Ompyrean · Author
J. Wayne
J. Wayne writes about the relation between metaphysical knowledge and the way a person lives. His work moves among spiritual practice, psychology, culture, and the forms through which ideas can be taught and made visible.
The work
Knowledge put to work
For Wayne, the distance between understanding an idea and living by it is a recurring problem. His essays move from questions about Being, consciousness, symbolism, and religious experience to the habits of attention and judgment through which people encounter one another and their surroundings. He has approached these questions through extended essays, conversation, reading groups, and visual composition.
His writing also changes register. Some pieces build a metaphysical argument step by step; others begin with a psychological observation, a teaching problem, or a scene from ordinary life. Across these forms he returns to the difference between knowledge repeated in words and knowledge that alters perception or action.
In Avataric Ambitions, the tiger’s 3D glasses hold a deliberate double meaning. They signify the limit of a being’s present sight and the attainment that extends it. The caricature dramatizes that attainment: the glasses are at once the being and its heightened mode of seeing.
The joke in the glasses gives readers a way into the question of how much a being can perceive, and what it would mean to see more.
Earlier work · Essays and teaching
Ascetus, 2020–2025
From 2020 through 2025, Wayne published essays through Ascetus and took part in its intellectual and educational life. They ranged across metaphysics, mysticism, psychology, cultural criticism, and the relation of spiritual knowledge to action.
One recurring question in his Ascetus writing was how a group could study demanding texts without treating reading as an end in itself. The answer took different forms over time: essays intended to teach first principles, discussions among readers, and eventually a course built around readings, lectures, exercises, and direct dialogue.
Course · August–October 2024
Studies in Āryan Spirituality
Wayne developed and taught Studies in Āryan Spirituality (SArS) within Ascetus. In the course title, Āryan derives from the Sanskrit ārya, meaning “noble.” The course combined a changing syllabus with lectures, discussion calls, individual study, and written or practical assignments.
Its opening unit asked students to begin an Ascetus journal and keep a nightly log. Later units moved through esoteric psychology and pedagogy, metaphysics, metageometry, esoteric knowledge, mystic experience, and cosmic consciousness. Readings included P. D. Ouspensky, C. H. Hinton, G. I. Gurdjieff, J. Krishnamurti, Sri Aurobindo, René Guénon, and Frithjof Schuon. The course placed sustained study in conversation with self-observation and the conduct of everyday life.
Wayne described the first syllabus as something he wrote week by week in response to the class discussions. SArS was an experiment in teaching as well as a course of reading: its shape changed as the participants worked through the material together.
Substack · 2026
Earlier essays, revisited
On Substack, Wayne republishes essays from his earlier work with new introductions and footnotes. The additions revisit the original arguments, clarify their terms, and sometimes take them further.
Helping Men ↗
A 2020 essay republished with notes on its criticism of the manosphere and the language of helping.
The Bioenergetic Intellect ↗
A 2021 essay on Nietzsche, vitality, and the life of the mind, introduced and annotated anew.
Ego Surrogacy & Digital Deicide ↗
An earlier argument about digital identity and disembodiment paired with a later companion essay.
Guerilla Mythology & Metempsychaos ↗
An essay on myth, literature, and cultural influence, returned to with new footnotes.
On Telegram, Wayne maintains voluminous correspondence with friends and readers on matters of momentous and living importance. He also maintains an active dialogue and regular correspondence with members of the Praxist Society ↗, including in the chat hub on Discord.
Telegram: @jwayne4 ↗
Discord: jwayne.om_37702
Ompyrean
A distinct body of work
In Ompyrean, Wayne brings his interests in metaphysics, perception, and spiritual development into a new editorial and visual setting. The debut magazine, Avataric Ambitions, joins writing and image in a sustained composition. Ompyrean also presents work by other authors, including Menolk. Pieces carrying Menolk’s byline are his work.
Magazine · Volume I · Summer 2026
Avataric Ambitions
The first volume is a full-color magazine of 40 numbered pages. Its imagery, typography, and writing form a single composition.
Author
J. Wayne wrote all of the magazine’s original text. Passages quoted from other authors retain their source attributions.
Publication
An Ompyrean publication. Print edition available through Blurb.
Bibliographic record
Citing the issue
Use the title and the page number printed in the magazine for the passage cited.
Wayne, J. Avataric Ambitions. Volume I. An Ompyrean publication, Summer 2026.
J. Wayne, Avataric Ambitions, vol. I (Summer 2026), 16.
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