How to fulfill your dream of escape
What do we do when there is no "outside" to escape to?
Philosophy
Reflections and explorations of big ideas, ethical questions, and the frameworks that help us make sense of existence.
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You Might Be Right
A Catholic investment banker takes a match to his beliefs, reads a thousand books, chants to Shiva, and keeps the one thing he almost knows.
The dance before dance
What if transcendence arrived before there was language for it?
Healing Fragmentation: A book about process, and a process you can join
We're publishing Marcus Barrick's Healing Fragmentation one section at a time across the coming year, with a circle of readers in the room for the part that is still becoming. Here's what it is, and how to be in it.
The Light
Darkness is never fully banished, but the light can help us find a meaningful life within it.
Interrelating our Collective Agency in a Fragmented Era
Fifteen years of mind maps, guitar riffs and ecological grief, and the economy they arrive at.
In defense of discernment
As our access to information grows, so does our responsibility to decide what we do with it.
Transcendent purpose
Perhaps the only way to transcend our circumstances is to shape our own meaning within them.
Doubt is not the problem. Premature certainty is.
How uncertainty, friction and relational tension become conditions for learning and transformation.