Author: Amy Dinaburg
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Dating Dogma
What if you stopped marrying ideas and started dating them instead? This philosophical reflection explores humility, discernment, curiosity, and truth-seeking through the metaphor of an archer continually refining her aim. Hold your convictions deeply—but let your explanations evolve as you grow closer to Truth.
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The Stamp
He was born into privilege. Yale. Harvard. A famous American family. His job was paperwork. Then history handed him a stamp. Hiram Bingham IV quietly helped thousands escape Nazi-occupied Europe—not by making speeches, but by refusing to let procedure become more important than people.
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Words That Expand the Soul
There are words that help us communicate. Then there are words that quietly change the way we perceive reality. You don’t need to use them in conversation. You don’t need to memorize them for a vocabulary quiz. Simply knowing they exist is often enough. Once you learn the word petrichor, you’ll never again smell rain…
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Lichen: Believe the Hype- It’s that fascinating.
I thought I was learning the difference between moss and lichen. Instead, I uncovered one of biology’s strangest stories—a partnership so successful it blurs the line between one organism and many, and quietly asks one of philosophy’s oldest questions.
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A Playwright Who Refused to Pretend: The Prisoner Who Became President
Vaclav Havel wasn’t a soldier or a career politician. He was a playwright who refused to pretend. Imprisoned for telling the truth, he later became the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic. His remarkable story is less about politics than courage, honesty, and what ordinary people can accomplish when…
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What Could I Give the Infinite?
A small offering of human time. What began as an act of gratitude became something else entirely.
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The Daily Graphic: The Red Book, Episode 14 — What Is This?
A new Red Book comic inspired by Jung and Philemon explores the hidden weight we carry, the stories we build around it, and what happens when we finally set it down.
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Philo of Alexandria: The Forgotten Bridge Between Plato, Scripture, and Jung
Long before Jung, Philo of Alexandria was reading sacred stories symbolically, exploring the Logos, mystical ascent, and the soul’s inward journey. Though largely forgotten today, his influence can be found throughout Western spirituality, philosophy, and mysticism.
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Integration Load as a Potential Predictor of REM-Like Sleep Across Distant Taxa
REM-like sleep has been observed in octopuses, cuttlefish, and jumping spiders. This article explores sensory integration as a possible unifying explanation.
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Podcast Episode: I Always Knew the Snake Was Necessary
Pip: Humility Key — where the big questions live, and occasionally the snake shows up uninvited to tell you something you already knew. Mara: Amy Dinaburg's recent writing covers the mechanics of personal transformation — specifically, what pressure does to us before we're ready to admit it's there. Let's start with the snake itself, and…
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I Always Knew the Snake Was Necessary
For years, the pressure felt like part of me. The tension. The urgency. The constant hum beneath everything. Then one day it was gone. I kept looking for it, certain I had misplaced something essential. What I discovered instead was a truth both terrifying and liberating: I had mistaken adaptation for identity.
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God Is a Tree Frog: The Morning I Forgot to Look for Meaning
I walked to my koi pond for my daily connection to something larger than myself. Instead of finding wisdom in an audiobook, I found it sitting motionless in the middle of the path—a beautiful tree frog I thought was dying. Sometimes the lesson arrives before the lesson begins.
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The Red Book, Episode 13: The Preparation
There is a subtle difference between preparation and participation. Unfortunately, it is often discovered too late to be theoretical.
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Before Sophia: The Strange Architecture of Heaven (Abridged)
Explore Barbelo, the Aeons, the Pleroma, and the hidden architecture behind the Gnostic creation story. A deep dive into the relationships that shape reality before Sophia changes everything.
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Before Sophia: The Strange Architecture of Heaven
What if we become real only through participation?
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The Red Book, Episode 11: The Archetype
When we encounter something powerful, we often try to explain it before we experience it. Jung has a different plan. Unfortunately, so does she.
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The Red Book, Episode 10: The Instructions
Some answers arrive as maps. Others arrive as a single word and leave us wondering whether the rest of the instructions were lost in the mail.
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The Red Book, Episode 9: The Meaning
Some questions seem to require a teacher. Others require the uncomfortable realization that the answer may already belong to us.
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The Red Book, Episode 8: The Question
Some questions require years of study. Others require someone irritating enough to suggest you already know the answer.
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The Red Book, Episode 7: The Sign
A humorous Red Book comic about synchronicity, spiritual confirmation, and the surprisingly human tendency to ask for a sign… then wonder whether it counts.