This week has been about laying scaffolding around a vision, the kind of quiet construction that doesn’t always look dramatic from the outside but changes everything on the inside. I’ve been shaping Soulcruzer into something more than a blog, more than a collection of scattered essays and passing thoughts. What I see emerging is a living engine, a publishing hub that can carry the weight of the ideas, practices, and stories I want to share.
In some ways, it reminds me of Dan Shipper’s Every, which has become a touchstone for thoughtful writing in the world of business and productivity. But where Every is anchored in tech and work culture, Soulcruzer is rooted in mythic imagination, narrative alchemy, and the art of living well in an AI age. It’s about weaving philosophy with practice, story with transformation, and showing how ancient wisdom and modern tools can come together to re-enchant the way we live.
The scaffolding I’m building now—courses, zines, journals, games, dispatches—isn’t just infrastructure. It’s architecture for Act III, a temple of words and rituals where seekers, creators, and contemplative rebels can gather. And piece by piece, the outlines are becoming clearer.
The Drumbeat of Narrative Alchemy
Narrative Alchemy became the steady drumbeat of the week, the rhythm I kept returning to no matter what else I touched. I began shaping its canon, the texts and ideas that form its backbone, and drafted codex entries that start to give it language and form. I worked with the alchemical stages (calcination, dissolution, and coagulation) and reimagined how they might apply to the stories we tell about ourselves and the myths we live inside without even noticing.
From this work, two clear seeds emerged. The first is an introductory ebook, a kind of field guide to the practice of Narrative Alchemy. It will be part primer, part invitation, and kind of a way for new seekers to glimpse the power of rewriting the stories that shape their lives. The second is a journaling circle where people can experiment with these ideas together, turning theory into a lived practice through daily writing, reflection, and shared myth-making.
Both ideas feel like doorways into something larger. Not just products or programmes, but something, something epic. To step through these doorways is to accept the invitation to work with story as a living force, to see narrative not as entertainment or analysis but as a transformation. My sense is that this is where the real community begins.
A Breakthrough: Magus Eternal
There was a naming breakthrough, too: Magus Eternal. The words settled into my bones in a way the earlier titles never quite did. It feels like a name that has always existed, waiting for me to stumble across it.
Magus Eternal is the solo tarot RPG I’ve been crafting. The war of magi is eternal. Across centuries, in worlds that burn and worlds reborn, it always ends the same: two rivals, one final duel, and reality itself at stake. In this game, you play a Chaos Magician who has pierced the veil of illusion and glimpsed the awful truth that this conflict has played out before, and you have already died in it. Yet here you are again, given thirteen days to gather strength, uncover hidden knowledge, and prepare to face your rival in the last rite.
I’ll be publishing it soon. If you’re into solo RPGs, do give it a try. For me, it’s more than a game; I’m using it as an experiment in myth-making disguised as play.
Writing as Hyper-Sigil
And woven through all of this is the hyper-sigil practice. Soulcruzer is not simply a site or a newsletter to me. I’m looking at it as a living spell, a kind of ongoing act of enchantment written into the fabric of cyberspace and the digital world. For me, every post, every line, becomes a sigil cast into the collective imagination.
When I write, I’m not only sharing ideas. I’m charging words with intention, inscribing possibility into the fabric of the present. Each dispatch is a flare in the dark and an invitation for others to step into the current with me. To read is to participate. To follow along is to become part of the spell. The practice changes the way I approach the page. The act of writing becomes a way of bending probability, of nudging reality toward a more mythic shape.
This is the serious play at the heart of Soulcruzer: to treat words as more than description, to use them as incantation. It’s a reminder that publishing is never neutral. Each post carries the weight of choice, what I choose to amplify, what I choose to ignore, and what I choose to call into being. In this way, the blog itself is a hyper-sigil: a long-form work that grows more potent with each contribution, each witness, each echo that carries it further.
Looking Ahead
The path forward feels less like a to-do list and more like tending a fire with sparks flying everywhere. My task is to keep the rhythm so the energy doesn’t slip away, keep the pulse of publishing alive, ship small, and ship often.
What excites me most is the sense of architecture forming beneath the surface. Act III is no longer a vague horizon; it’s scaffolding that is slowly turning into a temple. Each piece of writing, each experiment, each conversation is another stone laid. I can feel the outlines of something durable taking shape: not just a blog, but a mythic media engine that carries story, soul, and spell into the world.
The work is steady, yes, but it is also sacred play. To show up each day, to write as enchantment, to build structures that others can step into, that is the real alchemy. What lies ahead is not simply productivity or output, but a continuation of the myth-making I’ve already begun. And with every step, the current grows stronger.