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ConsolationsJayMichaelson

“ConsolationsJayMichaelson”. Released: 2021.

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This is the most disorienting Rosh Hashanah in memory

Oct 2nd, 2024 in Forward
‘Megalopolis’ is an aesthetically brilliant, morally bankrupt film that traffics in homophobic and antisemitic clichés

Oct 1st, 2024 in Forward
Spreading conspiracy theories isn’t good for the Jews

Sep 23rd, 2024 in Forward
Eden Pearlstein: Why Nothing Really Matters

Sep 22nd, 2024 in Both/And
The Pet-Eating Is The Point

Sep 11th, 2024 in Both/And
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This is a trick question! #panentheism #satchitan

This is a trick question!

#panentheism #satchitananda #captcha

There's a lot going on. (Link in bio) @jdforward

There's a lot going on.

(Link in bio)

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Turns out, Leonard Leo was only the tip of the ice

Turns out, Leonard Leo was only the tip of the iceberg. I'm proud to present this conversation with author Gareth Gore, whose explosive new book on Opus Dei was published this week by @simonbooks . This is not some bigoted conspiracy theory -- the book is loaded with citations, data, and hard facts about this extreme-right effort to influence governments around the world -- and its success in doing so in the US. Up now at jaymichaelson.substack.com.

There's really a lot of bad things happening right

There's really a lot of bad things happening right now. I find it oddly comforting to have them all on one map.

Come to think of it, this is how I run my life as well. Chaos in a list isn't entirely chaos.

(I don't quite share the World Economic Forum's risk assessment priorities here, but what do I know.)

On the questionable morality of Coppola's #megalop

On the questionable morality of Coppola's #megalopolis . In @jdforward today.

The first of several October 7 remembrances I'll b

The first of several October 7 remembrances I'll be offering in the coming week -- this one in the Berman Archive at @stanford . (Link in bio for the whole thing and many other excellent contributions.)

#psychedelic problems ( also #mystical problems )

#psychedelic problems

( also #mystical problems )

or maybe not a problem?

In a sense, the Harris campaign is betting on spir

In a sense, the Harris campaign is betting on spirituality: that enough Americans are exhausted by meanness and will choose something better. I hope they're right. This week in the newsletter - jaymichaelson.substack.com .

#decency

Here's my latest in @jdforward ....

Here's my latest in @jdforward ....

Tomorrow night, I'll be giving a free online talk

Tomorrow night, I'll be giving a free online talk about #project2025 , focused on its impact on the American Jewish community. There's a link in the image and a link in my bio -- advance registration is required. I look forward to this timely conversation with @jfasd_org !

I guess it makes a kind of sense that the fate of

I guess it makes a kind of sense that the fate of democracy lies in the hands of the least-informed people in the country.

By the way, what I also like about this image is how it recognizes the peril of the undecided voters. They're aware that they're in trouble, they're flying the SOS flag. A lot of their troubles are quite real. I think the fault lies in our education and media systems for totally failing to equip them to think critically (not just mime doing so) and tease apart truth from falsehood.

In the newsletter this week, I'm launching a new o

In the newsletter this week, I'm launching a new occasional feature, called "Both/And Conversations." That's probably self-explanatory. Here's the first one, with poet Eden Pearlstein of @ayinpress .

Well, this was an unexpected debate. A couple of d

Well, this was an unexpected debate. A couple of days ago on @cnn News Night with @abbydphillip , I mentioned Donald Trump's comments that there were "fine people" on both sides of the 2017 Unite the Right march in Charlottesville. @coleman_hughes said that Trump condemned the white supremacists. But what "fine people" march with white supremacists in the first place? Here's an excerpt -- longer video on youtube, with a link in my bio.

This picture, by my six-year-old daughter, is of s

This picture, by my six-year-old daughter, is of someone trying to eat a cat. My daughter thinks it's ridiculous that a grown-up would spread lies like this, thus making her more ethical and reasonable than several million American adults.

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Instagram post 17873311686170261

I wrote about the weirdest moment in the debate, a

I wrote about the weirdest moment in the debate, and why it was also the most revealing. In the newsletter now - jaymichaelson.substack.com . #debate #pets #immigrantseatpets

Censor the textbooks to keep kids "safe." But don'

Censor the textbooks to keep kids "safe." But don't ban AR-15s to keep kids safe.

For my first piece @msnbc dot com, I took a look a

For my first piece @msnbc dot com, I took a look at the most obvious way to fight back against Elon Musk's weaponization of xTwitter -- and why no one's done it yet. Link in bio.

In the newsletter this week: In everyday life, t

In the newsletter this week:

In everyday life, the “direct path” is about re-accessing sacred, sublime mindstates and experiences that happened in the past — now. This is a process of “small moments, many times,” as some Tibetan Buddhist traditions teach, an act of active remembering in which the perspective of the peak experience is re-experienced in the present moment. As the title of this newsletter suggests, it’s a kind of mysticism for normies.

In my case, as an Enneagram 7, I have a deep reservoir of such experiences to call upon. In jhana meditation, on long vipassana meditation retreats, on psychedelics, in ecstatic Jewish and earth-based practices, in intense somatic-energetic work, and even, once in a while, at peak moments in life, I have been fortunate to experience what sometimes gets described as mysticism. These are some of the most joyful and generative experiences of my life. I’m amazed that so few people seem that interested in them, but if you’ve read this far, I’m guessing you might be.

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