Author: Andrew Taggart

• January 15, 2020

  A Firm Push And A Parachute

  The controversial spiritual teacher Adi Da once wrote: Everyone is enchanted with unreality, with the conventional appearance of every moment. Therefore, one cannot break that spell merely by talking to people. They are not just thinking wrongly. They are associated with each moment in such a manner that they are incapable of being Awake to…
• January 14, 2020

  A Way To God, or What Is The Same Thing Here: Reality

  2. One must experience what I call an 'existential opening.' By the latter, I mean whatever breaks me open s/t that I'm turned back on myself. Now I–the questioner–am IN, am IMPLICATED BY the question. This, properly understood, IS the incipient moment of 'introspection.' — Andrew J. Taggart (@andrewjtaggart) January 12, 2020 4. In the…
• January 13, 2020

  Social Media And Shared Sensibilities

  I’d like to unpack what I wrote to David Gozli on Twitter yesterday in response to his 3-minute video about the style of his YouTube Channel: This is where my heart is too. I haven't found that the distinction is b/t the local and the global, the small and the scaled up. It's not even…
• January 11, 2020

  In Relationships, Graceful Timing IS (Almost) Everything

  Lost in most modern communication is understanding of the supreme importance of graceful timing: there is most certainly the right time to write to someone, to speak with someone, or to act on someone’s behalf. Usually, we feel this because we surmise that such a one to whom we wrote or with whom we had anticipated…
• January 10, 2020

  Silicon Valley Alchemists

  You’ll never understand Silicon Valley until you consider the possibility that it is not centered on technology bent on changing the worldalone. Denizens of Silicon Valley are  instead rather like alchemists. * A commitment to technologies of social and technological transformation goes hand in hand with a commitment to technologies of self-transformation. Hence, it’s fitting…