About my blog

With this website I would like to share some ancient and modern ideas about humanity that I believe are important and worth attention. I describe these ideas under the title “The Iranic Humanism.” I use this name because these ideas were first introduced by people who are often called Indo-European or Aryan peoples, who spread to many parts of the world. The word Arya is also an ancient pronunciation related to the word Iran.

Two main pillars of these ideas are:

1) Mazdeyasna insight
The teachings of Mazdeyasna can be seen as an early origin of humanism. They emphasize "Inner Welfare", achieved through managing and understanding the mind. Through this inner development, every individual can become free from within.

2) Social Democracy
Social democracy represents a modern and more humanistic form of capitalism. It focuses on "Outer Welfare" through social and economic organization. Its goal is to create economic security and freedom for everyone in society.

I am a single man born on August 23, 1962. At the moment I am looking for a job. In my free time I study 17 languages using the Duolingo app: Hindi, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, Irish, German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, English, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, Arabic, and Hebrew.

I see myself as a Homo sapiens, an Iranian, a Swede, a Mazdeyasnian, a Social Democrat, a Humanist, a Laic and Straight person. I came to Sweden as an asylum seeker in the middle of 1987, during the Iran–Iraq war.

I have always been a rather solitary person and I never had someone who could guide me through life. Because of this, I had to struggle and suffer somewhat in order to find my own path. For this reason I created this page: to share the insights and results I have reached during my life. I hope that these ideas may help others who, like me, must find their own way in life.

In Sweden I found security and freedom, and this gave me the opportunity to discover myself. By “discovering myself” I mean understanding my own thoughts, what I truly believe, and what my position in life is. I also realized that some thoughts and feelings may come from indoctrination and may not truly belong to my own nature.

There is a Persian proverb that says:

“When the intellect does not work properly, one may suffer.”

I have personally experienced that much of my suffering in life came from what this proverb describes. Now that I feel more free and fortunate, I would like to share the results of my thinking, because it might be useful for someone else.

Best regards
Ario Nahram