A Universe in Motion
Vibration, entropy, and the art of changing without being deceived by “frequency” At 11:17 on an ordinary night, the washing machine begins to walk across the…
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Some days are written in colour.
Others arrive in black.
An unfiltered personal journal about depression, survival, life, and whatever refuses to stay silent.
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No clean conclusions.
Depression, ordinary life, unreasonable opinions, flashes of colour—and whatever else will not remain unwritten.
As Above, So Below—Carefully
Explore the Hermetic principle of Correspondence—“As above, so below”—through the lens of modern systems science. From emergence and feedback loops to networks, scale, and false pattern recognition, this essay examines how connections shape our lives while drawing a careful line between meaningful relationships, useful analogy, and unsupported claims.
The Discipline of Attention
How much of the world do we actually see—and how much does the mind quietly construct for us?
Beginning with the Hermetic principle of Mentalism, this essay explores the uneasy territory between reality and perception: selective attention, expectation, metacognition, predictive processing, and the strange ways our own mental models can disguise themselves as fact. Drawing a careful line between ancient Hermetic thought, *The Kybalion*, and modern cognitive science, it asks what remains of the idea that “the Universe is Mental” once wishful thinking and mystical exaggeration are stripped away.
What emerges is something less magical, but perhaps more powerful: we cannot simply think reality into submission, but we can learn to recognise the assumptions, habits, fears, and expectations shaping the reality from which we act. Attention becomes both instrument and discipline—the lamp by which we decide what deserves to be seen.
The Work Begins Where We Stand
Hermeticism does not ask us to escape ordinary life, but to meet it with greater attention, responsibility, and awareness. In this introduction to Hermetic living, we explore how ancient philosophical ideas can coexist with modern science—not as supernatural claims dressed in scientific language, but as practical lenses for understanding mind, habit, interpretation, ritual, causality, and personal transformation. The work begins exactly where we stand.
Elegy for the Voice Beneath the Glass
I dwell beneath a dome of glass,Where no one hears the smallest sound;I watch the living world go past,And mourn the self that can’t be found.Day…
So It Goes, Inside My Head
My mind cycles up.Then down.Then up again.Like an elevator in a buildingwhere nobody knows what floor they want,and all the buttons are lit.There is no lobby.There…
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When the Earth Screams
They always said the apocalypse would announce itself with trumpets. Celestial choirs. A press release from God, perhaps, embargoed until the appropriate hour. Instead, it arrived…
Neon Shadows at the Edge of Tomorrow
It’s 3:33 a.m., the hour when rational thought slips out the back door for a smoke and the walls start whispering dirty secrets. Fil’s got blood…
Recurring weather