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Eric Scheske

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Falling Down Visitor: "What do you guys do in the monastery?" Monk: "We fall and get up again." That's meditation, according to Huberman and Majeres. Meditation is distraction and monastic life is falling down. Meditation is getting distracted, noticing it, and determining to get

The Reading Paradox

The Reading Paradox

The Hemispheres Create Paradoxes. One is Brewing Right Now: We're Reading More Than Ever But Reading Reading Less Than Ever

BYCU: Bands that Sell-Out to Beer

BYCU: Bands that Sell-Out to Beer

Later addendum: John Densmore's excellent The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on Trial is only $2.99 on Kindle. 5 Band Beers 1. Dogfish Head Grateful Dead Juicy Pale Ale (5.3% ABV) 2. Juice Runners Paloma Remix (5.9% ABV) 3. Hanson Brothers Beer

Escaping the Cocooned Mind

Escaping the Cocooned Mind

We’re all wrapped up in rationalist cocoons, spun not by our own hands but by the sticky threads of a world gone mad with reason. Our spit’s in the walls, sure, but we didn’t design the daggone things. We were born into them, raised in them, schooled

The Thrill of Competition Might be Vitamins for the Left Hemisphere of Your Brains

The Thrill of Competition Might be Vitamins for the Left Hemisphere of Your Brains

And in this modern age, you never need to nourish your left hemisphere

The Third Way Fever

The Third Way Fever

This modern world’s got a fever, and it ain’t for more cowbell. It’s for third alternatives. Everybody’s itching for that elusive other option, like it’s the last ticket out of a burning city. Ray Oldenburg lit a fuse back in ’89 with The Great Good

Documentary Review. Join or Die

Documentary Review. Join or Die

America’s crumbling civic soul gets a hard look in Join or Die, a documentary riffing on Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone (2000). It’s a 100-minute dirge for the death of social capital, that invisible glue of community that once held this nation together. But for all its otherwise-excellent

And Now We See that Trump is a Gaslighter

And Now We See that Trump is a Gaslighter

Paul Kingsnorth nailed it in 2023 when he said the pandemic response rewired his brain. He saw the unholy trinity of power (Big Government, Big Business, Big Media) weave a narrative so tight it could choke a nation, the kind of thing you’d expect from a dictatorship, not the

Five Reasons to Drink at the Bar

Five Reasons to Drink at the Bar

In the twilight of Western civilization, where the sterile grip of the left hemisphere has throttled the soul out of our culture, the pub stands as a defiant outpost of human connection against the gnostic tide. The churches once held the line too, but many—mainline Protestants, Jesuits, and their

GKC and McGilchrist

GKC and McGilchrist

I ain’t got a shred of hard proof, but I’d wager that G.K. Chesterton’s noggin was rigged with a hulking, boisterous right hemisphere that steamrolled the left like a runaway freight train. That jovial giant’s right hemisphere didn’t just outmuscle its analytical counterpart. It