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Start Here 12
01TRUTHHow Can Many Religions Be TrueTruth is real, plural, directional, and never exhausted by one tradition.02RELIGIONIs Rationalism a Religion - What is a ReligionA religion is a living function: canon, practice, sacred value, and world.03GESTUREThe Flower SermonThe cleanest transmission: a flower, a smile, and wisdom beyond explanation.04UPAYAWhat Does it Mean to Kill BuddhaThe raft, teacher, and sacred form matter only while they free the mind.05MINDThe Mind is My DoctrineMind, manifestation, play, struggle, and reality-making in literary form.06GENESISYou Remember, Don't You?Cosmic memory, consciousness, and the universe becoming aware of itself.07MOTHERThe MotherA compact hymn to the causal and compassionate ground of things.08UTOPIAThe Point of Civilization is UtopiaCivilization is justified by paradise, not toil.09COMMONSThe Tragedy of the Commons Is a MythThe anti-enclosure pillar: conquest disguised as economics.10HYPNOSISAffective Empathy is EvilRighteous feeling, propaganda, and the need for cognitive empathy.11LANGUAGEON THE WORDCELS AND THEIR FOUL LIESMeaning is multidimensional; dead literalism cannot receive wisdom.12SUTRAThe Sutra of the Hunter and the ArrowRecognition, certainty, the second arrow, and homecoming beyond form.
Essays & Criticism 31
Affective Empathy is EvilThe machinery of mediated feeling and holy cruelty.SEssayAmerica Did Not Lose the War in AfghanistanEmpire, victory, and the intelligence state after the forever war.SEssayHow Can Many Religions Be TrueA clean argument for plural truth without flattening the gods.SEssayIs Rationalism a Religion - What is a ReligionThe rationalist altar, named in its own language.SEssayThe Internet Is Full of People Who Can Read but Cannot Think: Enter the SkimwitA diagnosis of shallow reading after the midwit fell off.SEssayThe Tragedy of the Commons Is a MythEnclosure as conquest, not inevitable economics.SEssayWhat Women Actually WantAgainst male optimization fantasies and their social blindness.SEssayYou Do Not Have Aphantasia (Probably)Online self-diagnosis and the poverty of imagination discourse.SEssayArgument for UBIA materialist UBI argument for the automation economy.AEssayAspergers, OCD, and AuOCDClassical Asperger's, OCD, and why the autism umbrella keeps flattening people.AEssayBuddhism in the United StatesAmerican Buddhism, upaya, convert institutions, and the shape of a religion after migration.AEssayConsciousness and MindMind as ground, and why personhood is not the only form of participation.AEssayEaster SermonSpring, resurrection, Passover, and the light returning as literal fact.AEssayGuest and HostSacrifice, hospitality, and the violence hidden inside civilization.AEssayLove in the New WorldFound tribes, privacy collapse, and the new weather of intimacy.AEssayMama Said Knock You OutRebel violence, folk judgment, and who gets called a monster.AEssayNew York City EthnographyA field note on neighborhood, ethnicity, and social weather.AEssayOn Judas and JesusA necessary betrayal at the center of salvation.AEssayON THE WORDCELS AND THEIR FOUL LIESAgainst semantic flatness and the tyranny of verbal literalism.AEssaySmol Bean Fascism, Why Liberalism WonOnline fascist aesthetics as liberalism's strangest trophy.AEssayThe Flower SermonThe Buddha's flower as the cleanest transmission of wisdom beyond explanation.AEssayThe Point of Civilization is UtopiaCivilization is justified by paradise, not by chores.AEssayTrue Polytheism Has Never Been TriedWhat polytheism implies when taken all the way down.AEssayWhat Does it Mean to Kill BuddhaReligious maturity after the projected teacher dies.AEssayWho Benefits From Your Child's Broken WillObedience, punishment, and the social use of crushed children.AEssayWhy Did Jesus Die?Death, sacrifice, and necessity in the Jesus story.AEssayYou Might Be Intersex Not TransA personal health essay on intersex embodiment, HRT, and diagnosis.AEssayIn 2025 Everyone is a ShamanMass initiation in the ruins of expert religion.BEssayIntroduction to MagicMagic as mind-work, not make-believe.BEssayOn What It Means To Be Sincerely ReligiousFaith before correctness, compassion before performance.BEssayPolitical Beliefs and ConstitutionalismA long personal map of constitutionalism, free speech, empire, and American political theater.BEssay
Fragments & Briefs 9
Autistic People and NarcissistsA practical thread on autistic politeness, narcissistic pressure, and social danger.BFragmentIs Life Made Great Through Death?A fragment on death as form, limit, and dignity.BFragmentNon-Dual DualityA tiny metaphysical knot tied in two directions.BFragmentOn Cain & AbelPastoralism, agriculture, and the first sibling wound.BFragmentThe Arrogance of the Armchair XenobiologistA warning against imagining aliens as costumes for ourselves.BFragmentThe Pure Land is Scientifically RealA speculative fragment on Pure Land as reality, not metaphor.BFragmentVaporware UniverseA suffering unfinished cosmos in the register of software.BFragmentWhat Is Truth?Truth as scale, relation, and more-than-human measure.BFragmentWhere Did the Hedonists GoWhy pleasure vanished from the age of abundance.BFragment
Poetry & Literary Prose 17
Bitter TeaA small poem about taste, change, and keeping still.Poetry / proseCarve Your Own BlockA refusal of prefabricated selves.Poetry / proseCountry Roads, North TyrolA travel fragment in mountain air.Poetry / proseMedusaA prose shard about gaze, wound, and monsterhood.Poetry / proseOn the Two Natures of MindTwo movements of mind in a few lines.Poetry / proseSaturnaliaA short reversal under the old god's sign.Poetry / proseThe Fiddle and the SandMusic, image, and place in miniature.Poetry / proseThe Hand ParableA parable of agency, interpretation, and the body.Poetry / proseThe Immolation of GodA theological miniature of divine self-burning.Poetry / proseThe Leaf ParableAttention, change, and relation in one small emblem.Poetry / proseThe Mind is My DoctrineA doctrine of mind in literary-religious form.Poetry / proseThe MotherA compact hymn to the Mother principle.Poetry / proseThe Myth of SteveA miniature myth of mining, doom, labor, and happiness at y-level twelve.Poetry / proseThe Sutra of the Hunter and the ArrowA Jātaka-style tale of recognition, certainty, and the two arrows.Poetry / proseTwo DarknessesA miniature on the difference between dark and dark.Poetry / proseWealBlessing, wound, and fortune in one old word.Poetry / proseYou Remember, Don't You?A longer literary return to memory and recognition.Poetry / prose
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