Existence is bondage to bodily experiences of emotion, excrement, illness, pain, and death.

The form it takes in most societies has been relatively predictable because people within them learn to live by and function within social norms and customs mean…

In this episode of the Tarka Journal Podcast republished on the Chitheads Podcast, Stephanie and Jacob speak to colleague and friend, Marcy Braverman Goldstein about an article she wrote for the Scholar-Practitioner Issue of Tarka, titled “Is Academia (Like) a Religion?”

We start to see that our worldview is constructed, agreed upon by the dominant culture, and that it is not the only way of seeing…