Right-brain reports
It helped me a lot After decades of seeking closure on anything and everything, I made a discovery: a short nondual insight on letting go of final answers. Perhaps it’s obvious to you—then at least I kept it short. Or perhaps it might help someone,…
An entire lifetime can slip by without seeing what this short musing reveals This is not blue. You look up A gazillion photons play with your eyes and you say simply blue. A neat trick, bundling so much into one concept! But just because your…
“What’s your thing, Marcel?”“Building a bridge between nonduality and rationality.”“Wait—spirituality and reason? Aren't they opposites? That's a bit odd.”“It seems that way at first. But after nondual realization, it turns out they’d always been on the same side." Without nonduality, reason spirals into abstraction.Without reason,…
The present takes my breadth away The present: a blade without breadth, slicing time in memory and expectation. What is left? Current spurs the mindSlicing time by fatal designBreadthless blade of change Share:
And now a bit more seriousTwo 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…