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Category Archives: The Search for the Higher Path

  1. Navigating the Hypersensitive Seas

    September 16th, 2023 by Jessie Mannisto | Courage, Emotion, Issue 28: Living Well with Intensity, Positive Disintegration, The Search for the Higher Path |

    Richard Dawkins and Scott Barry Kaufman are both seeing what our editor in chief is seeing: a shift in culture that it’s up to us to resist.

  2. A Piece of Chalk

    September 16th, 2023 by G.K. Chesterton | Doing the Thing, Imagination, Issue 28: Living Well with Intensity, The Life of the Mind, The Search for the Higher Path |

    One of the great essayists of the early twentieth century reminds our readers, whom we trust will appreciate it, of the beauty to be found in ordinary things.

  3. Buffered or Porous: Recalibrating Our Mental Filters

    March 13th, 2023 by Adam Carrington | Issue 26: Spirituality and Reintegration, The Search for the Higher Path |

    With our modern minds, we’ve grown used to having walls between us and virtually everyone else—except for a few places where the world pours through our buffers and overwhelms us.

    How can we recalibrate? Adam Carrington offers ideas on how we might find balance and growth.

  4. Cultivating Spiritual Community

    March 2nd, 2023 by Alexis Obernauer | Issue 26: Spirituality and Reintegration, The Search for the Higher Path |

    Third Factor’s spiritual director, Alexis Obernauer, tells us how her own spiritual journey enabled her to reintegrate and why she’s co-leading a community here that she hopes will help others to do the same.

  5. Toward an Empowered Humanity

    October 11th, 2022 by Jason Littlefield | Issue 24: Courage in Conversation, The Search for the Higher Path |

    Jason Littlefield put it all on the line to save everything important to him.

    This is the story of how he rebelled against a dehumanizing culture and lost everything—and how he’s rebounded to fight the ideological colonization of our minds.

  6. Abstract Intensity in the Ideological Classroom

    October 11th, 2022 by Marie | Issue 24: Courage in Conversation, The Life of the Mind, The Search for the Higher Path |

    Marie loved helping her abstract intense students hone their ability to question and reason in pursuit of a better world. Then a new political trend hit, making school less friendly to questioners than she’s ever seen it.

  7. Reframing My Struggles with ADHD

    August 29th, 2022 by Christina Waggaman | Issue 23: Counterpoints on Diagnosis Culture, Positive Disintegration, The Search for the Higher Path |

    Christina Waggaman was diagnosed with ADHD in high school. But there was more to her psychologist’s evaluation that didn’t interest her–until she started to run into the limits of that diagnostic frame.

  8. Can You Change? The Purpose of the Third Factor

    August 29th, 2022 by Jessie Mannisto | Issue 23: Counterpoints on Diagnosis Culture, Positive Disintegration, The Search for the Higher Path |

    Neurodivergence is all the rage, especially in creative circles. But, contrary to some people’s expectations, that construct is well beyond the point of this site, if it’s even useful at all.

  9. Lessons From My “Are You My People?!” World Tour

    May 15th, 2022 by Hannah Klein | Finding Your Tribe, Issue 22: Relationships and Community, Positive Disintegration, The Search for the Higher Path |

    After an unmirrored youth and alienation in her early career led her to a positive disintegration, Hannah Klein set out to find a community with whom she actually clicked. Starting from scratch, she shares what she’s learned about finding healthy, positively adjusted friends.

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