A meditation on mortality and legacy, detailing how each generation is remembered in ever-thinner fragments until forgotten entirely, and reframing being forgotten as a release from the illusion of a permanent self.
A teaching drawing a sharp line between connection, being fully present to another’s truth without needing their presence or approval, and attachment, which needs presence and leads to pain, arguing complete connection can even transcend death.
The foundational teaching defining Purna Asatti, or complete connection: connecting fully to self, others, and reality across every aspect of being, mapped to the chakras, and reframing tantra as enlightenment through connection rather than sexuality alone.
A real-time journal entry written while the author’s aunt was dying in hospice and her son underwent brain surgery, exploring grief, separateness, transcendence, and the spiritual idea of dissolving the self to rejoin oneness.
A philosophical essay tracing how our sense of self evolves through stages of ideology toward ‘there is no self,’ warning against becoming trapped in identifying with our beliefs, and questioning why we look to spiritual and religious ideologies to tell us how to live.
A deeply personal original song, with chords and lyrics, written in grief after the death of the author’s mentor and father-figure — about how those who guided us in life seem to remain with us, still guiding, after they are gone.
An original song, with chords and lyrics, exploring the metaphor that falling in love is a kind of death — the shedding of an old self as new love awakens forgotten parts of us and feels like crossing from darkness into light.