Mystes Arcana
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Exploring where technology, myth & mind meet - essays on digital culture, gender & modern metaphysics, written from the crossroads of art & mysticism.
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A lot of us feel something is wrong — even if we can’t explain it.
Prices keep rising, wages stay flat, bills feel heavier every month.
Most of us are doing everything right, and life still feels harder.
Something changed.
We just weren’t told what.
Prices keep rising, wages stay flat, bills feel heavier every month.
Most of us are doing everything right, and life still feels harder.
Something changed.
We just weren’t told what.
The Gospel of Thomas reflects a post-Easter awareness of James the Just as Jesus’ successor, but it embeds that leadership memory within a sayings tradition that has been de-apocalypticised and interiorised.
December 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The Gospel of Thomas reflects a post-Easter awareness of James the Just as Jesus’ successor, but it embeds that leadership memory within a sayings tradition that has been de-apocalypticised and interiorised.
I’ve published a personal essay reflecting on my childhood growing up around the Morris and folk scene in the late 1970s and 1980s. It’s not a critique of Morris dancing, but a look at how that world felt from a child’s position — living inside an adult social life.
December 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I’ve published a personal essay reflecting on my childhood growing up around the Morris and folk scene in the late 1970s and 1980s. It’s not a critique of Morris dancing, but a look at how that world felt from a child’s position — living inside an adult social life.
At the winter solstice, the days stop shortening. Nothing suddenly improves, but something decisive happens: the loss ceases. The light doesn’t arrive yet — it simply changes direction.
December 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
At the winter solstice, the days stop shortening. Nothing suddenly improves, but something decisive happens: the loss ceases. The light doesn’t arrive yet — it simply changes direction.
A lot of us feel something is wrong — even if we can’t explain it.
Prices keep rising, wages stay flat, bills feel heavier every month.
Most of us are doing everything right, and life still feels harder.
Something changed.
We just weren’t told what.
Prices keep rising, wages stay flat, bills feel heavier every month.
Most of us are doing everything right, and life still feels harder.
Something changed.
We just weren’t told what.
December 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A lot of us feel something is wrong — even if we can’t explain it.
Prices keep rising, wages stay flat, bills feel heavier every month.
Most of us are doing everything right, and life still feels harder.
Something changed.
We just weren’t told what.
Prices keep rising, wages stay flat, bills feel heavier every month.
Most of us are doing everything right, and life still feels harder.
Something changed.
We just weren’t told what.
Another dispatch from the Galilee Gazette:
Early Christianity meets tabloid satire.
If you missed the full investigation, here it is 👇
#BibleHistory #Satire
Early Christianity meets tabloid satire.
If you missed the full investigation, here it is 👇
#BibleHistory #Satire
BREAKING: VIRGIN BIRTH STORY APPEARS OUT OF NOWHERE
EARLY CHRISTIANS CHECK NOTES, FIND NOTHING
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Another dispatch from the Galilee Gazette:
Early Christianity meets tabloid satire.
If you missed the full investigation, here it is 👇
#BibleHistory #Satire
Early Christianity meets tabloid satire.
If you missed the full investigation, here it is 👇
#BibleHistory #Satire
BREAKING: The Galilee Gazette has uncovered something wild.
Turns out the earliest Christians knew nothing about a virgin birth — the story appears decades later out of nowhere.
My full satirical feature here 👇
#Christianity #BibleHistory #Satire
Turns out the earliest Christians knew nothing about a virgin birth — the story appears decades later out of nowhere.
My full satirical feature here 👇
#Christianity #BibleHistory #Satire
BREAKING: VIRGIN BIRTH STORY APPEARS OUT OF NOWHERE
EARLY CHRISTIANS CHECK NOTES, FIND NOTHING
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 PM
BREAKING: The Galilee Gazette has uncovered something wild.
Turns out the earliest Christians knew nothing about a virgin birth — the story appears decades later out of nowhere.
My full satirical feature here 👇
#Christianity #BibleHistory #Satire
Turns out the earliest Christians knew nothing about a virgin birth — the story appears decades later out of nowhere.
My full satirical feature here 👇
#Christianity #BibleHistory #Satire
I’ve just shared something new on Substack that’s close to my heart.
It’s about the values children live by at five years old — kindness, fairness, inclusion — and what happens when we carry those values forward into adult life.
It’s about the values children live by at five years old — kindness, fairness, inclusion — and what happens when we carry those values forward into adult life.
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I’ve just shared something new on Substack that’s close to my heart.
It’s about the values children live by at five years old — kindness, fairness, inclusion — and what happens when we carry those values forward into adult life.
It’s about the values children live by at five years old — kindness, fairness, inclusion — and what happens when we carry those values forward into adult life.
I’ve always been drawn to the hidden — the things pushed aside, criticised, or labelled “wrong.” Whenever something has been erased or ignored, it’s usually a sign to me that something deeper is going on. History leaves crumbs, even when people try to sweep them away.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I’ve always been drawn to the hidden — the things pushed aside, criticised, or labelled “wrong.” Whenever something has been erased or ignored, it’s usually a sign to me that something deeper is going on. History leaves crumbs, even when people try to sweep them away.
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I’ve just shared something unusual:
a Q&A about the lost Jewish-Christian gospels — the writings once used by the earliest followers of Jesus, including the group led by James the Just.
These texts didn’t survive… but their fragments did.
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a Q&A about the lost Jewish-Christian gospels — the writings once used by the earliest followers of Jesus, including the group led by James the Just.
These texts didn’t survive… but their fragments did.
(1/4)
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I’ve just shared something unusual:
a Q&A about the lost Jewish-Christian gospels — the writings once used by the earliest followers of Jesus, including the group led by James the Just.
These texts didn’t survive… but their fragments did.
(1/4)
a Q&A about the lost Jewish-Christian gospels — the writings once used by the earliest followers of Jesus, including the group led by James the Just.
These texts didn’t survive… but their fragments did.
(1/4)
There was once a gospel used by Jesus’s earliest followers — and it disappeared.
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
There was once a gospel used by Jesus’s earliest followers — and it disappeared.
There’s a moment each night when my daughter is falling asleep where something unmistakable happens in the room.
Not a sound, not a movement — a shift in presence.
I feel her cross a threshold before her breathing even changes.
Not a sound, not a movement — a shift in presence.
I feel her cross a threshold before her breathing even changes.
November 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
There’s a moment each night when my daughter is falling asleep where something unmistakable happens in the room.
Not a sound, not a movement — a shift in presence.
I feel her cross a threshold before her breathing even changes.
Not a sound, not a movement — a shift in presence.
I feel her cross a threshold before her breathing even changes.
I’ve been thinking about Santa — not the commercial mascot, but the strange ritual we enact every December.
A whole culture tells a story it knows isn’t literally true… yet speaks it with conviction.
What are we actually doing when we do this?
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A whole culture tells a story it knows isn’t literally true… yet speaks it with conviction.
What are we actually doing when we do this?
👇
November 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I’ve been thinking about Santa — not the commercial mascot, but the strange ritual we enact every December.
A whole culture tells a story it knows isn’t literally true… yet speaks it with conviction.
What are we actually doing when we do this?
👇
A whole culture tells a story it knows isn’t literally true… yet speaks it with conviction.
What are we actually doing when we do this?
👇
🎭 Gospel Wars: Matthew vs Luke
Only two gospel writers ever described the birth of Jesus…
and they disagree on almost every detail.
So I imagined a conversation between them — and it turns out, it’s hilarious and revealing.
(Link in next post)
Only two gospel writers ever described the birth of Jesus…
and they disagree on almost every detail.
So I imagined a conversation between them — and it turns out, it’s hilarious and revealing.
(Link in next post)
November 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
🎭 Gospel Wars: Matthew vs Luke
Only two gospel writers ever described the birth of Jesus…
and they disagree on almost every detail.
So I imagined a conversation between them — and it turns out, it’s hilarious and revealing.
(Link in next post)
Only two gospel writers ever described the birth of Jesus…
and they disagree on almost every detail.
So I imagined a conversation between them — and it turns out, it’s hilarious and revealing.
(Link in next post)
We didn’t lose culture all at once.
It just drifted — until performance replaced participation.
My new essay explores how post-culture crept up on us, and what might come after.
It just drifted — until performance replaced participation.
My new essay explores how post-culture crept up on us, and what might come after.
Post-Culture Creeped Up on Us — and Now We’re Living in It
We didn’t notice when culture became performance, but we feel the hollow space it left.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We didn’t lose culture all at once.
It just drifted — until performance replaced participation.
My new essay explores how post-culture crept up on us, and what might come after.
It just drifted — until performance replaced participation.
My new essay explores how post-culture crept up on us, and what might come after.
Even in spaces where men talk about feelings, something still holds back.
The moment a man truly opens up, the world seems to tighten around him.
The moment a man truly opens up, the world seems to tighten around him.
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Even in spaces where men talk about feelings, something still holds back.
The moment a man truly opens up, the world seems to tighten around him.
The moment a man truly opens up, the world seems to tighten around him.
I’ve just released The Gospel of the Daughter on YouTube — a reimagining of the Christ story through the feminine voice of Jesua, Daughter of the Mother.
A short narrated film blending myth, faith, and imagination.
🎧 Watch here:
A short narrated film blending myth, faith, and imagination.
🎧 Watch here:
The Gospel of the Daughter – A Feminine Retelling of the Christ Story
YouTube video by Mystes Arcana
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November 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I’ve just released The Gospel of the Daughter on YouTube — a reimagining of the Christ story through the feminine voice of Jesua, Daughter of the Mother.
A short narrated film blending myth, faith, and imagination.
🎧 Watch here:
A short narrated film blending myth, faith, and imagination.
🎧 Watch here:
What if the story of Christ had always been told through a woman’s voice?
Listen to The Gospel of the Daughter — now in audio form, with quiet music beneath the narration.
#Theology #Feminism #Spirituality
Listen to The Gospel of the Daughter — now in audio form, with quiet music beneath the narration.
#Theology #Feminism #Spirituality
The Gospel of the Daughter – Audio Edition
A reading of the lost scroll from Galilee — for those who prefer to listen, not only to read.
open.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
What if the story of Christ had always been told through a woman’s voice?
Listen to The Gospel of the Daughter — now in audio form, with quiet music beneath the narration.
#Theology #Feminism #Spirituality
Listen to The Gospel of the Daughter — now in audio form, with quiet music beneath the narration.
#Theology #Feminism #Spirituality
Would our idea of God, and of power, be different if the story had always been told through a woman’s voice?
A 2-minute read: The Gospel of the Daughter
#Feminism #Religion #Mythology
A 2-minute read: The Gospel of the Daughter
#Feminism #Religion #Mythology
What If Christ Had Been a Daughter?
Exploring how gender shapes divinity — and what changes when God speaks in a woman’s voice.
medium.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Would our idea of God, and of power, be different if the story had always been told through a woman’s voice?
A 2-minute read: The Gospel of the Daughter
#Feminism #Religion #Mythology
A 2-minute read: The Gospel of the Daughter
#Feminism #Religion #Mythology
Not a rewriting of faith, but a reflection on what balance might have meant if the story had always spoken in both voices.
I know this will stir debate.
That’s the point — reverence and imagination can coexist.
Read ‘The Gospel of the Daughter’ on Substack
I’d love to hear your thoughts: how do you feel when sacred stories are told through another voice?
That’s the point — reverence and imagination can coexist.
Read ‘The Gospel of the Daughter’ on Substack
I’d love to hear your thoughts: how do you feel when sacred stories are told through another voice?
Beyond Sugar and Spice: Interlude III – The Gospel of the Daughter
What if Christ had been Daughter instead of Son? A reimagining of the New Testament through the voice of the Divine Feminine
open.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Not a rewriting of faith, but a reflection on what balance might have meant if the story had always spoken in both voices.
What if the story of Christ had been written in a matriarchal world?
My latest interlude, The Gospel of the Daughter, imagines that world - a sacred narrative told through the voice of the Divine Feminine.
Not to replace belief, but to reflect on balance.
My latest interlude, The Gospel of the Daughter, imagines that world - a sacred narrative told through the voice of the Divine Feminine.
Not to replace belief, but to reflect on balance.
November 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
What if the story of Christ had been written in a matriarchal world?
My latest interlude, The Gospel of the Daughter, imagines that world - a sacred narrative told through the voice of the Divine Feminine.
Not to replace belief, but to reflect on balance.
My latest interlude, The Gospel of the Daughter, imagines that world - a sacred narrative told through the voice of the Divine Feminine.
Not to replace belief, but to reflect on balance.
Before we learn to speak, we are spoken into being.
A name feels like a gift, but it also carries a frame - holding the hopes, histories, and hierarchies of those who chose it.
🕊 The Name We Are Given - new chapter from Beyond Sugar and Spice
open.substack.com/pub/mystesar...
A name feels like a gift, but it also carries a frame - holding the hopes, histories, and hierarchies of those who chose it.
🕊 The Name We Are Given - new chapter from Beyond Sugar and Spice
open.substack.com/pub/mystesar...
Beyond Sugar and Spice - Chapter Five: The Name We Are Given
Exploring how names define gender, culture, and belonging - and what happens when we reclaim the power to name ourselves.
open.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Before we learn to speak, we are spoken into being.
A name feels like a gift, but it also carries a frame - holding the hopes, histories, and hierarchies of those who chose it.
🕊 The Name We Are Given - new chapter from Beyond Sugar and Spice
open.substack.com/pub/mystesar...
A name feels like a gift, but it also carries a frame - holding the hopes, histories, and hierarchies of those who chose it.
🕊 The Name We Are Given - new chapter from Beyond Sugar and Spice
open.substack.com/pub/mystesar...
Misogyny isn’t coming back on its own. Someone’s engineering it.
Misogyny isn’t chaos. It’s strategy.
A quiet war waged through memes, morals, and algorithms.
And it’s working.
Read the full piece:
“Engineered Misogyny: The Hidden War Shaping Our Minds”
#Feminism #GenderPolitics #CultureWar #Propaganda #HybridWarfare
A quiet war waged through memes, morals, and algorithms.
And it’s working.
Read the full piece:
“Engineered Misogyny: The Hidden War Shaping Our Minds”
#Feminism #GenderPolitics #CultureWar #Propaganda #HybridWarfare
Engineered Misogyny - Inside the Hybrid War on the Western Mind
What if the rise in misogyny isn’t random - but a deliberate strategy in a global information war?
open.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Misogyny isn’t coming back on its own. Someone’s engineering it.
Something’s off.
Misogyny is back — louder, sharper, everywhere.
Homophobia too. #feminism
And trans women? Turned into the enemy overnight.
This isn’t natural.
It’s engineered. 👇
Misogyny is back — louder, sharper, everywhere.
Homophobia too. #feminism
And trans women? Turned into the enemy overnight.
This isn’t natural.
It’s engineered. 👇
October 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Something’s off.
Misogyny is back — louder, sharper, everywhere.
Homophobia too. #feminism
And trans women? Turned into the enemy overnight.
This isn’t natural.
It’s engineered. 👇
Misogyny is back — louder, sharper, everywhere.
Homophobia too. #feminism
And trans women? Turned into the enemy overnight.
This isn’t natural.
It’s engineered. 👇
Throughout history, powerful women have appeared like sparks in the dark - Cleopatra, Wu Zetian, Elizabeth I, Hatshepsut.
Each ruled with brilliance, yet each was treated as an exception.
A miracle, not a model.
#WomenInPower #History #Feminism #HerStory
Each ruled with brilliance, yet each was treated as an exception.
A miracle, not a model.
#WomenInPower #History #Feminism #HerStory
Beyond Sugar and Spice - Chapter Four: Power, Permission, and the Female Exception
A reflective journey through history - from Cleopatra to Elizabeth I - exploring how women in power were celebrated as exceptions and how centuries of male-centred stories still shape who gets to lead
open.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Throughout history, powerful women have appeared like sparks in the dark - Cleopatra, Wu Zetian, Elizabeth I, Hatshepsut.
Each ruled with brilliance, yet each was treated as an exception.
A miracle, not a model.
#WomenInPower #History #Feminism #HerStory
Each ruled with brilliance, yet each was treated as an exception.
A miracle, not a model.
#WomenInPower #History #Feminism #HerStory
Things I fear the most for my daughter:
She’s entering a world where success is measured in followers — where fame has replaced faith.
A world where being known matters more than being whole.
#Parenting #Culture #Fame
She’s entering a world where success is measured in followers — where fame has replaced faith.
A world where being known matters more than being whole.
#Parenting #Culture #Fame
October 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Things I fear the most for my daughter:
She’s entering a world where success is measured in followers — where fame has replaced faith.
A world where being known matters more than being whole.
#Parenting #Culture #Fame
She’s entering a world where success is measured in followers — where fame has replaced faith.
A world where being known matters more than being whole.
#Parenting #Culture #Fame