The Round Year

Category: Patterns

Yes, No, Maybe

January 21, 2023

Life works in probabilities. Everything is a gradient of maybe between yes and no. Since nothing is impossible, and nothing is absolute, life plans only make sense in broad strokes, and obsessing over their specific details is frequently doomed to failure. ...

Ineffable Experiences

The inability to share ineffable experiences is a limitation of our human condition, which makes us feel helpless and sublime at the same time. These moments are by definition impossible to put into words, but their characteristics and circumstances are ...

The Round Year

The round year is an ideal that got lost in our modern experience of time, but which is so deeply embedded in old spiritual systems, it often goes unquestioned. It is a simple concept, really. We don’t live years; we ...

Memory Libraries

People picture their memory as a large body of water in which they’re immersed, one which challenges their sense of control, as they struggle to swim against its currents, or allows them the enjoyment of floating, relaxed, on its calm ...

Whose Mind Is It, Anyway?

Whose thoughts run your head? That is a strange question. We take for granted we are the ones who think our thoughts, when in fact they are only in part our production, if at all. This article is a perfect ...

Power and Will

There are truly powerful forces at work in our universe, forces so awe-inspiring our minds can’t comprehend them: giant black holes of near infinite gravity, invisible waves that propagate through vast expanses at speeds that bend space and time, energy ...

The Power of Emotions

February 2, 2022

Once upon a time, emotions were the key to our survival. They are fast, much faster than thoughts, and can assess a situation at lightning speed, before our rational analysis, before our senses even; they are a lost superpower we ...

We Are Nature

January 22, 2022

A breeze quickens in the middle of the forest, and all the tree branches turn in unison, revealing the undersides of the leaves and changing the color of the canopy. The birds startle and take flight together, suddenly, and your ...

No Slaves, No Masters

January 20, 2022

We live in our own perception of reality, where our level of knowledge is the real constraint on what we can see. This is the kind of knowledge that makes us understand the sun, moon and stars are not really ...

Walking in Beauty – The Patterns of Reality

October 5, 2021

There is an old Navajo blessing that starts with ‘may you walk in beauty’, a reminder to appreciate what a gift it is to belong in the world. The beauty of existence runs deep beneath its surface, into its structure ...

Symbols

September 19, 2021

A symbol is a stand-in for something else. What? Anything you wish and anything your mind can conjure: ideas, feelings, objects, events, shorthands, messages, memory aids. We use symbols to condense meaning into its smallest form, for immediate reference, portability, ...

Living with Archetypes

We’re all many people, spun together in a bundle of threads we call the self, a constantly changing manifold that gains and loses components like a branching river with tributaries and deltas. We don’t think about how much we change ...