Is Your Group a Cult?

Brendan Lea Feature Photo by Rafał Karoń on Unsplash.
A Taxonomy of Triggers (Part 2)

Dave Wardman Properly understood the different classes and orders of triggering should yield a few key insights: 1) there are different classes of trigger. This means that there are different alchemical ‘works’ available to a human being – some being related to timeline issues, some unrelated to them [and thusly being ‘atemporal’, in a […]
Being Half Right

Christine Ruffolo I was so close. I had felt and figured and whittled and realized. I had my longest running issue narrowed down to a dysfunctional half of the pelvic floor. It was just the wrong half. I was convinced that it was my right and gave multiple reasons as to why, BUT my […]
Two Ways to Know the Body

Jim Freda Two Ways to Know the Body: Abstract Reason vs. Direct Experience Through my entire life I was never interested in American or Western history. I studied the history of Japan and Korea at Columbia and then for eight more years at UCLA. That was a long time ago, but I have been […]
Learning Perception

Dare Sohei heres a working list of things i do and have done to think/perceive the way i do. i come from a pretty normal background — poverty, depression, anxiety, no college, lots of illnesses, addiction etc. my saving grace was probably the things that also screwed me up, which was animistic perception […]
Removing, Not Adding

Craig Mallett We often say in the tradition that the Daoist way is one of removing, not adding. Yet the first thing we do is learn a million practices. So what do we mean by this? It’s useful to remind ourselves that the exercises (and the way we exercise) are the tools we use to aid […]