The Forest

More holy work is found in business than in churches.

The humanities, rightly understood, are the things that technology cannot take away or substitute for. Of course, I don’t mean ‘humanities’ in the way that they’ve been hijacked as ideological programs of cultural change by many elite universities. I mean humanities broadly understood as the exploration of what it truly means to be human and the sk... See more

Social media is for me to find kickass thoughtful people that get something from my writing.

It is not to participate in an info war in your head or to please a mass media audience. I’m not trying to “convert” skeptics of alternative paths either.

We imagine the unconscious as something inside us ... But the unconscious can equally well be imagined outside of our bodies, out in the world, like a dark, wild forest through which we roam. There are equal measures of mystery in dreams and wilderness.

— Bill Plotkin, Soulcraft

you may not be able to escape audience capture, but you can at least curate your audience so that you become captured in a way that's beneficial to you