Robert Wright's Nonzero

The origins of Krista’s show, On Being ... Considering “spiritual” vs. “religious” ... Krista’s new book, Becoming Wise ... Faith, fear, and the flesh ... The challenge of loving others ... A hopeful vision of the future ...

Time travel and other features of everyday awareness ... Lucid dreaming is to ordinary dreaming as mindfulness is to waking life ... Meta-awareness and the search for the true self ... Self is a construction, says Evan, but not an illusion ... Near-death and out-of-body experiences ... Ways to approach the problem of consciousness ...

Meet the American Jubu ... How far into Buddhism do Jubus go? ... Fusing Judaism and Buddhist practice ... A brief history of Jubus ... Is meditation a lefty thing to do? ... Varieties of Jubu experience ...

Why do people believe in Donald Trump? ... Tapping into fear and resentment ... What’s the appeal of vulgar rhetoric? ... Us vs. Them ... The “Trumpvangelical" ... Donald Trump at AIPAC ...

The unique weirdness of light ... Time travel and the theory of relativity ... Comparing "emptiness" in physics and Buddhist philosophy ... Why Einstein never accepted quantum physics ... Can physics really explain why there’s something rather than nothing? ... Teaching science to Buddhist monks ...

The Western encounter with Buddhism ... Divine beings and supernatural forces in Buddhism ... Why Stephen finds Buddhism appealing ... Drawing as meditation ... Does neuroscience support the Buddhist view of the self? ... What the New Atheists get wrong about religion ...

The psychology of essentialism ... Is your dog an essentialist? ... The essence of good, evil, and Donald Trump ... Why we value some objects more than others ... Religion and essentialism ... Do we perceive reality accurately? ...

What is it like to be an arhat? ... Perspectives on the self: It's nothing, it's everything ... What enlightenment is, and what's so great about it ... Dwelling in enlightenment is easy, but getting there can be hard ... Does enlightenment entail moral improvement? ... Can meditation save—or impede salvation of—the world? ...

Considering the thesis of Mark's new book Secular Faith ... Creative uses of the Scriptures by pro-choice and pro-life advocates ... What shapes attitudes towards abortion? ... Reinterpreting biblical condemnations of homosexuality ... How cultural change affects religious thought ... How cultural change affects religious institutions ...

The limits of human knowledge ... Confronting the weirdness of quantum physics ... Einstein, relativity, photons—and time travel! ... What good is a legacy if you’re dead? ... George's ideal afterlife ... The human compulsion to find order in the world ...