About Me
My name is Jevaria Bashir (pronounced jee-VAY-ree-uh buh-SHEER). I am 22 years old and grew up in Queens, New York. I studied Computer Science in Pittsburgh, PA, and now live in Cleveland, OH.
I grew up Pakistani American, visiting Pakistan frequently throughout my life while living in the U.S. My family originates from Kashmir, and in the last generation some have migrated to Islamabad and Lahore.
I love to draw semi-realism, realism, and surrealist art, and I enjoy reading. I am a fiend for a good story and love watching new TV shows. I also do tarot and collect decks that I find beautiful in both their messages and art.
I love volunteering, especially when it involves community gardens or planting. I enjoy exploring new places in cities and am learning to cook, channeling my ancestors when it comes to spice measurements, and it turns out great (so far). When it is warmer, I like to play badminton, and if I have access, I love playing pool. I also enjoy weight lifting and tend to pair it with Pilates.
Why I Made this Blog
I have always been drawn to magic. As a child, I was obsessed with fairies, not in the sense of researching them, but in believing that if I believed hard enough, they would appear. I wasn’t searching for knowledge. I was searching for confirmation. I thought belief itself could make something real.
As I grew older, I began to realize that living only in belief, and scanning the world for proof of it, is a way of confusing projection with reality. That realization did not make me abandon myth or spirituality. Instead, it made me want to understand them. I became interested in psychology, philosophy, and spirituality as ways of making sense of people and the world.
Over time, I found myself less interested in abstract conclusions alone and more interested in the mechanisms behind behavior itself. Why do humans believe? Why do we create myths, religions, moral systems, and eventually science? What kind of evolved mind produces magic in childhood and methodology in adulthood? That curiosity led me toward evolutionary psychology and the biological and anthropological roots of human behavior.
I am interested in how belief systems evolve, what they reveal about us as a species, and how the patterns we inherit continue shaping what we build today. Myth, spirituality, and science all emerge from the same evolved human mind. To understand any of them, we must examine the mind that creates them.
This blog is a record of that exploration. I am tracing how we became the kind of species that constructs meaning, and what those constructions reveal about who we are and what we are becoming.
Jevaria Onymous 