Author: Andrew Taggart

• January 21, 2020

  And We Last Men Are Stuck Here In Unreality; Or, How We Forgot How To Celebrate

  Everything is a matter of course. This should be shocking to us but it isn’t. No holiday is a holy day. Labor Day, Martin Luther King Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving, all sanctioned by the state, are all purely days off and, as such, are nothing but business as usual draped in a slightly different garb. We…
• January 20, 2020

  Psychotechnologies of Self-transformation Talk: YouTube Video

  My IHMC talk is now up on YouTube. You can listen to it here:
• January 18, 2020

  Beware Of People Who Say They Have No Problems

  Among twentieth century Advaita Vedanta teachers, Atmananda stood beside Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta. These were the “three tenors” of their time. Thus, when Atmananda states, Some people say that they have no problems in life. This is meaningless talk. It only means that they are mere cowards, who stubbornly refuse to think in the light…
• January 17, 2020

  Our Seeming Inability

  Reading Robert Frost’s poem, “Out, Out–,” at the age of 17 left a deep impression on me. [1] The poem describes a boy–yea, a man-child–using a buzz saw to cut wood for the family. When he’s called to supper, the saw inexplicably leaps “out at the boy’s hand” or seems to do so. His hand is…
• January 16, 2020

  You Don’t Need To Put All Your Ducks In A Row

  You might not think that anxiety arises in you, but it’s quite likely that it does. Of course, you might think that you don’t tend to experience anxiety because you’re not often filled with dread about what the future has in store for you nor, you think, do you have a fear of death nor…