The Metabolic Pause: How Fasting Lets the Body Heal Itself
A contemplative exploration of fasting as a metabolic pause that lowers insulin, awakens glucagon and ketones, and gives the liver, brain, and cells the time and space they need to repair.
Perception, ego, healing and practice — what the mind notices, denies and can transform.
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RSS feedA contemplative exploration of fasting as a metabolic pause that lowers insulin, awakens glucagon and ketones, and gives the liver, brain, and cells the time and space they need to repair.
A reflection on the finite life of the knower against the seemingly unbounded horizon of knowledge, and on what it means to keep learning and speaking in the face of that tension.
An exploration of how mentality, self-confidence, and the willingness to cut the internal rope of restraint shapes our actions and the reality we come to inhabit.
Reflections from late-evening delivery rounds on how the gap between how life looks and how it feels reveals a deeper discrepancy between the ideal order of reality and the lived weight of experience.
An exploration of the “Valeon Lemma”: when we appeal to genuine uncertainty, intellectual honesty requires us to admit not only feared worst cases, but also the possibility of unexpected goods.
A meditation on the cyclical rhythm of history—how moments like 1918, 1920, and 1929 reveal repeating human patterns of crisis, forgetting, and consequence, and what it would mean to truly learn from them.
Time changes value, and every choice carries a “compared to what?”—a lens that links the time value of money, opportunity cost, and discount rates to real decisions in life and business.
A Jungian guide to the “dark night of the soul” as a mental crucible where shadow returns, projections withdraw, and the Self presses for a larger life. We trace the alchemical arc (nigredo → albedo → rubedo) and offer practical vessels—active imagination, dreamwork, somatic anchors, boundaries, and when to seek clinical help.
Memory isn’t a vault but a living economy: fragile patterns in a narrow workspace of attention become durable traces when structure matches capacity and consolidation—sleep, pruning, and schema-building—does its work.
We keep rewarding spectacle over stewardship. This essay maps the incentives and patterns that elevate counterfeit leaders—and offers practical tests and design fixes citizens can use to prefer accountability, integrity, and long-horizon governance.
