mind-body-spirit

The Human Archivist: When Our Collections Keep us from Receiving Life Anew

Linden Thorp

Published on: 27/10/2026

We collect words, images and knowledge to preserve experience. But when the archive replaces direct experience, we can miss the life unfolding now.

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From Flow to Trust: Finding Direction Through the Four Lodestone Compasses

Linden Thorp

Published on: 23/10/2026

Explore the difference between intellectual instructions and embodied experience, and how the Four Lodestone Compasses can help us find trust, presence and flow.

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The Fall: When the Whole Human Intelligence Responds

Linden Thorp

Published on: 23/10/2026

A true story of a serious fall in a snowbound medieval house in the French Pyrenees—and what it taught me about human resourcefulness, embodied care & trusting the body.

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