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When ritual burning becomes self-erasure instead of renewal

I burn my old journals in the fireplace every New Year and feel like I'm destroying evidence of who I used to be.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Fire can either transform the past or simply eliminate it, depending on the spirit we bring to the flame.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Fire and the first human technology?”

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