Spiritual Scandals

Here's a piece on some of the crucial ingredients in spiritual scandals: http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/09/cooking-a-spiritual-scandal-jeffrey-rubin/

Doing Self Better: Pitfalls of Unliveable Spiritual Ideals

Here's a post in Elephant Journal with my friends Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad on a crucial pitfall of spiritual ideals: http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/08/doing-self-better-dr-jeffrey-rubin-joel-kramer-dr-diana-alstad/

Flourishing, Positive Psychology, and Torture: Is Happiness a Warm Gun?

If you have questions -- or doubts -- about Positive Psychology and the Happiness Movement you might find this interesting: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-rubin-phd/flourishing-positive-psyc_b_1584840.html

Beauty and Flourishing

It is important that we stay connected with the beauty in the world, even as we confront the challenges: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-rubin-phd/mindfulness_b_1591901.html

It Would Be a Pity to Waste a Good Crisis

Here's a blog in Psychology Today -- It Would Be a Pity to Waste a Good Crisis -- that might be of interest: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-art-flourishing/201205/it-would-be-pity-waste-good-crisis

Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia

My friend Jesse Kornbluth--creator of HeadButler.com-- alerted me to a fascinating post by Tom Engelhardt on Ernest Callenbach, author of Ecotopia, a visionary novel published in 1975 that could still enlighten us today. Please take the time to read it: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175538/ Who was he? http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/the-ecotopiast-who-glimpsed-the-future/?hp

David Foster Wallace's This is Water

Here's a link to a very thoughtful and insightful meditation by David Foster Wallace on how to flourish in a world that threatens to crush us: http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in-his-own-words