What is a man? This, dear aesthetes, is a question that has plagued scholars for centuries. Modern philosophy would lead one to believe that the complexity of consciousness is almost trivial in its proliferation. And yet, as alchemistic derivatives are extricated through emergent and personal practice, we are left with a clue to the darkness of our world. These "miserable secrets" we grasp so tightly with every fibre of our being... perhaps it is they that hold the key to our humanity.