Essays and stories by Andrei Jebeleanu, grouped by series. Each series reads best from the first piece.

The Geometry of Illusion

Fata Morgana: The Geometry of Illusion and the Diseases of Perception

Where Is the Fixed Point? The Mathematics of a Crooked Ruler

Gold Is Not Greed: What the Philokalia Actually Separates

The Mind Wants a Verdict: Motivated Reasoning and the Anatomy of a False Proof

Humility as Calibration: Discernment Without Self-Certification

When Up Becomes Down: The Geometry of a Value Inversion

Characters

Did I tell you I met my true love? Her name is Dia and she is my subconscious.

Let me introduce you to the strangest character of my story. Miseo. The Hate.

Let Me Introduce You to the Procession of the Bodiless Powers

The Paradox

The Paradox: It Never Lies, and It Never Quite Tells the Truth. Part I.

The Paradox: It Never Lies, and It Never Quite Tells the Truth. Part II.

CleverCraft

CleverCraft. The Science of unending youth and undying life

Humanism, Transhumanism, Suprahumanism — and the CleverCraft

Humanism, Transhumanism, Suprahumanism — and the CleverCraft

The Night a Dead Philosopher Interviewed Me in Prague

The Night A Dead Philosopher Interviewed me in Prague. Part ONE

The Night A Dead Philosopher Interviewed me in Prague. Part TWO

Time

On the Geometry of Time — Or Why a Line Will Never Be Enough

Chronos: A User’s Guide to Time

Why Do You Always Need Space to Explain Time?

The Sacred Science of Letting Go

Family and History

When I first spoke to my parents about the path I wanted to follow in life

A Library of Excuses — Footnotes on My Father’s Reading Life

The Old Jebeleanu Family – How to Survive an Ideological Purge

I am the exquisite death of others

Two Houses, One Story, and the End of a Street

Kakofrenia: Psychological Warfare for Civilian Use (How the Mind Was Taught to Eat Itself)

When the lie becomes a country—Russia

A Short History of the Man Who Made Me Possible. My father.

Dear Ceaușescu, It’s a Boy: A Memo from the Dead, For the Not-Yet-Born

A man with a cigar handed the future of a hundred million souls to a man with a mustache. True story.

The Pistol That Missed Lenin — And Hit Something Deeper

Stairway to Seventeen

Teaching Journalism

Did I Tell You How I Ended Up Teaching Journalism (Despite My Best Efforts Not To)

🎓 They Came with Wi-Fi and Vitamin Water: Top 4 Things That Shocked Me While Teaching at the Faculty of Journalism

How to Tell an Epic Story in the Age of Thumb Scrolls

Stories

Four Reasons You Shouldn’t Invite Me to Dinner – How I Ended Up in the Dean’s Wife’s Mouth

Frankenstein’s Monster, But Make It Gluten-Free and Biodegradable

Have I ever told you about the most beautiful love declaration I ever received?

A Cemetery for Sonnets

Essays

Meeting the Now in a Filthy Restroom – Spiritual Clarity in Unsanitary Places

The Superlative of Being Alone

The Triumph of Being Wrong

Hiding: Humanity’s Real Hobby

The Unbearable Accuracy of Being Me

Children’s Day for Grown-Ups: Hunter S., Cocaine, and the ∩-Shaped Manifesto

The Mind of a Thousand Identities

Soul. The unbearable nearness of something I’ve spent a lifetime denying.

The Sincerity of Hiding

The Violence of Misnaming the Things You Hold Dear

Andrei Jebeleanu is a character in The Apophatic Man by Marius Tianu.