. How to Break Out of Harmful Cycles
11. How to Trick the Ego into Dissolving Itself
12. How to Play the Game of Life
13. How to Be Happy

On Realization and Revolution, volume 1: Theories

Essays on the intersection of spiritual awakening and political transformation, anarchist theory, yoga and the Tao, and moving towards an awakened society.

Included in this collection:
1. Anarcho Te Ching
2. What is God, to an Anarchist?
3. Realization: A Theory
4. The Religion of Capitalism
5. Love and Anarchism
6. What Political System is Closest to God?
7. A Theory on the Origins of Domination
8. Ego, Economy and State
9. The Tao of Degrowth
10. The Yoga of Dual Power
11. Systems of Empowerment

On Realization and Revolution, volume 2: Applications

Essays on the intersection of spiritual awakening and revolutionary social change, focused on how these topics can be applied practically to our lives.

Included in this collection:
1. Activism as Yoga
2. Enough with Trickle-Down Spirituality
3. The Antidote to Alienation
4. Reconciling Spiritual Oneness and Identity Politics
5. Anarchism as a Spiritual Practice
6. The Problem with Government and the Truth About Care
7. Stop Doing Capitalism’s Dirty Work For It
8. This is What Awakening Looks Like
9. Be Your Utopia

On Relationships

Essays on emotional responsibility, relating to others, care and connection.

Included in this collection:
1. Emotional Responsibility 101
2. How to Care About People
3. Meet Your (Real) Needs
4. The Distorted Mirror Phenomenon
5. Emotional Responsibility 201
6. The End of Guilt
7. When Someone Says “You Create Your Own Suffering”
8. What is Healthy Masculinity?
9. A Comprehensive Guide to Apologizing
10. Emotional Consciousness Isn’t Armor
11. Why We Play the Victim
12. How to Be More Emotionally Present

On Society, volume 1: Philosophizing

Essays about what makes a functioning, healthy society, the state of human conscious evolution, and what we’re all working towards here.

Included in this collection:
1. The Key Ingredient of a Healthy Society
2. A Better Focus than “Freedom”
3. What the Fuck is Going On
4. What the Fuck to Do Next
5. On the Common Good
6. Effective Slacktivism
7. What is Healthy Masculinity?
8. We’ve Been Looking at Meritocracy Sideways

On Society, volume 2: America These Days

Essays about life in contemporary American society, what’s going on beneath the surface of our collective psyches, and where we might go next.

Included in this collection:
1. Ending the Age of Gaslightenment
2. Thoughts on Election Day, 2020
3. America Needs a New Morality
4. Build Back Antifragile
5. Why Privileged Folks Are Just Starting to Realize They Are Powerful
6. White America’s Shadow Work
7. This Land Ain’t My Land
8. Social Change Works. It’s Just Slow.
9. My Life Will Be a Net-Negative for the World
10. What if the End is Actually Nigh?

On Spirituality

Essays on consciousness, Ego, the mind and matter, the universe and realization.

Included in this collection:
1. Effortless Order
2. My Secular Religion
3. Four Noble Truths About Suffering
4. How to Transmute Suffering
5. We Are Nature Learning to Be Itself
6. The Trap of Spiritual Luffing
7. So You Had a Spiritual Awakening and Can’t Relate to Your Life Anymore
8. How to Manifest
9. Source Does Not Speak in Form
10. How to Trick the Ego into Dissolving Itself
11. Is Our Awakening the End of our Storytelling?
12. Which is More Important: Spiritual Awakening or Changing the World?
13. We’re All Trying to Reach Heaven by Understanding It