Cyberpunk Mentalism

What does it mean to have an ability? Not a cheap party trick, not some shallow novelty. A sensitivity. A way of tuning into a bandwidth most people ignore. Is “psychic” just a rebranded behavioral profiler? Intuition, clairsentience, cold reading—al

Maybe you thought Hermeticism was all dusty books, incense, and solitary meditations—the slow grind of mental discipline, centuries-old formulas, words scratched into leather-bound codices by candlelight. A two-speed existence: either you sat cross-l

Look, I’ll tell you straight: Mentalism, whether you’re talking the carnival show stuff or the deep-diving, consciousness-expanding esoteric journey, is a goddamn goldmine for a writer of speculative fiction and cyberpunk. Not that you’d need anyone

Are we living in a dystopia? Maybe it’s not quite that, not yet, but the line is thin enough to slip through, and I’d say we’ve already stepped into the first act of a cyberpunk era. If you’re not convinced, I’d suggest you actually read more cyberpu

I was hunched under the flicker of a dying fluorescent desk lamp, notebook full of code fragments open by my hand, the smudged keys of my battered laptop fighting for purchase beneath my restless fingers. The city sweated neon through my window, stin