Content Archive
As a Member you have exclusive access to this archive of each month’s The Essay and The Insight. The Essays are best experienced slowly, perhaps more than once, while The Insight invites you to return with curiosity, allowing each month's wisdom to unfold in its own time. As we journey together, this archive will continue to grow into a rich library that you can revisit whenever you seek inspiration, perspective, or deeper connection.
September 2026 Archive
The Essay: My Chest Knew Before My Mind Did
A morning encounter with a bear's paw print becomes an unexpected teacher, opening into Kelly's reflection on claircognizance and the senses we've been taught to ignore. From a bear crossing her path to Tibetan monks blessing the EQUUS herd to a hummingbird and a praying mantis suspended in a single held moment, it's an invitation to trust the knowing that lives beneath the mind.
The Insight:
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Scientists have discovered that we have far more than our mere fives senses. So far the count is 34 and climbing!
Given that perception shapes our reality, and we collectively emphasize only a fraction of what we sense, what would shift if we started cultivating the other 29 senses?
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What happens when you consider that you may have far more capacity to sense, feel and know your world? How have you downplayed, silenced or otherwise ignored your immense capacity to see beneath the surface of things? What might shift if you started owning and leaning into your gift of sight?
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There are many ways to start building the dozens of senses available to you. It starts by noticing and acknowledging the ‘thing underneath the thing’:
Notice beauty
Notice signs - the hawk flying overhead in a moment when you need courage.
Notice synchronicities - your friend calls just when you were thinking of her.
Follow your imagination - perhaps you saw something, and instead of saying, “Nah, that was just my imagination,” you acknowledge it instead.
Name what you know or see - don’t just keep it to yourself, start being open with it.
August 2026 Archive
The Essay: How Doing Nothing Makes You More Productive
This essay is a candid reflection on burnout, busyness, and the quiet power of doing nothing, born from a lifetime of learning the hard way. It offers ten simple ways to reclaim space in your days, because a little emptiness may be exactly what your creativity and your rest have been asking for.
The Insight:
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From the moment you are conceived, you are learning. The over-culture teaches us so many unnecessary and even hurtful things. Untrue things. Things like: strangers are to be feared; you are a separate individual; don’t talk too loud; you are too much; being desired is the same as being known; and other falsehoods that carry suffering and shame.
The wisdom-inspired life is not one where you accrue more knowledge, but where you dismantle and unlearn the truths that have been foisted upon you.
The less learned you are, the more you become, the brighter you shine, the more authentically you express.
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What are you unlearning? What is set free in that dismantling of a “truism” that only served to limit and diminish you?
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Scan your internal environment for things that are ready to be unlearned. You’ll spot them by the way they make your body feel. Does something dim your light? Does it feel too tight? Chances are there is a truism lurking that no longer serves you. Did you learn, for example, that enjoying solitude is ‘weird’ or ‘wrong’? Time to unlearn that narrative, and take some time for yourself. Did you learn that nice girls don’t laugh too loud? Time to unlearn that suffocating story and let out a good hardy really loud laugh in public.
That doesn't resonate for me.
That is not my experience.
I have a different experience.
Reflect on what comes up for you, then consider what questions you might have, or what you would like to share with the collective at the upcoming Gathering.
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