Alex Bierach

Hi friends, I want to share two recordings I made this fall.

This is an important distinction.

There's a moving talk by conductor and music educator Benjamin Zander where he says he measures success by how many "shining eyes" he sees around him.

Imagine you're in a vast maze.

What if your deathbed self was a kind of magical stranger that could whisper in your ear as you lived your life?

Hi friends, The term “post-autonomous ego development” points to a way of experiencing oneself and the world in which we go beyond a discrete, bounded, autonomous self.

Hi friends, In 2022 I spent about 6 months working with Fugen Tom Pitner, a Zen Roshi and coach.

Hi friends, This piece came out of my study of Maurice Nicoll's Psychological Commentaries a couple years ago.

A common experience is looking out at the world and seeing many other people who appear to do what you do.

Yes and No are elemental forces animating our lives.

Updates Hi friends, This is the first note I've sent in nearly 2 years.

Do you ever notice how you’re always in the middle of something?

Imagine you're looking for something in a large pond.

Hi friends, The essential idea I'm discussing here is that each of us contain "many I's" and until we learn to observe our multiplicity we will remain divided against ourselves, struggling to sustain consistent aim in life. *** There are many I’s in each…

Hi friends, I hope you’re ending your year with an exhale, and that you have space for rest, ease, and connection.