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Days, months, and years all make sense as units of time—they match up, at least roughly, with the revolutions of Earth, the moon, and the sun.
Weeks, however, are much weirder and clunkier. A duration of seven days doesn’t align with any natural cycles or fit cleanly into months or years. And though the week has been deeply significant to Jews,... See more
Weeks, however, are much weirder and clunkier. A duration of seven days doesn’t align with any natural cycles or fit cleanly into months or years. And though the week has been deeply significant to Jews,... See more
Joe Pinsker • We Live By a Unit of Time That Doesn’t Make Sense
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jungian.directory
people are extremely bad at discussing the changes or gaps in their consciousness.
Erik Hoel • The egregore passes you by
egregore and mind traps
It is reasonable to conclude, and many psychologists do conclude, that the ‘person’ who is speaking during a hypnotic session is in fact the non-dominant hemisphere of the brain. Thus by hypnotising a person we can communicate directly with their hidden self.
Anthony Peake • Listening to Your Secret Self: The ‘Daemon’ Spirit Who Guides Our Lives
In Zoroastrianism, the fravashi is a spirit that accompanies and guides a person throughout their life. It can also be seen as our innermost divine spark, remaining pure and unfallen. It inspires moral courage, drives the pursuit of truth, and ensures our eventual reunion with the divine. In this sense, it serves as both companion and guide.
Unlocking the Soul’s Hidden Guide
Part of our job, then, as parents, is to teach our kids to deal with the impermanence of these connections. When Katie and I got our kids their first pet, a brilliantly purple betta fish, we viewed it as being a lesson in death and loss (bettas only live a few years) as much as a lesson in caretaking.
Steven Rinella • Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature
The shadow: What is this curious dark element that follows us like a saurian tail and pursues us so relentlessly in our psychological world? What role does it occupy in the modern psyche? The persona is what we would like to be and how we wish to be seen by the world. It is our psychological clothing and it mediates between our true selves and our
... See moreRobert A. Johnson • Owning Your Own Shadow
The mystery of evil has not been dismissed by the demythologizing of the Devil. Rather, it has been intensified in the twentieth century by two world wars, Nazism, Stalinism, the genocidal regime of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, and the heinous and ruthless extermination of Tibetans and Tibetan Buddhism by Pol Pot. These reigns of evil form what has
... See moreJohn Bradshaw • Healing the Shame That Binds You
So maybe this is just a sign that everyone in tech should take a big sacred breath and a few years off.