The original series I started this newsletter with. It is an attempt to explain Christopher Alexander’s concept of The Mirror of the Self with John Vervaeke’s concept of The Sacred by connecting Vervaeke’s »Awakening from the Meaning Crisis« and Alexander’s »The Nature of Order« to understand how we can create better, more beautiful, and more meaningful things, products, and art.
Mirror of the Self is a finished series with 26 essays + 1 bonus episode. A more detailed overview: Recap #1 (01-13) • Recap #2 (14-26)
01 • A secular definition of sacredness
September 30, 202202 • Challenging your belief system
October 7, 202203 • Mind vs. matter
October 14, 202204 • Mind over matter
October 21, 202205 • The Meaning Crisis
October 28, 202206 • Four ways of knowing
November 4, 202207 • Orders of Meaning
November 11, 202208 • Existential modes
November 18, 202209 • Profoundness
November 25, 202210 • Problem solving and combinatorial explosion
December 2, 202211 • Attention and Insight
December 9, 202212 • Knowing, making, being
December 16, 202213 • Agent and arena
December 23, 2022Previously… — a recap
January 6, 202314 • What is intelligence?
January 13, 202315 • The Relevance Problem
January 20, 202316 • Dynamical systems
February 3, 202317 • The essence of design
February 10, 202318 • Opponent processing
February 17, 202319 • Here- and Now-ness
February 24, 202320 • Flow and intuition
March 3, 202321 • Metaphor
March 10, 202322 • Fundamental framing and human spirituality
March 24, 202323 • The mystery of wonder and awe
March 31, 202324 • Opening the Eye to the Storm
April 7, 202325 • Sacredness and the sacred
April 14, 202326 • The Mirror of the Self
April 21, 2023Previously… — recap #2
April 28, 202327 • Symbols
September 29, 2023