This blog is an exploration.

Five years ago I went on hiatus from my job, moved my furniture into storage and dropped out of the world. For the next two years I read 10 nonfiction books per month, educating myself in a wide variety of topics. It was a luxurious time for me academically. My favorite subjects of study quickly became religious mysticisms and modern science—quantum, chaos and system theories, etc. I found wonder and beauty in what I perceived to be poetic interconnections between these two seemingly disparate ways of approaching the world: devotion and cognition, intuition and experimentation.

The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas quotes Jesus as saying “Be passerby.” I take this statement to be an exhortation toward both non-attachment and humility. So my challenge in writing this blog will be to strike a balance between wanting to enroll you in seeing the world as I see it, and just sharing some discoveries I made that dazzled me, hoping they also dazzle you.

Thank you so much for your readership! I hope you enjoy the blog.

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