Knowing Too Much: The Epistemics of Intimacy
December 29, 2022 John A. Teske After a long intimacy with someone, one has learned a lot, both about oneself and about another. Part of...
Monkey Mind II: Mysticism, Childhood, and Mental Health
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creation out of void, but out of chaos." -- Mary Shelley We are all mystics...
Working It Out
“So… what do you do?” When we ask this question, we are often asking what someone “does for a living,” but it means so much more than...
How We Know Ourselves: d. Intimately
There is a real paradox in intimate relationships. No one wants to be alone, but for someone to be really with you, especially to be a...
How We Know Ourselves: a. Limits
The Socratic maxim, gnothi seauton, “know thyself,” was originally intended to emphasize its importance, over time wasted on things like...
You're Breaking Up
We use the phrase “you’re breaking up” too often these days to simply mean (or occasionally just pretend) that an electronic signal...
History of Love I: Myths of Love
One of my favorite Greek myths is that of Eros and Psyche. Eros was a god, the son of Aphrodite. He is a handsome young man, not the...