Most of what I share here arrives as writing. I spend a great deal of time sitting with an idea, turning it over, questioning it, and trying to find language precise enough to say what I actually mean.
This is different.
Last night I opened a room at the Center for Non-Religious Spirituality and invited a few people to ask me anything. There was no presentation, no prepared teaching, and no attempt to steer the conversation toward a predetermined conclusion. People brought what was alive for them, and we followed the questions wherever they led.
Among the topics we discussed were religion and deconstruction, the question of God, nihilism and the loss of inherited meaning, existential health, the power and limitations of language, and what it means to find our way when familiar explanations no longer hold.
There’s nothing fancy or highly produced about this. It’s simply a group of us gathered online, having an open conversation about questions that matter to us.
There is something about conversation that writing cannot reproduce. You hear the pauses, the uncertainty, the qualifications, the places where an answer opens another question. You encounter ideas before all their rough edges have been polished away.
So I thought I would do something different here and invite you into the room.
This is a little over an hour of us thinking together about some of the questions at the center of my work—and, increasingly, at the center of many of our lives.
Pull up a chair.
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