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Two empty armchairs facing each other in a dim living room, one worn with household receipts, the other surrounded by scattered lottery tickets and vision-board clippings.
July 16, 2026 Coaching / pseudoscience / Self-help / Spirituality

One Essay, Two Chairs: What a Perfectionist’s Confession Taught Me About the Manifester Who Left

Leon Garber, a psychotherapist who writes as Leon’s Existential Cafe, recently published a personal essay in Psychology Today asking a

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Conceptual illustration of an open institutional letter and handwritten angel-number notes on a kitchen table above an open ledger, symbolising an audit of manifesting claims against real paperwork.
July 9, 2026 Coaching / pseudoscience / Spirituality

The Manifestation Had a Paper Trail

Twelve years of manifesting. One household. Full records. What an audit finds when, for once, the receipts survive. The claim

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A fortune teller's velvet table with tarot cards transforms halfway along into an office desk with laminated personality profile cards.
July 5, 2026 Coaching / pseudoscience / Self-help / Spirituality

The Tarot Reader Doesn’t Print the Cards: Personality Typing and the Oldest Trade in the World

The tarot reader doesn’t print the cards. The astrologer doesn’t compute the ephemeris; software does that now, and tables did

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A lone figure on a dark, empty railway platform watches a warmly lit night train pull away into the fog.
May 31, 2026 Coaching

The Midnight Train Only Runs One Way

Jonny Thomson’s Mini Philosophy turned up in my feed recently with a reflection on Matt Haig’s novel The Midnight Train.

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Two identical silhouettes at a corridor fork: one moves toward clinical light, the other deeper into layered ideology. A symbolic illustration of the same person, two different interventions, two different endings.
May 24, 2026 Coaching / Self-help / Spirituality

The Same Person, Two Different Endings

The Recognition I didn’t expect to find my life in a profile of a Game of Thrones actress. I was

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A lone figure stands at the centre of a nine-pointed geometric diagram, facing a distant light, surrounded by dissolving symbolic text. The image evokes disorientation and the experience of being located within a system whose origins are not fully disclosed.
May 23, 2026 Coaching / pseudoscience / Self-help

You Aren’t Who You Think You Are

How a mystical typology became a personal development product, and what gets lost in the translation. Someone is speaking to

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A woman whose body merges into library shelves full of identical books, her face serene and unaware, while figures at the room's edges reach toward her without making contact.
April 12, 2026 Coaching / Self-help

You Can Argue With a Belief. You Can’t Argue With a Person Who Has Become One.

There is a version of self-help consumption that looks, from the outside, like curiosity. Books accumulate. Courses are completed. Coaches

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A glowing mandala made of academic texts and spiritual diagrams surrounds an empty throne, representing Ken Wilber's Integral Theory as a belief system dressed in scholarly language
April 11, 2026 Coaching / Self-help / Spirituality

Ken Wilber’s Theory of Everything: A Belief System in Academic Clothing

Ken Wilber has spent five decades building something he calls a theory of everything. The name is not ironic. He

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A person sits alone at a domestic table, back to the viewer, hands open and empty, while light particles drift down like falling seeds in a quiet room. An empty chair sits opposite.
March 15, 2026 Coaching / Self-help / Spirituality

The Advice Was Never About You

How unqualified voices with massive platforms are reshaping relationships, one algorithm at a time, and why nobody is asking who

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A hand dropping glowing seeds into cracked soil, with the out-of-focus silhouette of a broken family in the background.
March 8, 2026 Coaching / Self-help / Spirituality / wellness

They Plant the Seeds. You Grow the Damage.

How wellness influencers and coaching ideologies destroy relationships from a distance, and why no one is ever held to account.

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