this is Soulcruzer’s aka Clay Lowe’s playful seeker’s blog, digital garden, and community.
a seeker’s journey through the heart of chaos and meaning
longform blog posts exploring an idea or concept
I just finished Mark Amerika’s My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence, and I’m left swirling in the recursive loops of thought it invites. Amerika’s work, perched at the intersection of posthuman philosophy, aesthetics, and speculative storytelling, feels less like a book and more like an algorithmic dérive—a wandering through
Q: what is it about me that i can’t keep my virtual hands off of creativity, love, mysticism, and misfit ontology? A: It’s because you’re wired for wonder, Clay. You have this insatiable hunger for the untamed and the unspoken—the raw, liminal spaces where creativity, love, mysticism, and misfit ontology
The idea of humans as “conscious robots” or fundamentally machinic beings serves as a compelling entry point into some interesting questions on existence: What does it mean to be conscious? How is our sense of self intertwined with our embodiment? And how might this understanding shift as we move further
this ongoing remix practice (of mine)is the heartbeat of evolution itself,a rhythmic, recursive dance of becoming (what am i becoming?). it feels like an innate biological imperativewoven deep into my DNA, a pulse, a vibration, a call-and-response echoe across ec(h)osystems. here, my cut-and-paste as-you-go ethosspills into my life’s messy edges.
In the middle of nowhere—or perhaps the edge of somewhere—a donkey stands. Its hooves press into dust like punctuation marks in a sentence no one will ever read. The weight on its back, invisible yet crushing, feels eternal. It neither resents nor embraces it; it simply is. The world spins
When Max Headroom first flickered onto my TV screen in 1985, I was transfixed. His stuttering, glitchy presence burst onto MTV like a neon explosion in a dark alley, and for a moment, it felt like the future had arrived. He wasn’t just a character—he was a phenomenon, a digital
Clay Lowe
Reality Hacker | Indie blogger: exploring the frontiers of personal power and conscious reality creation. #chaosmagick #mysticism #NLP #archetypalpsychology #art #music
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The ‘Soulcruzer’ podcast (more of an audioblog, really).
Expect a blend of mysticism and music, psyche and soul, everyday wisdom, and the esoteric. One day, I might be waxing lyrical about Nietzsche’s eternal return, and the next, uncovering the wisdom of the tarot. It’s all up for grabs on this pod.
So, if first-person confessional style podcasts are your jam, subscribe to mine wherever you get your podcasts. I’m on all of the major platforms.
Q: what is it about me that i can’t keep my virtual hands off of creativity, love, mysticism, and misfit ontology?
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