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Written words cause ripples in the fabric of reality.

— Discomfort as a Gate —At some point this weekend, you will likely encounter discomfort. Maybe physical, maybe emotional. Maybe you’ll want to withdr

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

We have almost no language for that experience. We have words for success and failure, career changes and life crises. But very few words for the plac

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

> "When you see your matter going black, rejoice: for that is the beginning of the work." — Rosarium Philosophorum

Mercurius is the wonder of the world because it reminds us that what is lowest and most rejected in us contains the germ of what is highest, and that

Saint Augustine also teaches us what to do after we manage to look within ourselves and realize that there are aspects different from the concept we h

In other words, the moment we confront our shadows, instead of fleeing we must carefully explore those things long enough to be able to take a positio

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

Collective anger is a form of wisdom in a society plagued by numbness. Stoicism won’t save us. It will numb us for a while to be able to continue on.

boredom is to creatives what cardio is to athletes

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

“Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to imp

There's a well known fable on observation about Louis Agassiz, the 19th century naturalist who taught at Harvard.He gave one of his students a sunfish

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

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