Get Rich Slowly on Luck
January 30, 2009
An articulate essay on luck, referencing a couple sources. I found it interesting and accurate:
How to Make Your Own Luck
Potential site outage
January 26, 2009
The site may experience an outage this week as some things are changed around behind the scenes. Any outage that occurs is not expected to last long, and daily rune readings should still be posted as usual.
Slowly, I am finally getting back into developing material for this site, now that the excitement from my move is dying down. Hopefully, the beta version will be going away soon…
Traveling Break
December 22, 2008
Rune readings may not be posted daily from December 23rd through January 4th while Emil is traveling. Regular readings will resume on January 5th.
Enlightenment and Maturity
November 16, 2008
I came across an essay by Kant, “What is Enlightenment?”, while doing some research online. This piece first crossed my path the senior year of my undergraduate studies, and revisiting it proved interesting and fruitful.
While I’m no longer as skilled as I was in reading such dense prose, the gist of the essay comes across to me that Kant equates enlightenment with maturity, and defines this as the individual’s choice to step out from under the authority of others. Kant’s attitude is one of supporting social structures and maintaining this freedom as an academic pursuit of the mind.
One can trace the same sort of arc in personal development, and as Kant points out, those who choose to remain immature are many. To genuinely become an adult means to accept yourself as the authority of your life - and thus to also accept responsibility for the conditions of your life. If you are not willing to accept that responsibility, can you really be considered an adult, no matter your biological age? How many people are still operating under the authority of their parents, years after moving out or even the death of their parents? And what then of those parents and their parents?
In a shamanic context, concrete steps in enlightenment or maturity are marked with initiations, in which an individual accepts both the power and responsibility that comes with being granted (a degree of) personal authority. Initiations are usually highly ritualized, and they often include a very real threat of literal death with the idea of provoking a metaphorical death. In a runic context, initiation is represented by Peorth.
Back
November 2, 2008
After a couple unforeseen delays, I’ve finally made my way to Portland, OR and have made a home. Rune readings will resume on Monday, November 3.
Another take on 9/23 Reading
September 23, 2008
If you can turn the obstacles ahead of you into the succor behind you, you understand usefulness.
A busy September…
September 9, 2008
Summer is winding down and autumn is picking up in a big way. In addition to helping with the transformation of Last Mask Center and the Cycle of Transformation Community, I am also planning my relocation to Portland, OR.
So, while I’ll be keeping up with the daily readings, I don’t know how much time there will be to continue the development of the site. Though I am getting awfully tired of seeing the lorem ipsum text for the articles…
Another interpretation…
July 3, 2008
Having gone through the day, today’s reading has another meaning to me:
The successes we acknowledge define our egos. If we recognize this and learn to apply the lesson, we have a powerful tool for molding the future.
Development Hiatus
June 27, 2008
In case you hadn’t already noticed, the development of this site hasn’t been moving forward very quickly. I’ve been engaged in a number of other projects for personal and professional development that have been drawing my attention and energy.
I am still committed to this site and to getting more information posted. It is just taking longer than I had hoped. That said, the person that I am becoming will build a much better site than the person I’ve been.
Sideways
April 23, 2008
Everyone has experiences that go sideways. You think one thing is going to occur, but what actually happens is nowhere near what you expect.
“Going sideways” isn’t the same as “going wrong.” What happens is too unusual to you to fit within your framework of good and bad.
Most people get very uncomfortable when things get sideways. You are challenged to react in a completely new way, because whatever happens is far outside your patterns. Reacting in new ways changes who you are.
If you can seize a sideways moment and exploit its opportunity, you have the potential to win even when you lose.
