Tag: Spirituality
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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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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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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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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 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.
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The Red Book, Episode 6: Carl Misplaces Philemon Again
Jung scans the horizon looking for guidance. Behind him, Philemon quietly waits with the answer. A comic about spiritual searching, misplaced certainty, and the strange human habit of overlooking what is already present.
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Finding Clarity: What to Do… When You Don’t Know What to Do
What if clarity isn’t something you force? Explore the relationship between attention, surrender, perception, and spiritual alignment through the symbols of the road, the dolphin, and the horizon.