A meditation can serve many different purposes. I’m not gona explain how to meditate right now. That's a story for another time. What I am going to explain is a mental exercise on how to organize your emotions and thoughts. This meditation or thought time-line is intended to give you a frame-work to process issues. … Continue reading Meditation 7 – Clean up your Lawn
The Language of Deviance: Criminality to Gallows Humor
Gystilyn O’Brien - April 10th, 2025 (in peer review) Abstract The term ‘deviance’ has changed greatly over the last several decades, in part due to the rise of acknowledgement regarding the status of mental health disorders, marginalized stratification, and the simple fact that the status quo has begun to adopt those languages and modalities historically assigned … Continue reading The Language of Deviance: Criminality to Gallows Humor
The Circus – We Only Know What We Know
I was at a three month intensive writing workshop in Koh Samui, Thailand, sat around a mid-sized tile dining room table with six other internationals having dinner when the conversation, which had been on families and upbringing, shifted. “At least you’re not a circus freak,” I heard across the table. Our editor, a woman in … Continue reading The Circus – We Only Know What We Know
A Frank and Unabridged Guide to Publishing in 2020
There are about a million interesting things about publishing a book. The hardest, hands down, is pushing the button. I wish I'd had a better guide, a better map regarding what to expect, when I had started. I, like most, had to dig to find the process, and frankly, it's got so many steps that there's no point in being secretive about it. Here is a guide - straightforward and simple.
Millennials’ Grimoire
Now available on Amazon and Kindle. Hardback will be available next month. If you'd prefer an epub copy email me at Gystilyn@gmail.com. Amazon/Kindle Growing up, it turns out, is almost nothing like what my parents' generation taught me to expect. I was presented with a formula for adulting, and through trial and error and a … Continue reading Millennials’ Grimoire
The Tropical Night
We sit in the shadows of the First Draft Pub, watching the wind twist through the palms in rabid expectation of the coming monsoon.
Tales of the City
The Bay has offered me a community and home in a way that was never available to me before. What's more, even beyond community, its offered a mindset which I ultimately thrive under - that of something beyond survival.
Addressing Sleep in the Correctional System
By Gystilyn O’Brien - 06/02/2019 - unpublished Sleep deprivation is a major problem in society, given busy schedules and poor nutrition and sleep practices. In the prison system, where tensions are high as a standard, sleep deprivation can cause not only health failure but civil unrest, costing the institution and economy both time and money. … Continue reading Addressing Sleep in the Correctional System
Welcome to the Content Castle
The Island of Koh Samui hails just east of Surat Thani, Thailand, and is the bigger of the islands composing Chumphon Archipelago. My travel to the island included no less than two 10 hour flights, with a pit stop at Zurich Airport, an overnight train from Bangkok to Surat Thani, a bus to Ban Nam … Continue reading Welcome to the Content Castle
Magic. How it Works; How to See and Connect with Energy
The thing to realize is that being connected, seeing Energy, being aware, it's not something only witches do. Humans are made to do this thing. It’s apart of our physical make-up, to be able to connect and see. Monks, martial artists, prophets, priests, gurus, medicine men, witches… all these people throughout time have known these things to be true, across all religions.
Gystilyn O'Brien 