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The dance before dance
What if transcendence arrived before there was language for it?
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Interrelating our Collective Agency in a Fragmented Era
Fifteen years of mind maps, guitar riffs and ecological grief, and the economy they arrive at.
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Transcendent purpose
Perhaps the only way to transcend our circumstances is to shape our own meaning within them.
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The tinted lens
The more deeply we investigate our individual self-consciousness, the more we may glimpse the universal consciousness it conceals.
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Balancing Perspectives
Sometimes the path between naivete and nihilism can feel razor thin, but a rich world awaits in the tension between ignorance and imagination.
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✨ 1. Reclaiming Curiosity
You don’t need to learn curiosity or force it—you already have it within you.
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Comfort in Contradiction
When we pause our efforts to sever the "bad" from the "good", a whole world of beautiful paradoxes can begin to unfold.
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Curiosity and care: the essence of being a grokkist
On meeting the world with attentiveness, generosity, and the courage to remain open to what could be otherwise.
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Letter 1: It begins
When we feel life calling us to dance, how do we find the heart to take those first steps?
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The Breaking and Making of Consciousness
As a door closes on what we once thought certain and settled, what new realities might our eyes open to?
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A Slice of EveryThing
Sketching a new, yet familiar myth on which to build a thriving society.
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Euro Book Trek: The Last Legs
A literary and climate-themed journey through Europe, one bookshop at a time.
📺 Guess the Country from Live TV
TVGuessr drops you into live TV streams from around the world and asks you to name the country of origin. A small, oddly absorbing window into how ordinary broadcasting looks and sounds elsewhere.
Read the note ↗👻 The Evolution of Horror
A long-running podcast that treats horror cinema as cultural archaeology. Host Mike Muncer guides listeners through slashers, ghost stories, folk horror and body horror, tracing how our fears mutate across time, technology and society. Each episode pairs a film deep-dive with thoughtful gu
Read the note ↗🕰️ All the Calendars That Ever Were
The Library of Time gathers — or tries to — 'every calendar with a verifiable date at a specific point in time,' alongside a survey of timekeeping across civilisations. A virtual museum of temporal imaginaries: ancient non-Gregorian calendars, eclipses, cycles, cultural variations — an int
Read the note ↗🐸 What Knows You?
Not all knowledge nourishes. Three frogs face a dilemma: open the mysterious box, or leave it closed? They argue, hesitate, and give in to curiosity — and find knowledge, but not the kind they can integrate. A short parable about the difference between information and wisdom, and the cost
Read the note ↗🖼️ A Short History of Theft at the Louvre
What happens when priceless jewels vanish from one of the world's most visited museums? This piece traces a history of art theft at the Louvre, centred on the 1911 disappearance of the Mona Lisa — a theft that turned a modestly appreciated portrait into the world's most famous painting. It
Read the note ↗✍️ The Translator Who Made the Story His Own
A translator who may have written more than he ever translated, Zabihollah Mansouri was one of the most widely read literary figures in Iran — yet many of the works he 'translated' were wildly embellished, or entirely invented. Amir Ahmadi Arian traces his improbable legacy into a meditati
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