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Issue 2: Future

Consider a future that isn’t fixed but fluid, as artists, neuroscientists, Buddhist practitioners, writers, and illustrators offer their perspectives on time.

Westworld and Hidden Treasures
How the teachings of a legendary Buddhist master resonate in popular culture today
BuddhismPop CultureMagazine
The Approach: How Time Feels
Singing the body electric, one cell at a time
SciencePsychologyMagazine
Neuroscience Meets Westworld
How memory relates to consciousness
SciencePop CultureMagazine
How Dogs Tell Time
Heightened senses help man's best friend negotiate the world
ScienceMagazine
Wizard. Tantric Master. Guru.
Learn about the legendary figure of Padmasambhava
BuddhismMagazine
Face of the Future
Artists reimagine the aesthetics of science fiction
Contemporary Art FormsMagazine
Virtual Reality Is Buddhist: An Interview with Shezad Dawood
Linking together Buddhism, technology, art, and historical and speculative narratives
TechnologyContemporary Art FormsInterviewsMagazine
Everyone’s View of the World Is Different
How perception defines reality
ScienceMagazine
David Eagleman: On Time
Living in the present is probably impossible
ScienceMagazine
Birth. Death. Repeat: Kalachakra, Shambhala, and the Future
In Shambhala, the land of bliss, a battle rages between karma and ignorance
Scholarly PerspectivesBuddhismMagazine
As Above
A crack in time goes unnoticed
Creative WritingMagazine
Time on Retreat
Three years, three months, and three days of silence
Buddhist PerspectivesInterviewsMagazine
Doing Time
Twenty years behind bars
InterviewsMagazine
Time in Space
An astronaut's perspective from two hundred miles up
InterviewsMagazine
Because the Present Isn’t Enough: James Gleick on Time Travel
A Victorian meme touches down in the twenty-first century
Pop CultureTechnologyInterviewsMagazine
Time, Like Water
A meditation on time, ecology, and the world we live in . . . for now
Creative WritingMagazine
Time Makes For Dramatic Effect
The perception of time in slow motion
ScienceMagazine
Re-Figuring the Future with Morehshin Allahyari
An artist's take on the feminine future in the era of digital colonialism
Contemporary Art FormsInterviewsMagazine
The Three Times
How the past, present, and future coexist in Buddhism
Scholarly PerspectivesBuddhismMagazine
Finding Freedom in Time
Seeing through the eyes of the thirteenth-century Zen master Eihei Dogen
Buddhist PerspectivesBuddhismMagazine

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