Relational Ground (Chapter Four)
The author announced the launch of a new book, *The Practice of Being Alive*, and is releasing its chapters as working drafts on Substack. Chapter Four, titled “Relational Ground,” explores a subtle form of social fatigue that stems from constantly managing acceptability rather than from the interactions themselves. Readers are invited to comment, challenge, and shape the manuscript in real time. The approach blends existential health theory with a participatory publishing model, positioning the work as both a personal exploration and a community‑driven project.
Before You Try to Fix It (Chapter Two)
The author is drafting a new book, *The Practice of Being Alive*, and is publishing each chapter as a live, working draft to solicit reader feedback. Chapter 2, “Before You Try to Fix It,” examines the instinct to correct perceived problems...
Reframing the Problem of Being Human
Jim Palmer’s latest series introduces “existential health,” a nascent discipline that shifts the focus from belief‑based problems to the structural frameworks shaping how people engage reality. Across five interconnected essays, he argues that inherited linguistic, religious, and questioning patterns distort...
Thou Art What?
Jim Palmer’s essay revisits Michel Foucault’s claim that the modern self‑subject is a recent invention, not an innate origin. By juxtaposing Foucault’s historical analysis with Buddhist anattā, the piece argues that identity is produced by power‑knowledge structures rather than discovered...
Something Is Not Right
The author announces a new book, *Modern Humans in Search of Ground in a Nihilistic Age*, and is releasing its chapters as working drafts. The preface, shared in this post, frames the project as an interactive experiment where reader feedback...