It's Called "Woo" Because It's Fun

I suggest examining whether a spiritual (meditation) practice 1) develops your capacity for inner Stillness, 2) expands your awareness of your reality constructs, and 3) leads you into your fullest creative sovereignty. Otherwise, you might just be spending time (and money) taking on more forms and patterns of perception rather than truly liberatin

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To make this concrete, here are the failure-modes of a few popular psychospiritual modalities that I love: • IFS: you go looking for problematic parts, so the mind starts creating & reifying ones that explain your problems • Somatic experiencing: you look for trauma in the body, mind starts generating or regenerating uncomfortable tensions/pains/se... See more

Bending reality feels almost magical. Everything seems to “click.” You’re working, but it doesn’t feel like work because you love what you’re doing. When I’m in this state, I almost feel as if work doesn’t exist. Plus, intuition and insights seem to come easily, out of the blue. Maybe this is because your mind is focused so intensely on your vision

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When scientific progress destabilized religious authority and the lack of meaning found in a pure rational worldview revealed science’s limitations, movements like Theosophy offered a kind of third way, a path toward understanding the world between science and religion. Theosophy was in conversation with both realms, using tools like magical practi

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