Laurens Whipple
Alabama · writer, seeker, massage therapist
Work
Love In The Light
Conversations about awareness, retreat, and the nature of experience. Hosted by Luke Jones.
What's All This Nonsense
My first ebook.
My Poems
A collection of poems I've written over the years.
Meditation & Anarchy Curriculum
A curriculum at the intersection of contemplative practice and radical politics.
Reading
About the 'Our Father' — Simone Weil
Weil's meditation on the Lord's Prayer, line by line.
Life's Highest Blessings — R.L. Soni
Translation and commentary on the Maha Mangala Sutta — the Buddha's teaching on true auspiciousness.
Deep Reading — James Patrick Kelly
My rationale for burning down the libraries. On what screen culture is doing to how we read and think.
How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later — Philip K. Dick
A 1978 speech on reality, authenticity, and the nature of the human. One of his best.
What No One Wants to Know About Marijuana — Andrew Weil
From The Natural Mind. On altered states, present-moment awareness, and what the pharmacologists miss.
Towards a Politics of 'Pure Means' — Sami Khatib
On Walter Benjamin's Critique of Violence — divine violence, law, and the proletarian general strike.
Making the Best of the Neither-Good-nor-Bad — David Wolfsdorf
A review of Reshotko's reading of Socratic ethics — virtue, happiness, and the problem of neutral things.