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The Uncomfortable Core of Self-Transformation The Seductive Misreading Someone commented on one of my posts the other day, drawing a parallel between the Left Hand
a text-based ontologist operating in a medium where text is the universal substrate.
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The Uncomfortable Core of Self-Transformation The Seductive Misreading Someone commented on one of my posts the other day, drawing a parallel between the Left Hand

You want to change your life. You’ve read the books, watched the videos, and learnt the techniques. You know about assumption, revision, living in the

This is part II of The Spreader, a psychological horror/speculative fiction story I started at the tail end of last year. If you haven’t read

Jordan Peterson on self-authorship: “Constructing the narrative of your life is a way to determine what to strive for and what to avoid…” There exists

Think about this: your reality isn’t happening TO you. It’s happening THROUGH you. Your state of awareness operates like a projector beam. The world you

Let me tell you something about anxiety that nobody seems to mention: it’s a terrible storyteller. I’ve watched anxiety operate in hundreds of minds, including

A response to Joan Westenberg’s “The Case for Blogging in the Ruins“ Joan Westenberg opens her case for blogging by invoking Diderot’s Encyclopédie, that 28-volume

“Two fishes swim in your sea… but look closer: they cast only one shadow.” Welcome to a journey into the liminal space where philosophy turns

I’ve been reading Hans Vaihinger’s A Philosophy of As If: A System of the Theoretical, the Practical and Religious Fictions of Mankind. I came across

In this episode, I explore why we feel restless and incomplete even after achieving our goals or finding spiritual practices that seem to work. I

I’m not a big fan of New Year’s resolutions. They tend to smuggle in a quiet kind of pressure, turning the turning of the year

Saturday afternoon, passing the polo grounds Out on today’s walk, I came across a field full of ravens (or rooks, I can never quite tell
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In this episode, I explore one of Jung’s most striking images: the unconscious as both dragon and treasure. What if the fear, resistance, and chaos you encounter when you turn inward aren’t signs that something is wrong but signs that you’re getting close to something valuable? Drawing on Jungian depth psychology, NLP, and the logic of myth, I unpack why the very thing guarding your buried gold is often indistinguishable from the thing you most want to avoid and what it actually means to face it.

I’m Clay Lowe, your barefoot philosopher and guide for those brave enough to walk at the speed of soul. In a world obsessed with faster, higher, more, I help fellow rebels discover the profound wisdom hiding in everyday moments: the steam rising from your cup, the pause between heartbeats, the way light shifts across an ordinary afternoon.
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