Let the Flame Consume Me
A personal resurrection in seven acts Threshold Moment: The Phoenix Stir There’s a moment just before the flame catches, when the ashes still whisper the name of who you used to be. I find myself standing in that moment now. […]
The Phoenix Path
Here in the UK, Easter weekend unfolds across four sacred days. It’s long enough to lose your everyday rhythm and find a deeper one. And if you play the game right, you can slip between the cracks of routine and […]
Act III and the Cosmic Dancer
What if the third act of your life isn’t about slowing down but becoming the myth you were born to tell? Join me on a wisdom walk through memory, metaphor, and mythic insight as I unpack the tension between old […]
The Narcissus Paradox: No Self Without a Stage
In the myth of Narcissus, the boy does not fall in love with himself until he sees his reflection. The tragedy is not his vanity—but his awakening to selfhood through an audience, even if that audience is only the shimmering […]
The Garden Is Within You: A Message from the Queen of Rainbows
“You are not late. You are not lost. You are in bloom, even now.” Somewhere, beneath the noise and urgency of the day, a softer rhythm pulses. Maybe you felt it tug at you just before you clicked here. Maybe […]
Radical Inside Change = Ritual + Rewriting
In every old tale worth retelling, there comes a moment when the hero finds themself circling the same path—through dark woods, across barren fields, inside a maze of mirrors. No dragon, no villain, just the echo of their own footsteps […]
The Making of a Madman Mystic
Let’s set the scene: it’s 1959, and a strange, jagged book called Naked Lunch is carving up the American literary landscape like a junk-sick surgeon. The author? William S. Burroughs—a man who never fit the mould, and never wanted to. Burroughs, a […]
Reality by Design: The Thinker, the Prover, and You
“What the Thinker thinks, the Prover will prove.”A riff on Wilson’s central thesis of how reality tunnels get constructed. The Thinker and the Prover. One of Robert Anton Wilson’s most mischievously powerful concepts from Prometheus Rising. It’s a simple idea, […]
Storythinking: The Power of Narrative Intelligence
I mentioned in a previous post that Chapter 10 of Storythinking hit me like a lightning bolt—one of those moments where a single idea seems to rearrange the architecture of your mind. That chapter felt less like reading and more […]