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Mateusz Zalewski-Grzelak

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Born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1986, the author pursued his studies in Wales, United Kingdom. In an earlier chapter of life, he prepared for a diplomatic career within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a path ultimately abandoned due to personal circumstances—perhaps fortuitously so, given the contemporary degeneration of politeia into populist spectacle.

His professional life has been eclectic and pragmatic. Alongside long-term careers in information technology and translation, he has held a range of occupations, including bartender, waiter, and stable hand. Travel has been a formative constant: he has visited thirty-nine countries across four continents. Among them, Edinburgh and Sarajevo hold a particular place—Sarajevo for the immediacy of it Born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1986, the author pursued his studies in Wales, United Kingdom. In an earlier chapter of life, he prepared for a diplomatic career within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a path ultimately abandoned due to personal circumstances—perhaps fortuitously so, given the contemporary degeneration of politeia into populist spectacle.

His professional life has been eclectic and pragmatic. Alongside long-term careers in information technology and translation, he has held a range of occupations, including bartender, waiter, and stable hand. Travel has been a formative constant: he has visited thirty-nine countries across four continents. Among them, Edinburgh and Sarajevo hold a particular place—Sarajevo for the immediacy of its wounded yet resilient spirit.

His geographical extremes include Terelj National Park near Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (east); Petoskey, Michigan, USA (west); Haugesund, Norway (north); and Muscat, Oman (south). His longest uninterrupted journey was undertaken by rail: approximately two hundred hours aboard the Trans-Siberian Railway between Moscow and Ulaanbaatar, and back.

His personal motto is: Overcome to excel; excel to overcome. Omnia mea mecum porto—everything I have, I carry with me. Reveal only what is necessary.

His intellectual interests are rigorously interdisciplinary, focused on configuring bridges between fields so that one science may illuminate another. He has spent extensive time conducting research in the National Library of Wales, the National Library of Scotland, and the National Library of Poland.

Preferred thematic concerns include the history of ideas; belief systems in relation to societal transformation; evolutionary perspectives; metaphysics and ethics; grand narratives and discourse; as well as ancient mystery schools and wisdom literature across civilizations.

Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game proved a formative influence in his early years, serving as a hermetic paradigm resonant with Platonizing and Pythagorean traditions—an ideal of intellectual synthesis in which the total inheritance of culture becomes a single, playable cosmos. ...more

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