Thank you for visiting my Reflections & Ponderings site.  What you'll find here, via links below or in the contents panel to the left, are informal short essays and even shorter musings on the topics that interest me most, including: 

Consciousness, ontology, and metaphysics:

Objections to physicalism

A critique of Bernardo Kastrup's idealism

Some critical thoughts on reincarnation

Two naturalistic afterlife possibilities

The Big Bang of Now

An exceedingly simple argument for idealism

Life is not a school for the soul

Attention, awareness, and meditation:

'I' is not just a thought

Attention and Awareness

Who's Aware of What?

Seeking and Finding:

Addicted to Seeking

The Collapse of Reflexive Self-Identity

Cognitive development vs. spiritual awakening

Bite-sized contrarian reflections on three common tropes of spiritual seeking

Psychology and Intelligence:

The Greatest Fear

What the fear of death is really about

Response to Christof Koch on the fear of non-being

Response to an Arnold Zuboff talk on fearing death as annihilation

Cognitive complexity as an aspect of intelligence

The Intelligence Trap book review

Suicide:

The worst "arguments" against suicide

Suicide pros & cons (negotiations with one's conscience)

Wanting to not be

Suicide and Liberation

Some thoughts on suicide & choice in relation to nondual reality

In addition, there are several book and movie reviews that have been posted elsewhere over the years, as well as links to my annotated seeker film list and a blogsite where, so far, there are just two pieces (both somewhat critical): one on astrology and another on NDEs. 

I welcome thoughtful correspondence at the email address linked in the copyright notice below.