Propaganda and Influence
Baudrillard: Simulacra, Hyperreality, and the Desert of the Real
On how the real has been replaced by its simulation, why the map now precedes the territory, and what it means to live in a world of pure hyperreality
Psychology and Human Sciences
Body and Somatic Traditions
The Abandoned Temple
On the Body, the Western Tradition, and What the Split Has Cost Us
Psychology and Depth
Astrology as Language
On the Natal Chart as a Psychological Map and the Misuse That Has Discredited It
McGilchrist
The Return of the Master
On how left-hemisphere mimicry has colonized our spiritual aspirations, and why only genuine initiation can restore the brain's hemispheric balance
Bateson
Levels of Learning
On Bateson's taxonomy of learning types — from habit formation through character change to the dissolution of self — and why most education operates at the wrong level
Psychedelics and Consciousness Research
The Intelligence of Plants
Monica Gagliano, Plant Signaling, and the Boundary of Consciousness
The Sacred Feminine
Clarissa Pinkola Estés and the Reclamation: Women Who Run With the Wolves
On how fairy tales encode maps of the feminine psyche, the Wild Woman archetype as the instinctual nature patriarchy suppresses, and the reclamation of what culture teaches women to despise
Psychology and Depth
I Thought
On how "I thought" disguises unresolved grievance as self-awareness, and the loop that closes only when the wound is actually released
Bateson
Sacred Unity
On Bateson's late work — the unfinished synthesis he was pursuing at his death — and the question that organized his entire career: what is the pattern that connects all living things?
Psychedelics and Consciousness Research
Eleusis and the Pharmacological Substrate
The Kykeon, the Ergot, and the Chemistry of the Mysteries
The Sacred Feminine
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess
On how alphabetic writing rewired human consciousness toward abstraction and patriarchy, and what the visual image's return might restore
Psychology and Depth
The Unfinished Animal: On the Evolution of Consciousness and the Work That Remains
On why human consciousness may be unfinished, and what the bicameral mind reveals about the work of psychological evolution