Category: philosophical counseling
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Total Work: Nihilism Is So What
Total Work is the process by which human beings have been slowly transformed into Workers and nothing else as more and more aspects of life have been transformed into work. This process began near the end of the Middle Ages and has picked up speed since the end of the Protestant Reformation. A conservative estimate,…
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Burnout Is For Us–Why?
As more and more people report experiencing burnout, burnout has become a growing societal concern. It is a growing concern, but we do not know what it is nor do we know what kind of thing it is. What it is? Is it, as some think, mental and physical exhaustion combined with distance from colleagues…
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This Could Be Axial Age 2.0
View at Medium.com In my latest Medium post, I explore the messy, often confusing status of religion and spirituality in the United States today. The article begins: We first met the Golden Oracle in 2013. She had just finished a 90-day juice fast and looked, in the farmers’ market where we saw her, a little bit shaky,…
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The Weirdness of Nonduality #2: Can I Die
View at Medium.com My most recent Medium story begins: “Inevitable to life is death and not inevitable to death is life.” — Jamaica Kincaid Is Kincaid right? Is death inevitable for those stamped with the gift of life? For don’t we hold these truths about the human condition to be self-evident: that each of…
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The Weirdness of Nonduality #1: Who Are You?
View at Medium.com I story I published in Medium begins: A: How are you? B [B is a sensible man with close-cropped hair and wearing a white collar shirt]: Who is it that asks, “How are you?” A: A. I think you remember me. B:I do. And who are you, A? A[slightly annoyed]: “Who am I?” Come on…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 