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
There are recipes hidden in the soul’s old cupboard.Not the kind passed down in family cookbooks, but ones whispered through dreams, carved into cave walls, and sung around ancestral fires.Today, I found one of those recipes—three spirits, three essences—and wondered what might emerge if I stirred them together in the...
a morning conversation between me and something older than me… ME:It’s just past six.I’m in the back garden, coffee in hand, wrapped in that soft hush before the world remembers itself.The ravens are out already—calling overhead like they know something.And I’ve been sitting with this thought:There’s something about the way...
Zine-making has been simmering on the edge of my creative altar for months—a quiet longing, half-formed but insistent. Since the start of the year, I’ve felt the pull to make something that feels like paper magic—pocket-sized, myth-infused, soul-forward. Not content.Not a product.But a digital relic.A ritual in downloadable form. I’ve...
“What if imagination isn’t something we use—but something we see through?” Long ago, before the world was hemmed in by spreadsheets and satellite maps, there was a way of seeing that didn’t require eyes. The old mystics called it the soul’s eye, or sometimes the mundus imaginalis—the imaginal world. Not...
Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. – Mary Oliver Mary Oliver, the quiet bard of the marshlands, slipping truths between cattails and crow calls. Her words aren’t just a poetic mantra; they’re a distilled philosophy, a three-beat rhythm for soul-led living. Pay attention. Be...
There is a story you’ve been told since before you had words. Not in the cradle, but in the currents. It whispered from billboards and textbooks, from tired eyes and dinner table silences. A story about limits. About roles. About how far a soul like yours is allowed to roam....
Imagine you’re sitting at the edge of a sacred pool in a forgotten grove. The wind is still. The water mirrors everything exactly as it is—no distortion, no ripple.That’s what breath noticing is. Not swimming. Not controlling. Just watching. Breath noticing is the practice of simply witnessing the breath as...
I’m reminded of the Gnostic myth of Sophia—the divine wisdom who fell from the pleroma into the chaos of matter. In her descent, she became fragmented, confused, alienated from the divine order. And yet, in that descent, something miraculous happened: the world as we know it began to take shape....
📡 The Mythic Metaphor: The Forgotten Receiver Imagine yourself as an old shortwave radio. Not the shiny digital kind—but a dusty, analogue relic, humming in the corner of a forgotten workshop. You once picked up messages from distant stars, music from invisible worlds. But over time—through misuse, neglect, or the...
Let’s begin by dimming the lights and turning our minds to the flickering candle glow of antiquity. Imagine yourself seated across from a Renaissance mage—perhaps a wandering Neoplatonist in the alleys of Florence or a court astrologer whispering secrets to nobility under starlit balconies. Before you lies a strange deck...
Here’s a short reflection I had sipping coffee watching the sun rise through the elephant grass… We come from the Unknown,and we carry its dust in our bones.Born of stars and silence,we arrive trailing the breath of the void,a question wrapped in skin.No map. No manual. Only a pulse.And still—we...
Let me tell you a different kind of healing story. In the Popol Vuh, the sacred text of the Maya, the hero twins don’t journey into the underworld because they’re broken. They go because that’s where meaning lives. They descend not as wounded beings seeking repair but as whole ones...
A soul-guided reflection on the exile from symbolic seeing—and what it means to remember the world as alive again. Prologue: A World Alive with Meaning There was a time—not just in myth, but in memory—when the world was not made of things but of signs. I remember standing in a...
A four-part mythic journey through Moon, Justice, Hermit, and Empress “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”—Joseph Campbell Phase I: Descent into the Deep (The Moon) Theme: Surrendering to the UnseenArchetype: The Dreamer, the...
This morning, I closed a journal. Not just physically, but mythically. One more volume in the chronicle of my inner life, full of wandering thoughts, fragmented truths, and soul signals scratched into paper. And it ended, quite fittingly, with the Fool. Not just any fool, but the Jester. The Eternal...
In myth and mysticism, mirrors are never just mirrors. They’re portals, truth-tellers, and tricksters. The psychospiritual mirror is that inner surface where soul and psyche meet—where your beliefs, wounds, desires, and divine sparks are reflected back in symbolic form. This mirror doesn’t show you how you look. It shows you...
“The soul speaks in images.” —James Hillman Somewhere in the labyrinthine libraries of Alexandria, there lived an alchemist who never once touched a crucible. He did not chase gold or transmute base metals. Instead, he kept a weathered leather journal—etched with symbols, soaked with saltwater tears—and through it, he transmuted...
a Wisdom Walk Contemplation This morning, I walked with the Strategist. Not the schemer. Not the manipulator. But the quiet sentinel of foresight and focus—he with arms crossed like twin roads diverging, pipe clenched between thoughtful lips, eyes scanning the board beyond the board. He came to me not with...
A Mythic Invocation for the Digital Griot Age “Some names are given.Some are earned.And some… wait patiently in the shadows,until the one who carries them finally remembers who they are.” I was given the name Soulcruzer nearly twenty years ago.Or maybe it gave itself to me.I didn’t know what it...
Invocation: The Spark Before the Fire “Prometheus did not ask permission. He saw the fire of the gods and knew it belonged to us.” I believe the mythic revival now underway is no mere fad. It is not a trend dressed in archetypes or a phase of spiritual nostalgia curated...
