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De siste åra har jeg utforska historiefortelling og essaykunst gjennom å dele essays på den amerikanske plattformen Medium. Dette er et utvalg av essayene mine derfra.
Tea: I Love You — And I Know You Love Me Too
My ode to Chinese tea ceremonies, because I love them so. And now you can join me for tea in Tønsberg if you like!
The Four Steps of Individuation - Self-Realization Demands Much More Than Meditation!
In my experience, it’s really smart to combine several approaches on our quest of self-realization. Cause just as we are complex human creatures, so is our self-realization a complex affair. Based on my own individuation process, I've recognized four aspects I believe all of us have to move through in order to shed our persona, and return to the profundity of just… being US.
A Love, A Lie and a Meditation Practice
My personal account of a love story that didn't end so well for me. It’s also my word of warning in using meditation as a way of emotional bypassing.
Why Meditation Never Served to Awaken Me
This is my story about following a path of silent meditation. The problem was that no matter how dedicated my mediation practice was, outside of retreats I continued playing out the same unconscious and problematic patterns as I had always done. This had me questioning: Are our spiritual disciplines just a way to keep our unconsciousness in check? And is it not the opposite of such a repression – to allow our unconscious patterns to play out and be acknowledged - that will actually serve to awaken us? Inspired by the Enneagram type 1.