The Gap Between Understanding and Becoming
Soulcruzer
When psychology replaced mythology, we traded participation for explanation. We gained a remarkable vocabulary for describing the inner life, but in the process we lost something older and more difficult…
personal mythology
Your self-story keeps updating in the direction of …
Your self-story keeps updating in the direction of what it already believes. If the story says you have a problem with authority, then every exchange with a boss, a teacher,…
The Story You Call Yourself
You have never met yourself. Not directly. What you have met is a story about yourself, told so many times and with such conviction that it started to feel like…
What Is a Personal Myth?: And Why You Might Be Living Inside One Without Even Realising It
Somewhere between memory and meaning, between dream and dialogue, there lives a story. You didn’t write it—not exactly. But it’s been writing you for a long time. I’ve been reading…
Uncertainty is not a barrier
In times of heightened uncertainty, the external world—often chaotic and unpredictable—seems to close in on us. It’s easy to feel like the familiar pathways of decision-making, routine, and control have…
what myth are you living?
Here’s the audio version of today’s blog post: “This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories…