A Double Journey Inward and Outward
Human life unfolds in movements—sometimes outward toward the world, sometimes inward toward the self. Across cultures and centuries, different traditions have tried to describe this rhythm, each in its own language. Yet beneath the surface, their patterns echo one another. We grow by learning how to receive what life gives us, how to transform it within, and how to return it in a wiser form.
This series, Four Stages, brings together two such maps of becoming. One is Jungian: a journey inward through individuation, shadow, meaning, and mortality. The other is Kabbalistic: a journey of receiving through permission, gratitude, inner alchemy, and the return of the blessing. Though they arise from different worlds, they mirror each other with quiet precision. One teaches how we receive the world; the other teaches how we receive ourselves.
Seen together, they reveal a single arc. Every stage of inner growth is also a stage of receiving, and every stage of receiving is a step toward inner wholeness. What begins as an exchange between self and other becomes, over time, an exchange between the self and its own depths. Each post in this series stands on its own, yet all four belong to the same unfolding—another chapter in the long search captured in Hominem quaero, inventa et amissa: the search for the human, and the mirrors through which the human is found.
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