The Cosmic Loan

Roman Bozhkov

…today’s roughly 2.5 billion Christians (almost one-third of the global population) will have to decide whether they will continue sipping on what Huxley and today’s generation might call a placebo amid “ninety minutes of boredom,” or join the revolution that just might rescue a dying faith and a civilization on the edge of extinction. Two thousand years in the making, the crisis is real. And the stakes couldn’t be higher…

— The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name by Brian C. Muraresku

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I think a lot of women have convinced themselves they’re sad when they’re actually furious.

— Christina Tucker

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The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.

Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it. Furthermore, it…