Directions is a standalone lyric-philosophical prose meditation on conscious thought in time. Beginning from the question of what a mind thinks of itself once it accepts the insignificance of the body it is attached to, the essay moves through a five-stage contemplative exercise — Comfort, Darkness, Life, Descent, Arrival — drawing on Transcendental Meditation, the Silva method, and Sanskrit...
This paper proposes a perspectival dual-aspect monism: the view that reality is composed of a single class of fundamental events, each of which admits two complete but mutually exclusive descriptions — an interior description in terms of experience and an exterior description in terms of physical structure. The fundamental event is named the Jay and is identified with the actual occasion of...