Healing by Thinking.
Thinking by Being.
Re:Mind Studio
is an independent essay studio
dedicated to thinking about
trauma, recovery, humanity, society, technology, and love.
The writings here do not sell comfort.
They offer a language for thinking.
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What “Return to Nature” Really Means
The Trap Behind “Life Was Better in the Past” Environmental discourse often says this: Human progress polluted the environment, destroyed nature,and now we are paying the price. Hidden inside this sentence is a quiet assumption:that the world before human development was more livable. But that assumption is not close to the truth. The pre-industrial world…
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All of a Sudden
All of a Sudden All of a sudden, while I was showering, a wave of chills ran through me.It felt as though every hair on my body stood on end.Then derealization began to creep in, followed by dissociation. I was clearly standing under warm water —yet suddenly, I felt unbearably cold.My whole body turned icy…
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What Has Not Yet Been Determined Does Not Yet Exist
Existence Is Not “Being There,” but “Being Determined” We usually think of existence like this:if something “is there,” it exists —if it is not, it does not. But for Whitehead, existence is not simply a matter of “being there.” For him, to exist meansto be a result that has been determined into a particular way…
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There Is No “Absolute” in World Order
What We Mistook for “Inevitability” For a long time, we were taught this: Globalization is an unstoppable current.Free trade is the inevitability of history.Borders will gradually lose their power, and the world will become a single market. These ideas were in our textbooks,in the news,and in policy documents. So we naturally came to believe:this order…
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Why Do We Feel That This Era Is the End?
Why Do We Always Say, “Civilizations Collapse”? These days, people often say: Civilizations eventually collapse.Rome, Babylon, the Maya—everything ended that way. So the anxiety we are living through now,the cracks in our systems,this unexplainable suffocationare read as “signs of decline.” But is civilization really a beingthat is born, grows,and inevitably dies—like a living organism? Civilization…