HeyJaredThe Ten Thousand Things
An inquiry into how the sense of self arises and maintains coherence. The mechanics of agency, choice, responsibility, and self-stabilizing loops. No teachings, no methods. Observation and description.
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- 13
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- Sep 29, 2026
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- Jul 5, 2026
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The Same Part of the Forest (opens the original)
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The Man in the Tree (opens the original)
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The Membership Card (opens the original)
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The Wish Is Not Foolish (opens the original)
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Not Good Advertising (opens the original)
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A current article in The Atlantic, “The Dark Side of Mindfulness,” picks up on a theme of my own—that meditation is oversold, and that the damage it does to some people has been known and kept quiet for a very long time. The piece follows Willoughby Britton, a psychologist who set out in 2004 to demonstrate that meditation improves sleep and found the opposite. The more her subjects meditated, the worse they slept. She sat on the finding for six years because publishing it felt to her like harmi
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