Narrative Alchemy Prompt #2
Soulcruzer
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…
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The Screen Didn’t Break Your Mind
I was two minutes into a chapter on the Discordians this morning when a single line made me put the book down: post-linear. It wasn’t just the word. It was…
The Unconscious as Dragon and Treasure
I was reading Jung the other day, and this phrase caught my attention: The unconscious as dragon and treasure. Five words that contain, if you sit with them long enough,…
We now have AI tools that can mirror …
We now have AI tools that can mirror our own narratives back to us with terrifying efficiency. If you ask an LLM to validate your perspective, it will do so.…
Don’t Go Full Kurtz
Clay Lowe
On staying visible while going deep. The temptation to disappear into the work, the gold rush noise, and why the explorer who transmits is more valuable than the one who…
Pluribus: Why the Man in the Hot Tub Has the Better Argument
Caution: This post contains spoilers. The show tells you who the hero is before the first episode ends. Carol Sturka, a curmudgeonly novelist living in Albuquerque, wakes up to find…
The King Beyond the Wall: Fire, Shadow, and the Throne We Carry Inside
I have been rewatching Game of Thrones, and something unexpected happened. The first time through, I watched it the way most of us did. Tracking plot. Waiting for payoff. Asking…
The Retrofit Trap (and What AI-First Actually Means)
Most people encounter a new technology and immediately ask the wrong question: How do I use this to do what I already do, but faster? It’s understandable. It’s also a…
The Feedback Loop of Life
There is a model hiding inside every moment you have ever course-corrected, changed your mind, or walked out of a room sensing something had shifted. It is not a philosophy.…
Outcome Thinking vs. Drift Culture
I spent twenty years in corporate learning and development watching people master outcome frameworks while their actual lives drifted sideways. They could build project plans with military precision, cascade objectives…
Your Timeline is a Sixth-Generation Forest Fire
Reading Soundtrack: The Prodigy — Firestarter Smoke in the Silicon Close your eyes and feel the laptop on your thighs. It isn’t just warm: it is radiating. That heat is…
Self-Authorship: A Meditation on Conscious Creation
Jordan Peterson on self-authorship: “Constructing the narrative of your life is a way to determine what to strive for and what to avoid…” There exists a peculiar condition in human…
Your World is a Projection of Your State of Awareness
Think about this: 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…
Anxiety Has No Creative Power: Why Your Worry Loop is a Lie
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…
On Blogging as Soul Technology
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…
The Secret of the Two Fishes: A Journey into Inner Alchemy [Audiobook]
“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…
The Apocryphon of John: A Heretic’s Manual for Consciousness Hackers
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…
Self-Expression as a Sacred Practice
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…
The Spreader: The Virus Speaks
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…
Weekly Transmission: Soul Fiction and the Native Language of Psyche
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…