Journal

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

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Laziness of Mind and Spirit: Outsourcing Our Souls

30 December 2025 ~ 7 minute read

There is a particular kind of decay that does not announce itself through violence or ruin, but through forgetfulness. It is the forgetting of how to listen inwardly, how to sit with uncertainty, how to sense truth without being told what to think. Over time, this forgetting hardens into habit — reliance on systems, experts, devices, and doctrines that promise clarity while dulling discernment. The events of recent years did not create this condition; they merely revealed it. What we are facing is not a crisis of information, but a crisis of mind, spirit, and attention.

Image, Callus, and Agency: Reclaiming Our Creative Power

21 December 2025 (revised 23 December 2025) ~ 6 minute read

This short essay explores how conscious attention to our inner image — the visions we hold of how life should be — can empower us to resist manipulation, reclaim agency, and shape reality. It examines the ways media, technology, and culture distort perception, and how cultivating a spiritual callus and deliberate inner vision can guide authentic action.

On Reverence: Past Echoes, Future’s Present

21 December 2025 ~ 2 minute read

Reverence can quietly become self-erasure. When admiration turns into kneeling, something essential is misplaced. This reflection questions our habit of sanctifying the past — and asks what it would mean to remember ourselves instead.

Gold Coin: Escaping the Capitalist Imprint

11 December 2025 (revised 18 December 2025) ~ 6 minute read

This piece explores how deeply capitalism has shaped our inner lives — not just our work or our wallets, but our values, identity, and sense of purpose. It asks what remains when we strip away the inherited stories and return to our original essence, our unconditioned knowing. It’s an invitation to question the structures that have defined us, and to rediscover the freedom we unknowingly traded along the way.

Making Plans: The Courage to Connect Again

03 December 2025 ~ 6 minute read

We break patterns by stepping beyond the familiar — beyond family expectations, old versions of ourselves, and the noise of a world engineered to divide and distract. Real connection, the kind that wakes the heart and steadies the spirit, starts when we stop letting “them” define our reality. A reminder to reclaim your agency, trust your instincts, and hold a different image of what’s possible.

Invisible Walls: Where the Illusion Ends

29 November 2025 ~ 4 minute read

A subtle cage can feel more secure than the open sky — until the moment you realize the walls were never real, and the way through was always yours to choose.