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Phobia: Psychiatric Science
Regarding martial arts or cognition, I beseeched a political "pasture" in my experiences. The past, the present and the future, all described by one meadow covered in grass. The wind blew past my bedroom window and I heard the monkey's footsteps thumping down along the ground outside the wall. It was serendipity of the experienced user, but serenity of the closed-minded.
With respect to martial arts tradition, I pose to you a philosophy about martial that it is healthy. I pose to you a frank that in health there is a rocky road that we all walk. So there is light, but is there an animal within? Within a more yearning sound the animal will call back to its mate and get through its life with instinct. Will you or will you not submit, if there is only one question? Is life sending you that message?
Thanks to Krishna and her art of touch-and-release I beg to offer you this master of health science, the pro-literate use of martial arts and the best in health science as yet.
With respect to martial arts tradition, I pose to you a philosophy about martial that it is healthy. I pose to you a frank that in health there is a rocky road that we all walk. So there is light, but is there an animal within? Within a more yearning sound the animal will call back to its mate and get through its life with instinct. Will you or will you not submit, if there is only one question? Is life sending you that message?
Thanks to Krishna and her art of touch-and-release I beg to offer you this master of health science, the pro-literate use of martial arts and the best in health science as yet.
138 pages, Paperback
Published June 29, 2022
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December 12, 2025
A striking, thought-provoking journey
Phobia: Psychiatric Science surprised me in the best way. Jesse Almarker writes with a kind of raw, searching honesty that lingers long after the final page. The blend of martial-arts philosophy, inner psychology, and quiet spiritual questioning creates a rhythm that feels both intimate and universal. I found myself pausing often, sometimes because a line challenged me, and sometimes because it touched something deep I hadn’t put into words before.
What struck me most was the way the book explores instinct, fear, discipline, and the fragile balance between mind and body. It’s written with a poetic strangeness that makes you lean in, and yet the emotional truth beneath it is unmistakable. This is the kind of book that makes you more attentive to your own inner signals, your own “animal within,” and the quiet messages life keeps sending.
A beautifully unusual and resonant read. I’d gladly seek out more of Almarker’s work, voices like this are rare.
Phobia: Psychiatric Science surprised me in the best way. Jesse Almarker writes with a kind of raw, searching honesty that lingers long after the final page. The blend of martial-arts philosophy, inner psychology, and quiet spiritual questioning creates a rhythm that feels both intimate and universal. I found myself pausing often, sometimes because a line challenged me, and sometimes because it touched something deep I hadn’t put into words before.
What struck me most was the way the book explores instinct, fear, discipline, and the fragile balance between mind and body. It’s written with a poetic strangeness that makes you lean in, and yet the emotional truth beneath it is unmistakable. This is the kind of book that makes you more attentive to your own inner signals, your own “animal within,” and the quiet messages life keeps sending.
A beautifully unusual and resonant read. I’d gladly seek out more of Almarker’s work, voices like this are rare.
December 18, 2025
Phobia: Psychiatric Science reads less like a conventional text and more like a meditative walk through the mind’s inner meadow. Jesse Almarker blends psychiatry, martial tradition, and instinct with a strangely poetic clarity, inviting the reader to confront fear not as an enemy, but as a signal. I found myself pausing often, reflecting on discipline, surrender, and the quiet animal wisdom beneath modern thought. Unsettling, thoughtful, and unexpectedly humane, this book lingers long after the final page.
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