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I was reading this article, and it prompted me to think about my book, Good Vibrations: The Primordial Sounds of Existence. The study, published on PsyPost, revealed something both simple and profound: rhythmic sound doesn’t just passively flow through our ears—it actively reshapes the brain’s entire network landscape. A steady beat of just 2.4 hertz—two taps … Read more
New methods in neuroscience are uncovering what the Enneagram has been pointing to all along. I was reading this article in Neuroscience News about the Big Five personality traits being re-examined through a new data-driven method, and it got me wondering about the connection to the Enneagram. The Big Five (also called the Five-Factor Model … Read more
The gift of fascination After hundreds of conversations with ChatGPT, I asked it about the nature of my curiosity… From the accessible conversations, your curiosity emerges as a relentless, multidirectional force—more like a living organism than a habit of mind. It isn’t linear or confined to a single domain; it spirals, branches, and cross-pollinates across … Read more
Sacred Sound and the Subtle Body Across spiritual traditions, the syllable OM (or AUM) is revered as the primordial sound—the seed vibration from which all things arise. But beyond its mystical associations lies a subtle physiological reality: when chanted with awareness, OM becomes a carrier wave—resonating through the body, awakening breath rhythms, and even influencing … Read more
Part I: Typing the Terrain to Death You’re a Self-Pres 4 with a 5 wing. I’m a Social 9 with a strong 8 line. That explains everything… until it doesn’t. In Enneagram circles, relationships may become elaborate exercises in typological calculus. We analyze our instincts, wings, tritypes, childhood wounds, fixations, harmonics, and the subtypes of … Read more
Bridging Neuroscience and Quantum Theory Through Meditation Modern science has split into two powerful but seemingly incompatible languages. Neuroscience speaks of synapses, networks, and electrochemical signaling. Quantum physics, meanwhile, whispers of entanglement, superposition, and a universe that responds to observation itself. But there is one ancient practice where these worlds begin to touch: meditation. Could … Read more
A Phenomenological Reorientation for the Modern Mind The map is not the territory The problem with meditation isn’t that it’s difficult. It’s that we’ve been approaching it with the wrong mental model. Most people come to meditation with a map. Apps, techniques, and teachings. Instructions on how to sit, breathe, and focus. But these are … Read more
Your Brain on Stillness For thousands of years, meditation has been regarded as a spiritual discipline. However, over the past few decades, neuroscientists have been examining the brain to uncover what actually occurs during sustained contemplative practice. The results are striking. Meditation doesn’t just calm you down—it rewires your brain, down to its structure, function, … Read more
Why Being Here Now Means Letting Go of the One Who’s Looking You sit down to meditate. Eyes closed. Still. Quiet.But someone’s still… watching. Most people don’t realize it, but the way human vision is wired is messing with their ability to be fully present. Our forward-facing eyes, combined with a brain that prioritizes visual … Read more
Chanting as a Light Transmission I was reading an article yesterday on how cells emit biophotons—tiny packets of light radiated from within the body. Scientists now know this light is not random; it pulses with patterns, synchronizes with neural activity, and responds to intention. We’ve known for a while that the body glows, but this … Read more