Back to the Cave: Life After the Spiritual Journey
A reflection on returning to the human play — and choosing to live consciously in both worlds.
Jake Mura
Writer and editor of Irrelevant Matters, writing essays on ideas, spirituality, philosophy, culture and society.
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Our Games Don’t Matter — and That’s the Good News
From Plato’s cave to billionaires’ tantrums — why our egos are less important than bees.
Why You’ll Never Change
And why that’s not defeat but the beginning of freedom
Who’s the Narcissist? Projection, Ego, and the Modern Witch Hunt
How projection, ego, and misunderstanding created the modern myth of a narcissism epidemic
Why Systemic Change Always Fails — And What Actually Matters
What Chomsky Missed, What Lao Tzu Pointed Out, and the Deeper Truth Behind All Systems
The End of the Human Web: Dead Internet Theory
How AI and Automation Might Replace Human Interaction Online
Life Is Neither a Punishment nor a Blessing
As much as we would like it to be, the phenomenon of life has no labels — it is simply a phenomenon
The Quiet Strength of Positivity in a World Obsessed with Toughness
Why embracing empathy and optimism is a radical stand in an often ruthless world
Nothing Is Truly Serious in the Man-Made World of Abstraction
We are creative but by no means serious creatures