What’s Here

A taxonomy of articles at Apocrypha.

Mind, Healing & Practice

Buddhism, psychotherapy, somatic work, and the places where they meet. Grief, trauma, IFS, the nervous system, and what it means to care for oneself and others.

mental health · IFS · grief · trauma · Tibetan Buddhism · Tibetan medicine · sowa rigpa · nervous system · psychology · meaning-making · interdependence · impermanence · wellness culture · post-traumatic growth · compassion · behavioral health

AI, Mind & Meaning

An ongoing Wednesday series examining artificial intelligence through philosophical, Buddhist, and humanistic lenses—what machines can and cannot know, and what that tells us about ourselves.

AI · LLMs · AGI · machine learning · philosophy of mind · ELIZA effect · volition · emergence · technofeudalism

Cultural Criticism

Music, film, literature, and American culture—examined with rigor and affection. The Friday vibe: curious, opinionated, awake to the weird.

cultural criticism · music · film · genre film · horror · counterculture · cults · music copyright · jazz · outsider art · writing

Books and Themes

Writing in and around Dead Dharma: The Grateful Dead and the American Quest for Transcendence (Oxford University Press, November 2026); William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll (University of Texas Press, 2019).

dead dharma · Grateful Dead · faith · devotion · initiation

Politics, Crisis & the Present Moment

Clear-eyed, open-hearted reflections on the world(s) we experience, inside and out.

spiritual crisis · political anxiety · doomscrolling · global capitalism · right livelihood · witness·