EXISTENTIAL ACADEMY

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.

“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

Healing is not moving forward, it's moving inward. Visiting the same wound with deeper awareness, until they become your greatest wisdom. -Zen teaching

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

THE MILKY WAY IS ABOUT 100,000 LIGHT-YEARS WIDE. That means light — traveling at 299,792 kilometers per second — would need 100,000 years to cross our galaxy from one side to the other. It contains an estimated 100–400 billion stars, including our Sun, orbiting a supermassive black hole about 4 million times the mass of the Sun. When you see the Milky Way arching across a dark sky, you are looking edge-on through billions of distant suns. You’re inside that structure.

May Love come, and dance within your bones.