Attention is an art form
Attention is an art form
The Side View: Introduction to the SeriesAttention is an art form. Perception is a skill.Adam Robbert
Decentralizing CognitionThe primary goal of meditation is to temporarily suspend the sense that there is a self riding around in the head who is somehow separate from the rest of the body and the world. Why would somebody want to do this?Jason Snyder, PhD
Mixing It Up: The Ecological Psychology of First ImpressionsEcological psychology highlights that perception is an active process. Person perception should be understood in the same way.Liam Satchell, PhD
Deconstructing Mindfulness: Embracing a Complex SimplicityThere’s been a marked increase in studies of mindfulness and meditation in recent years. I’m worried that many of today’s researchers may think they know what they’re doing.David L. Collins, PhD
Generating WholesIn living systems, the whole generates the parts. The parts do not exist a priori .Joe Norman
Introducing Ecobehavioral DesignBehavior change can be difficult to achieve, and just trying can quickly become the work of the weary. However, much of the struggle arises from how we conceive what is changing.Mark James
The Art of Mushroom ForagingMushroom foraging is an art of active perception that deserves to be studied with patience, taught with rigor, and passed on to future generations with contagious enthusiasm.Roope Kaaronen, PhD(c)
Culturing ConsciousnessThe essence of philosophy is to practice the death of our self-models, thereby opening attention to broader terrains of awareness.Oshan Jarow
Practice is not a Life HackPeople say that practice is something you do with your body, but that's backwards. Your body is something you do with your practice.Sam Mickey, PhD
Why German Idealism MattersGerman idealism is an invitation to exercise our freedom of thought and to consider that what at first appears impossible may become necessary.Matthew T. Segall, PhD
The Ecology of DesignDesign is the bootstrap by which animals, humans in particular, become capable of lifting themselves up to novel levels of existence.Roope Kaaronen, PhD(c)
The Hidden SelfSitting meditation is a kind of ascetic practice, like fasting, that helps us widen and deepen the aperture of our attention so that the subtleties of Being can show themselves.Jacob Given
Inscription on the HeartThe self is surely more than the sum of its parts, but summing the parts is a way of beginning to think about who or what a self is.Claire Fanger, PhD
The Contemplative’s ConscienceWhen we practice contemplative unknowing, we let go of all of our conceited conceptualizations, and we come to rest in a more fundamental experience of being alive.David L. Collins, PhD