UNITED WISDOM
Reading journeys
From a life question to a relevant essay and a possible next step. Choose a subject, then what you would like to explore first.
Start with any essay, skip a step or stop whenever you wish.
What brings you here?
Choose a life stage or a situation. These are different ways to find reading, not compulsory stages of one path.
Foundational essays to begin with
Early United Wisdom essays on freedom of choice, inner life, relationships and worldviews. Begin with The Right to Change Your Path, or choose another essay.
- Start here if you wish
United Wisdom: The Right to Change Your Path
An authorial essay on changing convictions, readiness for different paths, and respecting another person’s freedom.
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The Great Moment: Science and Mystical Comparisons
An archival survey of nine comparisons between science and mysticism, explicitly distinguishing experiments, models, hypotheses, and metaphors.
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Facets of One Truth: How Differences Become Paths
A manifesto on the crystal of truth, transparent differences, cultural exchange, and multilingual access as United Wisdom’s working hypothesis.
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Axial Consciousness
An authorial exploration of acknowledgment and restoration through Maat and the Axial Age, retaining responsibility and the other person’s freedom not to forgive.
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The Mask and the Mirror: Persona and Shadow
An authorial reading of Dogon masks, Noh theater, carnival, and Jungian persona: a social role can remain a tool without becoming an entire identity.
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Mature Love
This archival essay compares love as an experienced state with love as a capacity developed over time. It moves from Fromm to religious traditions and attachment; its broad claims of agreement between approaches call for careful reading.
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The Strange Arithmetic of Being: Time That Passes and Becomes Life
An archival essay on two ways of counting a lived day, finitude, and shifts of perspective, from Seneca and Dogen to psychological distance.
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You Are Not Loved Just for Your Pretty Eyes: Love, Value, and Exchange
A polemical archival essay on reciprocal contributions, romance, and material conditions in a couple, including gender prescriptions and appeals to evolutionary psychology.
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24 more essays on life questions
Eight short journeys about choices, relationships, care and everyday life.