The Emergent Self

Questioning what we're told it means to be human

Topic

Philosophy & Meaning

Ideas from philosophy, from Spinoza onward, and what they offer for living a meaningful life without inherited answers.

Watercolor of a man seen from behind on a bench in a dim office break room, a second coffee cup set beside him as dawn light comes through the window, asking whether depression was really a gift

Was My Depression Really a Gift?

Was my depression really a gift? A former priest tests his own claim that the dark years after he left the priesthood were a gift.