This morning I kept thinking about how much …
Soulcruzer
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…
Notes
On knowing the soul
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…
When the Mask Slips
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.…
Meaning Isn’t Optional
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…
Sibyl
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…
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.
Now Go
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.…
Three Minute Theory: What is the Rhizome?
https://youtu.be/gnteiRO-XfU?si=JKm8wgKZNL5YPCKw
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…
Wordland
I'm experimenting with Dave Winer's Wordland as a potential microblogging interface for my blog. I'm drawn to its Twitter-esque brevity, envisioning it as a entry point to my digital garden.
hail to the king
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.…
update
Alright, I have to make some changes. The current WordPress theme doesn’t support the learning academy I’m building. I’m going in hot, so expect a few glitches and oddities over…
Invocation of Sophia, the Eternal Wisdom
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…
these are precarious times
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.…
it’s never for nothing
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…
a small messenger of memento mori
This morning, I stepped outside—not to get anywhere, but to clear the cobwebs from my mind. A simple walk, a quiet dérive, untangling thoughts spun from a day of circling…
this is why i love science fiction
This is why I love science fiction—it’s a genre that doesn’t just tell stories; it wrestles with the big questions of existence, technology, and humanity’s future. I’ve just started reading…
In reply to blogging about blogging about blogging …
Blogs are, from the reader perspective, a window into the personality of the blogger. The window can have varying levels of opacity and the light coming through can be polarised.…
A cyborg (short for “cybernetic organism”) is a …
A cyborg (short for “cybernetic organism”) is a being that combines biological and technological components, typically blending human or animal life with mechanical or electronic systems. The concept encompasses a…
we (you and i) are only as good as the algorithms that train us how to behave
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