How Arcana Mentis pays its way

Every article on Arcana Mentis is free to read, the site has no advertisements, and some longer guides are listed on the Guides page.

What stays free

Every article on the site stays free: the long essay in each of the nine rooms, the shorter pages beneath them, the room FAQs, the glossary, the library, and the starting pages for new readers. You don’t need an account to read them, and nobody asks for your email address. No page stops halfway through and asks you to pay for the rest. If a page about heavy mornings or a lonely Sunday helps you today, the whole of it is there for you, and it will be just as free the next time you come back.

The longer guides

Some longer guides are listed on the Guides page. They include worksheets and pocket cards made to print, short readings for an evening when you want to think something through, and longer courses with practices and space to write. They cover the same parts of life the free pages cover. The free articles never hold back the useful part to send you there.

The guides follow the same rules as the rest of the site. The ones about depression and loneliness are education to use alongside your doctor’s care, and they are not yet medically reviewed. Keep taking any prescribed medicine as prescribed, and talk with your doctor before you change anything. If you’re in crisis in the United States, call or text 988.

What the site won’t do

The site carries no advertisements, and nobody pays it to mention a product, a treatment, or a brand. It won’t make up praise, pretend only a few copies are left, count down a timer, or use a stranger’s story as proof that something works. It doesn’t sell reader information, and the privacy page lists exactly what the site collects, which is very little.

You can read Arcana Mentis for years without spending a cent, and that’s a perfectly good way to use it. The page on how we write explains who makes the pages and where their facts come from.