James Prashant Fonseka34I survived my Jesus year. I’ve made it to 34. The last year was a tough year, not just for me but for the world. I do feel the dawn of…4d ago4d ago
James Prashant FonsekaMore Is UpGeorge Lakoff and Mark Johnson wrote Metaphors We Live By in 1980, a full decade before my birth. This book famously shows how metaphor…Oct 26Oct 26
James Prashant Fonsekafiguring it out yourselfThere is a lot that we learn from our parents. Early in life, it’s just about everything. In an ideal situation, what we learn from our…Oct 19Oct 19
James Prashant FonsekaSpiritual FutureIn our society’s eagerness to disconnect from the past, we have lost touch with traditions that have mercifully relieved millions of…Oct 13Oct 13
James Prashant FonsekaOn HaikuOnce in a lifetime, Maker’s gift of mastery - may never get there.Oct 5Oct 5
James Prashant Fonseka(De)reifyMy back-envelope calculations suggest that I am reading between 10 and 1000 times the number of words per week than I did prior to starting…Sep 28Sep 28
James Prashant FonsekaArtificial ConsciousnessIf there is one nugget of understanding that has crystalized for me while studying metaphysical religions at the graduate level, it’s that…Sep 22Sep 22
James Prashant FonsekaImmanent v. TranscendentI define spirituality as engagement with that which is not material; that which is not empirically observable or provable. Spirituality in…Sep 14Sep 14
James Prashant FonsekaUnderwater DeitiesUnsurprisingly, Harvard is proving to be an extraordinarily intellectually stimulating environment. Cambridge reminds me a lot of San…Sep 8Sep 8
James Prashant FonsekaMaking KnowledgeThis past week I had my first-year orientation at Harvard Divinity School. While I am doing the one-year program, I was in orientation with…Aug 31Aug 31
