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Edenity sheds light on literally every aspect of human experience. Here’s a collection of writings that illustrate what the world looks like through its lens. Authors are people who’ve walked this path and speak from personal experience. The perspectives you see here are a result of healing from the inside-out.

The Unconscious Roots of Conspiracy Theory

During the decline of a civilization, where chaos, meaninglessness, and powerlessness are increasingly felt, conspiracy theories are an entirely predictable tool for the protective self in us. We humans have a deep...

Zen and the Matrix - Part 5/5

For the final installment of this series on The Matrix, we’re going to deconstruct Neo’s meeting with the Oracle. It’s perhaps the most enigmatic and memorable scene in the film, and for good reason: the Oracle is a...

Protection

Your protection is not bad. It is the part of you that stepped up so you could survive the wounding that occurred in your earlier life. It's proof that you love yourself, however your protective self is not able to...

Real Change isn't on Your Terms

I’ve served people since 2002 and I am struck by the single issue that makes the ultimate difference between whether someone can make significant change or not. This issue has nothing to do with discipline, intention...

Zen And The Matrix – Part 4/5

In part three of this series on The Matrix, we discussed how Neo learns he must let go of his sense of control in order to find the truth. We’ve touched on the idea of the mind prison, wherein we trap ourselves by...

Why Adults aren't Victims, Especially in Relationships – Part 3/3

I’ll let you in on a hidden truth about the severe limits of mainstream psychology and the lies you were taught about “coping skills.” In part one of this series, I reframed the victim-enabling concept of good versus...

Zen And The Matrix – Part 3/5

Perhaps the most famous scene from The Matrix is when Morpheus asks Neo to choose between the red pill and the blue pill. This scene overflows with allegory. It’s about waking up.‍ First, look at the set. Its details...

Zen And The Matrix – Part 2/5

In part one of this series, I deconstructed the infamous, “There is no spoon” scene from The Matrix to begin our celebration of the film’s twenty year anniversary. Next, I want to examine two important, and opposite...

Where Your Values Came From and Why You Should Care – Part 2/2

Which is more important, facts or feelings? Have you noticed this is an underlying conflict below a lot of struggle and division in our society these days? I hear from managers every week that their employees need...

Why Adults aren't Victims, Especially in Relationships – Part 2/3

In part one of this series, we reframed the victim-enabling concept of good versus evil with the relatively new idea of unconscious contributions to behavior. Because the concept of the unconscious is only about 100...

What I learned From Kissing Men

By my third year in college, I was severely depressed. I had dead-ended academia. It was no longer a challenge, because I figured out how to play the game, and I realized none of what I learned would help me in …

Where Your Values Came From and Why You Should Care – Part 1/2

Do you live an examined life? More people think so than actually do.‍If some of your deeply held values, views, and approaches to life were dead-ended by millions before you, would you want to know? If so, keep ...

Zen and The Matrix – Part 1/5

The Matrix is one of the most spiritually significant mainstream films of our time. It’s a movie about waking up, and it brilliantly uses some ancient zen wisdom that I’ll unpack in a series of articles. Part of the ...

Why Adults Aren’t Victims, Especially in Relationships – Part 1/3

Relationships are difficult, right?‍ It’s true, but they’re harder than they need to be.‍ The inherent challenge of intimate relating is exacerbated by unconscious, flawed perspectives. What follows, most people in ...

How Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) Destroy Civilization?

The same way we’re already destroying it. ‍With flawed assumptions about reality: ‍That we are mind, will, or energy at essence. That critical thinking isn’t important. That ...

What Happens When We Can’t See Ourselves?

For some of us, we live lives of quiet desperation. For others, we live lives full of chaos and drama. The latter being an unconscious need to feel alive expressed through stress and ...

Dead-ending: The Way We Grow

Have you had a time in your life where you wrestled with what to do with your life? Perhaps it was a relationship you were in. Or a job. Maybe it was a way of being or a belief system that you had been operating out …

Is There Life After Death?

When I was 21, my brother Kyle, died suddenly in a car accident just outside of Sandpoint, Idaho. When I learned of his death that day I went into shock and then I began to wail. Kyle was the closest and dearest …

The not-so-hidden God

In one spiritual domain, there are only two possibilities that frame how we experience ourselves as human beings: there is no God, such that Mother Nature is our actual parent, making our human beingness no different …

Free Will vs. Free Won't

The conversation around destiny and free will has been going on for a very, very long time. I hope this article serves as a unique contribution to that conversation as it elucidates the paradoxical and emoto-soulful …