Contact Without Collapse

Alchemizing Flos Sapientum and the ideological cuck chair

“The union of opposites is the process by which consciousness is born.”
—Carl Jung

I spent the last couple of weeks on a transformative trip to Costa Rica for Envision Festival, thanks to a very generous couple of friends who dream of labor and are really good at it. While there, in paradise, with a private chef who now occupies a deity-like space in my psyche, I was exposed to new personalities and ideas that delighted and challenged me, and I was able to experience the tension of opposites in fascinating new ways. (He was an AI executive, she was an unhinged essay writer who philosophized more than she worked; can I make it any more obvious?)