An eighteen-part series
The Validity of Self
Identity, validity, embodiment, attachment, and power, walked through the lens of the practice. The parts begin with direct work, move through the structures that hold the ordinary self in place, and end somewhere freer. Read them in order if you can. Developed from ideas in Alana Love's The Validity of Self on Planet Earth, with permission.
- Part 1 · 6 min read The Formless Self A Veilurgy meditation for loosening the grip of this world without abandoning it
- Part 2 · 6 min read The Return Why spiritual expansion must end in the body
- Part 3 · 6 min read You Are More Than the Role You Perform The personality is useful, but it is not the whole of the self
- Part 4 · 6 min read The Mirror Cannot Tell You Who You Are External validation can reflect a state, but it cannot create one
- Part 5 · 6 min read Awakening Is Remembering You Were Already Home The search for another world can create the distance it hopes to overcome
- Part 6 · 6 min read The Spiritual Ego Still Needs Someone Beneath It Judgment can turn a path of awakening into another form of separation
- Part 7 · 6 min read Can You Honor a Truth You Do Not Share? Acceptance does not require agreement, and difference does not require invalidation
- Part 8 · 6 min read Formlessness in Form The body is not the enemy of spiritual experience
- Part 9 · 5 min read The Courage to Stop Asking Permission Every withheld truth teaches the self that its own voice is not valid
- Part 10 · 6 min read When Work Becomes Proof of Your Worth A job can support a life without becoming the authority that validates it
- Part 11 · 6 min read Attachment Is Not Love What we grip most tightly often becomes the wall between us and what we seek
- Part 12 · 6 min read When Spiritual Tools Replace Inner Power The object may carry meaning, but belief is what gives the meaning force
- Part 13 · 6 min read Being Before Doing Action changes when it no longer has to create the person taking it
- Part 14 · 6 min read Why We Fear Our Own Power Power is frightening because it removes some of the excuses that kept the old world intact
- Part 15 · 5 min read Ego Is Not the Enemy The part of you that protects identity can be understood without being obeyed
- Part 16 · 6 min read The Difference Between Needing People and Choosing Them Connection becomes freer when another person is no longer responsible for completing the self
- Part 17 · 5 min read Why Rejection Feels Like Spiritual Invalidation A closed door in the outer world can awaken a much older doubt about the self
- Part 18 · 6 min read Play as a Form of Spiritual Power Wonder opens possibilities that strain and solemnity often close
