Waiting for the World to Change

I will change and I can’t force anyone to. I can only teach by example, not pandering to those unwilling to try. No one is hopeless but I will save my energy for those who are willing to change. If I practice what I preach and be consistent with my values and beliefs, then there …

Occultism and Mental Illness

Over the course of my life I’ve had to reconcile my spiritual beliefs and my insecurities over how I’m perceived, knowing that many will conflate my experiences with psychosis with my experiences with gnosis. While, as with any aspect of a life, they are interwoven in my development as a person, it’s important to give …

Purpose

The concept of life purpose is undeniably silly in many ways— deciding we exist to learn and experience works around the absurdity. What twists an otherwise valuable riddle into an enormous joke is substituting goals as purpose.  We might wish to develop skills, careers, families, but to claim we live to do any of these …

Liminal Power

Gradients, things that are not one nor the other, both and neither, points of contact and crossing, these are liminality. Many people are drawn to ambiguity. In anthropology, liminality applies to the state of being in between stages of life or rites of passage, but the word has crossed into a wider sense of ‘in …

Inspiration as Proof of the Soul

All ideas come from somewhere. They’re a reaction, like fire, spawned from a connection. This is inspiration. The moment a connection is made between you and the subject, tinder and heat, some intrigue or recognition begins creating something new that’s neither tinder nor heat. Layers, boundaries, and relationships are the equation for inspiration. An idea …

Alchemy of Self: Conjunction Part 2

“In too much water you may easily be drowned; too little water, on the other hand, soon evaporates in the heat of the sun.” — Basil Valentine Success utterly relies on temperance. Parts of a whole cannot merge back into one if one part is neglected. All aspects must be released from toxicity and nurtured …

Mind Over Matter: A Poem

You strange story from childhood whose origins I know not— I remember you said we should be guardians of the woods of crisis wrought. So long ago, I can’t recall if the story’s birth was true but thinking back, above else all I was given the wherewithal to become a statue. A wounded woman, arms …

Alchemy of Self: Conjunction

Conjunction is the bringing together, the reconciliation and amalgamation of parts. The many facets of ourself and our life are ready to start showing a whole reflection. This is the coagula of ‘solve et coagula’. In this phase of Albedo we’ve found clarity after acknowledging what hinders us, which in turn reveals what enriches us.  …

Grounding and Centering: What Does it Mean?

These terms are thrown around often without extrapolation. Grounding and centering relate to two relationships which help balance our psyche in both everyday life and in crisis. In both psychology and spirituality you’ll find various exercises to teach and strengthen these techniques. They’re proven valuable in mindfulness and meditation as the goal is to effectively …

We Live in a World of Mathematics

My skills in practical mathematics are dismally poor but I adore the concept of math. Geometry exists from a molecular level to the macrocosm of our universe, patterns form life itself, the equation for existence can be eloquently and succinctly written in glyphs. The study of mathematics is a field of existential exploration. We’ve developed …