

EXISTENTIAL ACADEMY
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The Existential Academy is dedicated to the study of human existence in all its facets and is the home of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling.



For my final day recording my new book BEGINNING TO LIVE: the art of existential freedom, I worked with Roy McMillan, who is the top man at the Penguin Press audio recording studio. Very chuffed. Learnt a lot.

Carrie Newcomer

Existential ideas can help you in finding freedom.

🌌 The Universe May Be More Connected Than You Think… Imagine two particles, separated by miles, reacting to each other instantly, as if distance doesn’t exist. Scientists call this quantum entanglement, and it’s been confirmed in real-time experiments. The spooky part? No signal travels between them—they are mysteriously linked, like two parts of a hidden whole. Could this mean that the separateness we feel is just an illusion? Ancient teachings from Hermetic philosophy and Vedic wisdom have suggested something similar for centuries. Modern physics might be hinting that our universe is more interconnected than we ever imagined. The truth is stranger than fiction—and it’s happening right now, at the tiniest scale of reality. Source: Einstein, A., Podolsky, B., & Rosen, N. (1935). Can quantum-mechanical description of physical reality be considered complete? Physical Review, 47(10), 777–780.

Have you ever felt pink sadness, "the sadness of shame when you have done nothing"? Poet Mary Ruefle's emotional color wheel of sadnesses (because to name something is always to soften its edges): themarginalian.org/2020/04/30/mar…


Child of the Universe youtu.be/PHmBCCjrppA?si… via @YouTube


“Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.” — Albert Einstein

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. - Carl Sagan

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Can You Trust Life? youtu.be/doUlNuImBd8?si… via @YouTube


May Love come, and dance within your bones.
