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You don’t need a membership to begin. These essays, talks and reflections come from the library of Always Loved, the nonprofit behind TheDepth Community. They trace the same questions our courses explore — how we make meaning, what’s left when certainty falls away, and why desire and imitation shape us more than we know.
Take one slowly. They were written to be sat with, not skimmed.
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Meaning and the Metaphor of Music
Why two people can be at the same event and live two different experiences of it.
Read → After certaintyCertainty or Truth. Choose One.
Why you can’t have both.
Read → Desire & mimetic theoryBefore and After René Girard
Why encountering Girard changes how you see.
Read →How we make meaning
The ground our course Into the Deep is built on.
After certainty
For anyone who can’t go back to what they once believed, and isn’t sure what comes next.
Desire, imitation and mimetic theory
An introduction to the ideas of René Girard, and what they reveal about how we become ourselves.
Wonder, process and becoming
Reflections drawing on process thought and the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead.
From Mary-Anne
Reflections by Mary-Anne Rabe.
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