The Whole Room Is the Fantasy Amplifier
I have been thinking about Alan Kay’s idea of the fantasy amplifier, partly because I have begun to suspect that the thing he was imagining
August 11, 2026
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Wisdom Radio
Think of this station as a crossroads: one path paved with researched reflections from my NotebookLM sessions, the other with unfiltered podcast episodes from Soulcruzer. Together, they map the contours of a wandering mind.
The Fifth Question: Why Am I Waiting to Be Asked?
You finish a conversation and realise the other person learned nothing about you. They spoke, you listened, and somewhere along the way your role became
August 7, 2026
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Borrowing a Larger Self: An Experiment in Archetypal Invocation
A practical experiment in calling forward a larger human pattern when the usual character is too small for the scene.
August 6, 2026
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The Man Who Drew Desire
The life and afterlife of Austin Osman Spare In photographs, Austin Osman Spare often looks as if he has been caught halfway between worlds. As
August 4, 2026
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The Map Is Not the Adventure: Reading Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost
I took a different street home the other day. There was no great expedition in it. I was walking back through Southam by a route
August 1, 2026
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The Story That Wants You at Your Desk
There is a short scene near the beginning of The Matrix that has stayed with me for years. Thomas Anderson is sitting in the office
July 31, 2026
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Working Notes: the moon in transition
Last night I stood at the front of the house and watched a red moon. This morning, after waking, I looked towards the bedroom mirror
July 30, 2026
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The church that wasn’t there
I arrived in Worcester with time to spare before a family lunch. We were all coming from different points on the map. My son, his
July 28, 2026
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What Do I Owe Other People?
My mother taught me early that I didn’t owe anybody anything. Not even her. Looking back, I think she meant it as a lesson in
July 27, 2026
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The Currency of Ordinary Lives
Field Notes from The Old Mint, Southam I went out for a short wisdom walk this afternoon. Nothing grand. No pilgrimage. No mountain path. Just
July 23, 2026
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The Grid and the Ghost: A Soft-Cyborg’s Guide to Psyche and Soul
(1) The Linguistic Stutter The cursor on my screen is a rhythmic, glowing pulse. It is the heartbeat of a binary ghost, a small white
July 20, 2026
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The Horizon
I’m standing in a field looking towards the horizon. It occurs to me that I’ve spent a lifetime doing this. Different fields. Different coastlines. Different
July 16, 2026
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The Soulcruzer Podcast
Join Clay Lowe, aka Soulcruzer, for barefoot reflections on the art of living.
Each short episode is a shot of slow wisdom—10 minutes or less—served like strong coffee for the soul. Mythic musings, story sparks, and contemplative riffs to help you walk your path with presence, purpose, and poetry.
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The Soulcruzer podcast is an audioblog from the edge of the inner life.
Part personal essay, part field recording, part narrative alchemy, it follows the strange places where story, psyche, myth, technology, and everyday experience begin to speak to each other.
One episode might wander through tarot as reflective technology. Another might take Nietzsche’s eternal return for a walk, explore games as containers for transformation, or ask what happens when ancient wisdom meets the AI age. Depth psychology brushes against the esoteric. Philosophy comes down from the shelf. Theory gets tested against life.
This is not polished guru-talk or productivity theatre. It is a mind in movement: raw notes, live experiments, confessional mysticism, and working fragments from the textual underground.
At the heart of it all is a simple premise:
Stories are code. Reality is programmable. And the life you are living might be more editable than you were taught to believe.
If you are drawn to the deep work, the strange edges, and the art of becoming more fully alive, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
Why My Blog Is Still My Home on the Internet
In this episode, I take the Soulcruzer podcast out of the studio and into the fields.
What starts as an experiment in mobile podcasting/vlogging turns into a wandering meditation on labels, blogging, AI, morning rituals, and the strange abundance of media tools we now carry in our pockets.
– Why I still think of myself as a blogger first
– Podcasting, vodcasting, and the pressure to become “multimodal”
– The problem with labels: “When you label me, you negate me”
– soulcruzer.com as the central hub/home on the internet
– Wisdom Walks as thinking time
– Walking, motion, and changing perspective
– The “barefoot philosopher” approach to everyday philosophy
– AI as an extension of cognition rather than just a productivity tool
– The “soft cyborg” and the library of Alexandria in your pocket
– Morning reality tunnels and the sacred space before breakfast
– Coffee, barefoot grounding, and choosing what enters your mind first
– Indie blogging, platforms, Substack, distribution, and the open web
– Why these episodes may stay loose, minimally edited, and stream-of-consciousness
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