Even more “peaceful” (imho) alternatives to Aikido that I’ve experimented with and found great pleasure and utility in:

• Tai chi (probably better with a teacher)
• Qigong (you can totally experiment with this on your own at home)
• Zhan zhuang (which maybe is a type of qigong…

“…what I came to understand, in a sudden revelation, was that all these events were prefigured in fiction.”

“What fiction specifically? Can you recall?”

“That’s easy enough. It’s in Arthur C. Clarke, and, actually, journalists made the…

We have an emotional intelligence…

Indigenous societies are the place to look for starting points to solving this problem.

A Literary Context For Contemporary Entheogenic Visionary Experience

Remembering The Endless Time of Sleep

DREAM MEMORY

May you write more stuff like this, Caitlin. It sure feels good, doesn’t it? You are halfway there, of having the puzzle put together. A hint: You’ve done this before. Countless times. But then forgot about it. The evolutionary roller coaster reaches its peak only to start over. Who can turn down this much fun?

May all of your illusions be shattered beyond your ability to reassemble them.

I like your “friction of these polarities” and “us” as the resolving force. In the case of the male/female polarity friction plays a major role and sex is the resolving force.

I see resolving as not indicating completion, but rather a movement towards completion. The shape of consciousness/unconscious is morphed with this…

Subconscious stories revealed in our sleep in four acts.

Carl Jung was a big fan of movies. He said:

“The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement…