What I Believe
I follow curiosity wherever it leads, using whatever disciplines, experiences, and tools help me better understand people, the world, and the systems we create.
This blog is one expression of that pursuit.
Here, I explore questions primarily through the lenses of evolutionary psychology, sociology, anthropology, and scientific thinking. These are not the only ways I seek to understand the world, nor do I see them as the only valid ones. They are simply the disciplines I am intentionally developing right now.
Whether through my work, art, volunteer experiences, or exploration, I am ultimately pursuing the same questions. This blog simply documents one path through that journey.
Who I Am
If there is one word I would use to describe myself, it is artist.
No matter what I study, what I do, or where I am, the world feels like a living organism. I approach everything through an artistic lens, and I believe creativity is my greatest strength.
That said, I do not see discipline, structure, or rigor as opposites of creativity. I value them deeply. To me, they are tools that allow curiosity to go further, ideas to become clearer, and exploration to become more meaningful. I am interested in structure not for its own sake, but for the ways it can support creativity, openness, and deeper understanding.
For those curious about the more practical details, my name is Jevaria Bashir (pronounced jee-VAY-ree-uh buh-SHEER). I grew up in Queens, New York, studied Computer Science, and currently work as an Associate Solutions Analyst in Cleveland, Ohio.
I am Pakistani American and have spent much of my life moving between cultures. My family originates from Kashmir, and I grew up visiting Pakistan often, where many of my relatives now live throughout Kashmir, Islamabad, and Lahore.
Outside of work, I love drawing semi-realism, realism, and surrealism, reading stories that linger long after they end, and collecting tarot decks for both their symbolism and artwork. I enjoy volunteering, especially with environmental and community gardening projects, exploring new cities, learning to cook, and finding small ways to stay connected to both creativity and the natural world.
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 was not 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 first examine the mind that creates them.
This blog documents that exploration. It documents my attempt to understand how humans became the kind of species that constructs meaning, and what those constructions reveal about who we are, how we relate to one another, and what we may yet become.
Why I Am Learning This Way
At the moment, my goal is to develop a strong foundation in scientific thinking that helps me approach research with greater rigor and clarity. I want to understand not only what research concludes, but how those conclusions are reached and how to evaluate them critically.
I am not pursuing research in the traditional sense. Instead, I am trying to connect evolutionary psychology with the stories humans have told throughout history. Doing so requires drawing from research methods, sociology, anthropology, psychology, evolution, neuroscience, linguistics, history, and literary analysis, not as isolated disciplines, but as different perspectives on the same questions.
I am intentionally learning in public. Rather than collecting credentials or presenting conclusions, I am building the habits of thought that help me ask better questions, evaluate ideas more carefully, and connect disciplines more thoughtfully.
This is simply the beginning of what I expect will be a lifetime of exploration.
Jevaria Onymous 