Stories are code. You are the programmer.
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Fertile Waiting: What Does It Mean To Be Actively Passive?
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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.
If you’re here for the deep work and the edges, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
I dive into Hans Vaihinger’s Philosophy of As If and explore how our minds create “useful fictions” to help us navigate life. The big insight: we don’t think to know the world perfectly, we think to act effectively within it. I connect this to my narrative alchemy work, examining how the scripts running in our unconscious minds either serve us or hold us back. I also share my morning pages practice, unpacking the metaphors that emerged (the worm turning, the wolf at the door, the drain, the landing, and the flow) and explain Hillman’s approach to seeing through images rather than just interpreting them. If you’re interested in how the stories we tell ourselves shape our reality and how we might rewrite them, this one’s for you.
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.
This book is James Hillman's main analysis of analysis. He asks he basic question," What does the soul want?" With insight and humor he answers: "It wants fiction to heal."
Vaihinger… shows that thought is primarily a biological function turned into a conscious art. It is an art of adjustment, whose chief instrument is the construction of fictions by which men may manage to live.
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.
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.
[Sigil] Guardian daemon of thresholds and transformation. Works whether you see it as archetypal force or powerful metaphor. → Explore the sigil
So this animal personality meme is starting to make the rounds… I asked ChatGPT this: Considering everything that you know about me, create an image of what animal I would be. Explain your reasoning. This is what it came up with: And here’s the reasoning it gave: You come through...
Most people don’t fail because their system is broken. They fail because they abandon working systems right before they start producing results. We mistake the quiet period of germination for evidence of failure. Seeds underground look identical to seeds that will never sprout, until suddenly they do! the difference between...
Like Carl Richards I’ve never been a big fan of setting goals either for many of the reasons that he lists in the beginning of his podcast episode. But I like the way he turned it around and said that goals are good in the sense that they provide a...
I read Virginia Woolf’s “Street Haunting” from The Death of the Moth and Other Essays. I love how you wander with her, watching her mind catch on an object and expand it into entire worlds. She flips seamlessly between what’s in front of her and her imagination, weaving in memories...
I’m experimenting with Indie Blocks and Echofeed. This is a test note to see if the cross posting works.
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...
Knowing yourself isn’t about coming up with a neat definition you can put on a business card. It’s more like watching the weather of your own being. The soul shows up in the little things, like what you’re drawn to, what you shy away from, or the memories that stick...
When the mask slips, let it. We spend much of our lives arranging faces for the world. A mask for work, another for friends, and still another for family gatherings. These are not always deceptions. Masks can be protective, ceremonial, even sacred. They help us navigate the stage of daily...
We treat meaning like it’s some luxury add-on to life, like it’s something you get to once you’ve checked all the boxes. But that’s backwards. Meaning isn’t the cherry on top. It’s in the foundation, right up there with food and water and air. You can suffocate without oxygen and...
The Latin and Greek reads: ‘Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere,et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σίβυλλα τί θέλεις; respondebat illa: ἀποθανεῖν θέλω.’ Translation: “For I myself saw the Sibyl of Cumae with my own eyes hanging in a jar,and when the boys asked her:...
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.
Drop a post.Even if it’s unfinished. Especially if it’s unfinished.Plant a link.Even if it leads nowhere—for now.Send a flare.Even if no one responds right away. Because someone will.Maybe not today. Maybe not soon. But someday, a fellow rogue will stumble across your breadcrumb, click the link, and feel the jolt...
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 with pamphlets, poetry, and protest stickers. They didn’t speak at first, just nodded. But over...
today’s vibe is acknowledging the king archetype… the King archetype isn’t about crowns or thrones—it’s about sovereignty of the psyche, a centered power rooted deep in the soil of soul. to embody the King is to rule your inner kingdom with clarity, to uphold cosmic order against chaos, and to...
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Clay Lowe (@soulcruzer) I’m invoking, Sophia, the Goddess of Wisdom, as my guide today… May her light cut through the fog of uncertainty. May her voice whisper clarity into the noise of the world. May her presence guide our steps as...
these are precarious times, my friend. the air hums with static, thick with fear and uncertainty. the old systems groan under their own weight, clinging to power with trembling hands. this primative planet, soaked in superstition, programmed by ancient scripts, staggers forwardblind to its own potential. but darkness is not...
Sometimes, no matter how hard we try, no matter how much effort we pour into something, it can still slip through our fingers—lost to time, to circumstance, to forces beyond our control. And that can feel like a cruel joke, like all that struggle was for nothing. But here’s the...
