A lantern-creature of silk and stripe hangs between breaths.Its belly swells with captured flame,its ropes knot themselves into prayers of ascent. Below, pipes bloom into powder-clouds—a garden of exhaled light.A single droplet of fuel descends like a falling star,feeding the throat that translates stillness into fire. This page sings the hymn of ignition—the moment where … Continue reading Page of the Combustion Beast
6. The Upanishads (India)
The Upanishads function as renormalization techniques for inner life. They propose methods for subtracting superficial divergences—ego, desire—to reveal a more fundamental field of Brahman. Practices they recommend (meditation, ethical discipline) are operators reducing self-interaction terms and allowing consciousness to experience unified modes. In SLM, the Upanishads describe a path to lower-energy coherence: when the individual … Continue reading 6. The Upanishads (India)
1. The Epic of Gilgamesh (Mesopotamia)
Gilgamesh is a prototypical heavy excitation resisting mortality. Enkidu’s entrance turns the two into a bound pair, like a baryonic composite stabilized by intense mutual coupling. Enkidu’s death is a perturbation that shifts Gilgamesh’s vacuum: the hero gains existential mass—grief, wisdom—forcing a search for permanence (immortality) that results in a renormalized appreciation of the communal … Continue reading 1. The Epic of Gilgamesh (Mesopotamia)
Toward a Standard Literary Model
This post proposes a speculative yet disciplined framework for reimagining world literature: the Standard Literary Model (SLM). Inspired by the elegance of the Standard Model of particle physics, the SLM treats stories not as static cultural objects but as fields, forces, and interacting particles within a vast narrative cosmos.The goal is not to collapse literature … Continue reading Toward a Standard Literary Model
The End and the Beginning: A Flower in Hiroshima
Where the world burned, something began again.
Memory as Salvation
In a universe built on remembrance, forgetting is the true apocalypse.
The Cintamani: The Stone That Dreams
Not all relics give power—some awaken the universe itself.
Alec Bannon: From Journalist to Spiral Self
The man who began by chasing stories ends by binding timelines.
Shrines of Power: Mapping the Threads of Fate in The Maharajagar
Not all battlefields are made of stone and steel—some are built from time, memory, and the elements themselves.
How do the 3 metathemes relate to the content of the Maharajagar?
Let’s now explore how those three meta-themes (as described in the foreword) integrate with the content, structure, and symbolism of The Maharajagar across the whole saga: "The All is a projection of informational modulated energy waves by a cosmically horizon on the time-space continuum."Interpretation in the series:This is a deeply metaphysical idea—drawing from quantum field … Continue reading How do the 3 metathemes relate to the content of the Maharajagar?
Reshuffling my Art and Finding my own Style.
I decided to pause the report of my quest into the canon of the world literature because there was a similar hiatus in my exploration process back then in 2015 that actually lasted till May 20th, 2015. Instead I'm going to expand a little bit upon how I've recently developed my own artist's style or … Continue reading Reshuffling my Art and Finding my own Style.
An Emporium of Order and Chaos.
The title and image of this post refer to an artistically diary in which I’m resuming and catalogizing my artistic and literary creations, larded with thoughts, philosophies, and observations that induced them.The chronological order in which the works were produced has been abandoned in favor of a systematic approach were the subjects are brought together … Continue reading An Emporium of Order and Chaos.
Poetry in the Dark. Acrylic on canvas 120 x 120 cm by Shaharee Vyaas (2023)
‘Darkness’: A Poem by Lord Byron I had a dream, which was not all a dream.The bright sun was extinguish’d, and the starsDid wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earthSwung blind and blackening in the moonless air;Morn came and went—and came, and brought no day, And men forgot their … Continue reading Poetry in the Dark. Acrylic on canvas 120 x 120 cm by Shaharee Vyaas (2023)
The Big Migration. Acrylic on canvas 76.2 x 76.2 cm by Shaharee Vyaas (2023)
I have been thinking carefully about this work for the past two years, and the vision that it contains came to fruition while intermittently working on it over the past year. The Big Migration is a surrealist painting depicting a fantastical migration of humanity through the solar system, but it also carries a deeper message … Continue reading The Big Migration. Acrylic on canvas 76.2 x 76.2 cm by Shaharee Vyaas (2023)
Kundalini. Acrylic on canvas 76.2 x 76.2 cm by Shaharee Vyaas (2023)
DNA and genetics allow us to explore the universe within ourselves. With modern science, we have discovered that the cosmos and our bodies are interconnected. Understanding the vital role DNA plays in our existence and the world around us can help shed light on the mysteries of the universe. By unlocking the secrets of our … Continue reading Kundalini. Acrylic on canvas 76.2 x 76.2 cm by Shaharee Vyaas (2023)
A Society in Transit. Expanded catalog, 166 p., isbn 9798865037835, by Shaharee Vyaas ( Kindle version $ 4,99)
Click on this image to be directed to the amazon page. Arundhati Roy //The system will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling…their ideas, their version of history, their wars…their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We may be many, and they be few… Another world is not only possible, she is on … Continue reading A Society in Transit. Expanded catalog, 166 p., isbn 9798865037835, by Shaharee Vyaas ( Kindle version $ 4,99)
The heterodimensional Aspects of Civilization 2/5. Acrylic on canvas 40.6 x 40.6 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.
This painting is the second installation of a series of five paintings that are a meditation upon the way how the human evolution process mirrors the cosmological cycles. They form a continuation of the space opera called A Cosmology of Civilization that connected the different phases of a civilization to a planet in our solar … Continue reading The heterodimensional Aspects of Civilization 2/5. Acrylic on canvas 40.6 x 40.6 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.
The heterodimensional Aspects of Civilization 1/5. Acrylic on canvas 40,6 x 40,6 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.
This painting is the first installation of a series of five paintings that are a meditation upon the way how the human evolution process mirrors the cosmological cycles. They form a continuation of the space opera called A Cosmology of Civilization that connected the different phases of a civilization to a planet in our solar … Continue reading The heterodimensional Aspects of Civilization 1/5. Acrylic on canvas 40,6 x 40,6 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.
Design for a cosmological clock
This is a project that I have been working on and off over the past two years. Only last week it reached a design that pleased me enough to show it to my better half. She kind of liked its esthetics but after a short pause she frowned and asked me: "How does it work? … Continue reading Design for a cosmological clock
The Dark Sides of Religion (part 3/5): Nirvana. Acrylic on canvas 45 x 45 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.
Nirvana in Buddhism is a transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth. Gurus talk about the universal mind and about the futility of power, knowledge, and material desires. Looked upon from a … Continue reading The Dark Sides of Religion (part 3/5): Nirvana. Acrylic on canvas 45 x 45 cm by Shaharee Vyaas.
The Maharajagar 