Essays
Everything published, newest first. Every essay carries a persistent identifier and a suggested citation.
What They Called Themselves
Reclaiming the Zoroastrian Rulers and Figures That Built the World's Moral Architecture
The Sanskrit Mirror
How the Vedic and Zoroastrian Traditions Emerged from the Same Source — and What Their Divergence Reveals
And Then Came Nanak
Ik Onkar, the Completion of the Arc, and Why the Matrix Has No Door That Opens From the Other Side
They Scheduled the Cure
How the Justice-Rehabilitation Alliance Criminalized the Most Effective Treatments for Addiction
No Key to the House
Scorsese, Coppola, and the Architecture of the American Guest Condition
The Cow's Lament
Two Traditions, One Cry, and the Oldest Unacknowledged Parallel in Indo-Iranian Scholarship
What Grows in the Dung
The Cow's Body as Entheogenic Substrate, the Unbroken Pre-Colonial Thread, and the Erasure That Followed
Zoroastrian Rulers and the Naming Erasure
What the Achaemenid kings actually called themselves — and what the erasure of those names was designed to conceal