HeyJaredContemplative Currents
A weekly companion in noticing what's so close we keep missing it, and so obvious we're afraid to trust it.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 9
- Latest publication
- Sep 26, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 6, 2026
Latest issues
It Hides In Everything (opens the original)
Read excerpt
IT hides in everything. In unfulfilled expectations and heartbreak. You know that ache beneath the ache beneath the ache? You know that movement? The reaching, the part of you that still wants to be met, held and understood. That longing is IT.IT hides in the whisking of matcha, my small circular wrist motion seductively suggesting that IT’s there. Last week, I looked at the green powder disappearing into water and the froth gathering along the edges of the bowl. There was the life moving the ha
On uncertainty, our addiction to solid ground, and what remains when even ‘God’ is no longer an answer (opens the original)
Read excerpt
In 2017, I jumped out of a plane. I won’t be doing that again.What I remember most clearly about the beginning of the jump was my incessant need to grab onto something. Anything! My hands kept searching for something to hold, soemthing that would promise me stability and then right before I jumped, I remember gripping the doorframe of the plane so freaking tightly that my legs, now dangled 10,000 feet above the ground, felt numb. Every instinct in me was screaming HOLD ON! This, minus the consta
Where Does Attention Come From? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
I have been super inspired by the works of G.I Gurdjieff’s brought to my attention by Cynthia Bourgeault’s Wisdom School and recent book, Mystical Courage. Alongside it, Brian O'Connor's <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Awareness-Games-Playin
Cereal Before Milk, Bullshit and Other Things I Thought About in Meditation (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Some mornings(well, most mornings) I would sit in a dark room with my eyes closed, half expecting to see what this thirty minutes would bring me. “Downloads”, the new agers would call it. “Bullshit aspirations”, my own thoughts would retort. I mean, I have done this long enough to notice how much the mind wants to get something beneficial from zazen. Meditation, they say, is for reaching states of transcendence. Some would say, it’s for clearing your mind. Some others would say it’s for finding
Where We Already Are (opens the original)
Read excerpt
So, this guy is standing in front of an altar in Athens, right in front of a popular altar that had lost its label. Its inscription was still etched on it. But that was what he was going to use to land his point. He had been talking to the crowd right in front of him about the Unimagineable, the Unthinkable. But it seemed like people from decades or probably centuries before him had already hinted this. We all have been searching for this Unimagineable. He may have acknowledged. All of history,
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.