The Leya Experience

Vera Calmer
Jul 18, 2024
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Even today Leya is still writing her essays online. Watch how she has grown since 1999 and how she’s still exploring chaos, love and life in her own universe on her new platform The Leya Experience.

If you want to know how she started, read Leya 99 and The Leya Papers to go back to 1999 and 2000.

Leya 99

Leya 99

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November 12, 2023
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The Leya Papers

The Leya Papers

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Jul 18
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The Leya Experience #5 | not necessary

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Aug 3
The Leya Experience #5 | not necessary

It’s funny to read my former articles, the ones I’ve written when I just started. There are moments I wish I could go back in time. Being less of a party girl and focusing more on my study and university, but back then I needed the nights in the clubs. Not necessary to party or get drunk, it was more the people I met I was interested in.

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The Leya Experience #4 | a lonely masquerade

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Aug 1
The Leya Experience #4 | a lonely masquerade

There’s this thing about loneliness. It’s invisible. Unmeasurable. Therefore unbelievable, for those who refuse to hear and see the truth of the lonely soul in front of them. People think I have the perfect life. I dance, I walk around in party clothes all the time and look like I have fun all the time. They don’t see me in my room at night. Surrounded by my books, study books, English literature, classic philosophical novels. They are all here with me when the rest of them aren't. Regarding my ongoing philosophy blog, they say I’m lucky this is how my life is now. They even think I am lucky I am not sleeping often. That I can use those hours writing and studying.

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The Leya Experience #3 | digital hostages

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Aug 1
The Leya Experience #3 | digital hostages

Today I was working on my research about the digital era and it’s unbelievable how much there is to learn and how much we will never know. The thought of never knowing frustrates me deeply, probably because there is so much for me that I don’t know which for some is just something to get over with. But I can’t and I never will. I can’t …

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The Leya Experience #2 | madness rabbit hole

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November 22, 2023
The Leya Experience #2 | madness rabbit hole

An exciting day has arrived. We got to vote in the Netherlands, again. Since the year 2000 I have been allowed to vote in the Netherlands and it has been hectic ever since. Perhaps the voting was always a crazy event, but 2002 was extreme because of the attack on the politician Pim Fortuyn. Everyone who was 18 years old or older, were allowed to vote an…

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The Leya experience #1 | lab rat

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September 15, 2023
The Leya experience #1 | lab rat

So many years have passed by, experiencing memories, wars, attacks and secret after secret. These days the 90s are coming back. People thinking those were the days of our freedom, while in fact we were hostages already. Being trapped in the lies of society, the illusions they’ve built to distract us from the truth. Years ago my friend Stan built me this…

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