ARABELLA THAÏS
Arabella Thais is a philosopher whose work explores the deep structure of reality
Born in London, Arabella earned a First-Class Honours degree in English Literature from the University of Bristol, followed by a Master’s in Modernism and Comparative Literature from University College London.
After a career in fashion publishing and interior design, she left the commercial world in pursuit of deeper existential coherence and spent three transformative years in the Costa Rican jungle. There, she undertook intensive study in the healing arts, as well as the Western Hermetic tradition as a framework for psychological integration and self-inquiry.
She currently resides between London, Switzerland, and Ibiza while she completes her Ph.D. in philosophy and physics from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Alongside her academic work, she runs The Temple of Truth—an online Mystery School and educational platform—hosts The Cosmic Codex podcast, speaks at international events, and writes for a range of publications at the intersection of metaphysics, culture, and consciousnes.
Arabella’s intellectual formation began with an early immersion in Romantic and Modernist literature, Abstract Expressionist art, and post-structuralist philosophy. This foundation continues to inform her integrative approach to philosophy, where beauty and symbol are treated as co-constitutive dimensions of knowledge. Key influences include Heidegger, Blanchot, Bachelard, Deleuze, and Kristeva.
Her doctoral supervisor is Professor Matt Segall, and her research pertains to the physics of time and the aesthetic structure of reality: specifically, retro-causality and the recursive entanglement of cosmos and psyche. For more information about her research interests, please see here.
She is affiliated with various academic organisations, such as The Society for Chaos Theory and Non-Linear Dynamics, lectures regularly for the Scientific and Medical Network and the Galileo Commission, and is engaged in collaborative dialogue with various esteemed thinkers, such as Professors Bernard Carr, Ralph Abraham, and Murray Stein. She is a peer reviewer for the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Physics, and her writing has been published across both academic and cultural platforms.
In 2026, she will convene an international symposium on the future of science at the historic Eranos Foundation in Switzerland, in partnership with the Scientific and Medical Network.
