This episode is about meditation. I started meditating about a year and a half ago, prompted by Joey. The way she tells it, I didn’t want to, but did it for relationship reasons. That’s partly true. I did want to do it, but I didn’t quite...

This episode of How To Tickle Yourself, while nominally about JK Rowling’s Harry Potter novels, is about the same idea, that even as you, me, and everyone else all have our own points of view, there is an underlying Truth that lies beneath it all....

We talk a lot about “progress” and “success” - but both of those things are illusions. We are not headed anywhere. We are already there. Things aren’t moving along some trajectory from the past into the future. Things are what they are,...

One of the most fascinating things I have come to understand about the nature of reality is that the seeker is the sought. Or, put another way, the seen exists only for the sake of the seer. What does that mean? It means that the act of looking is...

To be in a state of wonder is to be open, not closed. You are not narrowing the field. You are trying to see all of it. There’s a concept in Indian spirituality called sadhana, the path of knowledge, guided by grace. It’s the journey of...

Einstein used the same tools that all mathematicians and physicists use—numbers. And why wouldn’t he? Because it is mathematics that allowed us to entertain the fantasy that we can predict things—if this, then that. You will recall, however,...

People talk too much about the things that they think. We should spend our time doing things and then tell stories about the things we have done. Why do you think the happiest people you know aren’t the ones with the most control but the ones who...

The place we want to get to is right here, right now, and there are no numbers that can adequately grasp now. Why is that? Because now is infinite. It cannot be captured quantitatively. Of all the tools we have created, numbers and mathematics and...

This episode marks the end of our first quartile, which we named The Great Awakening. When you wake up, you haven’t “figured something out.” You have simply emerged from somewhere else, from sleep or perhaps a dream. But there is no equation for...

Episode 1 of 16 is called The Most Difficult Puzzle of All Time. When you do a cardboard puzzle, you are trying to assemble an image. So what would be the most difficult puzzle of all time? That would be grasping reality itself. Every single puzzle...