Something More, If You're Willing To Search For It
Contexts worth finding, and a way to support Voicecraft.
For nearly 8 years I’ve shared signal on the internet with intention to find, contribute to, and build contexts that support real relationships and wiser pathways for navigating and cultivating culture.
At least, that’s an angle on it for today.
In that time I’ve met and collaborated with many outstanding creators, teachers, and agents of change. I’ve found many no-bullshit people. The real deal.
People who offer “something more, if you’re willing to search for it,” as
put it at the end of a livestream I joined for Philosophy Portal with the likes of and others. (Find the video at the bottom of this email.)In that spirit I want to highlight two contexts that I know for sure many readers of this email are likely to find value in. Value that’s hard to find anywhere else.
They each require investment, and they each deliver a unique return.
First up is an online course created by Jonny Miller titled..
Nervous System Mastery
is a gifted creator I have respected for years. I consistently see him going all in on what he loves, with a genuine commitment to integrate the depths of what he has suffered to know. I took part in a Nervous System Mastery cohort in late 2022.
What I found was an on-ramp into a set of learnings, tools and practices that literally anyone can make use of.
I also found a group of people that seemed genuinely enthused to be together, filled with curiosity.
The ethos I sensed was simple and powerful:
We participate in how we feel, our organism has a nature, and we can massively increase the quality of our experience and relationships by learning to.. breathe.
It’s not quite so simple of course. Or at least, as simple as good posture and biodynamics. Something we are in a sense designed for. Something that’s really, really good for us..
And something that for some reason we don’t do, or know how to do, or just don’t teach each other.. so instead become patterned in counterproductive ways.
This is a course that can help people better fit themselves to the situations they encounter, and create more optionality for responsiveness over reactiveness.
You can learn about it in great detail here. There’s a lot more on offer. But enrolment closes on the 15th of March, so there’s just under a week left to step in.
***And should you choose to invest in the process, Jonny has kindly offered readers / listeners of Voicecraft a $250 discount by using the code TIM.
This is an affiliate code, and therefore supports Voicecraft in turn. And a generous bonus, particularly as I was intending to share NSM anyway, as I did last year.
To access the affiliate page where you can enrol in the course, use the button below.
Jonny also featured on the Voicecraft podcast back in September 2022, and I look forward to his return in the future.
The next context is none other than Cadell Last’s
Philosophy Portal
Few philosophers are building deep roots for philosophy outside of the traditional academy. Cadell is one of them.
Along with other notable shoutouts like O.G. Rose and
, Cadell is truly prolific in his diligence, quantity and quality of output across multiple subject areas, with particular expertise in the works of Freud, Hegel, Nietzsche, Lacan, Zizek, Zupančič and many others.Philosophy Portal features courses on many of these thinkers, as well as vast amounts of free material on the YouTube channel. In 2024 the focus has turned to live events, with multiple sessions hosted each month online, with in person retreats planned for later in the year.
Readers may recall a sponsorship Voicecraft offered for the recently concluded course on Lacanian psychoanalysis and philosophy. It received some brilliant applications, which leads me to think that readers of this mailing list might also appreciate the tip for the opportunity Philosophy Portal presents to its members.
I encourage those with interest to read the Philosophy Portal Event page using the button below.
And you can find an example of a live streamed Philosophy Portal session below, in which I joined O.G. Rose and others on a live stream as part of the final event for February.
You can watch that lively and I felt generative conversation here.
Discernment on the Way,
Tim