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Newsletter Nr. 1.465
Amsterdam, December 5, 2025

From Species to Life Itself: Climbing Down the Taxonomic Ladder - Frank Visser / Grok

Imagine standing at the top of a grand staircase, gazing down into the abyss of time. Each step represents a layer of life's complexity, from the bustling diversity of species we see today to the primordial spark that ignited existence itself. This is the taxonomic ladder—a metaphorical ascent (or descent, depending on your perspective) through the hierarchy of life, from the fine-grained branches of species and body plans to the broad roots of domains and the very origin of life.

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Spiritual Technologies of the Self—East and West - Joe Corbett / ChatGPT

Across cultures and epochs, people have undertaken varied practices aimed at forming, refining, and sometimes transforming the self. These technologies of the self—whether framed as virtue, devotion, knowledge, or nondual realization—seek to regulate attention, discipline desire, cultivate understanding, and orient action toward a larger aim such as the good, the holy, or the true.

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