The Ascension Manual

Most people are living a life that was handed to them. The job, the schedule, the appetites, the opinions, the very shape of their days — assembled by someone else, for someone else's benefit, and accepted without inspection. They wake to an alarm they resent, feed a body they neglect, rent their attention to the highest bidder, and call this normal. It is normal. That is precisely the problem. This manual is for the few who have started to feel the wrongness of it — the low hum of a life lived by default — and who want a way out. Not a fantasy of escape, but a discipline of return: the slow, deliberate reclaiming of yourself, piece by piece,…