Lost Intelligence
Rethinking ritual not as superstition, but as structure for meaning Ritual is often misunderstood in the modern world. We associate it with religion, repetition, or rigid tradition. We think of it as superstition—a symbolic performance meant to please a deity, secure luck, or maintain a cultural script. In the
Lost Intelligence
Recovering intuition, oral tradition, and pre-modern wisdom You know how to scroll, but not how to sing. You know how to optimize a calendar, but not how to read a sky. You know the language of data, but not of trees. Of brand, but not of bone. Of systems, but
Lost Intelligence
A defense of mysticism as disciplined perception, not escapism There is a quiet prejudice in modern thought: that what cannot be measured must not be real. Mysticism, intuition, symbolic perception, and esoteric traditions are often dismissed as irrational—interesting perhaps, poetic even, but ultimately unserious. They are tolerated as cultural
Lost Intelligence
When did we start distrusting our internal compass? Intuition has been quietly discredited. In the modern West, it is routinely framed as soft, irrational, unreliable—a relic of pre-Enlightenment thinking, a feminine indulgence, a vague "gut feeling" to be double-checked against data or dismissed entirely. We're