Vol. II · No. 156
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Friday, June 5, 2026
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LifePhilosophy

Inner Wilds.

River Kenna on the sacred, embodiment, healing, and the inner life.

Recent essays

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Found Mosaic

Waste no more time

The Beings Have Fear

‘The Beings have fear,’ says the voice. ‘It is very cute. But it is also devastating. The combination might seem odd, but do remember the times you’ve been devastated by something cute.’

Sanity

Wooden Shrines are sane

Psalm to an Emergent Felt-Sense Physics of Non-Transactional Value

I'm bad at titles, but you love it so it's fine

Notes on My Dissatisfactions with the Substack-Shape & Also a lot of Life-Shapes

Something about the way I write on substack is feeling increasingly limiting.

How to Pray

Notes on life as a process of becoming multidimensionally competent at prayer

Infinite Retreat Curriculum (Pt. 1)

I haven't really told the story of my past couple years in one place yet, have I?

Raised by Birds

A Silent Songline

What Changed My Life

Pure Hype Sesh this time

Live It Now or It Doesn't Happen

it's always too soon, is the thing

After the Orgy

It's time to quiet down

Money Wants to Grow Up

Grow Up pt. 1

No One Has Actually Read McGilchrist

I can’t really think of another explanation.

Dollars Ain't Electrons

Money is energy, yes, but the felt metaphor is incomplete

In Praise of the Unsustainable

Death sharpens mission. We know this. We have always known this.

The Trough & the Jungle

Exploring money, inspiration, and how life happens

How Synchronicity Works

A Cheat Sheet

Stewarding

Nothing actually belongs to me

So... Something

I've lost my taste for essays, just now

Couples Therapy with God

Your relationship with the divine always takes the shape of your relational patterns in general.

When Heart Meets Mastery

Wholehearted Mystic Retreats - Co-Written with Rosa Lewis

Poetic Will & Choosing the Impossible

Choosing to awaken what is beyond choice

The Next Shaman Will Be Shambhala

The mystics are forming circuits and realms, it's great

Money & Wisdom: 4 Stances

Dana, Charity, Stewardship, & Generosity

Beyond Secure Attachment

Towards Erotic Attachment

Essence & Desire: A Soul-Making Rasa

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