Slow essays on archetype, soul, and the architecture beneath what we call a life. Sometimes a polemic. Sometimes a reckoning. Sometimes a confession. New writing weekly.
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Sixty-four patterns mapped, in different languages, for five thousand years. What they reveal about the structure of being, and why so many systems independently arrived at the same number.
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A reckoning with what most people mean when they say "regulation," and what becomes available when the word is replaced with two more accurate ones.
A piece on the cost of looking, and the discipline of locating in oneself the patterns one is most certain belong only to others.
Heavy neuroanatomy serving moral and clinical conviction. A reckoning with the model that has shaped a generation of somatic work, and why its foundations no longer hold.
"I profoundly disagree that regulation is required prior to relating." A polemical opening at full volume, sustained through to the self-implication.
A piece on calendars, thresholds, and the question of whose time we are actually keeping.
What happens to the trauma a body has been holding when the body itself is, in months, taken apart and reassembled smaller.
"I don't know how to even write this article." The confessional register at its rawest, while remaining structured.
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