# The Unfolding

I'm a deeply curious human, a contemplative guide and existential/attentional practitioner writing about spirituality, philosophy, Focusing, theology, and embodied self-inquiry.

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## [countdown](https://janececilia.substack.com/p/countdown)

_2026-07-30 · Jane Cecilia_

poetic reflections from last year's health and world crises

## [Summer Focusing courses!](https://janececilia.substack.com/p/summer-focusing-courses)

_2026-07-18 · Jane Cecilia_

A practice course and a philosophy reading group

## [Birth and Death in the Garden of Eden](https://janececilia.substack.com/p/birth-and-death-in-the-garden-of)

_2026-06-30 · Jane Cecilia_

My symposium presentation: a phenomenological and existential look at this creation story

## [Focusing and theopoetics](https://janececilia.substack.com/p/focusing-and-theopoetics)

_2026-05-26 · Jane Cecilia_

Implicit, intricate, embodied creativity

## [Theopoetics: on language, body, and the unsayable](https://janececilia.substack.com/p/theopoetics-on-language-body-and)

_2026-04-26 · Jane Cecilia_

A brief explanation

## [We do not see what we think we see](https://janececilia.substack.com/p/we-do-not-see-what-we-think-we-see)

_2026-04-22 · Jane Cecilia_

On perception, relation, and the shape of reality

## [Becoming large enough for truth: moral size and the practice of nonviolence](https://janececilia.substack.com/p/becoming-large-enough-for-truth-moral)

_2026-03-31 · Jane Cecilia_

Paths of presence: on freedom, attention, and courage. Part 4: Mohandas Gandhi, with support from Simone Weil and Bernard Loomer

## [Relational presence: public life as a field of encounter](https://janececilia.substack.com/p/relational-presence-public-life-as)

_2026-02-18 · Jane Cecilia_

Paths of presence: on freedom, attention, and courage. Part 3: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Buber

## [The practice of attention and the existentialism of voluntary poverty](https://janececilia.substack.com/p/the-practice-of-attention-and-the)

_2026-01-30 · Jane Cecilia_

Paths of presence: on freedom, attention, and courage. Part 2: Dorothy Day

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_2026-01-30 · **Sponsored**_

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## [Existential freedom and social liberation](https://janececilia.substack.com/p/existential-freedom-and-social-liberation)

_2026-01-14 · Jane Cecilia_

Paths of presence: on freedom, attention, and courage. Part 1: Kierkegaard and MLK.