Mandrake
Mandrake is from the Jungian, "left hand side" of psychology, not from the mainstream Freudian school at all, but from the movement which, even though it borrows from psychology itself for its own purposes, has been labeled the "anti-psychiatry"...
The Worm and the Fish
As the worm dangled on the end of his line, the fisherman became frustrated that none of the fish were biting, and began to curse the worm for being lousy bait. "Stupid worm", he said, "wriggling around like that and warning all the fish away. I swear...
Walden
Walden's mission in life is to deconstruct the many ways in which magic has been appropriated to serve the interests of the power structure at the expense of the general population - to use magic himself in ways that re-appropriate it while questioning...
Tandem
"I have to speculate that God himself did make us into corresponding shapes like puzzle pieces from the clay..." (Such Great Heights, The Postal Service) "I sometimes think that I'm too many people, too many people, too many people..." (Too Many...
Surface (Chapter 13)
"Boards don't fight back." - Bruce Lee The next morning, the first thing Klein had heard after having woken up had been the sound of Boko typing at his computer terminal. When he'd noticed that Klein had finally been up, Boko, ever the type to rise...
Surface (Chapter 11)
"Clothes do make the man. Naked people have almost no influence on society." - Mark Twain Boko's living quarters had looked like no other living quarters Klein had ever seen before in his life. A trapdoor concealed by sticks, moss, dirt and dead...
Surface (Chapter 10)
"All of us are looking for ourselves somewhere out there inside everyone we come across." - Carl Gustav Jung "When you pour tea into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Answer like an echo." - Bruce Lee Klein hadn't gone into the forest with any...
Surface (Chapter 9)
Klein had been a weird kid. In class, most teachers had resented him for scribbling, fidgeting, daydreaming and reading books they hadn't even mentioned instead of sitting still and paying attention all the time like he'd been supposed to, and most...
Surface (Chapter 8)
"Threefold is the faith of the embodied, which is inherent in their nature- the Satvic (pure), the Rajasic (passionate) and the Tamasic (dark)." - Bhagavad-Gita "Western time is ticking; Eastern time is breathing; capoeira time is pulsating." - ????...
Surface (Chapter 7)
As much as she'd learned from discovering the merits of solitude, a year of isolation hadn't done much to improve her social networking capabilities by that point. She hadn't known anyone she could use as a focus group to get a second opinion from (or...
Surface (Chapter 6)
Mano hadn't noticed at which time she'd begun to talk to herself and hear voices in her head talking back to her all the time, but it must have been sometime around the middle of the fall. It had happened so seamlessly and she'd had enough time to get...
Surface (Chapter 5)
TRIGGER WARNING for character suicide Mano had found her lying on her back in a perfect corpse asana, perfect right down to every last detail. Her own body's reaction had been in stark contrast with that kind of stillness until she'd worn...