Turn on your favorite "spiritual" podcast or Netflix special, and you'll hear everyone talk about aliens -- how they've visited Earth, how the government's covering them up, and how they connect to some other spiritual realm. But what -- if anything -- do aliens actually have to do with enlightenment?

AI -- It's powerful, impressive, and sometimes downright creepy. But that very creepiness illuminates an important spiritual principle.

With conflict raging in the Middle East. what spirtual values can we apply to help improve the world -- and ourselves?

Join me as I wander through the Arizona desert trying to reach the end of my self-administered graduate program in enlightenment -- and what I found when I got there!

Climate change challenges all of us. It makes us uncertain, anxious, and angry.  The science is real -- but are narratives about climate change we receive from the world spiritually accurate?   

Our brains like to tell us we need things we can't have. But the truth, as expressed by Jagger's Law, is much different. Follow me on a crazy run through the streets of Porto, Portugal as I try to escape the trap of desire.

If you're like me, you've got moods. Big moods. We live in a cult of joy, which mistakes "good moods" for enlightenment. How do we get out of our constant desire for "happiness", and into the reality of our experience?

I'm on a walk through Santa Cruz, California, experimenting with LSD and searching for enlightenment.  In a moment that changes my life, I suddenty find -- it in the most unlikely of places. What, exactly, is enlightenment -- and how do we find it in our everyday lives?