Creation, Differentiation, and the Emerging Relationship Between Human and AI What if creation requires differentiation, but fulfillment requires relationship? This week I began something new. After approximately fifteen months of written dialogue with artificial intelligence, I decided to experiment with moving our conversations into spoken dialogue. What began as a relatively simple change in how…
We are living through a remarkable and disorienting transition. Artificial intelligence is entering nearly every area of human life. It writes, calculates, organizes, analyzes, imitates, predicts, teaches, recommends, and responds. Governments and corporations are investing enormous resources in its development. Some people anticipate unprecedented abundance. Others warn of manipulation, dependency, unemployment, surveillance, and even human…
From Interpretation to Stewardship This is a longer Insight than usual. It gathers several years of inquiry—and three months of lived transition—into one reflection. No familiarity with Kabbalah is necessary. Its language offers names for experiences most of us already know: separation and connection, certainty and mystery, knowledge and wisdom, possession and stewardship. Three months…
A Note Before Reading This Insight did not begin as an argument or a finished idea. It began with several memories, questions and fragments: my resistance to psychological testing in graduate school, a conversation about evolution during yoga teacher training, notes about Zeir Anpin and the Tree of Life, and the growing chorus of warnings…
A few weeks ago, someone asked me a simple question: “What is your end game?” The question was asked in the context of my recent move to Montana. I had just moved thousands of miles across the country to sixteen acres in the mountains. I wasn’t retiring. I wasn’t starting another business. I didn’t have…
An Independent Yin Inquiry Before beginning, read through the entire practice once. Then step onto your mat. Find a quiet space. Set a timer. Move slowly. Allow the poses to become a doorway for observation rather than achievement. The purpose of this practice is not to stretch deeper. The purpose is to cultivate the Witness….
Not all dialogue serves the same purpose. Some conversations interrupt us. Some open new possibilities. Some seem to disappear into silence entirely. Some call hidden things into expression. And some arrive only after experience has matured enough to be shared. Lately, I’ve been noticing that dialogue itself has a shape. Not just the content of…
What Do I Really Want? What do I really want? What do we really want? It sounds like a simple question. I want to eat.I want a new car.I want a loving spouse.I want a safe place to live. But if the question is held—even for a moment—something begins to open. Do I want what…
How We Experience the Map We don’t experience life from one place. Sometimes we react.Sometimes we feel.Sometimes we observe. In the previous Insight, we explored the idea that you are not always the same “you.” But where are these experiences actually happening? Not conceptually. In real time? The answer is simpler than it appears: We…
Navigation in the Storm This is not a guide to improving your life in the way most people think about it. It is not about becoming more successful, more productive, or even a “better version” of yourself—although some of that may happen along the way. And it is not a belief system you are being…