The Ten Thousand Things
Robert SaltzmanAn inquiry into how the sense of self arises and maintains coherence. The mechanics of agency, choice, responsibility, and self-stabilizing loops. No teachings, no methods. Observation and description.
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The Man in the Tree
Casa, Todos Santos, 2016
This dialogue began as a comment on my essay “Systems, Self, and No-Self.” Jarema Sikorski asked a sharp question. If the system cannot step outside itself, how can I say I observe directly? Doesn’t that imply a va...
The Membership Card
Kali’s House, 2018
Some years ago I wrote down three sentences I thought no reasonable person could object to. Sex is a fact of the body. Gender identity is a fact of experience. Neither has to mirror the other.
I did not consider thi...
The Wish Is Not Foolish
A few days ago I published an essay about the harms of meditation. It reported research: adverse effects such as depersonalization lasting more than a month in roughly one in ten serious practitioners, documented in prospective studies, and...
Not Good Advertising
A current article in The Atlantic, “The Dark Side of Mindfulness,” picks up on a theme of my own—that meditation is oversold, and that the damage it does to some people has been known and kept quiet for a very long time. The piece follows W...
I Don’t Want Anyone Following Me
Depending On No-Thing, Chapter 20, I Don’t Want Anyone Following Me.
Q: I watched a video of Bentinho Massaro saying “Fuck your relationships, fuck your family, fuck all that shit,” and there’s a guy well on in years nodding submissive...
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Dr. Robert Saltzman is a psychologist, photographer, and the author of four books: The Ten Thousand Things (2017), Depending On No-Thing (2019), Understanding Claude (2025), and The 21st Century Self (2025)
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