Author | Artist | Educator | Tai Chi Practitioner | Endurance Runner
Exploring the spaces between thought, movement, memory, and presence.
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THE FOURTH AXIS
COMING OCTOBER 2026
The Fourth Axis
A Novel
What if time is not the only direction through which we move?
The Fourth Axis follows one man's journey from childhood curiosity and unexplained moments of perception to experiences that challenge his understanding of time, space, consciousness, and the boundaries of what we call reality.
Moving across continents and through encounters that resist easy explanation, he gradually begins to wonder whether seemingly separate moments may be connected along an axis we have not yet learned to see.
ABOUT
Esmail Rahimian is an author, artist, educator, and long-distance runner whose work explores the relationship between movement, consciousness, creativity, and the human experience. Through writing, painting, Tai Chi, meditation, and the long miles of running, he has followed a lifelong curiosity about what lies beyond ordinary thought and perception. Though these paths may appear different, they share a common thread: the search for presence, meaning, and a deeper understanding of what it means to be human.
Not everything needs to be understood to be real