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But if you make your lived experience observable in a structured way that connects to your efforts and projects, your collection of notes becomes some

One practical way to see what belongs in Personal Context — the kind of detail that makes decisions easier — comes from Ruben Hassid. In his article I

During the first two centuries of the Roman Empire, there spread a practice known as hypomnēmata, a type of notetaking system, used as a tool for medi

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”― Sir Francis Bacon

For all of the talk about illiteracy in our culture, reading seems to be making a comeback as people try to move away from screens, social media, 24 h

A person can read 100 books per year and remain intellectually shallow while another person can read 10 books and spend time digesting and letting the

During the first two centuries of the Roman Empire, there spread a practice known as hypomnēmata, a type of notetaking system, used as a tool for medi

Mainstream culture overwhelmingly reduces women above a certain age to two narrow archetypes: the first is the eccentric, scary, outright monstrous ha

This is why the wellness industry sells regulation as serenity. Why calm women are praised as healthy women. Because your body’s agitation might be ac

The revolutionary potential of Buddhist practice - its ability to radically transform our fundamental relationship with life - gets reduced to a set o

And it is sad that any expression of feminine rage is dismissed as personal trauma, rather than valid, even when it's concerning things like other wom

Myth is often defined as truth expressed fictionally.

Anyone who thinks that hoaxers’ motives can be rationally inferred is simply naive.

Boundaries must be blurred for the trickster to be seen.

When the supernatural and irrational are banished from consciousness, they are not destroyed, rather, they become exceedingly dangerous.

The Egyptians believed that each person had a double called a Ka, which represented a person’s essential genius, energy, and identity, as well as a Ba

The body is revealed as empty yet vast as limitless space, containing the entire universe as a mandala of awakened qualitiesLooking into her heart is

Before I had Dąbrowski's theory of positive disintegration, I could not make sense of my history without pathologizing myself. The intensity, the year

One practical way to see what belongs in Personal Context — the kind of detail that makes decisions easier — comes from Ruben Hassid. In his article I

TS;WTRM (too short, want to read more) *saw this alternative today and loved it. Instead of prefacing with a tldr have a summary then a TSWTRM version

And perhaps that is exactly what we are facing now: not a new answer, but a new way of listening. To science – yes. To the body. To the dream. To the

The freedoms associated with liminal spaces – club nights, abandoned buildings, forgotten shopping malls – often have a lot to do with the fact that t

The trickster is not eliminated simply by making sharp distinctions and clear categories. There is still a realm that lies betwixt and between a signi

How can we understand a death that means new life or a darkness that shines?

for Hillman, death is also the death of a materialist viewpoint, freeing us for imaginal and poetic life, a life beyond life, and a movement into psyc

So here Jung leaves us with an important reminder that, after a period of darkness and hardship for our souls, there exists the possibility of the bir

“Do not go outward; return within yourself,”

This level of transformation can only happen in an energetic cocoon, or chrysalis, to hold us in the process. That chrysalis is your connection with t

Essay-crafting isn’t about communication, it’s about hypnosis. And essay-reading is mostly about self-hypnosis.

Often a troubled inner state protects us from other painful problems. If we can see what a painful thing protects us from, we can sometimes protect ou

When you read a book, you aren’t just accessing a series of propositions. You are becoming immersed in a worldview, through the rhythms of a given pro