Tag: mindfulness
The flaw of attraction
I recently wrote about how my journey into the mindfulness world re-exposed me to the racist grifters using mindfulness as a cash cow, and today I want to look at another sad reality I keep finding in the mindfulness world: the continued pseudoscientific myth of the “Law of Attraction.”
My first half-day meditation retreat
This past weekend, I attended my first half-day silent meditation retreat. I am not really interested in weeklong retreats, which I think in too many cases are western-centric money grabs (that’s a broad stroke, I know) but also, I have a family and dumping them to go away isn’t in the cards for now.
Buddhism gave me ground when I needed it most
I have spent the better part of my life as an atheist, and, to be honest, I remain one. When I use the term atheist, I use it in an agnostic sense: I don’t know for a fact that there is no god, but the evidence I have seen leads me to accept that there is no use in believing in one. I have since written a book about godless parenting, being a secular activist in a primarily Christian nation (the U.S.), and spoken on stages around the country about atheism, secularism, and the separation of church and state.
Unseasonal
Reflections on an unseasonably warm February day in Calgary, contemplating the accelerating pace of change in our world and finding meaning in small moments of connection and presence.