Featured Essays
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Become Who You Are: Psychedelic Integration & Individuation
Each of us is tasked with a sacred duty: to become the person we are. Despite how straightforward it might seem on the surface, to become who you are is far from a foregone conclusion.
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Serial Killers, Angulimala, & the Divine Light of the Human Spirit
At the dark fringes of the human story the killers who take life with glee snake the grounds. They elude notice in night’s cover. They stack bodies in basements, stuff freezers full with appendages. These are the serial killers—the nightmares who haunt even devils’ dreams. They are the most depraved of the profane, and as it stands, our culture is obsessed with them.
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The False Sun at High Noon: Examining Culture’s Shadow
Each of us possesses a shadow. It is that slinking, sprawling, dark reflection of which we are seldom aware. The shadow’s darkness holds many things, for it is deep. What it holds psychologically is precisely that which we cannot see, or are unwilling to look at.
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The Proper Task of Life: How Art Can Save the Soul of Humankind
When each of us is born into this world, we are not simply born of the biosphere of the earth into wild nature as our ancestors once were. Rather, we’re born into wild nature plus an additional overlay that we call culture. Culture is a complex phenomenon—it includes custom, art, infrastructure, governance, myth and story, attitudes, norms, and beliefs. It extends from the meta-temporal human-at-large scale all the way down to the family unit. The fact of culture is irrefutable to the hunter gatherer tribesman and fast food worker both. It intrudes on every facet of contemporary human life.
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