Lost in the current
The present takes my breadth away Current spurs the mindSlicing time by fatal designBreadthless blade of change
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June 5, 2025
No one holds change
Euclid and Riemann walk into a bar
Riemann and Euclid walk into a bar
And now for the serious stuffTwo wrongs don't make a rightThe Riemannian cracks of spacetime and the quantum world Riemann and Euclid stroll into a bar, their geometries clashing like non-commuting operators. The bartender, a quantum computing whiz, says, "Drink, fellas?" Riemann, juggling his zeta…
May 23, 2025
Rembrandt: The Risen Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen (1638 | AI enhanced)
The devil and the gardener
When you've been writing about nonduality as I have, you become intimately familiar with the challenge of finding words for something deeply meaningful yet entirely ineffable. This is why, in my understanding, nonduality and religion can be perfectly compatible: whether we celebrate Jesus's resurrection, contemplate…
April 21, 2025
The Fairytale Island of desert and sea
The Fairytale Island
Have you ever revisited a fairytale you loved as a child, only to find it wasn't quite the same? The story is familiar, but somehow, there's so much more to it—meanings that seem to have been waiting for you to catch up. Isn't it wonderful…
March 28, 2025
With Morgan Freeman unavailable for narration, I had to go with virtual voices
Zentient series audiobooks
A brief update on Audibles and more Dear friends, Big news: All my books are now available as audiobooks! The AI-voice narration has surprised me—its pronunciation and intonation are so much better than I could have ever achieved myself. I found it strangely soothing to…
March 26, 2025
Seeing the nondual truth is the awakening
Buddha’s existential genius: 4 facts for inner peace today
The Buddha’s Four Noble Truths are a timeless guide for finding inner peace in our unruly modern world. But what makes these ancient teachings so useful that they have survived empires and technological revolutions? As someone who stumbled upon nondual awareness through my own rational…
January 8, 2025
7 Minutes to See The Matrix: Read Marcel's article on mindfulled.com
7 Minutes to See The Matrix—posted on mindfulled.com
Have you ever wondered about The Matrix? Not the sci-fi classic itself, but the deeper mystery it hints at—the "thing" behind it all? Could our reality be a simulation? What truly drives our conscious experience? My article 7 Minutes to See The Matrix takes on…
December 28, 2024
The EV revolution in baroque verse
Electric seduction: the courtship of Tesla and Porsche in 14 stanzas (baroque poetry and music)
Prithee, allow me to make known unto thee a balladry of courtship 'twixt Porsche, the noble liege, and a comely tyro upon the grand Autobahn, attended by a resplendent chorale most divine. When iambic pentameter and ingenious mechanical contrivance intertwineThe electric seduction When iambic pentameter…
October 20, 2024
Blaise Pascal versus a modern atheist
Blaise Pascal: 8 deep thoughts on clarity beyond cognition
Journey through the brilliant mind of Blaise Pascal, a 17th-century polymath who dared to embrace both scientific rigor and life's deepest mysteries. In an age where secular dualists claim all can be explained through science, discover how this mathematical genius who invented the calculator at…
October 5, 2024
The Zen of metal music: nondual awareness through meditation and shredding
The Zen of metal music: 4 minutes to forget your ego (music)
Prepare to challenge your assumptions about spirituality, consciousness, and heavy metal. When most people think of reaching enlightenment, they picture silent meditation and gentle music—but what if the path to ego dissolution could be found in thundering guitar riffs and mosh pits? Drawing parallels between…
October 4, 2024