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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

boredom is to creatives what cardio is to athletes

Every great burst of creativity or action is inseminated with the wiles of boredom

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

Ernest Hemingway once said: In our darkest moments, we don’t need solutions or advice. What we yearn for is simply human connection—a quiet presence,

Years ago, I studied shamanism with a Lakota medicine woman. She said that the difference between science and shamanism is that a shaman doesn’t care

If intuition means rapidly processing multiple information streams to reach a conclusion below the threshold of consciousness, then yes, women’s brain

There is a lot of practical, tactical, and getting things done in worldbuilding. And there is a lot of getting low and listening. There is a lot of pu

Michael Nielsen writes, ‘I’m not a writer. I’m an explorer and researcher who also writes.’

Writing is an act of thinking. It is a way of attempting to understand my days and my life, connecting the dots between disparate experiences and memo

In her essay, “Dreams Must Explain Themselves” Ursula K. Le Guin writes about how she responded to a colleague who told her that “People would be inte

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

C.S. Lewis believed that rereading books was just as important as discovering new ones. Familiar stories often reveal new meanings as readers grow old

Exploring a Catastrophic Dream as a Symbol of Modern Consciousness Hypertrophy

Jak pisał Michael Wilson, "sen jest metaforą procesu twórczego, archiwum zaś jest dosłowną manifestacją artystycznych wpływów".

Dreams, my favorite portal into the imaginal, reveal it with startling precision. Every night, an interior landscape rises up with its own geography,

dreams do not exist in linear time, and neither does the act of interpreting them. Every time you return to examine a dream, you are examining it from

By moving on the edge, you do not really choose a side, and if you are not careful, you tumble down the wrong side.

The rock creature thus possesses trickster characteristics: it stands above good and evil, is mocking and cunning. It cannot be grasped in terms of Lu

Hermes is the classic trickster manifestation. He is a messenger of the gods because he travels freely between humans and gods, between earth and heav

By moving on the edge, you do not really choose a side, and if you are not careful, you tumble down the wrong side.

Good loses some of its goodness, and evil some of its evil. As doubt of the “light” of consciousness increases, so the “darkness” of the soul appears

Moreover, from that point of view, we understand what Carl Jung meant when he said that the cross is the symbol of man. His words were:The cross carri

One who meditates deeply may personally experience the symbolism of the cross, encountering a radical sense of emptiness—as if all that is known were

The I arises through a descent into matter, thought, isolation, and egoism (Lucifer wants to prevent this), but can only develop further if an ascent

The fodder of our descents provides the compost from which the richest fruits of our lives can grow. If only we can turn towards our pain and let it w

The I arises through a descent into matter, thought, isolation, and egoism (Lucifer wants to prevent this), but can only develop further if an ascent

I say “cunningly humorous” because there really are beings in the spiritual world who view the inner tragedy of the human soul struggle with a certain

But you must take this being very seriously in its nature, for now, having examined the whole, it has become clear to me that it must be there. For tr

The rock creature thus possesses trickster characteristics: it stands above good and evil, is mocking and cunning. It cannot be grasped in terms of Lu

Tamara Albanna is a writer, artist, Reiki healer, and Tarot reader. In 2012, while researching her Master’s thesis on her motherland Iraq, she became

Lucy H. Pearce is the author of many life-changing non-fiction books, including Nautilus Award winners Medicine Woman, Burning Woman, and Creatrix: sh

Sivani Mata is a UK born and bred artist who is moved by a sensory and elemental exploration of life through practice that evokes the liminal experien

Trista Hendren founded Girl God Books in 2011 to support a necessary unravelling of the patriarchal world view of divinity. Her first book – The Girl

In a beautiful essay Philosophy and Anthroposophy (1908, GA35) Steiner describes that the person who wishes to develop the inner life moves between tw

ego’s striving to gain a grip on and power over the world. Awareness of this insight and putting this striving into perspective provide the relaxation

Osho was a philosopher who claimed to have read 150,000 books. These books may have led to the insight that the emphasis should not lie on knowledge;

Steiner built upon the Western philosophical academic tradition, and his early philosophical work is a kind of Enlightenment 2.0: the world can be und

The Buddhist term for wholesome desire is chanda. Chanda is desire that arises from a place of non-tension. It often feels like a relaxed current, but

Language is basically magic. Using a series of incantations, vibrations in the air, you can make someone see something, feel something, believe someth

Calcination The process of calcination is the beginning stage in alchemy. To calcine something is to burn it until it’s reduced to ashes. This is th

In the alchemical opus, the early operations and procedures are characterized by a destruction of the prima materia. It must be cooked, incinerated, d

Kali offers us the freedom that lies beyond death. You can enter her freedom through many doorways—looking into her force in nature, examining the hid

The best analogy I have come up with is that writing creates mental nets for catching thoughts as you move through your day. Previously, my mind felt