Psychology and Depth
James Hillman: The Soul’s Code and the Acorn Theory
On the acorn theory of destiny, the daimon as the soul's image, and the recovery of psychology's forgotten purpose: attending to the soul's own speech
Psychology and Human Sciences
Propaganda and Influence
Chomsky and Herman: Manufacturing Consent and the Propaganda Model
On how structural filters in the media system produce systematic bias toward state power, the five mechanisms that ensure "worthy victims" receive coverage while "unworthy victims" are ignored, and why this empirical model has only deepened since 1988
McGilchrist
The Right Hemisphere’s World
On the right hemisphere's irreplaceable contact with living reality, and why analytical thinking without it leaves civilization half-blind
Girard
Sacrifice and the Sacred
On how the sacred originates in collective violence and scapegoating, and why Christianity's revelation lies in exposing rather than concealing this origin
Body and Somatic Traditions
Eugene Gendlin: The Felt Sense and Focusing
On how the body holds knowing that precedes and exceeds language, why successful therapy works through felt sensation rather than interpretation, and the teachable method for accessing this pre-verbal intelligence
Bateson
Schismogenesis
On how relationships amplify difference through feedback loops, and why escalation toward breakdown is the system's default path
Attachment and Relational Psychology
The Interpersonal Neurobiology of Connection
On how the brain evolved as a relational organ, and why psychological healing requires new relational experience rather than insight alone
Anthropology of the Sacred
Mary Douglas: Purity and Danger
On how societies police their boundaries by declaring certain things impure, and what the categories we reject reveal about the order we defend
Flow and Peak Experience
The Varieties of Religious Experience
On William James's founding account of mystical states as the center of religious life, the four marks that define them, and why his secular psychology of the unseen remains the most honest framework available
Psychedelics and Consciousness Research
The Spirit Molecule
Rick Strassman, DMT, and the Neuroscience of the Threshold
Trauma and the Wounded Self
The Path Through
On how trauma's full integration can move beyond symptom relief into post-traumatic growth, and what conditions make the wound itself become generative
The Sacred Masculine
The Reunion
On the sacred marriage within the psyche, and why the reunion of masculine and feminine principles is the prerequisite for both individual wholeness and genuine love between persons