Your story is your operating system; Hack the code.
Narrative Alchemy is the practice of treating stories as spiritual technology—seeing inherited scripts clearly, releasing what isn't yours, and consciously authoring new myths to live by.
It's where Jung meets chaos magic, where the imaginal becomes operational, and where inner transformation reshapes outer reality.
I build games, practices, and frameworks that make this work tangible. Magus Eternal is one of those tools—a tarot RPG designed as a container for threshold crossing. The Narrative Codex is another—a living archive of techniques, lore, and experiments.
This isn't coaching or therapy. It's spiritual technology for people ready to hack their own operating system.
The Soulcruzer podcast…narrative alchemy in audio form. Call it an audioblog, call it threshold work, call it confessional mysticism.
One day I’m working through tarot as spiritual technology. The next, I’m exploring Nietzsche’s eternal return as lived practice, chaos magick techniques, or games as containers for transformation. Depth psychology meets the esoteric. Ancient wisdom meets the AI age. Theory becomes practice.
This is what narrative alchemy sounds like from the inside: raw, real, unpolished. Experiments in treating stories as code and consciousness as hackable.
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In this episode, I explore journaling as narrative alchemy, revealing how ancient alchemical stages map onto a powerful writing practice.
Here’s the original article: Journaling as Narrative Alchemy: Writing Your Way Into a New Self
Man and His Symbols is an accessible gateway into Jungian depth work. This illustrated exploration of archetypes and symbols reveals how transformation happens in the imaginal realm, below conscious awareness.
Hillman's "acorn theory" illuminates the path to Authentic Purpose. His poetic yet rigorous approach gives language to the daimonic self and the ineffable aspects of personal mythology.
Mary K. Greer's seminal workbook transforms tarot from divination tool into technology for self-knowledge and narrative sovereignty. Packed with exercises that treat the cards as doorways to the imaginal realm, this is required reading for practitioners ready to use archetypal imagery as active imagination practice.
Johnson demystifies Jung's most powerful technique with step-by-step guidance for engaging the imaginal realm directly. This slim volume transforms abstract theory into actionable practice—essential for practitioners ready to move beyond conceptual understanding.
The clearest introduction to chaos magic as pragmatic practice. Strips away dogma to reveal the core mechanics of belief as a tool. Perfectly bridges the gap between depth psychology and results-orientated transformation work.
While the hero's journey has been overused, Campbell's original text remains vital for understanding narrative structure as psycho-spiritual map. Read it to learn the pattern, then transcend it.
This groundbreaking work bridges the mystical and scientific, revealing how tarot actually works through the lens of neuroscience and cognitive psychology. Essential reading for practitioners who want to understand the neurological mechanisms behind symbol work, pattern recognition, and the imaginal realm's interface with the predictive brain.
[Sigil] Guardian daemon of thresholds and transformation. Works whether you see it as archetypal force or powerful metaphor. → Explore the sigil
The series Part I – Temperance: The Inner AlchemistPart II – The Hermit: The Lantern-Bearer The Myth of Permanent Solitude Let’s be honest about why we love the mountain. Up there, in the thin air of solitude, no one can misinterpret your insights. No one can water down your truths...
A Slow Wisdom Lesson for Fellow Seekers on the Road of Becoming Editor’s Note: This series traces the journey from inner alchemy to embodied presence, using the tarot archetypes of Temperance, the Hermit, and Strength as wayfinders. In this first instalment, we pause at the threshold with Temperance and explore...
“If I just explain it better this time, then they’ll finally understand me.” Sarah had delivered this line to three different partners across seven years. Different faces, different apartments, same exhausting scene. She’d refined her communication style, read all the relationship books, even developed a PowerPoint presentation (only half-joking) about...
A Meditation on Borrowed Truth There’s a moment in every life, though most of us miss it, or misname it when it arrives, when the stories we’ve been told about ourselves begin to feel like borrowed clothes. Too tight in some places, too loose in others, and always, always carrying...
This post began as a simple line in my journal: Objective reality is a shuffled deck of tarot cards. I wrote it half in jest, but the phrase wouldn’t let me go. It felt like a key; one of those small, glinting thoughts that opens into a much larger room....
Author’s Preface I’ve always been drawn to the borderlands, the places where philosophy turns poetic and science begins to sound like prayer. Alchemy lives in that liminal space. It was never only about furnaces and metals, but about consciousness itself: how it fractures, matures, and reunites. When I discovered The...
I’ve just finished The Neuroscience of Tarot, and it left me with more than a few sparks to play with. On the surface, it’s a book about brain science and card reading. But really, it’s a mirror held up to the way we experience the world. What struck me most...
Before Freud had his couch or Jung his mandalas, there were monks and magi testing the chemistry of consciousness. They believed the elements of the world corresponded to the elements of the self. Lead was not just metal, but melancholy. Gold was not merely treasure, but spirit transfigured by awareness....
A 7-day solo journaling game of masks, secrets, and self-revelation You’ve been invited to a masquerade that exists between dreams and memory. For seven days, you’ll draw tarot cards and write immersive journal entries as a masked guest navigating a ballroom filled with mystery, whispers, and hidden truths. Each day...
This morning I kept thinking about how much of my inner life is written in symbols. A hawk circles above the fields near my house, and every time I see it something deep stirs… a reminder of vigilance, focus, higher vision. I could say it’s just a bird, but that...
I stumbled upon this delicious gothic prompt in my Tarot group: “The card most likely to wander in the graveyard at midnight.” It was meant in good fun, but the question caught my imagination. I couldn’t narrow it down to just one. Death seemed obvious; after all, the graveyard is...
Part V is the last installment of this series. The series IntroductionPart I – The Attitude That Precedes YouPart II – The Scientific Frame: Unus MundusPart III – We Are Strange AttractorsPart IV – The Dark SidePart V – Practical Kairomancy: Working with the Yes Practical Kairomancy: Working with the Yes So here we...
A message has been coming through all week. In my reflection sessions, through the cards, in the quiet spaces between tasks, and it’s this: There’s a question I’ve been avoiding asking myself. I’ve known it was there. You always do. It’s the question that sits just outside your direct gaze,...
The series IntroductionPart I – The Attitude That Precedes YouPart II – The Scientific Frame: Unus MundusPart III – We Are Strange AttractorsPart IV – The Dark SidePart V – Practical Kairomancy: Working with the Yes The Dark Side We need to talk about what happens when you get this wrong. Or worse, when...
The series IntroductionPart I – The Attitude That Precedes YouPart II – The Scientific Frame: Unus MundusPart III – We Are Strange AttractorsPart IV – The Dark SidePart V – Practical Kairomancy: Working with the Yes We Are Strange Attractors Ralph Waldo Emerson, writing in 1876, didn’t have quantum mechanics or Jung’s psychology to...
The series IntroductionPart I – The Attitude That Precedes YouPart II – The Scientific Frame: Unus MundusPart III – We Are Strange AttractorsPart IV – The Dark SidePart V – Practical Kairomancy: Working with the Yes The Scientific Frame: Unus Mundus In the 1930s, something unusual began to happen in Zurich. Carl Jung, the...
The series IntroductionPart I – The Attitude That Precedes YouPart II – The Scientific Frame: Unus MundusPart III – We Are Strange AttractorsPart IV – The Dark SidePart V – Practical Kairomancy: Working with the Yes The attitude that precedes you You’re walking toward a meeting you’ve been dreading for days. Your shoulders are...
The series IntroductionPart I – The Attitude That Precedes YouPart II – The Scientific Frame: Unus MundusPart III – We Are Strange AttractorsPart IV – The Dark SidePart V – Practical Kairomancy: Working with the Yes An Introduction This week, we’re exploring one of the most unsettling and empowering ideas I’ve encountered in Robert...
Synchronicity isn’t cosmic coincidence. It’s how your story talks back to you, revealing which narrative threads are alive and which need attention. The World as Mirror and Dialogue Partner Synchronicity is not random. It’s not the universe winking at you from behind a cosmic curtain. It’s something stranger and more...
You’ve probably heard it a thousand times: “Find your purpose.” As if your reason for being is hidden somewhere. Like in the right career, the perfect relationship, or maybe at the bottom of your third ayahuasca ceremony. But here’s what I’ve found: you’re not missing your purpose. In fact, you’re...
