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Let’s Get Real: Wisdom 2.0 Wraps Up

February 25, 2013 in Tricycle

The Dharma is Out of Control

February 23, 2013 in Tricycle

Who’s Afraid of Wisdom?

February 22, 2013 in Tricycle

Wisdom 2.0 Opens With a Challenge

February 22, 2013 in Tricycle

Get Ready for Jewish iSpirituality

February 06, 2013 in Forward

Beyond ‘Letting Go’

September 09, 2012 in Huffington Post

How is a “Spiritual Person” Supposed to Act?

April 19, 2012 in Reality Sandwich

The Religious Duty to Come Out

October 11, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

Is Life But a Dream?

August 08, 2011 in Reality Sandwich

Integration isn’t Everything

July 15, 2011 in Reality Sandwich

Boredom: A Gift for the Soul?

May 16, 2011 in Huffington Post

After Passover, The Exodus To True Spiritual Freedom Continues

April 25, 2011 in Huffington Post

Nonduality, Neuroscience, and Postmodernism: The Dream of the Self

April 11, 2011 in Reality Sandwich

‘All is One’ in Traffic Jams

March 15, 2011 in Huffington Post

The Problem of Spiritual Experience: Is Mysticism in the Mind of the Beholder?

January 14, 2011 in Forward

Defining God Upward

October 01, 2010 in Hadassah

Simple Truths vs. Esoteric Ones

August 09, 2010 in Reality Sandwich

A Better Way to Believe in God

June 17, 2010 in Huffington Post

Spirituality and the Sanctification of the World

June 15, 2010 in Reality Sandwich

The Deep Truths are the Simple Ones

June 11, 2010 in Huffington Post

An Introduction to Kabbalah, Part 10: The Kabbalah of Inspiration

April 02, 2010 in Huffington Post

28 Days, 28 Ideas #27: Spiritual Birthright

February 27, 2010 in Jewish publications (other)

Are People Good At Heart?

February 21, 2010 in Huffington Post

Not a Guide, but an Example: Paradoxes of Spiritual Writing

January 01, 2010 in JBooks

The Meaning of Avatar: Everything is God (A Response to Ross Douthat and other naysayers of ‘pantheism’)

December 22, 2009 in Huffington Post

How A Nice Jewish Boy Learned To Like Christmas … Because Of Paganism

December 21, 2009 in Huffington Post

Spirituality and States: Getting Beyond the Good Stuff

November 10, 2009 in Reality Sandwich

Religion is Actually Spirituality

October 28, 2009 in Forward

Fetishizing the Trigger

October 08, 2009 in Reality Sandwich

Will Spirituality Ever Be Serious?

September 29, 2009 in Huffington Post

Ephryme: Engaged Hip Hop Jew

September 11, 2009 in Forward

The Truth About Burning Man

September 08, 2009 in Huffington Post

In Defense of Spiritual Vulgarity

August 27, 2009 in Zeek

Is Guilt a Good Thing?

August 24, 2009 in Huffington Post

The Emptiness of Anger

July 27, 2009 in Huffington Post

Free Will: The Last Gasp of the Unenlightened Mind

July 20, 2009 in Reality Sandwich

Eat Your Way to Enlightenment

July 14, 2009 in Huffington Post

Allowing the Yetzer Tov to Win

July 10, 2009 in Forward

How a Dog Taught me the Dharma

July 08, 2009 in Huffington Post

Monotheism and the Spirits of Nature

July 02, 2009 in Zeek

G-dcast: Parshat Shelach Lecha

June 17, 2009 in G-dcast

The Body of Being

June 12, 2009 in Reality Sandwich

The One Secret to Making the Most of Unwanted Downtime

June 08, 2009 in Huffington Post

What It’s Like to Spend Five Months in Silence

May 18, 2009 in Huffington Post

Susan Boyle, Gay Marriage, and Not Trusting Your Gut

April 20, 2009 in Huffington Post

Shifting from Myth to Function

April 15, 2009 in Forward

Liberation from Passover

April 10, 2009 in Torah Queeries

What is the Real World, Anyway

April 06, 2009 in Huffington Post

Transformation of Consciousness as Messianic Age: A Kabbalistic View

March 20, 2009 in Reality Sandwich

The Blues, Prayer, and Unrequited Love

February 27, 2009 in Reality Sandwich

A Jewish Perspective on the Jhanas, part 2

February 05, 2009 in Zeek

Sick Enough for Spirituality

January 30, 2009 in Reality Sandwich

A Jewish Perspective on the Jhanas, part 1

January 29, 2009 in Zeek

Is Life but a Dream

December 22, 2008 in Zeek

The Gifts of Boredom

December 15, 2008 in Reality Sandwich

Spirituality as Satanism

November 24, 2008 in Zeek

Intentional Sexuality: Possibilities and Perils

November 19, 2008 in Reality Sandwich

Answers in the Seekers’ Language

September 19, 2008 in Forward

Stop Seeking: Paradoxes of the Spiritual Path

September 09, 2008 in Reality Sandwich

Against Integration

August 15, 2008 in Zeek

You are God in Drag: Eleven Notes Before and After Retreat

July 29, 2008 in Reality Sandwich

Monogamy and Monotheism

June 30, 2008 in Zeek

Fresh Baked Bread

June 27, 2008 in Reality Sandwich

The Gods of Drowning

May 21, 2008 in Jewcy

Intentional Sexuality: Possibilities and Perils

May 19, 2008 in Literary Journals

Getting Serious About Love

April 17, 2008 in Forward

God as a Mask of Pain (Hebrew)

April 04, 2008 in Maariv

Polytheism and Nonduality

March 21, 2008 in Reality Sandwich

The Blues, Prayer, and Unrequited Love

March 01, 2008 in Zeek

Ayahuasca and Kabbalah

January 15, 2008 in Reality Sandwich

New Psychedelics Are Transforming the Future of Spirituality

January 07, 2008 in Jewcy

Sometimes God Just Wants to Dance

October 05, 2007 in Jewish publications (other)

The New Atheism: What’s a Liberal, Spiritual Jew to Do?

September 26, 2007 in Forward

The Gifts of Boredom

September 01, 2007 in Zeek

Entering the Gate of Sadness

August 01, 2007 in Zeek

Free Will: The Last Gasp of the Unenlightened Mind

July 01, 2007 in Zeek

Fasting from a Functional Perspective

June 01, 2007 in MyJewishLearning.com

No Crystals Needed: Why Meditation is Not Spirituality

May 04, 2007 in Forward

Stop Seeking: Paradoxes of the Spiritual Path

February 01, 2007 in Zeek

Renewing Ecstatic Spirituality to the Beat of a Drum

December 29, 2006 in Forward

Kashrut and Nonduality

November 01, 2006 in Zeek

Spirituality in a Time of Seriousness

August 01, 2006 in Zeek

Fear of Fun

June 01, 2006 in Zeek

Exploring the New Jewish Spiritualities

May 12, 2006 in Forward

The Freedom of Being

April 01, 2006 in Zeek

Flakes- Why ‘spiritual’ people are often so unreliable

March 01, 2006 in Zeek

Fresh Baked Bread: Ideas about the thing, and the thing itself

November 01, 2005 in Zeek

Fetishizing the Trigger: How spirituality turns to fundamentalism

October 01, 2005 in Zeek

Guilt and Groundedness: Religion, guilt, and the geology of the self

September 01, 2005 in Zeek

Does Mysticism Prove the Existence of God? Mysticism, nonduality, and what we can learn through meditation

June 01, 2005 in Zeek

Star Wars, George Bush, Judaism, and the Penis- From Baal and Asherah to Neo-cons and the Sith

June 01, 2005 in Zeek

Hedgehogs, foxes, and dilettantes

April 01, 2005 in Zeek

Shakey: An Essay on Anger- Working with anger on the contemplative path

March 01, 2005 in Zeek

I Still Believe that People are Good at Heart: Spirituality and human nature

February 01, 2005 in Zeek

Three Jewish Books on Sadness: A rabbi, a widow, and a therapist address the demon of sadness

December 01, 2004 in Zeek

The Holy Fool: How One Writer Conveys Spiritual Truths That Are Seriously Funny

November 19, 2004 in Forward

Am I Religious? Religion, spirituality, and living as if it mattered

November 05, 2004 in Zeek

The Spiritual Foundations of Bushism

August 01, 2004 in Zeek

How I Finally Learned to Accept Christ in My Heart

June 01, 2004 in Zeek

You are God in Drag: Notes from and after retreat

February 01, 2004 in Zeek

Thinking despite Doubt and Feeling despite Truth

January 01, 2004 in Zeek

Energy

November 01, 2003 in Zeek