HUM SōM is a school for people who refuse to choose between rigor and reverence, a place where the questions matter more than the answers, because learning how to think is what makes us human.
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HUM SōM
To live is to participate in meaning, and meaning only becomes real when it's shared.
The Work
Spirituality has become a personal brand. Education has become a test.
Both have forgotten that the deepest questions humans ask are not asked or answered alone.
HUM SōM closes the gap.
Choose where to begin…
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RESEARCH
Theoretical, methodological, and ethnographic
work on relational meaning-making, mysticism,
and the symbolic architectures of modern life.
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CLASSES
Live cohorts that teach the practices,
frameworks, and methods this work has developed.
Curiosity is the only prerequisite.
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WRITING
Essays, reflections, and fragments.
Thinking in public — the work as it's
actually being made.
THE APPROACH
We teach how to think, not what to think.
HUM SōM refuses the guru role. We name our methods.
We hold each other to rigor. Our classes are cohorts,
not products, and our research is open about its
assumptions, its evidence, and its limits.
Yvé Dizes
I'm a teacher, researcher, and committed asker of uncomfortable questions.
HUM SōM grew out of something simple: I started sharing a meditation technique with friends, and more people kept showing up than my living room could hold.
What drives the school now is a question I couldn't stop asking: what would it look like to take mystical experiences as autonomously valuable? To see them not as metaphors, not to relegate their value to self-help, but as something worth investigating for its own sake?