In Buddhist and Hindu cosmology, Indra’s Net is an infinite net stretching in every direction, with a jewel set at each intersection. Look closely at any single jewel and you find the whole net reflected inside it — every other jewel, mirrored, folded into this one. No jewel dissolves into the others, and none stands wholly apart from them. Each remains fully itself while being constituted, entirely, by its relation to everything else.
That image is the closest I’ve found to naming what interests me most: how a self — a psyche, a memory, a mind moving through time — coheres without ever standing outside the relationships that make it what it is. This individual/relational dialectic runs underneath everything I write, whether the immediate subject is memory, trauma, attachment, or the structure of time itself.
I write from a background in psychoanalysis and neuroscience, drawing on decades of clinical and research work, including collaborations with neuroscientists Walter Freeman and Jaak Panksepp and psychoanalyst Arnold Modell. Indra’s Net is where I explore these questions in writing — for anyone working in psychoanalysis, neuroscience, or philosophy, or simply drawn to the knot where self and relation meet.
Like the jewels of Indra’s Net, each essay stands on its own while reflecting themes that reverberate throughout the whole. Taken together, they trace an ongoing inquiry into selfhood, relationship, memory, and the ways meaning emerges within the web of human experience