Dereify is a nascent podcast, blog, and hub for conversations about meditation, the mind, and contemplative practice in the 21st century. It's run by me, Terran Palmer-Angell
Since participating in the Shamatha Project in 2007, I've dedicated my life to full-immersion meditation retreats, in an effort to understand the mind from a first person perspective. My motivation is to explore our potential to grow, evolve, and work with the first-person phenomena that most directly influence factors like our quality of life, happiness, and our capacity to function at our best. In my understanding of the mind, this essentially boils down to one word: Dereify. Masters throughout contemplative traditions have agreed that the main sign of progress on the path is "less grasping" – less contraction. Less reification. Dereification has even become somewhat synonymous with effective meditation in modern science. At it's essence, to dereify means to stop regarding abstract things as if they had concrete reality. It's my hope that this site will become a hub for people working together to do just that.