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Restoring depth to the status of the norm
United Wisdom is at once an editorial series and a working school. We write where mystical traditions, philosophy, developmental psychology and contemporary science intersect.
The guiding principle is the converging point: different cultural lines describe one and the same structure of reality in different words. The task is to show those intersections precisely and convincingly.
“Duality is not an error. It is a working, correct and necessary phase in the development of consciousness.”
United Wisdom · Through Duality
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And That's How You Are: Advaita Vedanta as a Formula of Recognition
A father repeats one sentence to his son nine times over, explaining nothing and proving nothing. Tat tvam asi, and that's how you are. Two and a half thousand years later the sentence is still repeated on four continents. Advaita offers neither faith nor philosophy, but a way of reading one's own experience.
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The Dichotomy of Control: Stoicism and the Formula of Inner Freedom
At one end — Epictetus, born a slave, lame for life after his master broke his leg. At the other — the emperor Marcus Aurelius. Between them a gulf of status, and one shared formula: only what depends on us is free.
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Prometheus: Fire as a Symbol of Consciousness
A figure walking down from the mountains at night. Inside a hollow fennel stalk an ember smolders, stolen from the hearth of the gods. Prometheus carries to human beings the thing without which they were not human — and pays for it with a liver that grows back every night.
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