The Beautiful Disruption

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Field Notes from the Imagination #001: The Aesthetic Instinct
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Field Notes from the Imagination #001: The Aesthetic Instinct

What happens when we follow the flicker of meaning instead of the noise of the world.

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Apr 11, 2025
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Every journey into the imagination begins with an ache. A homesickness for something we’ve never quite seen. Some call it nostalgia, others call it longing. Lewis called it Northernness. I call it the aesthetic instinct—the soul’s compass toward beauty, mystery, and meaning. In this first issue of Field Notes from the Im…

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