A Thinker’s Guide To… The Apocalypse: The Waiting I’ve been thinking about how to avoid Hell for over 30 years now. I have this painful memory when I first discovered the idea of Hell that still tears me apart. You and I, we find a multitude of ways to avoid our memories. We speed …
A Thinker’s Guide To… The Apocalypse: The Warning Who cares for distressing warnings, predicting discomfort when it’s easier to just show up and pretend things aren’t as bad as you’ve worried they’d be? The truth is, we ignore warnings that are often right in front of our face, myself included. Although, the warnings that …
A Thinker’s Guide To… The Apocalypse: The Innocence The late summer of the beginning of freshman year, I was still somewhere between admitting that I wasn’t a fundamentalist anymore and becoming something entirely different than what I always thought I’d be. I looked innocent at this time. Things are rarely as they appear though. …
A Thinker’s Guide To… The Apocalypse: The Prophecy Welcome to the Thinker’s Guide to the Apocalypse. At its literal Greek root, apocalypse means to uncover, to reveal, or to unveil. Generally the shit we cover up is painful to reveal. AKA, an apocalypse is the means in which we unveil what we most want …
A Thinker’s Guide To… The Beginning: The Dream Today my friend, we are going to consider what it means to drink in the mysteries of our heart, particularly when they appear to us through messages from the unconscious. In this particular dream, I am in Scotland with a group of travelers. The scene is …
A Thinker’s Guide To… The Beginning: The Heartbreak You may not know this, but I only moonlight as a podcaster. I’m a psychotherapist by day, or, when I’m feeling particularly cheesy: a professional heartbreaker. We all keep so much buried and defended against, that it’s hard to get to our most beautiful pieces without …
A Thinker’s Guide To… The Beginning: The Seed The first thing you need to know about me is that stories matter to me. They have saved me from so many things. When it comes to stories, I want to know every excruciating detail. I want you to tell me absolutely everything. And because fair …