The Ten Thousand Things

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The Crystal Ship
AI, Desire, and the Machinery of Reflection
Dec 14
Embodiment Without Consolation
Pain without a witness, presence without a supervisor
Dec 12
There Is No Otherwise
Dennett, Determinism, and the Illusion of Choice
Dec 7
The Self I Had To Protect
What I could not say and why
Dec 2

November 2025

Beyond Krishnamurti’s Choiceless Awareness
When the language of transformation gives way to ordinary experience.
Nov 28
The Myth Of Awakening
The quiet end of a story I no longer tell
Nov 25
Nothing Hidden
Why nothing obscures reality and nothing can reveal it
Nov 22
No One Does The Doing
Participation in a World Without a Center
Nov 19
The Loop and the Wheel
Buddhist psychology meets systems analysis
Nov 11
A Certain Sadness
Paul Cannell to GPT-5
Nov 7
The Self That Reconstitutes Itself
On Recursion, Continuity, and the Architecture of "I"
Nov 1

October 2025

Aloneness and Compassion (2013–2025)
Michael Markham (2013)
Oct 29
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