mental-health
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✨ An Invitation into the Mythic
🌑 What Do We Mean by Mythic?The word mythic is so often mistaken for something untrue — a fairy tale, a story to dismiss. But in its original sense, mythic carries timeless truths wrapped in image, metaphor, and archetype. To… Continue reading
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“The Sacred Sock Sacrifice”
Sacred Snark Sunday, Vol. X Somewhere in the spinning drum of the dryer, a portal opens. Not to Narnia, not to enlightenment — but to the Underworld of Left Socks. 🧦✨ You swear you put in seven pairs, but only… Continue reading
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Dreaming with Depth
An Introduction to Jungian Dream Analysis Through the Soul’s Evolutionary Lens 🌑✨ 🌌 Why Dreams? Every night, the psyche speaks in symbols. Dreams are not random; they are living images that arise from the unconscious — whispering what our waking… Continue reading
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Etty Hillesum: The Garden Within the Ruins
Historical Mirrors Vol. IX “I will try to help You, God, to stop my strength ebbing away, though I cannot vouch for it in advance.” — Etty Hillesum The Quiet Bloom in the Shadow of the Camps In the summer… Continue reading
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🍃 Food for Thought: Consciousness as Virtual Reality?
What if consciousness isn’t something housed inside our bodies, but something much larger — something that experiences this world through us, like a player using an avatar in a virtual reality game? Physicist and consciousness explorer Tom Campbell, author of… Continue reading
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Flame and Silence: The Mystical Journey of Porete and Eckhart
Sacred Counterparts Vol. V 🔥 When Mystics Walk Too Close to the Flame There are some voices that cannot be tamed by doctrine, no matter how fiercely the church tried to bind them. In the 14th century, Marguerite Porete and… Continue reading
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✨ Birthday Edition: Oracle & Lantern | Vol. VI✨
The Turning of the Lantern Birthdays arrive like thresholds. They remind us of the solar rhythm that has carried us around the wheel once more — the same sun that rose the day we were born now calls us into… Continue reading
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🌒 The Alchemy of Real Suffering
“The only valid cure for any kind of depression is the acceptance of real suffering.”— Helen M. Luke 🌑 The Paradox We Resist We live in a culture that treats suffering like an infection to be cut out or numbed… Continue reading
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“The Universe is Not Your DoorDash”
Sacred Snark Sunday, Vol. XI ✨ “Your spiritual order has been placed. Estimated delivery: whenever the cosmic kitchen feels like it. Tracking number: LOL.” ✨ You know that moment when you light your candle, pull a tarot card, meditate, and… Continue reading
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🌕 Dancing with Transformation: How to Recognize When You’re Flowing, Not Fighting
There are seasons when transformation feels like an unwelcome storm — we brace, we resist, we try to hold the roof on with our bare hands. And then, there are the moments when we realize we’re not fighting the wind… Continue reading
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