An atlas of human life
Understand yourself, relationships and the world. Find your way through everyday life and major changes.
Stage of life
For yourself or someone close. Start with the stage that fits your life; there is no single timetable.
The Growing up library explores childhood, parenting and the beginnings of independent life.
What is happening now
Or start with a question on your mind.
Choose a topic, then a way to read: the full essay, questions and answers, or In Plain Words. Available PDFs can be saved for later.
Three questions to begin with
United Wisdom: The Right to Change Your PathAn authorial essay on changing convictions, readiness for different paths, and respecting another person’s freedom.Open essay →You Are Not Loved Just for Your Pretty Eyes: Love, Value, and ExchangeA polemical archival essay on reciprocal contributions, romance, and material conditions in a couple, including gender prescriptions and appeals to evolutionary psychology.Open essay →The Great Moment: Science and Mystical ComparisonsAn archival survey of nine comparisons between science and mysticism, explicitly distinguishing experiments, models, hypotheses, and metaphors.Open essay →
Main library
Find an essay by a question from your life, a topic or a direction. Browse writing on the inner world, relationships, freedom and action, meaning, and views of the world.
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