Breathtaking Revelations pre-orders available!

The book is (almost) here!

I am so excited to share the news that Breathtaking Revelations: The Science of Breath from The Fifty Kamarupa Verses to Hazrat Inayat Khan will be published by Suluk Press this coming April. This book is a collaboration between myself and Carl Ernst, and grows out of the work that we did together while I studied under his direction for my PhD at UNC Chapel Hill. If you would like to learn more, check out the links below:

April 27th --> Author chat on Zoom (free, but registration required):

https://inayatiyya.org/event/breathtaking-revelations-author-chat/

Pre-order here:

https://sulukpress.com/books/breathtaking-revelations

Reflecting on the 20th anniversary of 9/11

I published a short essay reflecting on the 20th anniversary of 9/11. This is more of a personal piece; there is great work readily available analyzing 9/11 in terms of public policy, defense strategy, efforts to deal with religious extremism, and so forth. In this essay I talk a fair amount about my personal connection to 9/11, especially in light of living through the aftermath of the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.

This essay was originally published in UCCS Communique.

Interview on Local News Talking About Afghanistan

Today the local Colorado Springs NBC affiliate, KOAA, ran a piece on how students and educators are handling the events in Afghanistan. I was interviewed for this story, along with several UCCS students. Wonderful to see KOAA on campus, and to see our students sharing their views. I’m thankful for my many mentors who have modeled what it looks like to speak to the public on important issues.

Here is a link to the video, and here is a link to a text-only version of the story.