Realms of Words
The Adventure of Life Rediscovered
A short essay on how I rediscovered from within myself the excitement I felt towards life when I was child.
Primal Fears, Casual Sex and Emotionally Messed-up Women. Thoughts about the Instinctual Basis of Pair Bonding.
I faced my instinctual fear of big predatory animals. The experience gave me insights into the instinctual basis of pair bonding and why casual sex can have destructive effects on women’s emotional well-being.
An Unexpected Occult Initiation. My Fasting Experience.
An essay and a trip report about a fast, during which I for two weeks drifted in and out of altered state of consciousness.
The Death of God; the Fractured Human
In this essay, I explore how the numerous societal epidemics of our times result from the underlying fracturing of the psyche that came to be once God was murdered.
On the Nature of Time. A Philosophical Exploration.
I explore philosophical questions about the nature of time, such as why we can’t observe time to move in other directions than from the past to the future.
The Mother, the Father and the Messiah. Archetypal Dimensions of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
A look at the psychological patterns exhibited by the public during the COVID-19 pandemic through the lense of Jungian archetypal psychology.
Cycles and Transformations
In this short essay I explore my views on the following fundamental philosophical questions.
What is the overarching pattern of reality? Is there moral orientation to the reality itself? Is the reality inherently meaningful? Do we have free will? And is a deep psychological transformation possible?