Notes from the Interior

A Eulogy For My Best Friend
I spent the past few weeks taking care of my rapidly declining, beloved "feral Yorkie" Pebbles. She was my everything. I got her through a Facebook post 14 years ago... Read more...
The Architecture of the Shadow: Ancestral Chains & Global Polarization
The Architecture of the Shadow We do not walk through the world alone; we carry the unexamined weight of our lineages. What we call personal shadow is frequently the ancestral... Read more...
Justice
Surrender is the crack of space between Albert Einstein’s theory of the Block Universe and his self-described "spiritual successor" Wolfgang Pauli’s quantum mechanics. Read more...
The Grift of "Self-Love" and the Geometry of the Soul
By shifting away from the exhausting cycle of approval-seeking, the inner architecture of the Self re-establishes an unyielding, toroidal boundary line. This essay is a cold, uncompromising mirror for those... Read more...
A Jungian Perspective on The Count of Monte Cristo
In ancient Greece, there was an inscription carved over the entrance to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi where the Oracle resided. It said, "Gnothi Seauton," which translates directly to:... Read more...
The Feral Mirror
Pebbles is six pounds of fluffy, posh-looking Yorkie — and she has been doing my Jungian shadow work on every walk, completely unaware she has the job. Read more...
Who Severed the Finger? — Notes from the Individuation Process
The Finger of Judgment The body text explores themes of shadow projection, Jungian psychology (such as The Nigredo and Enantiodromia), and reclaiming personal agency, referencing motifs like Pebbles and the... Read more...