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…
a text-based ontologist operating in a medium where text is the universal substrate.
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…
I keep circling a sentence that feels either obviously true or mildly insane: All things end and begin with story. Not literally, of course. Stars don’t require narrative clearance before…
I’m reminded of the Gnostic myth of Sophia—the divine wisdom who fell from the pleroma into the chaos of matter. In her descent, she became fragmented, confused, alienated from the…
📡 The Mythic Metaphor: The Forgotten Receiver Imagine yourself as an old shortwave radio. Not the shiny digital kind—but a dusty, analogue relic, humming in the corner of a forgotten…
A soul-guided reflection on the exile from symbolic seeing—and what it means to remember the world as alive again. Prologue: A World Alive with Meaning There was a time—not just…
A Mythic Invocation for the Digital Griot Age “Some names are given.Some are earned.And some… wait patiently in the shadows,until the one who carries them finally remembers who they are.”…
Invocation: The Spark Before the Fire “Prometheus did not ask permission. He saw the fire of the gods and knew it belonged to us.” I believe the mythic revival now…
There’s a scene from Through the Looking-Glass that’s always struck me—not the tea party or the queen’s croquet game, but the quiet absurdity of the Red Queen’s line: “It takes…
In the myth of Narcissus, the boy does not fall in love with himself until he sees his reflection. The tragedy is not his vanity—but his awakening to selfhood through…
I mentioned in a previous post that Chapter 10 of Storythinking hit me like a lightning bolt—one of those moments where a single idea seems to rearrange the architecture of…
Some chapters don’t just inform—they rewire you. I just finished Storythinking by Angus Fletcher, a book that teases apart two titanic forces shaping how we make sense of the world:…