Mysticism
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🌿 Living the Questions
My spiritual practice today looks very different than it once did. It’s less about believing something and more about experiencing—less about adopting ideas and more about listening, embodying, and discerning what actually aligns at the soul level. What some might… Continue reading
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🪞12/12 — The Mirror That Knows You
There are moments when time stops pretending it’s neutral. 12.12 is one of those moments. Not because it’s trendy.Not because it’s “lucky.”But because 12 is a language the psyche already speaks. Twelve zodiac signs circling consciousness.Twelve disciples as disciplined facets… Continue reading
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The Seven Tears of the Soul
Al-Ghazali, Consciousness, and the Initiatory Language of Weeping There are many forms of language — speech, symbol, gesture, proximity —but the mystics knew there was a language deeper than words:the language of tears. The Sufi master Abu Hamid al-Ghazali taught… Continue reading
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Mystic Mondays, Vol. 13
Persephone — The Descent, The Return, and The Self That Learns to Walk Between Every soul eventually meets Persephone. Not as a mythological figure —but as an interior presence. She is that part of us that learns:🌑 how to move… Continue reading
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Historical Mirrors, Vol. 18
Proclus of Athens — The Soul That Remembers Its Own Light There are thinkers whose minds become ladders — not merely across ideas, but between worlds. Proclus of Athens, the 5th-century Neoplatonist, mapped a cosmology of consciousness that did not… Continue reading
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🌒 The Rebel Who Sang the Dead Awake
They say Orpheus descended for love, but perhaps it was for truth.He carried no sword, no shield — only the trembling instrument of his soul. While others begged the gods for favor, he dared to charm them into stillness. Even… Continue reading
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🌑 Mythic Mondays, Vol. 8
The Night Was Never Empty — Nyx and the Original Dark Her Myth In the beginning, before time had the arrogance to count itself, there was Night.Not the absence of light — the presence of something older.She was called Nyx,… Continue reading
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Mythic Mondays, Vol. VI — The Waters of Memory
💧 “The soul remembers in ripples, not in words.” 🌙 The Stream Beneath All Things There is a river that runs beneath every myth — a current older than language, where memory is not recollection but resurrection.In Greek myth, the… Continue reading
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Prometheus | Mythic Mondays: Vol. IV
🔥 Opening Invocation Fire was not meant only for the gods. One figure dared to imagine otherwise — Prometheus, the forethinker, who reached into divine flame and carried it down to trembling hands. For his gift, he was bound to… Continue reading
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Inanna | Mythic Mondays Vol. III
Opening Invocation The gates creak open. One by one, the jewels and garments fall away. The Queen of Heaven descends, not as ornamented sovereign, but as stripped-bare soul. Inanna walks downward into shadow, into silence, into her sister’s domain —… Continue reading
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