About

Greetings everyone, my name is Gyro.

I am a twenty-something guy who lives in southern Spain that, after almost becoming crippled at his early twenties found God and started seeking knowledge and living his faith inwards and outwards.

I am a somewhat ecclectic person; I play many instruments, sing in a choir, read philosophy and esoterical texts alongside novels, draw and from time to time and even know how to macrame a little.

The reason why I created this website was to share my journey on faith, self-discernment and life, amongst some philosophical thoughts and posts, since I felt isolated after seeking consolation in both conservative (FSSPX) and progressive church environments.

You can contact me at: underthejunipertree@proton.me

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The inner castle has no parish

The reason why I became a christian, alongside the ones previously exposed yesterday, was due to me feeling it was true, that Truth was present there. And I use "feeling", because sometimes human discernment goes beyond reason. I was interested in philosophy and knowing how the world works since I was a child; I remember myself devouring books at the public library, and eventually buying then with the spare money I had from birthday presents and working at the land. I read Hesse, Camus, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Plato, Rothbard, Hoppe, Borges, Kafka, Mann, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus... all the big guys, because existentialism was kinda my thing and stoicism seemed interesting.  The thing is that I always felt that what they said was incomplete to an extent or poisoned even. Just look at Kierkegaard projecting his resentment towards his own bad decisions on God, Abraham and Isaac in "Fear and Tremble". After being "touched by grace" for the first time,...
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Elijah and depression

From 1 Kings 17 to 2 Kings 2, the Bible tells the story of the Prophet Elijah ( Helias ) the Thesbite. The first thing we know about him is that he proclaimed to king Ahab that there wouldn’t be more rain and then, leaving everything behind, followed the Lord’s command and went into the middle of nowhere to be fed by ravens and drink water from a torren in Carith, and later on to be taken care of by a widow, whose son was resurrected through God’s intercession as Helias mourned his death. Some time after these events, we find Helias in the Mount Carmel facing the children of Israel and the prophets of Baal and proposing to them to call the names of their gods against the Lord. “ Invocate nomina deorum vestrorum et ego invocabo nomen Domini et deus qui exaudierit per ignem ipse sit Deus” “Call ye on the names of your gods, and I will call on the name of my Lord: and the God that shall answer by fire, let him be God”. After the prophets of Baal started...
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Today I visited my grandparents

Today I went to visit my grandparents. I like to do so at least once a week as they are somewhat old and I want to enjoy them as long as I can. I went in and gramps was sitting on the couch, quiet, calm. Gramma was out, so it was just the two of us.  At first I enjoyed it; the feeling of "silence", the time stopping, the sun getting through the windows. Some small talk here and there, and nothing else. However, that feeling of calmness didn't last long; I started to get anxious, and was incapable of dealing with silence, so I started checking my phone. It wasn't uncomfortable, it wasn't weird, on the contrary, the overall sensation I had was to be at a safe space with someone who has seen me growing up but to whom I have almost nothing to talk about, and it's not necessarily a problem. I was, in fact, tranquil, but at the same time, I wasn't capable to enjoy it, I needed some kind of stimuli. I've been trying to look inwards for a while now; the inner ...
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