
Aleksander Constantinoropolous in Alek’s Wake-Up Jolts

The circumstances of the world shift without explanation or warning. Why do some of us meet difficulty with despair and others do so with fortitude? Who can comfort us when we are scared? Whom do we gather around us when darkness descends and the trees fall? What if a tragedy in a person’s life cannot be so plainly seen by others? What if it cannot
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Sasha Chapinsashachapin.substack.comOne of the developments that the morning light reveals is growing freedom, experienced as the energy of desire is liberated from the attachments that have kept it restrained. A second change is the classical transition from meditation to contemplation in prayer and the equivalent movement in the rest of life: a metamorphosis of the soul from autono
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Jesus, as I noted, also “descended into hell,” and only on the third day did he “ascend into heaven.” Most of life is lived, as it were, on the first and second days, the threshold days when transformation is happening but we do not know it yet. In men's work, we call this liminal space.