Tag: philosophy
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Biological Terms Every Writer Should Steal
What can biology teach us about love, identity, transformation, and the human condition? Twelve extraordinary scientific terms offer writers a whole new vocabulary for exploring life’s oldest mysteries.
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THE TWELVE CONCEPTS
For People Who Would Rather Be at a Step Meeting Part Two: Now We Have to Live in the Thing (Concepts 7-12) Link to Part 1 By the end of Concept VI, Bill has accomplished something fairly remarkable. He has taken a Fellowship full of people with an understandable suspicion of authority and built a…
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The Twelve Concepts for People Who Would Rather Be at a Step Meeting
I would rather be at a Step meeting. But beneath the committees, trustees, Conferences, and service structure of A.A.’s Twelve Concepts, Bill W. was writing about something much more interesting: power. Who gets it, how we share it, how we restrain it, and how a bunch of alcoholics learn to trust one another with it.
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Your Immune System is an Absolute Bitch on Wheels
Your immune system is violent, discerning, occasionally spectacularly wrong—and absolutely necessary. Meet the cells that protect you, destroy threats, sound alarms, remember enemies, and teach us something surprisingly profound about boundaries: health isn’t endless peace. It’s knowing when to respond—and when to stand down.
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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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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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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 Swiss Cheese Model for the Self
I’ve been through maybe a dozen hospital onboarding orientations over the years, and every single one spent a significant amount of time explaining something called The Swiss Cheese Model. Hospitals care deeply about this and it’s not because they’re enlightened (trust me). It’s because complex systems become dangerous when people are afraid to report mistakes.…
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The Universe Refuses to Be Separate
Quantum mechanics has slowly dismantled the old mechanical picture of reality. Entanglement, uncertainty, and probability challenge the idea that the universe is simply a collection of separate objects moving through empty space. This is not proof of spirituality — but it may be a humbling invitation to remain curious about a reality far stranger than…
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Embracing Emotional Authenticity: The Power of Humility
We spend so much of life performing versions of ourselves: the composed one, the enlightened one, the emotionally untouchable one. But what if humility isn’t about becoming less human… but finally embracing emotional authenticity and the quiet relief of being real? A deeply reflective piece on ego, self-awareness, nervous-system healing, and the freedom of letting…
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Humility Reframed: From Ego to Spirit
For most of my life, I thought humility meant shrinking myself. But what if true humility is something far more radical? A reflection on ego, spirit, fear, and the realization that we are all trying to navigate the strange and beautiful experience of being human together.
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Why the Gnostic Creation Story Resonated So Violently With Me
What if the Gnostic creation story was never just about the cosmos… but about us? A mythic exploration of Sophia, the ego, intuition, logic, and the human longing for wholeness.
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Why Logic Fails with Irrational Fears
My most recent forehead slap moment. Exploring irrational fears.