Kindling Mystery
On studying consciousness without extinguishing wonder.
Essays on consciousness, anomalous phenomena, and what they reveal about how we relate, lead, and make meaning. Published on Into Intuition.
On studying consciousness without extinguishing wonder.
Sharing the news of a first academic publication in the Journal of Consciousness Studies.
The choice is ours: to dismiss what doesn’t fit—labeling it pathological, unscientific, or fringe—or to stay open, curious, and willing to listen to what these experiences might reveal.
A response to a materialist’s critiques.
On studying consciousness without extinguishing wonder.
Sharing the news of a first academic publication in the Journal of Consciousness Studies.
The choice is ours: to dismiss what doesn’t fit—labeling it pathological, unscientific, or fringe—or to stay open, curious, and willing to listen to what these experiences might reveal.
A response to a materialist’s critiques.
Drawn to these edges of the paranormal, this non-territory of paradox, liminality, and transformation.
Those who have endured trauma, particularly as children, often report more paranormal experiences.
I am no longer tethered to intuition, not because it does not interest me, but because I see it within a shared space of bridges or thresholds.
A quieter reflection on the season of stillness and what emerges when we pause.
There is a word that follows me these days – spaciousness. It is expansive and airy and ebbs and flows with breath.
Consider: the loosening of grip of ourselves, the forgetting of goal, the aimless wandering.
The alignment I feel exploring intuition is like a gathering of disparate pieces: simultaneously mundane and divine, quotidian and transcendent.
We all know the word intuition colloquially – perhaps informally translated to be some kind of ‘inner knowing.’ Of course, it’s deeper than that.
My story of this beginning.