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For when the ground gives way
Item of the day · Tuesday
BOOK · 208 PP · INDEXED 18 FEB 2026

Lean toward the difficulty.

We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.

— — WHEN THINGS FALL APART — CH. 1
Today
Monday, 25 May 2026
Anno mundi
Moon
First quarter · 64%
9 days into the cycle
Voice of the day
Hans Wilhelm
37 entries indexed
Lexicon · today
Sam Harris
Today’s thread

On philosophy.

Three voices on philosophy — read top-to-bottom; each entry takes the previous as a starting point.

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YouTube

What Is Consciousness? — Vsauce

Michael Stevens — Vsauce — 2012

Michael Stevens of Vsauce explores the hard problem of consciousness — why subjective inner experience exists at all — through thought experiments involving hemispherectomies, split-brain surgery and continuity of identity. The video surveys key ideas including functionalism, the binding problem and philosophical zombie thought experiments, leaving the core mystery unresolved but sharply posed.

7m2012tagged: Consciousness · tagged: Neuroscience
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YouTube

The Best Kept Secret in the World — Terrence Howard on Reality and Number

Terrence Howard — Be Inspired — 2024

Actor Terrence Howard presents his alternative mathematical framework — extending Pythagorean geometry via his "Terryology" — arguing that conventional science suppresses a deeper truth about how the universe is structured at the level of number..

18m2024tagged: Terrence Howard · tagged: Sacred Geometry
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YouTube

The Kybalion (1908) — Three Initiates

Master Key Society — Master Key Society — 2021

Full audiobook reading of the 1908 Hermetic text The Kybalion, attributed to 'three initiates' and dedicated to Hermes Trismegistus. The book lays out the seven Hermetic principles — mentalism, correspondence, vibration, polarity, rhythm, cause and effect, and gender — as a framework for reconciling fragments of occult teaching.

244m2021tagged: Kybalion · tagged: Hermeticism

From the Journal

Adyashanti: the Zen teacher who stepped outside the line

Fourteen years of zazen, permission to teach from his roshi, and a public step back from any Buddhist identity. The arc from that step to the books, courses, and conversations that followed is one of the cleanest case studies in how a non-institutional contemplative voice forms. Continue reading →


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How Christian contemplative practice came back

In 1975, three Trappist monks at Spencer, Massachusetts assembled a 20-minute lay practice from a 14th-century English text. The book, the course, and the heirs that followed are the visible side of a fifty-year recovery.

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How the index connects.

Click a voice. The red threads show which entries in the catalogue cite, quote, or echo that teacher.

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Spirituality Media is a hand-curated catalogue across five formats. Every entry is read, cleaned, summarised, and cross-linked. The hosting belongs to YouTube, Amazon, Substack, and the rest. The careful index belongs here.

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