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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If Infant Memories Disappear, Why Do We Say Attitudes Remain?
Infant Memories Are Very Short We remember very little from immediately after we are born.Yet developmental theory often says this: “Learning attitudes and values formed in infancy remain for life.” At first glance, this sounds contradictory.Do not attitudes and values continue to change throughout life?Do not our thoughts shift, our standards of judgment change, and…
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[Netflix When Life Gives You Tangerines Review #12] A Day with Nothing to Sulk About
There Is Nothing I Want Enough to Sulk Over These days, things are just… that way.There is nothing to get angry about,nothing to feel hurt over,nothing I desperately long for. The day simply passes,and time moves through me. People ask,“So what do you want to do most these days?” I pause, and then fail to…
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The Human Genome Sequencing Project and the Objectification of the Human
When Did Humans First Become “Read” Beings? For a long time, we have understood humansthrough consciousness, emotion, narrative, faith, and philosophy. Humans were always “subjects who create meaning,”not “objects to be analyzed.” But only a few decades ago,humanity began, for the first time, to dismantle and read itself as strings. From 1990 to 2003, the…
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When Does Thought Become a Castle in the Air?
Why Do We Not Change Even After We “Understand”? We often say things like this: “I understand this.”“I get the concept.”“I know what it means.” And yet, strangely,that understanding hardly changes our lives.The world does not look different,our judgments do not shift,and the texture of our actions remains the same. We certainly studied it.We certainly…
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Why Tarot Cannot Enter the “Domain of Science”
Tarot Has No “External Variables” Four Pillars and astrology share at least one assumption:that the temporal coordinate of “when one is born” compresses a correlation structure between nature and humans. For that reason, Four Pillars and astrology—however weakly—still allow room for external-world variables such as environment, seasons, and social conditions to intervene. Tarot has no…