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Diachronic vs synchronic reading, mimetic writing, and how seasonal publishing erases idiosyncrasy and exhausts readers
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And because when a reader picks up Shakespeare, there's a diachronic kind of suspension, right? That happens like, oh, I'm reading Chaucer. I'm reading. I understand that there's a diachronic layering, whereas you and I would read each other synchronically.
But this is really interesting when you think about the publishing industry. So a very common
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Inner divine potential, the necessity of supportive relationships, authenticity, and being truly seen to heal and empower others
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Everybody has the solution for their life. That's the real truth. Everybody has it inside of them. That's what it means you have a soul that is a piece of God. It means I cannot tell anybody what to do because you have that soul. The challenge is we need people in our lives to help us bring it out, to help us believe in it, you know, to empower us.
... See moreMaybe cognitive minimalism— identifying which mental loops actually matter, and pruning the rest— isn't deprivation but liberation.
Parakeet • Skittle Factory Dementia Monkey Titty Monetization
So much value and love for the process of writing and what it does for the coherence between heart, brain, imagination, lived reality, unseen, and seen realms.
I recently tried using AI to help my sister write a college essay and everything it generated was so bad it actually set back my ideating and flow significantly... See more
Allegra Preusssubstack.comAs our dark nights deepen, we find ourselves recovering our love of mystery. When we were children, most of us were good friends with mystery. The world was full of it and we loved it. Then as we grew older, we slowly accepted the indoctrination that mystery exists only to be solved. For many of us, mystery became an adversary; unknowing became a
... See moreGerald G. May • The Dark Night of the Soul
your identity is not equivalent to your biography, and that there is a place in you where you have never been wounded, where there is still a sureness in you, where there’s a seamlessness in you, and where there is a confidence and tranquility in you. And I think the intention of prayer and spirituality and love is, now and again, to visit that... See more
