Stuart Evans

This may seem like a dumb question, but have you ever thought about how it is that people can feel their emotions? The answer is that they pay attention to their body. Experiencing an emotion is primarily noticeable based on bodily sensations. People don’t always consciously notice that this is what they’re doing because it’s become so automatic,... See more

The miraculous has meaning and definition only by comparison with the nonmiraculous. That is, for an event to be declared “supernatural,” we must first have some concept of the “natural,” the ordinary course of events. Early human beings had no such concept—except perhaps for individual deaths and the repeated rising and setting of the sun.

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In the past the problem may have been ‘too little information’ and transparency, today it is ‘too much information’ — the excess noise and misinformation we ingest daily. And while we have exponential growth in technology and communication, we also have exponential possibilities of self-deception and bullshit.

However, the most limiting factor is the desire to appear right or avoid appearing wrong. The former captures those who get egoic highs from signaling their intelligence, while the latter feel shame because they cannot. Both are playing the wrong game, originating from the schoolification of reality, which established an invisible status hierarchy... See more

Reality is something much bigger than our ordinary senses are capable of perceiving, and learning to be in relationship with it requires us to enter the imaginal realm. Mysticism, magic, and animist frameworks are ways of doing that, so I write a lot about those topics.