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Buddhism

Dukkha, impermanence, and the cessation of suffering. Essays placing Buddhist thought in conversation with Western philosophical pessimism and antinatalist ethics.

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Spirituality

Comparative Religion and the Humility It Requires

Reading more than one tradition does not relativize them. It reveals what they are each, separately, struggling to say.

Editorial · May 31, 2026 · 9 min read
Spirituality

Christ Consciousness as a Philosophical Idea

Approached not as doctrine but as concept, "Christ consciousness" names something specific worth examining.

Editorial · May 31, 2026 · 8 min read
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