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…
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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…
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…
Story’s Answer to the Meaning of Life (And Why Logic Was Never Going to Save Us)
Some chapters don’t just inform—they rewire you. I just finished Storythinking by Angus Fletcher, a book that teases apart two titanic forces shaping how we make sense of the world: logic and story. And while…
What Is a Personal Myth?: And Why You Might Be Living Inside One Without Even Realising It
Somewhere between memory and meaning, between dream and dialogue, there lives a story. You didn’t write it—not exactly. But it’s been writing you for a long time. I’ve been reading The Stories We Live By…
bring it forth or be destroyed
A Friday Dispatch from the Edge of Becoming “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you…
stepping into the rainbow: on adventure, inner child, and the rogue path
I pulled a card from the Osho Zen deck for my evening ritual. What came to the surface was Adventure. A small child, back to the viewer, stepping into a forest glowing with radiant rainbow…
how do you know if you’re really changing?
“Even this journaling is habitual…”“Are these loops who I am?”“How do you break out?” This morning, while the coffee was still ritual-warm in my hand and the fog of sleep hadn’t yet burned off, a…
The Cut-Up Machine
A poet walks into a Parisian café carrying scissors and a stack of yesterday’s newspapers. He slices through headlines, obituaries, war reports, and weather blurbs, scattering words like tarot cards across the table. He isn’t…
Take a look around
Take a Look Around https://youtu.be/o3UHMV3jrZk?si=D51rRvCqONyh8U6W Scene One: A Cultural Snapshot in Sonic Form The year is 2000. Nu metal is in full bloom. TRL dominates after-school hours. Everything feels like it’s accelerating—dot-coms rising, falling, and…
The 64-Fold Path
here, upon these 64 ancient squares,
kings stumble, queens rage, and pawns dream of transcendence.
the board of becoming–a battlefield of the psyche where every move reveals you.
along the way, you’ll meet
the Trickster, who mocks your plans;
the Sorceress, who awakens your forgotten power;
the Wounded King, who waits to be seen.
choose your moves wisely.
the day I freed myself from bullet points
there’s a certain seduction to the bullet point. it’s neat. it’s tidy. it gives the illusion of control. one thought. one line. one breath. like a haiku, it ends where it ends. no need to…
speaking of spiders…
the new image generator baked into ChatGPT is significantly better after the latest update. i asked it to turn me into a spider. note the detail in the background.
Where the Mind Ends and the World Begins: Thinking Like a Spider
Where the Mind Ends and the World Begins: Thinking Like a Spider There’s an old tale told among the Ashanti of West Africa about Anansi, the trickster spider-god who brought stories to the world. He…
The Shimmer-Seers
Long ago, before the first compass was carved from bone and star, the world was not unmapped—it was overwatched. Not by gods, no. By something stranger. They called them Shimmer-Seers. You wouldn’t have noticed them…
Unraveling into a tangle of hyperlinks, associative thinking and the metaphysics of writing
Following the thread of this article, I’m curious to explore some ideas about what we would need to do to change our thinking about writing. What would our thinking have to change to? In reply…
There’s a tale told in the margins of lost zines
Two wanderers walked into the same ruined city. One wore a backpack stuffed with notebooks, ink-stained fingers flicking through pages of Heraclitus and hacker manifestos. The other slung a typewriter over their shoulder, pockets bulging…