Author: Andrew Taggart
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Happiness Can’t Be Observed–Then What Is It?
1. All of us have had experiences during which we were happy; we felt, in fact, that this state of happiness came on “for no apparent reason.” In lieu of brushing this experience off as if it were simply a fluke, why not inquire into what it tells us about the nature of happiness? 2.…
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Reckoning With Unbelief: Nature, Morality, & Mystery
How did modern agnosticism as well as modern atheism become an option for Westerners? How did the “sacred canopy”–in the words of the sociologist Peter Berger–fold up? And what existential significance do these questions have for us today? I won’t take these questions up today, at least not in full, but I will say a…
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Why Do We Keep Logjamming Ourselves?
There’s a really weird thing that I’m sure you’ve noticed in others, not the least because you’ve probably said it more than a few times yourself. I have. It’s this: “Oh, I’d really love to do X, but it’s so difficult.” I’d love to find a life companion, but it’s so difficult. I’d love to…
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If Peace Is What I Am, Then Why Does It Seem To Come And Go?
It’s commonly said, in the nondual teaching, that peace is what I am. Then why does it seem as if it comes and goes? In the question is contained your stand or central presumption: namely, that I am a finite mind for which peace comes and goes. From your stand as the finite mind, you…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 