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The Way of the Phoenix
To listen rather than read this essay, click below: “There is another sacred bird, too, whose name is Phoenix. I myself have never seen it, only pictures of it; for the bird seldom comes into Egypt: once in five hundred years, as the people of Heliopolis say.” - Herodotus, Book II. The Phoenix lives, like many great teachers, in a world beyond the sun, only crossing and transcending into our world with a message of renewal when the cries of humanity become so great that they reach the ethereal terrace that connects all worlds. To break into time and...
If boys never die, men never live
An essay exploring the necessity of evolution within masculine psychology. *Note - If you'd prefer to listen to this essay rather than read it, you can listen here: The goal of this essay is to highlight the expectations and nature of a man’s life if he does not undergo the development and transition into a more mature psychological structure. Often, we feel elements of dis-ease in our life but have trouble pinpointing their origin and so suffer from a sort of low-resolution ache that appears incurable. When this is the case, the common remedy put forth is to further...