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Articles and publications tagged Spirituality across the Atmosphere.

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soulcruzer
soulcruzerNov 10, 2026
A God Who Runs When You Run
What if the divine is not somewhere else? I was supposed to go to the gym this morning. Instead, I pulled my wellies out of the garage and headed for the countryside. It’s November in Warwickshire, which means the fields are beginning their annual transformation into something resembling cold chocolate pudding. We’ve had a fair...
consciousnessPhilosophy
Brain Injury Travails
Brain Injury TravailsNov 7, 2026
Salvation: Why Am I So Tired?
Neurons damaged in seconds through concussion and trauma heal over years.
brain-injuryconcussion
brennan.day
brennan.dayOct 28, 2026
Thank You For Today
The holy clean and the October urge to shake the dust and start again. I have gratitude for this absurd life. On Marcus Aurelius leaving his warm blankets and existence as a freefall kicked off a precipice. On thanking the bus driver, coral growth, the Moon's tides stretching the day, and Alberta Time holding the clocks still for the first fall in fifty years. On the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address spoken before anything else is done. On maarsii and kinanâskomitin, the Cree verb that won't let you give thanks without saying to whom. What are you grateful for?
personal essaygratitude
Nachdasein | Notebook
Nachdasein | NotebookOct 12, 2026
Fundamental Dialectic of Soul and Spirit
Is the soulfulness of the soul. Accepting that spirituality is not an empty concept, the soul in its soulfulness is fundamental to the spirit in its spirituality. The two have both been equated and differentiated but only one is more disclosive of ground in general and the ground of the human being specifically. If we take spirit to mean consciousness or reason or mental cognition, then the soul takes on the locus and inner core and essence of the human being in its activity. If reason and cogni...
philosophysocialism
brennan.day
brennan.daySep 30, 2026
A New Design: Tradition, Rituals, and Astrology
Why I redesigned the blog—trading gruvbox for greyscale and 'Moonflower' palette and Bunny-hosted serifs—as a small ceremony to give my writing weight and gravity. On tradition and ritual as a grammar of gestures and the shared shadows of Plato's Cave. Plus, the Year of the Fire Horse—Japan's 1966 birth-rate collapse, my own Fire Rat clashing with the year, and next year's Fire Sheep as a tender, brave omen.
personal essayspirituality
Paul Jacobson
Paul JacobsonAug 15, 2026
Being a mensch
I'm not really a religious person. Having said that, I enjoyed and appreciated this episode of For Heaven's Sake from the Shalom Hartman Institute about being a mensch from a Jewish perspective: https://pca.st/episode/be27db9e-2df5-47f1-9f34-af797a88de1c
Judaismmensch
in commons
in commonsAug 3, 2026
Technorealists, the silent majority?
you might find yourself standing in the unremarkable center
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technorealismpolarization
Surfing Modernity
Surfing ModernityJun 12, 2026
Resonance in High Modernity
Reading Assignment #1
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modernitysocial theory
brennan.day
brennan.dayMay 19, 2026
Manifestation, the Law of Attraction, Cancer and Abuse
Examining the dark side of manifestation and Law of Attraction movement: its New Thought origins, cultural appropriation of Eastern and Indigenous practices, gender dynamics, and the hidden cruelty of victim blaming cancer survivors and abuse victims.
Social CommentarySpirituality
brennan.day
brennan.dayApr 20, 2026
How and Why I Believe in God: The Ballad of Tragic Theism
My testimony, from Dawkins on an iPod Shuffle down a back alley, through Buddhist libraries and a children's hospice, to Matthew's Gospel in a break room chair. My case for tragic theism: a God who creates, risks, makes mistakes, grieves them, and does not stop.
personal essaytheology
brennan.day
brennan.dayApr 11, 2026
Loss, and Loss, and Loss: A Eulogy
A eulogy for two kinds of loss: those who die and those who become simply elsewhere. Filtered through Didion, Barthes, C.S. Lewis, and Pema Chödrön. On ambiguous grief, the names written down so they don't disappear, and the sixteen-year-old who already knew that love stems out from verbs.
personal essaygrief
brennan.day
brennan.dayMar 27, 2026
STORYTELLING Part Two: The (Literal) Magic of Writing
Grammar/Glamour/Grimoire. 言霊 & heka. Spelling & spellcasting. The Word. Writing is generative, not descriptive. Cultures across millennia have understood that words conjure reality. Writing conjures, symbols activate the brain, serving as telepathy across distance and time.
personal essayCreative Writing
brennan.day
brennan.dayFeb 20, 2026
What Can I Offer? The Shell.
I believe writing is sacred medicine, and I have been thinking about the writing I have been offering you over the past few months. Is it healing? Is it good? Please, let me know. I am here to give you an offering.
personal essayspirituality
One More Credit
One More CreditFeb 9, 2026
Happiness Becomes You
On an ignored spirituality
SpiritualityIdentity
brennan.day
brennan.dayJan 23, 2026
More Than One Way: On Ritual, Morality, and the Darkness Beyond Knowing
What is the meaning of life? Is there more than one correct answer? I've decided to take a rather long-winded exploration of how different cultures approach the sacred, the dead, and the transcendent, suggesting that multiple paths can lead to the same fundamental truths.
philosophyAnthropology
Microdoses
MicrodosesJan 16, 2026
Of Orange Teal Sunsets, Planes, & Giggles
A Dream
DreamsLaughter
Rattacasal
RattacasalJan 13, 2026
1982
In hindsight, 1982 was the most significant year of my life. During that year, really awful things took place and really wonderful things. The awful turned into the wonderful and eventually, the wonderful turned into the awful. It was how I started looking at life that way.   To start the year I rekindled a relationship with someone who had physically abused me every six months. A year earlier, I had left him but he continued to pursue me until I relented and went back. He gave me Hep B. Ten day...
Inner LifeSpirituality
brennan.day
brennan.dayDec 30, 2025
To Dance is to Live
Nietzsche and Rumi had something in common: dancing. I wrote this mundane life update and found myself getting into the weeds of what's important to the physical body. What can I offer myself? How can I enact movement each day?
creativitypersonal essay
brennan.day
brennan.dayDec 30, 2025
To Dance is to Live
Nietzsche and Rumi had something in common: dancing. I wrote this mundane life update and found myself getting into the weeds of what's important to the physical body. What can I offer myself? How can I enact movement each day?
creativepersonal essay
brennan.day
brennan.dayDec 19, 2025
Why Start Again? On Cycles, Beginnings, and the Art of Returning
Exploring the value of public writing as reference material, why blogging serves as better knowledge management than private notes, and embracing cycles of beginning again
creativitylearning
brennan.day
brennan.dayDec 19, 2025
Why Start Again? On Cycles, Beginnings, and the Art of Returning
Exploring the value of public writing as reference material, why blogging serves as better knowledge management than private notes, and embracing cycles of beginning again
creativelearning
brennan.day
brennan.dayDec 14, 2025
Time to Fun Blog
A pre-dawn reflection on overcoming fear and perfectionism to create an authentic, no-stakes blog for genuine self-expression.
creativityspirituality
brennan.day
brennan.dayDec 14, 2025
Time to Fun Blog
A pre-dawn reflection on overcoming fear and perfectionism to create an authentic, no-stakes blog for genuine self-expression.
creativespirituality
brennan.day
brennan.dayNov 4, 2025
Ceremony
What I Learned Getting My First Story Boosted After 10 Years on Medium
personal essayCreative Writing