A commitment to progress, in one form or another, has been a staple of Western culture since the Enlightenment. However some scholars, especially...
Timothy DeChenne, Ph.D. You’re sitting in a room, resting. Everything in the room is motionless. Your awareness, on the other hand, flickers...
Timothy DeChenne, Ph.D. No, this is not a youth-negative diatribe from yet another social critic of a certain age. Actually, it’s a defense of...
Timothy DeChenne, Ph.D. Sometimes it takes a complicated effort to remember simple things. In the decades following publication of E.O....
Timothy DeChenne, Ph.D. “If God does not exist, everything is permitted”. This quote from “The Grand Inquisitor” section of The Brothers...
Timothy DeChenne, Ph.D. This essay is a brief salute to a work published over a century ago. It is a remarkable study, perhaps more relevant...
This essay is a brief, usable introduction to mindfulness meditation. Now the first question Westerners usually have about meditation is “What’s...
Timothy DeChenne, Ph.D. When travelling we must choose our companions carefully. While there are many companions to recommend, this...
Timothy DeChenne, Ph.D. This piece concerns a feeling. Just a feeling, but a rather unusual one: a visceral sense of unity beneath the world’s...
Timothy DeChenne, Ph.D. The Buddhist notion of “no self” (anatta) is probably the most puzzling bit of wisdom in the tradition. The idea has...
Timothy K. DeChenne, Ph.D. The goal of this essay is to argue against free will, but in a way that seems relevant to daily life, and maybe even...
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