Stuart Evans

I do think the monastic approach is a good one: go to a monastery and opt into an ecology of practices that is pre-designed for you. My sense though is that the world needs something new, as everyone’s transcontextual situation is unique. I sense that each person needs a bespoke ecology of practice to meet them where they are at

the fear of commitment is really a failure of agency, of taking full responsibility for our choices and their consequences. A kind of learned helplessness dressed up as freedom. I think that’s why commitment feels so heavy to some people. You’re accepting full authorship of something, and you can't blame circumstances or timing or compatibility for... See more

How did we arrive at this strange situation, with traditional religion declining while our politics and ideologies are looking increasingly religious? We believe there are a number of historical, philosophical and psychological forces at play, and that these might tie together phenomena as different as the argument over teaching Critical Race... See more