Friday, November 27, 2015

Solitary Confinement

Solitary confinement is considered a punishment inside a maximum security prison. Even when forced to live among murderers and rapists, most people still prefer the company of others to spending  any significant time alone in a room. [Y]et contemplatives in many traditions claim to have experienced extraordinary depths of psychological well being while living in isolation or vast stretches of time.

Sam Harris - Waking Up

I haven't yet abandoned this blog. I have several posts in draft that I am working on publishing soon.