The Soul that Soars

Onions, the Mind, and How to rise up from creeping and crawling to soaring

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Famous American Poet Edgar Allan Poe wrote a poem known as Eureka¹. In this widely regarded poem, we start with Poe recanting a letter that he found in a bottle "floating on the Mare Tenebrarum—an ocean well described by the Nubian geographer, Ptolemy Hephestion" (fun fact about Ptolemy at the end of this article).

Within this letter is a discussion about the different ways to "Truth," and we read the following²:

"Now I do not quarrel with these ancients… so much on account of … their pompous and infatuate proscription of all other roads to Truth than the two narrow and crooked paths—the one of creeping and the other of crawling—to which, in their ignorant perversity, they have dared to confine the Soul—the Soul which loves nothing so well as to soar in those regions of illimitable intuition which are utterly incognizant of 'path.'"

In this article, we're going to discuss a different perspective on our souls and how to work with our minds. We'll also learn to …