William Chan

This is a meditation on death and consciousness through fictional narratives. Is consciousness the foundation of reality? If it is, then we hardly know it, preoccupied as we are with material concerns. It is quite possible that the trajectory of consciousness isn’t as it is assumed - beginnin...

This work is inspired by Advaita Vedānta and, to a lesser degree, the Taoist philosophies. The world that we see and hear has obscured the reality of consciousness. Is our fundamental awareness enduring and unchanging? The stories presented here attempt to get behind the veil of words and phenome...

Are our lives as real and substantive as we think? Or are they like a dream that will soon end in a puff of smoke? Can we progress from a feeling of hopelessness to equanimity? Informed by his long-standing illness, William W. Chan provides a series of reflections on consciousness’s role in our l...