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🛖 Come in, drifters. If you're lying awake feeling cut off from people and weighed down by everything that seems wrong with the world, tonight's guided Stoic sleep meditation brings the circles of belonging in close. It begins beside a tent at Mount Carleton Provincial Park, New Brunswick, with real autumn-night crickets beneath the narration.

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Tonight, follow a practice drawn from the Stoic teacher Hierocles. We move from your own breath to the people closest to you, then out toward strangers, before drawing each circle inward again. His advice about difficult brothers and sisters meets the ordinary moments when patience feels hardest. This is for the nights when pulling away from everyone seems like the safest choice. Wherever sleep meets you along the way, let it.

🌲 The cricket field recording was captured on a cool autumn night at the Mount Carleton Provincial Park campground, with Luc seated beside his tent. The accompanying video was filmed at dawn. Every ambient sound beneath the narration comes from the real field recording.

📜 Sources: Hierocles, Elements of Ethics (Berlin Papyrus 9780, Greek text edited by Hans von Arnim, 1906); Hierocles, “On Fraternal Love” and “How We Ought to Conduct Ourselves Towards Our Kindred,” preserved by Stobaeus, translated by Thomas Taylor (1822); Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, translated by John C. Rolfe (1927).

🤍 Credits Created and produced by Luc Richard. Field recording, video, and photography captured on location by Luc Richard. Narration is AI-generated with ElevenLabs. The place and every ambient sound are real.

💬 If tonight helped, tell me one person you could move a single circle closer: a coworker, a neighbour, or someone who got under your skin today. I read every one. And follow, so there's always a quiet hour waiting when you need one.

Sleep well. Nobody is outside the circle tonight. 🦗