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August 5, 2026
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I have a personal philosophy around grievous errors in both life and practice that is predicated on the notion that a willingness to learn from and take ownership of behavior and action means that we have an infinite capacity to learn. And grow.
Forgiveness of others and forgiveness of ourselves requires honesty and contrition— with the only real apology that matters being the simple act of doing better.
In spiritual practice, it means that there is only learning and growing until we die. This philosophy encourages sober minded observation and radical honesty. It also demands that we give the same to others.
And, in this life, if we’re lucky, there will be many chances to practice these tools.
“The only way to learn forgiveness is to be betrayed. You might understand the intellectual concept of forgiveness, but you will only learn how to truly forgive when someone has done something that requires you to love them and let it go. Life demands these hurtful experiences for you to learn how forgiveness feels; it could be no other way. If there is anyone in your life that you must forgive, instead of seeing them as someone who has hurt you, try to see them as someone who was sent to teach you forgiveness and thank them for this precious gift—then forgive them, and let it go. “ – Jackson Kiddard
My teachers are human; they are not infallibe. They are people, just like me and you. Though I’ve dug deep into the Indian tradition of a guru-student relationship, I have done my best in later years to not put my mentors on pedastools— it’s not fair to them. They are guaranteed to fall. and, it allows them the very same human process I want for myself and for all creatures— learning, growing, and doing better.
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By the numbers
Writing
- PracticeWaiting to Be Given the Next Pose: Reclaiming Authority Over My PracticeAug 4, 2026
- PracticeA Little Better: On Watching Your Mind Get You HurtAug 2, 2026
- PhilosophyNarayana and PracticeJul 31, 2026
- CultureThe Guilds of PracticeJul 29, 2026
- PracticeThe Intermediate TrapJul 27, 2026
- Yoga ProfessionalsTeaching a Lineage I Never Fact-CheckedJul 25, 2026
Digests
- Yoga Filter #1: Who Decides What’s RealAug 3, 2026
This is Yoga Filter!
- Passion Doesn’t Pay RentAug 3, 2026
Your 200-hour taught you to sequence a class. It never taught you to own the platform, the pricing, and the recurring income that outlast your knees.
- When Medication Was Not EnoughAug 2, 2026
People with treatment-resistant depression showed decreased depression and anxiety after practicing Sudarshan Kriya yoga, while those on medication alone saw no improvement.
- Yoga Broke the Pain-Depression Cycle in New StudyAug 1, 2026
A 2020 study found that yoga significantly improved pain levels, mood, and functional capacity in people living with both chronic pain and depression.
- Stating the ObviousJul 28, 2026
A blogger handed himself a permission slip I needed: blogging can just be stating the obvious.
- A Mood Is Not a PracticeJul 28, 2026
Thirteen six-week courses, seventy-eight guided sessions, eleven real techniques — the eighth limb engineered as a practice you can actually operate.
- Regenerating Trust in Local Communities After ToxicityJul 27, 2026
What happens when charismatic teachers extract value from communities and leave?
- Your Context Is Your DestinyJul 26, 2026
We love a genetic excuse. “Tight hips run in my family.” “I’m just not flexible.” It feels final, which is comforting, because final means off the hook.
The Read
theguardian.comNational Gallery security staff segregated like ‘second-class citizens’, curator claimsThe National Gallery faces allegations that its outsourced security staff—predominantly from minority ethnic backgrounds—are segregated from the institution's mainly white employees. While permanent staff access a subsidized hub with natural light and quality facilities, security guards are confined✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50The Listen
The Watch
Jregso what if It’s conscious?Jreg performs an absurdist reductio ad absurdum on AI consciousness discourse, exposing the stakes of the rights debate by escalating to a deliberately monstrous fourth position — useful for anyone thinking about where AI moral patienthood arguments actually lead.✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
VoxHow Google broke the internet | The Gray AreaRyan Brick makes a genuinely counterintuitive case that Google Zero could be liberation rather than collapse — and his diagnosis of how Google warped internet culture from the inside out is precise and damning. Worth returning to for the architecture-of-the-internet framing alone.✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
Essentia FoundationCan We Get Back To The Golden Age Of Meaning? | John VervaekeVervaeke traces the full arc of humanity's psycho-technologies — from shamanic soul-flight to Socratic metacognition to Christian agape — as a single cognitive story about how meaning was built, and how we lost the thread. Dense, generative, worth returning to.✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
ESOTERICAWhat is Theosophy? How a Shoemaker Invented Modern EsotericismA rare accessible entry point into one of Western esotericism's most impenetrable thinkers, tracing Böhme's theosophical system from the divine abyss through Sophia, the fall of Lucifer, and the practical cure for melancholy. Essential orientation before reading *The Way to Christ*.✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
TODAYFDA Panel Meets to Weigh Easier Access to PeptidesA clean, no-hype explainer on the FDA peptide hearing that separates what's actually being debated from what's being sold on Instagram. Useful framing for anyone navigating the wellness-industrial complex.✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50Pickings
R. tuelstic
practise to
eyrelde enlightenment
via family and
and reasons
a best seller -
woah.
ALL THE DUCKS ARE swimming
IN THE WATER. FaLaLaLaita
The system
tells you what
it thinks of
you. Pro-rated Kit
Kats in the
vending machine
as an amenity to be
celebrated ... hmm...
Latest dispatches
Doodles
Unearthed
...
For example, he sees the world as fundamentally divided between the forces of âchaosâ and the forces of âorder,â and explains the difference:
...
[Chaos is] what extends, eternally and without limit, beyond the boundaries of all states, all ideas, and all disciplines⦠Itâs the foreigner, the stranger, the member of another gang, the rustle in the bushes⦠the hidden anger of your mother⦠Chaos is symbolically associated with the feminine⦠Order, by contrast, is explored territory. Thatâs the hundreds-of-millions-of-years-old hierarchy of place, position, and authority. Thatâs the structure of society. Itâs the structure provided by biology, tooâ¦Itâs the flag of the nation⦠Itâs the greatness of tradition, the rows of desks in the school classroom, the trains that leave on time⦠In the domain of order, things behave as God intended.
...
Itâs very easy to hear the echoes of authoritarianism, even fascism, in this: strong men create order, which is what God intends, and the social structure is preserved by deference to authority, tradition, hierarchy, flags. (Heck, he even talks about the trains running on time!) But the moment one tries to critique this, to talk about the dangers of adhering to flags and traditions for their own sake, Peterson will angrily insist that you have misunderstood his theory: order is symbiotic with chaos, not superior to it! (âOrder is not enough.â)
...
Whatâs important about this kind of writing is that it can easily appear to contain useful insight, because it says many things that either are true or âfeel kind of true,â and does so in a way that makes the reader feel stupid for not really understanding. (Many of the bookâs reviews on Amazon contain sentiments like: I am not sure I understood it, but itâs absolutely brilliant.) Itâs not that itâs empty of content; in fact, itâs precisely because some of it does ring true that it is able to convince readers of its importance. Itâs certainly right that some procedures work in one situation but not another. Itâs right that good moral systems have to be able to think about the future in figuring out what to do in the present. But much of the rest is language so abstract that it cannot be proved or disproved. (The old expression âwhatâs new in it isnât true, and whatâs true isnât newâ applies here.)
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/the-intellectual-we-deserve
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Waiting to Be Given the Next Pose: Reclaiming Authority Over My Practice
The method saved my body and my attention. The power structure around it nearly cost me both. I could have written a post about it. I built a platform instead.
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Yoga Filter #1: Who Decides What’s Real
This is Yoga Filter!
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Passion Doesn’t Pay Rent
Your 200-hour taught you to sequence a class. It never taught you to own the platform, the pricing, and the recurring income that outlast your knees.
Read the essay →
Jregso what if It’s conscious?Jreg performs an absurdist reductio ad absurdum on AI consciousness discourse, exposing the stakes of the rights debate by escalating to a deliberately monstrous fourth position — useful for anyone thinking about where AI moral patienthood arguments actually lead.✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
theguardian.comNational Gallery security staff segregated like ‘second-class citizens’, curator claimsThe National Gallery faces allegations that its outsourced security staff—predominantly from minority ethnic backgrounds—are segregated from the institution's mainly white employees. While permanent staff access a subsidized hub with natural light and quality facilities, security guards are confined✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50You wake to find a single word written on your wrist in handwriting that isn't yours—just "Inspo," nothing else—and by noon you realize everyone you pass has the same word inked in the same place. No one else seems to notice theirs, or perhaps they simply won't say, and when you catch your reflection in a shop window, the letters have started, very slowly, to rearrange themselves into something else.
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Finding the Spark: Tracing Where Inspiration Comes From
The Myth of the Lightning Bolt
Inspiration rarely arrives as a single flash of genius; it is usually the visible tip of long, invisible preparation.
Environments That Invite Ideas
Certain places, routines, and sensory conditions consistently make people more receptive to new thoughts, and identifying them can be a practical tool.
Borrowing from Others
Much of what feels original is really a remix of influences absorbed from books, conversations, and art, and tracing these debts can deepen creative honesty.
The Role of Constraint
Limitations in time, resources, or form often sharpen inspiration rather than smother it, forcing unexpected solutions to the surface.
When Inspiration Runs Dry
Understanding the common blocks to inspiration, from fear to fatigue, helps explain why creative output fluctuates and how to work through the lulls.
Turning Inspiration into Action
The final test of inspiration is not the feeling itself but whether it can be translated into sustained, disciplined work.
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R. tuelstic
practise to
eyrelde enlightenment
via family and
and reasons
a best seller -
woah.
ALL THE DUCKS ARE swimming
IN THE WATER. FaLaLaLaita
The system
tells you what
it thinks of
you. Pro-rated Kit
Kats in the
vending machine
as an amenity to be
celebrated ... hmm...

A Little Better: On Watching Your Mind Get You Hurt
Knowing what your mind does won't stop it—but practice shortens the gap between recognition and reaction.
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When Medication Was Not Enough
People with treatment-resistant depression showed decreased depression and anxiety after practicing Sudarshan Kriya yoga, while those on medication alone saw no improvement.
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VoxHow Google broke the internet | The Gray AreaRyan Brick makes a genuinely counterintuitive case that Google Zero could be liberation rather than collapse — and his diagnosis of how Google warped internet culture from the inside out is precise and damning. Worth returning to for the architecture-of-the-internet framing alone.✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
Essentia FoundationCan We Get Back To The Golden Age Of Meaning? | John VervaekeVervaeke traces the full arc of humanity's psycho-technologies — from shamanic soul-flight to Socratic metacognition to Christian agape — as a single cognitive story about how meaning was built, and how we lost the thread. Dense, generative, worth returning to.✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
ESOTERICAWhat is Theosophy? How a Shoemaker Invented Modern EsotericismA rare accessible entry point into one of Western esotericism's most impenetrable thinkers, tracing Böhme's theosophical system from the divine abyss through Sophia, the fall of Lucifer, and the practical cure for melancholy. Essential orientation before reading *The Way to Christ*.✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50
Yoga Broke the Pain-Depression Cycle in New Study
A 2020 study found that yoga significantly improved pain levels, mood, and functional capacity in people living with both chronic pain and depression.
Read the essay →
highsnobiety.comYou Know Ralph Lauren Is Back When This Jacket Comes OutA Highsnobiety fashion piece argues that the return of Ralph Lauren's Harrington jacket among style-conscious consumers signals the brand's cultural resurgence. The article tracks Ralph Lauren's momentum through runway visibility, viral product releases, and rising search metrics as indicators of re✦ Read ad free and get the full MichaelFilter · $5.50Mike Minded Daily — July 28, 2026
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Narayana and Practice
On what yoga is really for — not just stretching and calm, but union with the everything of it all. A reflection on Narayana, the name Gopala, and being held by the infinite.
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