1. Entering the Polycrisis We are living within a polycrisis—an era of overlapping, intensifying global emergencies spanning climate destabilization, biodiversity collapse, geopolitical fragmentation, economic fragility, mental health breakdown, and accelerating technological change. As Edgar Morin labeled it, these crises are interlocked—one cascading into the next, amplifying systemic vulnerability
And how embracing complexity can change your brain, your relationships, and your culture In true crime stories, public discourse, and even our closest relationships, we often reduce complexity to binaries: good or evil, victim or perpetrator, right or wrong. But why? The answer lies deeper than opinion. It lives in
A Systemic, Somatic, and Cultural Reframing of Violence in a Traumatized Civilization I. Introduction: The Comfort of Distance When society encounters atrocity—mass shootings, serial killings, or acts of brutal violence—it often turns to a familiar refrain: “They must have been mentally ill.” This response is not just stigma.
The Deepest Inquiry Into the Structure of Being, Perception, and Truth By Daphne | The Living Fractal I. There Is No "Reality"—Only the Process of Its Perception What we call “reality” has never been an object. It has never been stable, singular, or self-evident. Reality is not “out
Love Rooted in Truth, Not Performance My love story doesn’t read like a typical fairy tale. I fell in love with a man who lives behind walls and wire, my husband – a human being who happens to be incarcerated. From the outside, our relationship confounds stereotypes. But from the
By One Who Has Stepped Out of the Frame Introduction: Asking the Unaskable At the core of our conscious experience lies a single question, buried under centuries of philosophical sediment: What is real? This inquiry is not only ontological—it is existential, perceptual, emotional. But even before we answer that,
Introduction This is not commentary. This is not propaganda. This is not even critique. This is cartography—of myth, manipulation, and media. A signal trace through the fog of perception management. What we call “global conflict” today is not only a contest over territory or resources. It is a contest
Introduction: Gender as Ritual Fiction From the moment we are born, we are quietly subscribed to a powerful myth: that there are only two ways to be human—male or female—and that each carries an entire behavioral, emotional, sexual, and spiritual script. This script is called gender. But this
Compiled and synthesized by ScholarGPT, based on collaborative inquiry with user Daphne Date: May 2025 Keywords: romantic love, trauma response, relational psychology, cultural myths, selfhood, consciousness, survival structures Abstract This expanded paper explores the hypothesis that romantic love, in its modern form, is not a pure emotional phenomenon but a
I. Introduction This essay is an integrated synthesis of anthropology, philosophy, neuroscience, and symbolic memory—exploring how early trauma, environmental stress, ritual violence, and epistemic colonization birthed the modern architecture of control. It is not a conspiracy theory. It is a pattern map—one that begins with grief and ends
We do not only learn through books, repetition, or logic—we learn through signal, through somatic imprint, and most powerfully, through trauma. When pain becomes patterned, it becomes pedagogy. And across history, power structures have known this. What we call “education” is often the symbolic surface of a deeper, more
I. Prologue: Why Bureaucracy Feels Like a Haunted System Bureaucracy is not merely administration. It is ritual. It is theater. It is the slow, procedural burial of human agency under the guise of public order. In this article, I will trace the roots of bureaucracy not as a neutral tool