“The heart is the battlefield of the gods.” — Heraclitus Two brothers walk the same fractured earth. Both bring an offering, seeking a connection that feels lost. One is received. The other is not. This is the story of our first system crash—the moment a fractured consciousness applied the transactional…
THE DRAMA YOU’RE IN | THE SEPARATION | ACT I.1 “We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anaïs Nin Imagine you are given the complete technical blueprint for Notre Dame Cathedral. For years, you study it. You memorize every dimension, every load-bearing…
How the Genesis Story Maps Our Cultural War—And How to Step Out of It “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” — Genesis 3:1 A recent conversation between Dr. Iain McGilchrist and Carrie Gress, author of Something Wicked, piqued my interest. Its subject?…
THE DRAMA YOU’RE IN | THE SEPARATION | BONUS “A culture that is locked into the left-hemisphere version of the world is, for all its successes, a tragic culture: a culture that is lonely and lacking in meaning, that is unwelcoming to others, and strangely dead to the beauty and…
THE LOST CENTER OF CIVILIZATION | PART 7 “What you are called to is not a new set of beliefs, but a recovery of memory.” — An Ancient Christian Maxim We have traced the arc of a hollowing civilization. In the first six parts, we witnessed the inversion of social…
A Civilization Built by Half a Brain Author’s Note: This essay is part of a seven-part work in progress examining the spiritual logic of modern civilization. When complete, the series will be revised and submitted for publication as a book. “The brain has a left hemisphere and a right hemisphere…
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