Ben Van Overmeire
zenmirrors.bsky.social
Ben Van Overmeire
@zenmirrors.bsky.social
Author of American Koan. Zen Buddhism. Outer Space. Weird stuff. Pedagogy. Father. Board gamer.
Vera Janacopoulos, by Jan Engelman (1932)
May 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
One great thing about AI is that I can now share with my anglophone colleagues my favorite Dutch-language poems. Here is Herman Gorter, the poet of light and silence. Marvelous Dutch stylist.
May 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Night walk in China. Parks are magical here.
May 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Reading Kuttner's Fury, a strangely prescient (although I hope not too much) novel from the 1950s.
February 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM
First publication in a philosophy journal and first publication on the new space project! If you're interested in Zen in space or in the Three Body problem, check it out. If you don't have access, PM me for pdf! brill.com/.../jour.../...
January 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Join us at CC6D for a discussion of translation across different religions! #sblaar24
November 25, 2024 at 5:01 PM
For those of you at #aarsbl24, please consider attending the panel I'm doing today. I'll be presenting on The Expanse and Mystical visions in Outer Space
November 25, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Love it! Looks easy but could be used in classes introducing religion.
November 25, 2024 at 12:31 AM
Full house for the first panel of the science fiction unit on teaching religion through science fiction!
November 24, 2024 at 5:02 PM
😍
November 23, 2024 at 7:39 PM
So I'm preparing for a conference talk on the modern Buddhist thinker Alan Watts, who I've been occupied with lately. Watts outlines 4 ways of thinking about the cosmos, 2 not great, 2 better.
August 28, 2024 at 9:35 AM