Your story is your operating system; Hack the code.
Narrative Alchemy is the practice of treating stories as spiritual technology—seeing inherited scripts clearly, releasing what isn't yours, and consciously authoring new myths to live by.
It's where Jung meets chaos magic, where the imaginal becomes operational, and where inner transformation reshapes outer reality.
I build games, practices, and frameworks that make this work tangible. Magus Eternal is one of those tools—a tarot RPG designed as a container for threshold crossing. The Narrative Codex is another—a living archive of techniques, lore, and experiments.
This isn't coaching or therapy. It's spiritual technology for people ready to hack their own operating system.
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
Man and His Symbols is an accessible gateway into Jungian depth work. This illustrated exploration of archetypes and symbols reveals how transformation happens in the imaginal realm, below conscious awareness.
Hillman's "acorn theory" illuminates the path to Authentic Purpose. His poetic yet rigorous approach gives language to the daimonic self and the ineffable aspects of personal mythology.
Mary K. Greer's seminal workbook transforms tarot from divination tool into technology for self-knowledge and narrative sovereignty. Packed with exercises that treat the cards as doorways to the imaginal realm, this is required reading for practitioners ready to use archetypal imagery as active imagination practice.
Johnson demystifies Jung's most powerful technique with step-by-step guidance for engaging the imaginal realm directly. This slim volume transforms abstract theory into actionable practice—essential for practitioners ready to move beyond conceptual understanding.
The clearest introduction to chaos magic as pragmatic practice. Strips away dogma to reveal the core mechanics of belief as a tool. Perfectly bridges the gap between depth psychology and results-orientated transformation work.
While the hero's journey has been overused, Campbell's original text remains vital for understanding narrative structure as psycho-spiritual map. Read it to learn the pattern, then transcend it.
This groundbreaking work bridges the mystical and scientific, revealing how tarot actually works through the lens of neuroscience and cognitive psychology. Essential reading for practitioners who want to understand the neurological mechanisms behind symbol work, pattern recognition, and the imaginal realm's interface with the predictive brain.
[Sigil] Guardian daemon of thresholds and transformation. Works whether you see it as archetypal force or powerful metaphor. → Explore the sigil
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.
Above the temple of Apollo at Delphi, carved into stone that has outlasted empires, two words wait: γνῶθι σεαυτόν. Know thyself. Not a greeting. Not advice, but a command that doubles as a riddle, delivered at the threshold of the oracle’s chamber, where mortals came to learn their fates. The
I’ve always felt most at ease on the edges of things. At parties, I drift toward the bookshelves. In conversations, I’m the one asking the question that sends everyone sideways. The centre has its uses, but it often feels like a place of performance rather than presence. This little piece
You are an actor reciting a script you didn’t write. We all live by stories, those patterns of limitation, fear, and unworthiness inherited from our family, our culture, or our past pain. These stories run deep, determining our roles, our boundaries, and what we believe is possible. But what if
I was walking my usual path when a curl of pipe smoke drifted across the morning air. Out of the mist appeared Lin Yutang, the laughing philosopher himself, strolling as if he had all the time in the world. He looked like a man who had never hurried a day
This afternoon at Habano Café, Mike and I sank into one of those conversations that stretch out over burgers and coffee, meandering through memory and possibility. We reminisced about our old days as training consultants, swapped stories about being grandfathers, and compared notes on the stubborn pull of writing. Mike
We’ve inherited a story of success that looks a lot like farming. Put your head down. Work the land. Plant the seeds of skill and discipline. Grind away for years. Guard your harvest. Repeat. It’s the agricultural model of achievement: steady, linear, and long-term. And it has value. Persistence matters.
This week has been about laying scaffolding around a vision, the kind of quiet construction that doesn’t always look dramatic from the outside but changes everything on the inside. I’ve been shaping Soulcruzer into something more than a blog, more than a collection of scattered essays and passing thoughts. What
The chessboard is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair and patient. But also we know,
I discover hope’s source code on a Thursday morning, staring at my coffee cup like it holds the secrets of the universe. Which, in a way, it does. The revelation arrives not as lightning but as slow recognition. My mind has been running hope protocols all along, background processes I
The dance between I and Me lives right at the heart of selfhood, it’s the movement between the actor and the mask, the subject and the object, and the experiencer and the experienced. William James started the split: I as the knower, the pure subject of consciousness; Me as the known, the self that can be observed—my body,
I’ve been exploring Nick Bantock’s “The Archeo: Understanding and Developing Your Archetypes”. I’m sitting here in quiet reflection after another powerful journaling/meditation session; the question that keeps circling back to me is, ‘Why Mephistopheles?’ Why now? Something has shifted in my practice this week. I’ve felt myself touching something deeper,
This morning the Thoth deck placed Death in my hand with the peculiar weight that only certain cards carry—that gravitational pull of significance that makes the fingers tingle and the mind sharpen. Not the grim ender of tales that medieval minds conjured, but the skeletal dancer Crowley envisioned in his
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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.
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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