Poet, prophet, prince. Utterly useless.
There are books that change everything. Not because they're clever, but because they're true in a way that goes all the way down.
The ones I've found — A Course in Miracles, the I Ching, the releasing tradition of Lester Levenson — aren't really separate things. They're different angles on the same recognition: there is a sense of separation at the root of human suffering, and it can be undone. Not managed. Not coped with. The way of that undoing is the most significant knowledge of our age.
This is the mythological return to Eden. The Tree of Life was never taken from you. You are the Tree of Life. The way back isn't forward into more achieving — it's the recognition that everything appearing to be in the way can be released. And when it is, what remains was always there. Whole. Free. Loving.
Beyond religion, because it sees religion entirely and lets it go. A form of Christian Advaita. The end of Christianity and its deepest fulfillment at once. Perfect remembrance of oneness with the One, and nothing else.
What I want you to know is this: you are not broken. You never were. There is nothing in your life that cannot be released, if you're willing. And the willingness — that too is already in you, waiting. You're closer than you think. Infinitely closer.
The Way is a daily practice app. Each day, a lesson from A Course in Miracles. Each practice, a reading from the I Ching. The ancient and the immediate, meeting in the same space.
I built it because I needed it. That's the only honest reason to build anything.
The Unwinding Way
The Way
365 days of A Course in Miracles. The I Ching as oracle. A practice, not a product.
Enter The WayNotes from the practice. Not instruction — just honest account of what it's like to work with these tools day after day.
Accumulated Wisdom
Five chapters on thinking, speaking, doing, wishing, and living — where A Course in Miracles, the I Ching, and the releasing tradition meet.
On building as devotion
What it means to write code as a spiritual practice — not metaphorically, but as the actual thing.
The sense of separation
How A Course in Miracles and the releasing tradition point to the same recognition, from different angles.
Consulting the oracle
Why I take the I Ching seriously. What it means to ask a question and receive an answer you didn't manufacture.
If something here resonates — if you're working with these traditions or want to — I'd welcome hearing from you.
curtis@curtisgrubb.org