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a seeker’s journey through the heart of chaos and meaning












longform blog posts exploring an idea or concept

A Meditation on Borrowed Truth There’s a moment in every life, though most of us miss it, or misname it when it arrives, when the stories we’ve been told about ourselves begin to feel like borrowed clothes. Too tight in some places, too loose in others, and always, always carrying

This post began as a simple line in my journal: Objective reality is a shuffled deck of tarot cards. I wrote it half in jest, but the phrase wouldn’t let me go. It felt like a key; one of those small, glinting thoughts that opens into a much larger room.

Author’s Preface I’ve always been drawn to the borderlands, the places where philosophy turns poetic and science begins to sound like prayer. Alchemy lives in that liminal space. It was never only about furnaces and metals, but about consciousness itself: how it fractures, matures, and reunites. When I discovered The

I’ve just finished The Neuroscience of Tarot, and it left me with more than a few sparks to play with. On the surface, it’s a book about brain science and card reading. But really, it’s a mirror held up to the way we experience the world. What struck me most

Before Freud had his couch or Jung his mandalas, there were monks and magi testing the chemistry of consciousness. They believed the elements of the world corresponded to the elements of the self. Lead was not just metal, but melancholy. Gold was not merely treasure, but spirit transfigured by awareness.

A 7-day solo journaling game of masks, secrets, and self-revelation You’ve been invited to a masquerade that exists between dreams and memory. For seven days, you’ll draw tarot cards and write immersive journal entries as a masked guest navigating a ballroom filled with mystery, whispers, and hidden truths. Each day
Clay Lowe
Reality Hacker | Indie blogger: exploring the frontiers of personal power and conscious reality creation. #chaosmagick #mysticism #NLP #archetypalpsychology #art #music
long and short form audio

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.
In this episode, I explore journaling as narrative alchemy, revealing how ancient alchemical stages map onto a powerful writing practice.
Here’s the original article: Journaling as Narrative Alchemy: Writing Your Way Into a New Self

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