Blogs & Articles

ARTICLES BY & ABOUT DEAN

 

MYSTIC MAG: Discovering Inner Peace – Dean Sluyter’s Journey into Natural Meditation

TRICYCLE: Going Up? Sublime Wisdom in Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Intuitionist’

TRICYCLE: And He Sat: Dr. Seuss on the Sublime Virtue of Meditation

TRICYCLE: Down the Mean Streets: Sublime Diligence in Raymond Chandler’s Hard-Boiled Detective Novel ‘The Big Sleep’

TRICYCLE: Macbeth Flunks the Marshmallow Test: Shakespeare’s Insight into Sublime Patience – and the Tragic Lack Thereof

TRICYCLE: Clear Light, High Society: Sublime Ethics in Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs. Dalloway’

TRICYCLE: Coming Unscrooged: Sublime Generosity in Charles Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol’

TRICYCLE: Of the Beginning of the Beginning of the Beginning: Revisiting the Beatles ‘Revolver’

L.A. YOGA: Shakespeare, the Buddha, and the Cat in the Hat Walk into a Bar 

TRICYCLE: Finding Nirvana in the Classics

TRICYCLE: Dharma Lessons from The Catcher in the Rye’s Holden Caulfield

OPRAH.COM: This Simple Exercise Can Guide You through Your Hardest Times

L. A. YOGA: Fear Less Review

O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE: Why an Entire Car Dealership Started Meditating

WISDOM MAGAZINE: Inner Holidays in the Age of Thugs

CONSCIOUS LIFESTYLE: Connecting with the Wisdom of Your Heart

MONTCLAIR PATCH: Best-Selling Author to Promote User-Friendly Meditation

L. A. YOGA: Remembering Jeremy Tarcher

O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE: 5 One-Minute Meditations

L. A. YOGA: Cave Optional

TRICYCLE: On the Voices in Your Head (‘Inside Out’ Review)

L. A. YOGA: Natural Meditation Review

MANTRA MAGAZINE: Two Baptisms

INSTYLE: The Zen Commandments

BELIEFNET: 5 Tips for Effortless Meditation

PREVENTION MAGAZINE: 8 Simple Meditations That Can Change Your Life

THE MINDFUL WORD: Don’t Give Thoughts a Second Thought

PREVENTION MAGAZINE: 100 Ways to Change Your Life in 10 Minutes or Less

NEW YORK MAGAZINE: 14 Things to Know About TM

TRICYCLE: In-Body Experience (‘Gesture of Awareness’ Review)

TRICYCLE: Inaction Film (’49 Up’ Review)

TRICYCLE: Hair on Fire (The Films of Ellen Bruno)

TRICYCLE: The Shadow Knows (‘Kagemusha’ Review)

NEW YORK TIMES: Enlightenment’s Greatest Hits (‘Why the Chicken’ Review)

 

DEAN’S BLOGS ON

No, Don Draper’s Last Word Was Not Woo-Woo

Meditation Myth #3: ‘I Need a Mantra’

Meditation Myth #2: ‘It’s Too Noisy

Meditation Myth #1: ‘I’m Not the Type’

Arriving at ‘The Beatles Ashram’ … 44 Years Late

Meditating with the iPhone Zero

Daffy Duck vs. Nirvana

We Are the Groundhog: Howard Ramis’s Finest Moment

John Goodman, Lord Ganesh, and the Hub of the Universe

Backup Singers and the Divided Soul

The Dharma of Celebrity Death

Your Junk Drawer vs. Nirvana

Emily Dickinson and the Buddha vs. the WWF

It’s Official: Nobody’s Cool (Kerouac Posthumously Blows It)

Lord Shiva Kicks Ass: The Liberating Power of Loss