Esoterika

Interesting response from the guy who does Postsecret:

Q: "Frank, do you think any of the secrets you get are made-up?"

A: "I see the postcards as works of art and that makes the question about truthfulness more complicated. Is a secret true for the person who wrote it down, or for the reader who reacts to it?

"I believe the personal and shared truths that secrets reveal can have many layers. A fictitious secret can become fact after we tell it. Other confessions can become untrue over time depending on our choices.

"Maybe a "made-up" secret is your truth, even if you believe otherwise.

So in the strictest sense, I do not think each of the 500,000 secrets I have pulled from my mailbox contain the full truth – but I believe every one."

Postsecret project

http://postsecret.blogspot.com

This is a community art project where people write a secret they have never told anyone on a handmade postcard and mail it in anonymously. It's absolutely riveting... every card encapsulates a poignant human story. New cards posted every Sunday.

When I encountered this site and considered sending something in, I found it interesting that I could immediately think of what secrets I would write. Maybe we all carry such things pretty near the surface of our brain--an unavoidable part of the landscape, what is always there but never expressed. That's what makes the project so powerful. It also seems to result in some interesting catharsis when people follow up or take action based on what they sent...