Allison is a writer, designer, research communications specialist and erstwhile literature student passionate about the dynamic interplay between science and spirituality in art and storytelling.
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How ‘The Pathless’ Explores Our Fear of Freedom
If we all walked the same path, history would be a flat line instead of a web. It would collapse into a single dimension instead of exploding outward toward the infinitely new. It would become the Godslayer’s realm as he seeks to impose the One True Path: static and dead.
Trust the Force (All of It): Lessons in Balance from ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’
Both sides of the Force are needed for balance, but either side used in isolation poses a problem. Too much disorder and the world falls apart; too much order, and there’s no room to create something new. When entropy and entaxy are acting in partnership, however, we get evolution. Growth. Change.
Time is Ignorance: From C.S. Lewis to Carlo Rovelli
The stunning implication of this idea is that if we we were able to see things in wholes, not just the parts that are connected to us—if we were capable of perceiving every nuance of every interaction in the universe with perfect clarity as it happened—time would cease to exist in any meaningful sense.