Over Two Decades of Research and Insight

Philosophy of Mind, Ethics, and Embodied Insight

Key Publications

Bridging Theory and Practice

2025

Mind Over Matter

Mind Over Matter presents an innovative, interdisciplinary, and rigorous philosophical analysis of the value of the spiritual dimension of human achievement. Creative, scientific, artistic, scholastic, and athletic achievements provide some of the diverse disciplines of achievement analyzed. The editors seek original philosophical contributions that challenge assumptions that productivity is wholly explicable through physical traits and the assertion of effort and instead show how faith, self-confidence and achievement can be ameliorated through mental and spiritual devotion or practice.

2021

Creating a Shared Morality

This book examines and advocates for a version of neo-Kantian ethical constructivism that avoids issues in other metaethical theories. By utilizing insights in Eastern philosophy, it resolves inconsistencies in the most prominent version of constructivism and poises it as the most satisfying metaethical theory to date. The result is what I term Enlightenism.

I argue that selfish people, though not necessarily immoral or irrational, would be more whole and enlightened if they understood themselves as interdependent with others in the world. Constructivist enlightenment is the result of a thorough understanding and dedication to the discovery of oneself and one’s innate interdependence on others. It rejects the understanding of morality as a set of principles imposed from outside of oneself. Instead, it embraces freedom and diversity. Enlightenism thus emerges as an East-West constructivist theory with a robust sense of moral obligation that emanates from the reflective knowledge of the self.

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The Philosophy of Spirituality

Until recently, most philosophers in the analytic and continental Western traditions treated spirituality as a religious concept. Any non-religious spirituality tended to be neglected or dismissed as irremediably vague. Here, from various philosophical and cultural perspectives, it is addressed as a subject of independent interest. This is a philosophical response to increasing numbers of spiritual but not religious people inhabiting secular societies and the heightened interaction between a multitude of spiritual traditions in a globalized age. A provocative array of approaches (African, Indigenous, Indian, Stoic, and Sufic perspectives, as well as Western analytic and continental views) offer fresh insights, many articulated by emerging voices.

2018

31 Day Yoga Journal

This beautifully organized and illustrated journal gives you space to document your own personal yoga journey. Every day has a photo of a pose and the name of the pose in Sanskrit and English. It includes inspiring quotes by Patanjali, and spaces to write your daily lessons, key poses, intentions, life application and gratitude.

2018

Yama Mimi

Yama Mimi is the story of an adopted skinny black Siamese cat who ponders his purpose and place in the world. He doesn’t fit in (and probably never will). In Japanese his name means “Mountain Ears.” His adventures with the cats, birds and bees of his neigh borhood center around him finding his life’s meaning. He begs his mom to go to Siamese School to learn his calling. Instead, he is a social out cast among the purebreds at school and discovers he isn’t talented at any of the things a “true Siamese” should be able to do well. Nevertheless, he wins over the hearts of those around him through his openness, kindness and courageous spirit. He comes to understand that he isn’t worthy because of what he accomplishes, how he fits into the world, or how he is defined.

2023

2019