Videos

Each video is the companion to an essay — a different angle on the same inquiry.

Visual Meaning Decoded

There is a moment, you may have had it, when you look at another person and the world rearranges itself. Not metaphorically.

The shadow does not appear to busy people. This is its patience, and its cunning.

She is seated. That is the first thing to notice about the Queen of Swords.

A computer scientist and a Fourth Way mystic walk into the same structural observation fifty years apart. The self has no precious core.

wo thinkers. Sixty years apart.

Wolfgang Pauli was one of the most brilliant physicists of the twentieth century. He helped build quantum mechanics from the ground up.

The psyche has already moved. It moved before the appointment was made.

There is a grove of aspen trees climbing a mountain in Utah. It has been climbing for perhaps ten thousand years.