The Phantasmagoria of Seeming
A quiet project exploring how perception, psychology, and mysticism weave together to form what we call reality.
About This Work
The Phantasmagoria of Seeming is a series of books and reflections that explore how mind interprets experience — and how that interpretation shapes our understanding of self and world. The lens I look through is drawn from medicine, psychology, hypnotherapy, and mysticism. Together they offer a radically different way of seeing: one that appears unconventional, even dismissive at times, yet is grounded in compassion and deep respect for human experience.
In this view, there is no separate or lasting self to defend or repair — only patterns that arise, persist, and fade. When this is recognised, the usual stories of damage and limitation begin to loosen. What remains is not indifference, but clarity: an ability to see what is actually present, free from the distortions that arise when we believe the ego to be a real entity.
Perspective
Through this perspective, psychology becomes a study not of the self, but of the habits and interpretations that give rise to its appearance. Mysticism provides the language to navigate this subtle territory — one that lies between thought and silence, form and formlessness. The work does not reject science; it extends it, seeking coherence between the inner and outer worlds.
Whether in education, therapy, or daily life, this understanding offers freedom: freedom from the tyranny of fixed identity, and from the quiet suffering that follows when we mistake our stories for truth.
Where It Leads
For now, this site stands simply as an introduction. In time, it will expand to include essays, study materials, and companion pieces to the published works — each exploring the intersection between perception, consciousness, and compassion.
Until then, the books themselves remain the best doorway in. Each one is a fragment of the wider work, an invitation to see not something new, but what has quietly been present all along.