On occasion I dabble  in philosophy and academia, and the future of art and art criticism have long been a fascination for me, especially as an active fiction writer. Art struggles in our postmodern world, where genius has been pronounced dead and mediocrity and irony congratulate one another on their empty existence. A trip to a modern museum of [...]

On January 21st, I signed a contract with North Atlantic Books for my third book, called “Turning the Key: How Emotional Struggle becomes Spiritual Liberation”. Turning the Key takes a step-by-step approach to what has become a vexing problem in spiritual circles.  While we are more and more familiar with popular ideas of Enlightenment and spiritual [...]