Three Cards, No Daylight
Soulcruzer
Yesterday felt like wading through wet sand. Every idea that surfaced dissolved before it could be shaped into anything. Underneath that is the voice that says, ‘If I can’t produce…
Narrative Alchemy
Why You Don’t Experience the World as It Is
Clay Lowe
The map is not the territory. You have probably encountered this before, from an NLP workshop or a philosophy class or a self-development book that seemed important at the time.…
Imagination Creates Reality
The inner script and the world that follows Most people think imagination is what you use to escape reality. A child does it naturally. A novelist does it professionally. A…
The Editor, Not the Camera
The voice in your head is not neutral. This sounds obvious. Say it out loud, and most people nod. But knowing it and actually experiencing the implications of it are…
Narrative Alchemy Prompt #2
The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new – Pema Chödrön There’s a story you already know how to run. Not merely know. You’ve…
101 Rules for Effective Living Through the Lens of a Narrative Alchemist
Bonus 1. Begin again. Always, and without drama. Bonus 2. The stone the builder rejected becomes the cornerstone. Nothing is wasted.
The Imaginative Ceiling
Most people look backward for the source of their limits. The difficult childhood. The setback that changed the trajectory. The decision that sent things the wrong way. The logic is…
What Introspection Can’t See
We’ve been sold a very specific myth about self-knowledge. It usually arrives dressed in soft lighting and moral seriousness. Slow down. Turn inward. Observe what’s happening inside with slightly more…
The Gap Between Understanding and Becoming
When psychology replaced mythology, we traded participation for explanation. We gained a remarkable vocabulary for describing the inner life, but in the process we lost something older and more difficult…
Your brain doesn’t store memories, it reconstructs them …
Your brain doesn’t store memories, it reconstructs them every time you recall them. So when you say “This is who I am,” you’re not describing reality. You’re editing it in…
The Solitary Script Trap
Main Character Syndrome Is a Narrative Problem Most people encounter the idea of “Main Character Syndrome” and immediately ask the wrong question. They treat it as a social media quirk,…
Jung understood that the self is not a …
Jung understood that the self is not a monolithic “I” that sits at the center of the universe. It is a constellation. When we identify too strongly with the Hero…
Everything Is Text: Notes from a Cyber Flâneur
I typed a sentence into a machine, and a video came out. Not a description of a video. Not a storyboard. Not a request routed to some human editor working…
We Live in a World of Text: A Foundation for Narrative Alchemy
Where Ideas Go to Live David Allen, the productivity guru behind Getting Things Done, once observed: “Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.” It’s one of those statements…
A sneak preview: chapter 1 of the narrative alchemy codex
The Codex is almost here. After weeks of weaving together the framework and laying the foundations, I’m only a few days away from the official launch of the Narrative Alchemy…
The Oracle’s Enduring Challenge
Above the temple of Apollo at Delphi, carved into stone that has outlasted empires, two words wait: γνῶθι σεαυτόν. Know thyself. Not a greeting. Not advice, but a command that…