Existential Creativity — Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

The role of the artist in a time of crisis.

How to Cultivate Your Creativity — Scientific American

Openness to experience—the drive to explore one's inner and outer worlds—is the personality trait that most strongly and consistently predicts creative achievement.

What Death Teaches Us About Life — Substack

Life is better when it’s lived with an awareness of death.

Buddhist Thank-You Cards — Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

Finding gratitude for life’s “10,000 sorrows”—and turning suffering into our greatest source of compassion and creativity.

Creative People’s Brains Really Do Work Differently — Quartz

Creativity is messy and multifaceted, even on a neurological level.

Hello, Sacred Life — Substack

A lesson from tantric Buddhism and children’s books on the hidden beauty in all things.

Inside the Movement to Decolonize Psychedelic Pharma — Neo.Life

As psychedelic medicine goes public, researchers, advocates, and members of the psychedelic community are calling for innovative and “decolonized” business models to support the creation of a new kind of healthcare industry—one that avoids recreating the mistakes of the past.

How Daydreaming Can Actually Make You Smarter — The Huffington Post

Daydreaming gets a bad rap. But a radical new theory of human intelligence suggests that it might actually play an important role in helping people to achieve their most personally meaningful goals and dreams.

We All Have A Creative Type — Adobe Create

A look at the thinking and methodology behind the CREATIVE TYPES personality test.

Life is Long — Hello, Mortal

The Roman philosopher Seneca reminds us that “life is long if you know how to use it.”

What Happens When the Person You’re Grieving is You — Substack

When we don’t take the time and space to grieve old versions of ourselves, we can get stuck in the past—and struggle to fully move forward in our lives.