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Gelareh Khoie

Woman or Girl? A Psychological Reverie

It doesn’t matter about our gender. Man, woman, gay, straight, trans, or cis, we all regress into maladaptive girlish behaviors, we all…

9 min readJun 28, 2023

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Woman or Girl? A Psychological Reverie

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Gelareh Khoie

Adam & Eve

Depth psychologists use the word “adaptation” to describe the current attitude of the conscious self toward life. For example, we can have…

5 min readAug 21, 2022

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Adam & Eve

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Gelareh Khoie

The Protective Spells of Childhood

When I was in the ninth grade, my best friend Maryam and I used to wake up early and eat bucket loads of Lucky Charms while watching…

3 min readAug 2, 2022

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The Protective Spells of Childhood

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Gelareh Khoie

The Myth of Good and Evil

In his book The Three Pillars of Zen (1965), Philip Kapleau explains that the mind has two primary expressions — the buddhi (awakened)…

6 min readMay 11, 2022

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The Myth of Good and Evil

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Gelareh Khoie

The Tyranny of Identity

What some people call personal identity, and ardently cherish as an expression of their precious uniqueness, others call an accumulation of…

9 min readApr 22, 2022

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The Tyranny of Identity

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Gelareh Khoie

The Politics of Popularity

I have this great friend who lives in LA and works in the entertainment industry with her husband. They are the coolest, most decent people…

7 min readOct 29, 2021

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The Politics of Popularity

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Gelareh Khoie

Things That Exceed Us

The wind is invisible but we can tell it’s there because we experience the effects that it produces. For example, this morning while…

5 min readOct 22, 2021

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Things That Exceed Us

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Gelareh Khoie

The Silent Scream (Today)

Nota bene: I’m going through my old writing from a while back when I felt differently than I do today. Here’s a piece from March 15, 2018…

4 min readOct 20, 2021

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The Silent Scream (Today)

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Gelareh Khoie

A Galaxy of Ambivalence

Instead of launching into the day head first, nursing a fierce addictive energy, an addiction to doing and doing and doing, an addiction to…

6 min readOct 18, 2021

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Gelareh Khoie

The Misallocation of Resources As An Expression of Adolescent Consciousness

Real wisdom comes to us only when we finally accept the laws and parameters of reality, the reality which pertains specifically to embodied…

7 min readAug 25, 2021

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The Misallocation of Resources As An Expression of Adolescent Consciousness

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Gelareh Khoie

Gelareh Khoie

I’m an artist, writer, and scholar of depth psychology. I’m also a DJ. Music & Sermons: www.discoliberationmovement.org Art & Writing: www.gelarehkhoie.com

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