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, a catacomb of...

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 of it as filled...

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 two-way street. You...