The Sacred Feminine
On the goddess suppressed by Christian theology who returned unconsciously as Mary, and how the Black Madonnas reveal the divine feminine Christianity could not destroy
Psychology and Depth
On how four thousand documented LSD sessions revealed the deep layers of human consciousness, from personal trauma systems to the perinatal and transpersonal domains
Propaganda and Influence
On how capital extends beyond economics to colonize experience itself, transforming lived life into consumable images, and why Debord's 1967 diagnosis describes our present moment with uncanny precision
McGilchrist
On how materialism is a left-hemisphere confabulation, why consciousness precedes matter, and what McGilchrist's metaphysics demands we reconsider about reality itself
Girard
On how Girard's diagnosis of mimetic desire points toward liberation through interior work, mystical love, and the integrated self that desires from its own fullness
Body and Somatic Traditions
On the breath as the unique voluntary gateway to the involuntary nervous system, and how conscious breathing traditions from pranayama to holotropic work exploit this bridge to alter consciousness and heal
Bateson
On how modern love fails through epistemological error, mistaking isolated selfhood for the relational systems we actually inhabit
Attachment and Relational Psychology
On how early attachment patterns can be revised through relational processing, and why earned security emerges only in the presence of another mind
Anthropology of the Sacred
On how religion creates reality through symbols, and why understanding it requires descending through layers of cultural meaning
Bateson
On Bateson's invention of the metalogue as a literary form — a dialogue whose structure enacts what it discusses — and what the form reveals about the relationship between pattern and process in thought
Psychedelics and Consciousness Research
MAPS, Johns Hopkins, and the Return of the Research
The Sacred Feminine
On how women denied institutional authority in the medieval church claimed direct mystical access to the divine, and what their embodied, intimate theology reveals about the limits of institutional power