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.
The printing press gave us access to knowledge. AI gives us access to alien intelligence.
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
Let me hit you with something that sounds mystical but is brutally practical: your reality isn’t happening TO you. It’s happening THROUGH you. Your state of awareness operates like a projector beam. The world you experience is whatever appears on the screen of perception. Most people assume the screen is...
Let me tell you something about anxiety that nobody seems to mention: it’s a terrible storyteller. I’ve watched anxiety operate in hundreds of minds, including my own. And here’s what I’ve learned: anxiety is fundamentally sterile. It produces nothing new. It’s a photocopier stuck on the darkest setting, churning out...
A response to Joan Westenberg’s “The Case for Blogging in the Ruins“ Joan Westenberg opens her case for blogging by invoking Diderot’s Encyclopédie, that 28-volume monument to organized thinking that took two decades to complete, survived two government bans, and drove its creator to periodic breakdowns. Her point was that...
“Two fishes swim in your sea… but look closer: they cast only one shadow.” Welcome to a journey into the liminal space where philosophy turns poetic and science begins to sound like prayer. In this video, we explore the ancient mysteries of The Book of Lambspring, reimagined for the modern...
This is a follow on post to the piece I wrote back in December. I’ve spent 25 years working with stories as technology, treating narratives like code that runs in the background of our lives. I’ve debugged corporate cultures, reprogrammed limiting beliefs, and helped people rewrite their personal mythologies. But...
It’s radical to say that self-expression is the most important thing in life. It’s not survival, even though we must continue to live. It’s not about happiness, even though we may experience it. Not even meaning or connection, though these often arise naturally when we express ourselves honestly. Self-expression is...
Note: I started working on this short story right before everything got absolutely bonkers during the holidays. It grew out of this idea of stories as code and the idea of “soul fiction”. The whole thing’s told from the point of view of language as a virus. It’s a concept...
December 22-28, 2025 This was one of those weeks where a single concept suddenly reorganizes everything you thought you knew. The kind of week where you discover a piece of the puzzle that doesn’t just fit – it reveals the entire picture was different than you imagined. Let me walk...
There’s something potent about learning magic through story. Not the sanitized, academic kind of learning where concepts get pinned to pages like dead butterflies, but the living, breathing transmission that happens when you follow a character into the dark woods and watch them stumble, fail, and finally get it. Brian...
(The Ruler and the Ruled) There’s a particular recognition that arrives at the end of every genuine spiritual journey: the thing you’ve been fighting, transcending, working to overcome is itself part of the totality you’ve been seeking to understand. Not because the fight was wrong or the transcendence unnecessary, but...
I’m currently reading The Apocryphon of John, and if you’re into narrative alchemy, chaos magick, or treating mythology as functional technology rather than ancient fantasy, this text is essential reading. Not for historical curiosity (though that’s good too), but for operational knowledge. The Apocryphon (which just means “secret book”) is...
(The Fire-Breather Who Needs No Consort) There’s a particular quality that belongs to those who stand at thresholds between worlds, who can navigate the seen and unseen with equal fluency, who possess power so complete they require no external validation or partnership to wield it. Not the power that proves...
(The Soul’s Adventure) There’s a particular quality that belongs to hope after devastation, to light discovered in the deepest darkness, to the recognition that what looked like irredeemable failure was actually the beginning of the most important journey. Not the shallow hope that nothing bad will happen, but the profound...
Deconstructing Truth, Constructing Reality: Where Philosophy Meets Chaos Magick This visual essay maps one of the most compelling parallels in consciousness work: how academic philosophy and occult practice arrived at identical conclusions through completely different paths. What you’re looking at is the collapse of certainty itself. Post-structuralism dismantled Western metaphysics...
Reality is open source code, not carved stone tablets. The old operating system promised absolute truth if you followed the right protocol: rigid rituals, fixed symbols, formal proofs. It assumed reality was external, objective, waiting to be discovered like a law of physics inscribed in cosmic granite. The new OS...
(The One Who Made the Wine Bubble) There’s a particular kind of power that makes authorities nervous not because it threatens violence but because it refuses domestication. Not the power that seeks permission or apologizes for existing, but the power that simply is what it is, unapologetically, wildly, creatively alive...
Or: What The Matrix Can Teach Us About Conscious Transformation There’s a moment in The Matrix that most people miss. It’s not when Neo stops bullets or when he resurrects from death. It’s quieter, more devastating. It’s when Morpheus realizes his faith might be wrong. We tend to remember Morpheus...
(The Alchemist of Opposites) There’s a particular kind of wisdom that emerges not from choosing sides but from learning to work with all sides simultaneously. Not the false balance of compromise where everyone loses a little, but the alchemical integration where opposing forces become fuel for transformation. This requires a...
December 8-15, 2025 Last week was one of those inflection points where multiple threads suddenly braided themselves into something coherent. The kind of week where you look up from your work and realize you’ve been assembling pieces of a puzzle you didn’t know you were solving. Let me walk you...
(The End of Prophecy) There’s a particular quality that belongs to thresholds, to the liminal moments when one era is ending and another hasn’t quite begun. When the old certainties are dissolving but the new reality hasn’t fully crystallized. When you’re suspended between what was and what will be, unable...
