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What if a world of experience is less like a reality we inhabit, and more like a diorama we are already inside of? This essay explores the image of the kijkdoos to question hierarchies of experience, non-dual “depth,” and the idea that there could be a higher view outside any world.
A final, fragmentary essay on proximity: when curiosity runs out of distance, and love refuses to become a topic.
A reflective essay on science fiction not as prediction, but as a practice: building experiential worlds that install new assumptions about time, self, perception, and reality.
A biographical reflection on philosophy, from the search for coherent systems to an inquiry into how worlds, selves, and certainties take form as configurations of experience.
A personal essay on virtual reality as world-installation: how VR exposes the mechanics of experience, world-making, and what it means for mindsets and reality.
A personal essay on choice, causality, and the strange relief of inevitability: what remains when the inner decider is seen as a ghost in the machine.
A personal essay on innocence, meditation, and a brief period when guilt and inner judgment were absent.
A personal essay on mortality without metaphysical comfort: the fear of disappearing, the limits of what we can know, and the simple fact that experience is happening now.
A philosophical essay on dreams, mindsets, and the structure of reality. How worlds function, why waking is not a final awakening, and what dreaming reveals about how reality appears.
An essay on not-knowing as a mode of experience. On tarot, coincidence, and irony, and on the suspicion that reality may not only be intelligible, but also capable of play.
Belief rarely announces itself as belief. It appears as obviousness. This essay explores what belief is doing, and what remains when it loosens.
A personal essay on early love for science, the reliability of knowledge, and the boundary where proof ends and belief begins.
Darkness as a resonance field: unknowing, the collapse of reference, and what remains when orientation fails.
How a typology becomes an experiential environment that structures identity, meaning, and perception.
AI as an inhuman listener: animal worlds, interspecies decoding, and the possibility of hybrid mindsets.
Fourteen lenses on enlightenment grouped into three clusters: appearance, stabilization, and conditions.
Reality as appearance: perception, evolution, language, and measurement without a final outside view.
Mindsets all the way down: how lenses of perception, language, identity, and habit stabilize a world.
Deleuze and Guattari’s Rhizome: multiplicity, connection, and decentralization as conditions of appearance.
On hierarchy and its effects in culture, religion, and thought, and a call for non-dominant seeing.
Spirituality as a relationship with reality: beyond identities, beliefs, and spiritual performance.
G. Spencer Brown’s Laws of Form as a meditation on distinction, appearance, and world-conditions.
Top-down cosmology as a case study in how a world becomes describable: observation, time, origin.
A reflection on metaphysical anarchism as the absence of first principles: what becomes visible when no final ground, origin, or ultimate frame can be sustained.
A reflection on consciousness not as a substance or mystery, but as the unavoidable fact of appearance: what it means that everything we know shows up as experience.
Dreaming Worlds
A collected edition of a number of these essays (18) is now available as a free digital book.
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