Internalized vs Externalized Coherence

Why true wisdom is found in non-contradiction, not in managing the narratives of others. The human drive for psychological survival demands coherence, forcing every individual to choose exactly how they will anchor their identity in reality. We can either build this coherence from the inside-out, aligning our internal knowledge and understanding with objective truth, or from the outside-in, desperately managing the contradictory demands of our environment. This fundamental choice inevitably […] Read more »

The Microcosm, the Macrocosm, and the Principles of Correspondence and Cause and Effect

In a previous article (from 2016) titled “Exoteric vs Esoteric Spirituality” I talked about how many spiritual teachers are focused on external actions and reality as a means of becoming more conscious, rather than on developing a rich internal world obtained through cultivating one’s thinking via shadow work, self-reflection and self-assessment, deconstructing limiting beliefs and poor logic, increasing knowledge, especially self-knowledge, conscious arguing, and processing emotional upsets as they arise. […] Read more »