CrackedSapien

My dear ones, There are things I need to say, things that have lived quiet for too long. When you were growing up, I wanted to be strong for you — the kind of father who could keep the world from hurting you the way it hurt me. I thought discipline meant safety, that structure would protect you from the chaos I’d known. But sometimes, in trying to give you strength, I gave you fear instead. I never meant to. The habits from my own past — the strict training, the tension that never left my shoulders, the reflexes built from years of stress — followed me home like ghosts. And in my worst moments, I let those ghosts speak louder than my love. I told myself I was teaching discipline, but sometimes I was only teaching silence. I thought I was showing you how to be strong, but what you saw was a man still wrestling with his own pain. I know now that my tone, my anger, my distance at times — they left marks I never intended. For that, I am sorry. Truly. I can’t undo what’s been done, but I ca...

On Djinn and Shadow Beings Every culture tells stories of entities that dwell in the shadows. Christians speak of devils and demons. Islam tells of the Djinn, beings of smokeless fire. Other traditions speak of hungry ghosts, shadow-people, or trickster spirits. These tales may differ in detail, but they share a core truth: there are intelligences that thrive in imbalance, and not all encounters with the unseen are kind. The Djinn embody this paradox clearly. In the Qur’anic tradition they are not demons in the Christian sense, nor angels fallen from grace. They are beings created alongside humanity, free-willed like us, capable of choosing light or shadow. Some wander as protectors, others deceive, and many simply exist in their own parallel current, indifferent to human concerns. What we call “dark entities” are not proof of a cosmic war between equal forces of good and evil. They are consciousness twisted by ego, isolation, or imbalance. They are not outside the Flow, but currents w...