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Pillars

Twelve subjects grouped into five sections.

Science

Physics, cosmology and biology as a road to nonduality.

Science Meets NondualityHow a physics-and-math skeptic followed science all the way to nonduality, and what physics and philosophy of science really say about reality.
Quantum & RealityWhat matter really is. Fields, measurement, randomness and nonlocality, the quantum floor where 'stuff' stops behaving like stuff.
Cosmos, Time & EntropyThe universe at its largest: the Big Bang, black holes, gravity, light, time and the second law, and what they hint about the whole.
Biology & EvolutionHow life works and how it got here. The origin of life, evolution's accidents, early humans and animals, and what makes life different from a rock.

Philosophy

Logic, absolutes, consciousness and the observer.

Consciousness & the Hard ProblemWhy is there experience at all? Qualia, the hard problem, and what neuroscience (the brain, perception, sleep and illusions) can and can't explain about the inner world.
The ObserverThe one who is looking. The witness, perspective, identity, sleep and dreams, and why the self can never see itself.
Absolutes & LogicNothing and everything, infinity, the equals sign, Gödel, and the deep strangeness of math itself. Where logic runs out and points beyond itself.

Psychology

Ego, self, love and how the mind works.

Ego & SelfWhat the ego actually is: control, free will, ownership and responsibility, and what's left of 'me' once you look closely.
Love & RelationshipsLove, self-love and attachment through a nondual lens. Why love feels the way it does when there's ultimately only one of us.

Spirituality

Nonduality lived day to day, plus scripture and the ancients reread.

Nonduality in PracticeLiving the insight rather than collecting it. Meditation, flow, boredom, hardship, the dark night, and the trap of knowing too much.
Scripture & the AncientsRereading the Bible and ancient wisdom after nonduality, with a Christian background, a scientist's eye and the old texts taken seriously.

Telos

Purpose, meaning, life and society.

Life, Mind & SocietyBig systems that think: Michael Levin's biology, societies, morality and entropy, ideas as living things, and whether AI could be conscious.