Zoë's Blog

The second in a series of posts about you Hi everyone. Welcome back to my series about the unconscious mind, or what I call the Inner Self . This is a subject I’ve been obsessed with for a long time, because the Inner Self is literally the basis of all creativity and desire, which means that it affects all of us, all the time. And I think we completely misunderstand it—and I mean, deeply . For most of us, the Inner Self is this dank repository of memories and suppressed urges

Hi everyone. This month I’m doing a series about a pretty important topic—you. Specifically, your Inner Self—a.k.a. your unconscious mind. This subject has obsessed me for years, because it is connected to every aspect of our creativity. So I’m going to share my insights on the Inner Self, and I think they’ll surprise you. We think of this space as one of repression and dark impulses—it is not. We think of this space as inaccessible or difficult to access—it is not. We think

The medieval senses were bonkers One of the things I continue to experience while researching medieval medicine is just how much their ideas resonate today—and not only resonate, but maybe we really need to hear them again. Recently, I’ve been captivated by the way medievals understood the senses. Today, we tend to believe that our senses are receivers. We take in information, and it gets processed by the brain, boom. But in the medieval period, the senses were more like a tw

As a writer, certain emotions fascinate me. The one I am preoccupied with at the moment is adoration . This friend of mine—I call him...

One of the charges that gets leveled at “medieval” medicine is that since doctors back then obviously didn’t have the technology or...

For those of us who dream of such grandiose things as unity consciousness for Earth , we’re at the point in the story where we realize...

There’s a lot of great writing advice out there, but this is my go-to for creativity, and it’s very simple.

What’s hinted at in the whole idea of “real writing” is that there has to be a force of human consciousness behind it. But is this true?

As a writer, I look at storytelling through the lens of abundance or lack. I'll be exploring this idea in more depth here in the coming...

Sorry - couldn't help it! Warning: SPOILERS. If you haven’t read the trilogy, there is a reveal of story developments in this post. The...