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Your hidden operating system
How does the architecture of language shape our experience of the world?
A collection · read in any order
Where the self loosens
Accounts of moments when ordinary experience gave way: in dance, on retreat, in a psychedelic night, in drawing, in prayer. The writers try to describe what they found without explaining it away.
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The dance before dance
What if transcendence arrived before there was language for it?
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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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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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2 | Tracing the Black Mystical Tradition from Tubman to Thurman, with Jordan Jones
Jordan Jones reflects on how Harriet Tubman and Howard Thurman illuminate Black mysticism as a radical practice of inner freedom, ancestral memory, and ecological reverence.
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Pareidolia as a Daemonic Interface
Discover how pareidolia – seeing shapes in clouds or Jesus on toast – turns the ordinary into portals to the unconscious, where simple shapes reveal the hidden layers of the self. Join me for a psychedelic 'Bob Ross' experience in creating expressive art from everyday patterns.
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Meditation Primer: Part 3
Non-Duality and Direct Path: starting at the end.
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“One breath at a time”: daring life, mindfulness, and non-self - Lalith Gunaratne | S3E6
Lalith Gunaratne is a parent, entrepreneur, and educator on mindful leadership. We discuss Lalith’s mindfulness journey, his experience starting a solar energy business, and how his approach to equity, diversity, and inclusion training is informed by mindfulness and personal integrity.