April 18, 2026
7:07 pm
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Leary’s 8 Circuits of Development: A Mythic Map …
Leary’s 8 Circuits of Development: A Mythic Map of Human Becoming Timothy Leary’s 8-circuit model is one of those strange, half-wild frameworks that refuses to die because, scientific or not, it touches something real in the imagination. On the surface, it is a speculative map of human consciousness: eight layers or “circuits” through which awareness develops, from basic survival all the way to transpersonal and cosmic states. But read through a mythic lens, it becomes something more interesting than theory. It becomes a map of initiation. The first four circuits describe the construction of the social self. First, survival: is
April 15, 2026
2:52 pm
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The Baffler on AI and cognition: nothing about …
The Baffler on AI and cognition: nothing about this trajectory is inevitable. The future isn’t fixed. It’s being written by people with very particular interests. The piece is quiet but the point lands hard.
April 15, 2026
2:20 pm
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I have been thinking about the vocabulary we …
I have been thinking about the vocabulary we use for the inner life. How much of it actually belongs to us. Most of the words we reach for when we try to describe what is happening inside, sadness, anxiety, frustration, and fear, were handed to us. By language. By family. By the culture we were born into. We use them because we have them. Not because they are precise. There is a practice gaining attention in psychology circles: inventing your own terms for emotional states that standard language doesn’t quite reach. Coining something private, personal, exact. I think this practice
April 13, 2026
9:10 am
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The danger of romanticising your own life is …
The danger of romanticising your own life is that you eventually stop living it. You start performing it instead. You become a spectator of your own experience, constantly checking to see if the lighting is right and if the dialogue sounds profound. You begin to curate moments instead of inhabiting them. Even your struggles start to feel like scenes, and your pain becomes something to frame, to narrate, to make meaningful before it has actually been lived through. There’s a subtle split that happens here. Part of you is in the moment, but another part is already outside of it,
March 31, 2026
1:02 pm
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Your brain doesn’t store memories, it reconstructs them …
Your brain doesn’t store memories, it reconstructs them every time you recall them. So when you say “This is who I am,” you’re not describing reality. You’re editing it in real time. This isn’t a bug. It’s the mechanism. Every time you remember something, your brain rebuilds it from fragments: sensory details, emotional tags, narrative threads, gaps filled in with current context. The memory you access today is different from the one you accessed last year. Not because the past changed. Because you did. Which means identity is not a fixed thing you discover. It’s a story you keep revising
March 30, 2026
5:49 pm
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