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Essays, reflections and notes across medicine, philosophy, depth psychology, sociology, Iranian thought, individuation and personal writing.

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Woman, Life, Freedom — Public Art & Collective Memory

The Woman, Life, Freedom mural in Tamworth emerged from a collaboration between community, art and the experience of a movement that transformed contemporary Iranian social and political imagination. The project reflects themes central to my work: public memory, resistance, identity, collective voice and the role of culture in social transformation.

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Personal ReflectionsPersonal· 15 min read

In Memory of Teresa: Death, an Ornament on the Tree of Life

A personal meditation on death and loss — reflecting on the passing of a beloved person and the way in which genuine grief can become a deeper understanding of the preciousness and fragility of life.

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In Memory of Teresa: Death, an Ornament on the Tree of Life

Iranology

The Vision of Tantra: Living Without Condemning Life — Part One

The first part of an exploration of the Tantric philosophical vision — its radical affirmation of life in all its dimensions, its refusal to divide existence into sacred and profane, and its relevance to the Iranian spiritual tradition.

7 min read

Iranology

The Vision of Tantra: Living Without Condemning Life — Part Two / The Songs of Saraha

The second part of the exploration of Tantric philosophy, focusing on the Songs of Saraha — the great Tantric master — as expressions of the non-dual vision of reality that lies at the heart of the Tantric tradition.

15 min read

Depth Psychology

On the Usefulness of Depression

A depth-psychological reframing of depression — not as a pathology to be eliminated but as a potentially meaningful experience that, when engaged with honestly, can lead to genuine psychological transformation.

9 min read

Philosophy

Living in a World Where Nothing Is Sacred

A philosophical reflection on the experience of living in a desacralized world — a world from which the sense of the sacred has been withdrawn — and the question of how to recover a genuine relationship to what is most important.

5 min read

Depth Psychology

Where Should We Search for Our Shadow?

A practical depth-psychological guide to recognizing and engaging with the Shadow — the rejected and unconscious dimensions of the psyche — in everyday life, relationships, and cultural experience.

20 min read

Philosophy

Alita: Battle Angel

A philosophical reading of the film Alita: Battle Angel as a meditation on identity, consciousness, and the struggle for selfhood in a world that seeks to define and control the individual.

11 min

Iranology

Rereading the Ancient Roots of the Haji Firouz Tradition

A historical and mythological investigation into the ancient Iranian origins of the Haji Firouz figure — the herald of Nowruz — and his connections to pre-Islamic Iranian religious and seasonal traditions.

13 min read

Philosophy

The Leap of Faith in Kierkegaard's Philosophy

An exploration of Søren Kierkegaard's concept of the leap of faith — the moment of existential commitment that transcends rational calculation — and its significance for understanding the relationship between reason, existence, and authentic selfhood.

9 min read

Iranology

Struggle and the Path of Action in the World

A philosophical reflection on the Iranian tradition of engaged action — the understanding that genuine wisdom is not passive contemplation but active engagement with the world in the service of truth and justice.

10 min read

Philosophy

A Pathology of Iranian Intellectualism Today and the Need to Return to Philosophy

A critical diagnosis of the current state of Iranian intellectual life — its superficiality, its political instrumentalization, its disconnection from genuine philosophical inquiry — and an argument for a return to rigorous philosophical thinking.

6 min read

Personal Reflections

Joker, Iran, and Noah's Flood

A personal and philosophical reflection written in the context of the 2019 Iranian protests — reading the film Joker as a parable of social collapse and connecting it to the ancient Iranian myth of the flood as a symbol of civilizational crisis.

9 min

Personal ReflectionsPersonal

That Without Which We Lose Everything

A personal reflection on the essential — the thing, the quality, the relationship, the inner resource — without which everything else loses its meaning and value.

6 min read

Personal ReflectionsPersonal

The Coronavirus: Truths We Must Know and What We Can Do

A reflection written at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic — addressing both the factual realities of the virus and the deeper psychological and philosophical questions it raises about human vulnerability, solidarity, and response.

15 min read

Depth Psychology

How to Think Psychoanalytically?

A practical guide to developing the psychoanalytic mode of attention — the capacity to notice what is hidden, to hear what is left unsaid, and to engage with the unconscious dimensions of experience in everyday life.

5 min read

Depth Psychology

Anima in Chains and the Soulless Body of Modern Humanity

A depth-psychological diagnosis of the spiritual condition of modern humanity — the imprisonment of the Anima, the loss of genuine feeling and relatedness, and the resulting experience of inner emptiness and meaninglessness.

5 min read

Philosophy

The Coronavirus and the Struggle of Modern Humanity

A philosophical reflection on what the COVID-19 pandemic reveals about the deeper struggles of modern humanity — its relationship to mortality, to community, to the limits of technological control, and to the question of meaning.

2 min

Philosophy

A Critique of the Film 'The Turin Horse'

A philosophical reading of Béla Tarr's film 'The Turin Horse' — a meditation on the end of meaning, the silence of God, and the bare persistence of life in the face of absolute darkness.

11 min read

Personal ReflectionsPersonal

The Elderly and the COVID Vaccine: Where We Must Not Be Silent

A personal and ethical reflection on the treatment of the elderly during the COVID-19 pandemic — arguing that the systematic deprioritization of older people in vaccine distribution and medical care represents a moral failure that demands a public response.

7 min read