Here you’ll find my philosophical meanderings in the form of articles, essays, and occasional poetry. My interests and curiosities are broad, but the central focus remains the pursuit of what is authentic, real, and true.

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Journal Entries / self awareness (305 Posts)

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Love Is War

A Life in Three Words

11 November 2026 ~ 3 minute read

Some phrases stay with us because they capture something we’ve spent years trying to understand. Looking again, loving life, walking the walk, amplifying the light: each has marked a different stage of my journey. Now another has emerged. Amor bellum est. Love is war. Perhaps the greatest battles are those that bring us closer to truth, dismantle our illusions, and change everything we thought we knew.

Spiritual Warfare: The Captured Creative Force

The Constructs We Create, the Realities We Inhabit

06 November 2026 ~ 18 minute read

What if the greatest influence over our lives isn’t necessarily what happens to us, but what we’re conditioned to believe, fear, accept, and ultimately contribute to creating? There are forces at work in the human experience that deserve considerably more scrutiny, not least because we may be participating in their perpetuation without ever recognizing it. Perhaps understanding spiritual warfare requires us to look beyond the apparent opposition and examine the very nature of our own creative authority.

How Many Times Can We Have a First Date?

05 November 2026 ~ 3 minute read

There is something remarkable about the prospect of beginning again. We carry our histories, expectations, rehearsed responses, and accumulated certainties into every new encounter, often mistaking familiarity for understanding. Yet something remains beyond all that, quietly waiting to be encountered, recognized, or remembered. We never quite know what might unfold when we finally take our seat at the table.

The Creative Force and Its Captors

On Demons, Egregores, and the Human Condition

02 November 2026 (rev. 04 November 2026) ~ 16 minute read

We inherit more than the circumstances of our lives. We inherit ways of seeing, interpreting, and making sense of the world, along with the fears, beliefs, and assumptions that shape our understanding of what is possible. Much of what we take for reality may be something we’ve learned to accept long before we’ve developed the means to question it. And perhaps some of the most important questions we can ask concern not only the nature of the world around us, but the nature of our own participation in creating and sustaining it.

Reclaiming Your Mind: Preface – Conditioning, Influence, and the Return to Self

Intrusive Thoughts and the Struggle for Inner Freedom

27 October 2026 ~ 19 minute read

We don’t always recognize the forces shaping our thoughts, beliefs, and behavior. Much of what governs us operates beneath conscious awareness, quietly influencing how we see ourselves, respond to the world, and direct our lives. The first step toward freedom is learning to recognize these patterns, question their authority, and reclaim the space between what enters the mind and what we choose to do with it.

The Time to Begin

25 October 2026 ~ 5 minute read

We don’t always begin when we think we should. Sometimes, the work needs to wait until we’ve lived a little more, learned a little more, and become someone better equipped to see it through. What looks like delay from one perspective may be necessary preparation from another.