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Ketamine & The Self I Made By Deleting
👆 you can listen to me read this article I took a medium-high dose of ketamine last night and got a rare chance to observe a specific mental process that my mind usually keeps hidden from itself. Nati & I parked Lucky the campervan in the Apennines in Tuscany. This is our home for a
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New Webinar: The 6 Hidden Patterns of History
Hanzi Freinacht’s book The 6 Hidden Patterns of History is not coming out any time soon. Fortunately, the theoretical framework is locked and ready and Emil Ejner Friis has been presenting the theories behind the book in the Metamodern Master Class to great applause. The course is going to focus entirely on The 6 Hidden Patterns and
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The 6 Hidden Patterns of History: Chapter 1, A Brief Introduction to the Metamemes Model
“Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological category” —Theodor Adorno The following is an extract of the first chapter from Hanzi
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The 6 Hidden Patterns of History: Introduction
“Stage theory… Is BS. Always was. And it is colonial as hell.” —Nora Bateson The following is an extract of the introduction chapter from Hanzi Freinacht’s unpublished book ‘The 6 Hidden Patterns of History: A Metamodern Guide to World History’. The book is not coming out anytime soon, but a webinar on the topic
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Inflating the Bubble of Trust
You live in a bubble of trust. There’s a small group of people in your life that have a special status in your mental rolodex: you can count on them when you’re in distress, you would lend them money without hesitation, and you would happily look after their kids or water their houseplants when they
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Dharma Inquiry
Dharma, as it is used here, means something like right relationship with Life. It could also be described as the path of right action; the path of greatest integrity; the path (of choices) that do not create unnecessary suffering and help to bring healing to the underlying sources of it; the way of living “thy
The boy who invented everything (The pattern of disruption, part 10)
By Bradd Libby An accidental discovery by teenage student William Perkin produced a purple-colored chemical never before found in nature. It opened the door to synthesizing pharmaceuticals, plastics and many of the other products of our modern world.
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