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Our jobs have become prisons from which we don’t want to escape

Be proactive: Don’t check your email first!

To use 10/10/10, we think about our decisions on three different time frames: • How will we feel about it 10 minutes from now? • How about 10 mont

This Cartoon Explains Why Elon Musk Thinks We’re Characters in a Computer Simulation. He Might Be Right.

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff Review – We Are the Pawns

People on the Internet were cruel to me, but nobody was crueler to me than I was to myself.

. The emotional depth that was organized around the primal attachment becomes available for real, adult relationships. You no longer need your partner

“I want to talk about everything with at least one person the way I talk about things with myself.”— Fyodor Dostoevsky

People on the Internet were cruel to me, but nobody was crueler to me than I was to myself.

So often we spend life simply existing, but to live is the rarest thing in the world.

If you find yourself drawn toward the tendency to help or “do something,” you might instead work to increase your capacity to sit with others’ sufferi

Lineage can be experienced as a kind of collective consciousness composed of the individual ancestral spirits in any given line. Recent family ancesto

One of the best ways to honor these older ancestors is to transform inherited pain and dysfunction and to embody instead the blessings and gifts you i

Consciousness continues after death. Not all of the dead are equally well. The living and the dead can communicate. The living and the dead can strong

This is the secret that all passionate lovers know: In the moment of true ecstasy, we die to ourselves in love, and this surrender itself is oursweete

Guardianship in Animate Traditions Animate traditions emphasize guardianship, recognizing forces beyond ourselves. Negotiating with these forces prot

Trickster Jumps Sides

The first contains a hallucinogenic substance, dimethyltryptamine, which also seems to be secreted by the human brain; but this hallucinogen has no ef

Albino Boy Tyson Yunkaporta shares the story of Albino Boy, banished due to superstition, who builds a powerful stone site. This tale warns against g

In both psychedelic and mystical contexts, this descent into darkness is not a detour on the spiritual path or a psychological disorder to be treated,

topophilia, popularized by the geographer Yi-Fu Tuan in 1974 as all of “the human being’s affective ties with the material environment.” In other word

We invent problems we can control to avoid the ones that control us.

The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age

Unplugging Is Not the Solution You Want