Carl Jung, psychics, and a psychological history of human nature.
I once paid for a reading by a “certified” Tarot card reader. I was at a mental health event, of all places. …
On “The Catholic Spiritual Order”
This is a summary of an article I released on my new blog, where I publish essays on parapsychology, spirituality, and the occult.
In my essay, “The Catholic Spiritual Order”, I talk about a system of belief. My understanding of Catholic mythology is based on the stories I was raised…
On “Consciousness beyond the brain”.
This is a summary of an article I released on my new blog, where I publish essays on parapsychology, spirituality, and the occult.
The old sages and shamans have always understood that there is a world beyond the self, and that all people across all dimensions, share this world. …
On “The tyrannical rule of the heavens: A few warnings on astrology”.
This is a summary of an article I published on my new blog, where I publish essays on parapsychology, spirituality, and the occult.
If I’m being honest, I’m quite hesitant to share this, knowing how most people feel about astrology. Within academic circles, it’s well-established that astrology doesn’t hold much…
An essay about my favorite cocktail: the Negroni.
The first time I met the Negroni was at a fresh, neon-lit college bar. I asked the bartender for their strongest drink. “We have a drink made entirely of alcohol,” she said. Without knowing what it was, I ordered it. It was ridiculously cheap for such an elegant drink. Every…
Romanticizing home.
The Katipunan Avenue I once knew was only about a kilometers long. At one end is a fast food restaurant and at the other is a commercial building. On the north-bound side of the avenue is a university and across it are restaurants, condominiums, and shops. When I was a…
Messy, messy animals.
We have a problem, Kalas told me. I had just arrived at the place he told me to go: it was an expensive neon bar in a palace filled with pretty young faces. They all looked like rich kids — you could look at any one of them and know…
Loneliness, mental breakdowns, and getting blacked out drunk.
When I was younger, I dreamed of a fast, dizzying lifestyle filled with beauty and fizz. Soon, I was living it. Drinking enhanced my charisma, and I made many friends. Alcohol was laughter, romance and experience. I lived, for months, in perpetual night, dancing with shadows. When the morning came…
Academia as a lifestyle.
The goal of my life is to become an aesthetic. My great work will be posthumous, published when an obsessive scholar collects my literature into a book of essential writings. I want to be romanticized as a philosopher-poet. That being said, I want to be read not because of my…
