Ann Selene

A Liturgy of Becoming

Profound change is realized when you encounter the unrecognizable — the moment you look back at your past self and realize you are looking… Continue
University

On behalf of Empire State University, I am happy to inform you that you have been accepted to the university. Congratulations! Continue reading on Medium
From Self to Story: Narrative Psychology and the Memoirist’s Path to Individuation

Being a memoirist is a vulnerable role; you are both the author and the character. It forces you to dig deep, to hold your lived…
The Pathology of Consumption: Cognitive Dissonance and Its Biological Impact on Ecosystems

It has been very clear to me for many years, as I have attended conferences and traveled across the entire United States, the ultimate… Continue
The Architecture of Auditory Storytelling

The successful deployment of an independent digital broadcasting station (KPNL Radio) and a specialized podcast (The Caravan of Lore)… Continue reading on Medium » Original
Misinterpreting Humility as a Lack of Confidence

Tim Mossholder Unsplash There have been moments in my life where I have sat on podcasts, spoken at conferences, or been lost in a deep
Soil of the Soul: Post-Traumatic Growth and the Externalization of Melancholy

The rains of May have returned. It is hard to believe that a year has passed since I moved to this beautiful place, and even
The Radical Act of Self-Study: Moving from Passive Patient to Informed Partner

I remember a time when my curiosity was met with criticism and an expectation of passive compliance. I was the patient. The doctor… Continue reading
The Biological Tax of the Cultural Play: A Researcher’s Hypothesis

Google Images What happens when a researcher’s internal drive for obscure depth psychology collides with the rigid, industrial-era “scripts” of academia? To explore this, I
Passion vs. The Play: Breaking Free from Inherited Expectations

Alexandru Postovanu Unsplash Cultural plays are a fascinating thing; most of us never even realize that we are part of a subconscious lineage of acting

On Listening & Pre-histology

December 30, 2025 Ann Selene Musings

Schrödinger’s Interval Unspalsh Mike Petucci Tonight, I lie beneath my beige waffle-weave blanket, which I love because it feels inherited, like something that has already lived a life before it came to me. Candles flicker on the nightstand, their small flames steady and loyal. The window to my right is open.

On the Human Condition

December 8, 2025 Ann Selene Musings

Morning never arrives all at once. It unfurls — slow, deliberate, like a soft-spoken omen. Continue reading on Medium » Original article: https://medium.com/@anntomology/on-the-human-condition-02a87b89f964?source=rss-dd9d16b8d22f——2

The Confession of the Wide-Eyed Soul

December 5, 2025 Ann Selene Musings

The world is not a stage, but a glass wall, and I, the cursed witness, stand on the cold and barren side. I see the furious pulse, the rise, the silent fall, The joy that is a debt that suffering must abide. You pass me by in bright, sequential grace, each

The Seed of Sorrow

June 23, 2025 Ann Selene Musings

yuliea Unsplash “As little as you want to write when you’re happy, that’s how much you have to write when you’re miserable. Your passions need to go somewhere, and this is the only place left. Your suffering has to be good for something.” Spoken by the character Brian Bloom in

The Anatomy of a Noticer: Who I Am in the Language of Everything

June 18, 2025 Ann Selene Musings

I am the whisper beneath the static,the note just outside the chord,I am a noticer. Not in the light-touch way people meanwhen they say sensitive, no.I feel everything like it’s carved into me, into my very soul. In Music I am Barber’s Adagio for Strings, a cry that swells into cathedral silence.