October 23rd, 2021 "This event is not an ordinary lecture about just any subject. It might not be obvious or expected, but it’s about you. Not an imaginary you, but the actual real-time you. I recommend you give more attention to the phenomenological experience of you, than to my lecture concepts. I’ll be communicating from […]

October 22nd, 2021 Hell is a comfy armchair the philosopher can never leave. Isn’t it better to be torn away from the endless, self-created divertissements of mental cock-wobbling, and be hurled headlong and screaming into the shit, piss, and vomit of the (utterly non-academic) spontaneity of existence? Hell is a place where nothing ever happens

October 21st, 2021 At the knife’s edge of the intersection between modern monastic practice and the effective altruism movement emerges a demonstration of fierce friendship via dialectic between Vīrabhadra and Yuli Jadov on relationship, community, and modern monastic practice as a solution to existential risk.  More on Willow Monastic Academy: https://growingwillow.org/ More on effective altruism:

A special session for the Beyond Self-Discipline Zero (BSDv0) cohort. The sensemaking general visits The Stoa to discuss sovereignty and the meta-crisis, and how the latter can positively influence the former. Read more about BSD here … Beyond Self-Discipline Hey beautiful people, A few people have been asking me about what offerings The Stoa will

October 18th, 2021 Caitlyn Hauke, PhD is the current President of the Board of Directors of the Green Burial Council International, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to inspire and advocate for environmentally sustainable, natural death care through education and certification.  Caitlyn visits The Stoa to discuss how to have an eco-friendly, ethical, and compassionate

October 18th, 2021 “One of the elements of the Eightfold Path is Right Concentration: the one-pointedness of mind that, together with ethics, livelihood, meditation, and more, leads to the ultimate freedom from suffering. So how does one achieve Right Concentration? According to the Buddha himself, the jhānas—a series of eight progressive altered states of consciousness—are an

October 15th, 2021 This is a Q&A for In a six-part series between John Vervaeke, Gregg Henriques, and Zak Stein work towards generating a metapsychology that integrates the multiple domains of psychology as well as integrates psychology with cognitive science and philosophy in order to properly and deeply account for the human capacity for transformation.