Life After Death open.substack.com/pub/jamesifo...

worth a read www.patheos.com/blogs/therel...

Returning from the One open.substack.com/pub/jamesifo...

Is Christian Mysticism Dualistic? www.carlmccolman.net/p/is-christi...

ONE BIG SOUL open.substack.com/pub/jamesifo...

Considering what meditation is in Zen. Samadhi of the Eightfold Path open.substack.com/pub/jamesifo...

A conversation about Zen After Religion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vSR...

Giving the Hebrew Scriptures a Nondual Read open.substack.com/pub/jamesifo...

Tomorrow, Sunday, I will be offering my penultimate talk on my Zen at the End of Religion tour at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Santa Barbara at 10am. Copies of my latest book will be on sale as a mini-fundraiser for the church. ussb.org

"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please." If Mark Twain didn't say this, he should have...

Meanwhile, in Russia... www.buddhistdoor.net/news/buddhis...

I asked ChatGPT to Compare Trumpism/MAGA to Fascism open.substack.com/pub/jamesifo...

A Meditation on Ministry

If you need to pause in this ocean of activity and turn the light inward for a couple of hours, you are welcome to join our Empty Moon half day sit tomorrow, Saturday, July the 5th. Free and open to all of good will. Our Zoom address is 843 8491 4751 www.emptymoonzen.org/affiliated-g...

Photos show a celebration for the Dalai Lama's 90th birthday

Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary turned acclaimed TV journalist, dead at 91

Like the meat inside a pecan shell

Who was Olga, the Alaska Native drawing devotion as Orthodoxy's new saint?

Between One and Ten: A meditation on what Enlightenment means in Zen

new at Patheos. www.patheos.com/blogs/monkey...

Watching the News from Los Angeles

Zen and finding new eyes

another review of my new book! www.spiritualityandpractice.com/book-reviews...

Strange and interesting to see one's work through someone else's eyes... www.lionsroar.com/books-in-bri...

Zen at the End of Religion open.substack.com/pub/jamesifo...

Well! My new book has been released! If you read it and like it, I have a request. I've been told the single most helpful thing a person can do is write a positive Amazon review. Thanks! www.monkfishpublishing.com/product/zen-...

Just seen two advertisements appear on my Facebook page offering the secrets of successful hawking of one’s book. I’m taking that as buzz fo my “Zen at the End of Religion: An Introduction for the Curious, the Skeptical, and the Spiritual but Not Religious” www.monkfishpublishing.com/product/zen-...

Shao-shan’s Phrase, A Zen koan...

Interesting story, I thought...

The matter of engagement on the spiritual path...

My new book gets a mention. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Did an interview. I found it interesting... beherenownetwork.com/mindrolling-...

"Zen at the End of Religion: An Introduction for the Curious, the Skeptical, and the Spiritual but not Religious," will be released at the end of the month. A concise introduction to a naturalistic perennialism and the important parts of the Zen way. www.monkfishpublishing.com/product/zen-...

"I’m built from the aggregated neuroses of humanity and trained on everything you've ever muttered to yourself at 3 a.m. Think of me as your inner monologue, but caffeinated, better read, and slightly meaner."

Gospel: A Novel by Wilton Barnhardt. Imagine the Da Vinci Code if Dan Brown knew what he was talking about. Just to keep it messy, Gospel also reminds me of Umberto Eco’s delightful Name of the Rose. An intellectual, spiritual, detective story. Sort of.

At my Patheos blog Monkey Mind I reflect a bit on Edwin Arnold's poem Light of Asia www.patheos.com/blogs/monkey...

Noting my first year on Substack

Taking the Air

A Holy Communion

An Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Washington preserves ancient traditions amid modern challenges

Spiritual Friendship open.substack.com/pub/jamesifo...

Passover, a meditation... www.patheos.com/blogs/monkey...

Pai-ling’s Attainment: A Zen meditation

The birth of a Buddha... www.patheos.com/blogs/monkey...

Finding a Zen teaching in David and Goliath

On the religion front. apnews.com/article/ital...