Sloww Sunday 219: Where I've Been, Psychology of Awakening, Spiritual Bypassing
Psychology of Awakening & Spiritual Bypassing (John Welwood), Wheel of Awareness (Whole-Brain Child), Subject-Object Relationship (Robert Kegan), & More| Sloww
Psychology of Awakening & Spiritual Bypassing (John Welwood), Wheel of Awareness (Whole-Brain Child), Subject-Object Relationship (Robert Kegan), & More| Sloww
How to apply "This is Water" by David Foster Wallace — Moving from your unconscious default setting to conscious intentional living in your daily life.| Sloww
Defining the Spaceship Earth concept including Buckminster Fuller's Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth and the future of Spaceship Earth.| Sloww
Words of wisdom from the most viewed commencement speeches including: Oprah, Steve Jobs, Jim Carrey, J.K. Rowling, Stephen Colbert, Bill Gates, and more.| Sloww
Insights from Voluntary Simplicity by Duane Elgin including: most common reasons for simple living, the themes of those living a simpler life, and more| Sloww
Your lifetime equals recorded history divided by the current average lifespan. What can you do to ensure your 1% of time here is well spent?| Sloww
The timeless Pale Blue Dot speech by Carl Sagan is the best way to set perspective. Voyager 1 space probe took the famous photo from 3.7 billion miles away.| Sloww
The overview effect, or orbital perspective, is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by astronauts. It can help us all develop a global consciousness.| Sloww
What is lifestyle inflation, and what is the real cause? My own story along with how to reverse lifestyle inflation while upgrading your life.| Sloww
What is downshifting and who are downshifters? Explore myths and realities, and how to begin downshifting into simple living and slow living.| Sloww
Sloww is a synthesis of worldly wisdom • Lifelong Learning • Intentional Living • Life Purpose • Mental Mastery • Spiritual Growth • Human Development| Sloww
What is a trim tab? Buckminster Fuller and the impact of an individual on society, human potential, universal principles, and more.| Sloww
Book summary of The Way to Love by Anthony de Mello — programming & conditioning, beliefs & attachments, unhappiness & happiness, love & awareness, & more.| Sloww
Book summary of Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing by Jed McKenna including: spiritual autolysis, the first step, and more. Find the truth!| Sloww
The Buckminster Fuller issue featuring: Egocide, Trimtab, Comprehensivists, Humanity's Final Exam, God, & More| Sloww
Book summary of Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann — Concepts, Biases, Fallacies, Effects, Laws, & Principles| Sloww
Book summary of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson (30+ themes and top quotes)| Sloww
Premium book summary of Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann (Full List of all 300+ Mental Models)| Sloww
Deep book summary of Poor Charlie's Almanack featuring Charlie Munger on worldly wisdom, multidisciplinary thinking, latticework, mental models, and more.| Sloww
Mini Mind introduces you to a new cognitive concept every day for a year—including all the top mental models, cognitive biases, fallacies, and more!| Sloww
What are mental models? This post defines mental model and gives you a list of mental model examples for better thinking (+ infographic cheatsheet).| Sloww
Sloww Premium Bonus: Mental Mastery Cheatsheet featuring 500+ cognitive biases, fallacies, effects, illusions, heuristics, mental models, and more| Sloww
Premium book summary of The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli including the full list of 98 cognitive biases, fallacies, and misjudgments| Sloww
Book summary of Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin including: evolution, natural selection, misjudgments, better thinking, and more| Sloww
Transcendence summary and infographic with 35 meanings — Abraham Maslow revised his hierarchy of needs to put transcendence above self-actualization!| Sloww
Book summary of A Synthesizing Mind by Howard Gardner including: Multiple Intelligences Theory (MI Theory), Five Minds, and more.| Sloww
Spiritual Narcissism, Virtue Signalling & Moral Grandstanding all showcase the other side of ego: the desire to be seen as good, spiritual, and more.| Sloww
Summary and visual of Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs on self-actualization: motivations, behaviors, identity, work, money, and more| Sloww
Book summary of The Farther Reaches of Human Nature by Abraham Maslow — updating the hierarchy of needs for self-actualization and transcendence.| Sloww
A short Five Whys (or 5 Whys) summary and video, including the origin from Toyota. The 5 Whys is a method to help you get to the root cause of a problem.| Sloww
This is a book summary of Guinea Pig B: The 56 Year Experiment by Buckminster Fuller (Amazon): Quick Housekeeping: Book Summary Contents: The 56-Year Experiment: Guinea Pig B by Buckminster Fuller (Book Summary) About the Book & Buckminster Fuller “I hope this book will prove to be an encouraging example of what the little, average […] The post The 56-Year Experiment: “Guinea Pig B” by Buckminster Fuller (Book Summary) appeared first on Sloww.| Sloww
Sign up to get the Sloww Sunday newsletter via email for free:👇 Sloww Sunday Newsletter 217 (May 25, 2025) — Self Origins, Story Meditations, Science + Spirituality, & More The Sloww Sunday newsletter sends to 10,000+ readers slowing down to the wisdom within. If you enjoy this issue, please help grow Sloww by forwarding this […] The post Sloww Sunday Newsletter 217 (May 25, 2025) — Self Origins, Story Meditations, Science + Spirituality, & More appeared first on Sloww.| Sloww
This Premium post covers my favorite Anthony de Mello short stories (or as he calls them 'story meditations'). Enjoy! Premium Post Sources: Taking Flight One Minute Wisdom The Song of the Bird The Heart of the Enlightened Premium Post Contents: Overview Religion & Spirituality Conditioning Attachment & Contentment Self-Inquiry Seeing & Enlightenment Life & Death […] The post 50+ Anthony de Mello Short Story Meditations to See Truth appeared first on Sloww.| Sloww
Synthesis of the dialogues between David Bohm and Jiddu Krishnamurti including: Limits of Thought, Ending of Time, & Future of Humanity| Sloww
This is a book summary of The Limits of Thought: Discussions between J. Krishnamurti and David Bohm (Amazon): Quick Housekeeping: Book Summary Contents: Science meets Spirituality: The Limits of Thought by David Bohm & Jiddu Krishnamurti (Book Summary) Intro to The Limits of Thought “My first acquaintance with Krishnamurti’s work was in 1959 when I […] The post Science meets Spirituality: “The Limits of Thought” by David Bohm & Jiddu Krishnamurti (Book Summary) appeared first on Sloww.| Sloww
Book summary of The Ending of Time by David Bohm & Jiddu Krishnamurti: suffering, conditioning, self, becoming, thought, insight, truth, & more| Sloww
The most popular Sloww posts on: slow living, simple living, book summaries, life purpose, quotes, work, money, and more!| Sloww
What is calendar time blocking or timeboxing? For some, it's the #1 productivity hack. Get the pro tips to create a daily routine and get stuff done.| Sloww
Slow Living 301 is the final post in the slow living series including: 5 slow living myths and 10 ways to get started with slow living| Sloww
3 ways to take responsibility for your life, understanding the paradox of choice, and the best responsibility quotes of all time| Sloww
Our generation will be defined by an unprecedented amount of choice. But too much choice doesn't help our well-being. That's the paradox of choice.| Sloww
Book summary of Voluntary Simplicity by Duane Elgin including: simple living tips, choosing voluntary simplicity, the history of simplicity, and more| Sloww
Book summary of The Existentialist’s Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age by Gordon Marino. Learn about Existentialism.| Sloww
100+ Comments | Discover the meaning of an existential crisis and how I positively turned it into purpose (video, top quotes, actionable tips, & more)| Sloww
The Zen Buddhism Five Reflections poem or chant, Gokan no Ge, from the book Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism by Fumio Sasaki| Sloww
3 deep life lessons and summary of This is Water by David Foster Wallace including: purpose of the fish story, your default setting, awareness, and more| Sloww
Simple living is evolutionary progress, not regress. Humanity's challenges today require a simplicity shift to support a higher quality of life.| Sloww
Book summary of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown including the top 10 life and work hacks. Become an Essentialist today!| Sloww
My all-time top learnings from Maria Popova of Brain Pickings (now The Marginalian): Choose Presence over Productivity, Combinatorial Creativity, & more.| Sloww
Intuitive Introverts (Carl Jung), Illusion of Separation (Sherri Mitchell), Spiritual Intelligence (Cindy Wigglesworth), & More| Sloww
The Unconscious (Carl Jung), Nondual Varieties (Sean Esbjörn-Hargens), Socrates at the Market, Selfish Selflessness, & More| Sloww
Growing Up vs Waking Up (Wilber), Psychic Danger & Psychic Epidemics (Jung), Science meets Spirituality (Kastrup & Lucille), & More| Sloww
25 psychological tendencies and cognitive biases from The Psychology of Human Misjudgment by Charlie Munger (Speech Summary from Poor Charlie's Almanack)| Sloww
Book summary of The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish of Farnam Street (10+ mental models and more).| Sloww
What are the top cognitive biases? Here's a list of some of the most useful cognitive bias examples for better thinking (+ infographic cheatsheet).| Sloww
Book summary of The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli including: Black Swan, Confirmation Bias, Sunk Cost Fallacy, Survivorship Bias, & Many More| Sloww
Book summary of SQ21 by Cindy Wigglesworth: What is Spiritual Intelligence (SQ), 21 skills, a visual overview, spiritual weightlifting, and more.| Sloww
Book summary of What is Vedanta? by Swami Sarvapriyananda featuring: Tat Tvam Asi (That Thou Art), Swami Vivekananda Practical Vedanta, and more| Sloww
Book summary of The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel: luck & risk, rich vs wealthy, saving money, compounding, freedom, and more| Sloww
Book summary of The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer including 20 conscious themes and top quotes: liberation, witnessing, letting go, energy, & more| Sloww
Tao Te Ching book summary and infographic including: about Lao Tzu, 25 favorite Tao Te Ching quotes, & 10 life-transforming Tao Te Ching meanings / themes.| Sloww
100+ book summaries on: lifelong learning, intentional living, life purpose, mental mastery, spiritual growth, human development, and more| Sloww
The meaning of the Chop Wood, Carry Water quote and zen koan. What's the difference before and after enlightenment?| Sloww
Detailed book summary of A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle including all the top quotes, themes, and meanings| Sloww
Detailed book summary of A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle including all the best Eckhart Tolle quotes and themes| Sloww
Detailed book summary of A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle including all the themes and top Eckhart Tolle quotes| Sloww
Slower Urgency (Bayo Akomolafe), Self-Actualization (Abraham Maslow), Way Closing and Way Opening (Parker Palmer), & More| Sloww
Farther Reaches of Human Nature (Maslow), Walden (Thoreau), Purpose (Buechner), Brain Binding Problem, Prayer is Fire (Anthony de Mello)| Sloww
Digital Minimalism (Cal Newport), True Vocation (Parker Palmer), Vertiginous Question (Benj Hellie), Ancient Proverbs, & More| Sloww
Book summary of Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows featuring: system defined, systems thinking, properties, truths, and more| Sloww
What is polarity thinking? This is a summary of Barry Johnson, author of Polarity Management: defining polarities, basic examples, and more.| Sloww
Human Development 101 featuring: horizontal development and vertical development definitions, 3 developmental metaphors, and more| Sloww
Civilization is stuck in development. A summary of three conventional and postconventional stages in Ego Development Theory (EDT by Cook-Greuter).| Sloww
The ovarian lottery is a short thought experiment popularized by Warren Buffett (borrowed from John Rawls, author of A Theory of Justice).| Sloww
An overview of the Original Position or Veil of Ignorance thought experiment from the source A Theory of Justice by John Rawls| Sloww
What is the lottery of birth (aka lottery of life, birth lottery, life lottery)? Buckle up! Your ego is about to take a humbling ride.| Sloww
Detailed summary of Robert Sapolsky on free will featuring: why there is no free will, biology of behavior, march of science, big implications, and more| Sloww
Book summary of Free Will by Sam Harris featuring: Incompatibilism & Compatibilism, Feeling & Illusion, Desires & Choices, Luck & Responsibility, and more| Sloww
Book Summary of Creating Freedom by Raoul Martinez featuring: Lottery of Birth, Identity, Agency, Will, Choice, Responsibility, Blame, Luck, and more| Sloww
Book summary and quotes from Who am I? (Nan Yar?) The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. Learn the answer to one of life's ultimate questions.| Sloww
My top-10 life-changing ideas features: adult learning, adult development, ikigai, birth lottery, self-inquiry, free will, and more| Sloww
Birth lottery videos (aka lottery of birth, lottery of life, or ovarian lottery) featuring: Raoul Martinez, Warren Buffett, and many more| Sloww
Book summary of The Integral Vision by Ken Wilber including: Integral Theory, AQAL, States, Stages, Lines, Types, and more.| Sloww
Book summary of Integral Spirituality by Ken Wilber featuring: stages, states, development, transcendence, enlightenment, and more| Sloww
Book summary of Integral Psychology by Ken Wilber featuring: Great Nest of Being, Four Quadrants, Stages, States, Holons, and more| Sloww
Book Summary of A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber featuring: Integral Theory, Four Quadrants, AQAL, Evolution, Pattern, Progress, and more| Sloww
The life of Luckia is a thought experiment on the birth lottery, moral responsibility, and free will that will help you question everything| Sloww
Galen Strawson thought experiment on buying a cake vs donating to Oxfam which highlights Sartre’s quote that we are condemned to be free| Sloww
The best book summaries website! Why? Most comprehensive, most author quotes, thematic organization, visual formatting, and FREE!| Sloww
50+ book recommendations and 450+ on my reading list: lifelong learning, intentional living, life purpose, mental mastery, spiritual growth, and more| Sloww
Galen Strawson summary of the basic argument against ultimate moral responsibility featuring: luck, free will, determinism, belief, and more| Sloww
Ramana Maharshi quotes on the doer, free will, and God's will from the books Be As You Are, Who am I?, The Teachings in His Own Words, and more| Sloww
Book summary of Things That Bother Me by Galen Strawson featuring: the self, narrativity, luck, death, and more| Sloww
Book summary of Hard Luck by Neil Levy featuring: what is hard luck, types of luck, relevant control, moral responsibility, and more| Sloww
Summary of Moral Luck by Thomas Nagel featuring: what is moral luck, four types of moral luck, and luck problem due to sense of self| Sloww
Development & Relationships (Susanne Cook-Greuter), Hero's Journey Myth (Nora Bateson), Interdependence (Alan Watts), & More| Sloww
The beginner's guide to slow living: slow living defined, slow living bloggers and podcasts, slow living books, quotes, and more (with visuals)| Sloww
Two versions of the swapped at birth thought experiment about the lottery of birth from Raoul Martinez (one about religion, one about war)| Sloww
All my podcast appearances, the date and name of the podcast, what I talked about (show notes), and when I talked about it (time stamps)| Sloww
GRACE Method (Joan Halifax), Happenstance of You (Susanne Cook-Greuter), Meta-Crisis (Separate Selves), Free Will (Advaita Vedanta), & More| Sloww
