When the Creator fashioned the human body, the human soul refused to enter because it didn’t want to take on the body’s limitations. The Creator then began to play music. In order to feel the fullness of this music through the senses and receptivity of the human form, the soul…

Excavating an unfinished novel about polyamory, spiritual crisis, and finding love — I stood before a dark cave, wanting to go in; and I shuddered at the thought that I might not be able to find my way back. — A psychology patient quoted by Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces Nobody asks you about the novel you never…

As long as spirituality is pushed to the outskirts of society then society cannot change or evolve. — Krishna to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita In this inaugural episode of Spiritual But Not Ridiculous I attempt to define spirituality, explain the title, and talk about the themes and topics I…

The new year is always a great time for turning inward, reflecting, and setting intentions. But we should avoid the trap of thinking that the challenges that arose in 2020 will magically dissipate because it’s a new year. What we can…

In this post I am going to summarize the theory of morphic fields and formative causation, relying primarily on Rupert Sheldrake’s book The Presence of the Past. I am taking the time to explicate this theory because it so nicely ties together a few loose ends in modern science —…

The state of yoga may be attained through dharmic birth, the use of sacred plants, mantra, tapaha, or samadhi. — Patanjali, Yoga Sutra 4.1 Entheogens — ayahuasca, San Pedro, psilocybin, DMT in various forms — are having their moment right now. A lot of my friends are either working with…

You can only influence the world positively when you are free of the world. When you are not free of the world you secretly hate it, because it constantly breaks its promise to you. — Anand Mehrotra What I would like to convey in this post is how powerful a…

“Kundalini” has become a buzzword in many of the innumerable spiritual communities that span the globe these days. It has within it all the elements that attract people — knowledge, power, mystery, intimacy, excitement, alchemy, romance, adventure, danger, ecstasy and more. …

“Yoga is bullshit.” I realized not long ago that some part of me felt that way. I wasn’t consciously thinking that of course. But I had noticed that my “yoga practice” had fallen off precipitously. Even though I had been practicing for over fifteen years and teaching for a decade…