Mindful Biology 

seeds contemplative practice with life science

for soulful harvests:

Note: in coming months I plan to explain each of these "harvests". As essays are completed, the list below will transition to links.

coming home to life:

• deepening mindfulness of the body & its biology

• improving mind-body & interpersonal connections

• embracing our bodies & our species

• listening to mortality

• sensing bodily energies

• exploring the shape & roots of inward aliveness

• relaxing into the stuff of Life

living spirituality:

• celebrating the biosphere

• cultivating faith in Life

• honoring Life's mystery

• opening to awe, love & wholeness

• finding sacredness in daily living

• centering in spacious knowing, embodied compassion & earthly being

• loving the Life from root to branch

growing integrity:

• using the ways of nature to restore balance

• acknowledging bodily wisdom

• flowing out of brainy stress & into somatic stillness 

• recognizing illness & encouraging healing on all scales

• knowing civilization as part of the biosphere, not its master

• making peace with sexuality

• clarifying moral choices, guided by Life

transcending self:

• dissolving duality with neural & ecological facts

• recognizing the repeating, fractal, karmic themes of Life

• connecting with Life's web & Earth's depths

• empathizing with consciousness in other Life forms

• knowing ego as evolved tool, not identity

• awakening pure aliveness

• abiding in emptiness, the silent matrix of Life

growing & aging in joy, service & serenity