The Small Portal
On The Wizard of Oz, Pinocchio, and Spirited Away as films that deliver the initiatory pattern to children before the culture has built the defenses that make adult initiation so difficult
On The Wizard of Oz, Pinocchio, and Spirited Away as films that deliver the initiatory pattern to children before the culture has built the defenses that make adult initiation so difficult
On Boyd’s Decision Cycle, the Attention Economy’s Counter-Move, and the Technology of Intentional Awareness
On the Central Distinction of Buber's Thought and Its Immediate Consequences for the Interior Life
On the unexamined assumptions beneath scientific materialism, and why institutional science responds to their critique with censorship rather than argument
On great comedy as structured truth-delivery, the trickster as the figure who can say what the culture prohibits, why the laugh is a micro-initiation and not a response to entertainment, and what the snort, the uncomfortable chuckle, and the offended silence each reveal about the ego's relationship