Readers teach me a lot about the challenges of religious deconstruction. Religious deconstruction involves reexamining beliefs and practices.

Spiritual inquiry requires open-heartedness and open-mindedness. Many seekers appreciate appreciate different interpretations and tolerate varying worldviews. Nobody knows the answers to the big questions.

Every year, we “unplug” for a month in the spring and a month in the fall. Our unplugged life is more essential, joyful, meaningful, and natural.

The Way, common to many religions, is a way of life, grounded in the Golden Rule, not a way of belief.

I appeared on The Dismantling Doctrine podcast with Clint Heacock. 

I appeared on The Spiritual Brewpub podcast with Michael Camp.

Our spiritual practice should focus on our interrelatedness.

I appeared on the I'm Awake! Now What? podcast with Krista Xiomara.

I appeared on the Liminal Living podcast with Tom Rundel, a contemplative pastor and podcaster.

Ramana Maharshi, a Hindu mystic, had the following exchange with a student:  “Q: How are we to treat others?  A: There are no others.”

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way that we live and work. Increasingly, AI presents challenging questions about the nature of humanity and about the nature of the Universe itself.

Are visions hallucinations or transcendent experiences? Biologist J.B.S. Haldane said, “The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”

Do we honor Ultimate Reality in other traditions?

Creation myths can illustrate the intersection of mythology, religion, and science. Do we interpret ancient religious texts as history or mythology?

The journey is the destination. Zen is more of a philosophy than a religion. It is more experiential than intellectual.

Ultimate Reality is not far removed from everyday reality. In fact, Ultimate Reality permeates everyday reality.

Today, fewer people imagine Ultimate Reality in purely personal terms or in purely supernatural terms. Increasingly, Ultimate Reality is imagined in impersonal, natural terms, such as consciousness, energy or love.

Ultimate Reality has many names: Brahman in Hinduism, God in Christianity, the Universe in humanism and the Void in Buddhism.

We know one thing about Ultimate Reality, namely that everyone is related, and everything is connected.