For the long passages

A library for transitions framed as spiritual events, not problems.

The people in your direction are not in crisis. Or, if they are, the crisis is of a different shape than what therapy treats. They are at the threshold of something. They are letting go of a self that no longer fits. They are waiting in a darkness that doesn’t have a name.

The directee at midlife who has lost the meaning of work. The directee who has been with the same practice for twenty years and is now being asked to leave it. The directee in slow grief over a parent who isn’t dead but is no longer themselves.

Transitional.life is reading that takes the spiritual reality of these passages seriously without imposing a tradition’s vocabulary.

Featured Companions for this work

Reset to Factory Settings — Recovering the wisdom you were born with
For the contemplative return.
The Hope — Finding light when the data says it’s dark
For the dark night.
Realizing You’re Ordinary — When special becomes average
For ego-collapse work.
Leaving Your Religion — When faith becomes past tense
For directees in deconstruction.
Time Starts Moving Fast — When years become moments
For the second-half passage.

The clinical concept lookup

The lookup is clinically framed (it has to be) but the concepts (meaning reconstruction, identity in dissolution, existential fatigue) are recognizable across contemplative traditions.

Questions

Are these aligned with any tradition?: No. They are secular literary work. Directors from Christian, Buddhist, Sufi, Jewish, and non-aligned traditions all use them.
Are they appropriate to read aloud in direction?: Many directors do.

For the thresholds your directees are crossing.