Benjamin, Xylina

I am a 21-year-old college Junior who decided to spend most of my parents’ and some of my own money on studying linguistics and the creative process (or how to write). Somehow, along the way, I’ve developed (and life has sort of also guided me to) multiple interests outside of writing, both in the arts and in philosophy/religion.

I am not a master at any of my practices, but I indulge myself in learning and applying what I know. Over the course of a few years (probably two), I’ve allowed myself the privilege of researching the lives and philosophies of Jean-Paul Satre, Alan Watts, and Soren Kierkegaard, even Sadhguru (although, as his name implies, he is a guru) which allowed me to embrace the multitude of ideologies scattered across different fields at both present and past times.

Lately, I find myself trying to understand how people reinterpret their experiences within themselves and the world and maybe even with God in order to create art and philosophies and religions as those which have been created. I often attempt to understand these interpretations of the self in relation to philosophies set forth by the aforementioned philosophers. As a result, I will try to manifest art off the questions these philosophers provoke within me.