The Rucksack, the Drift, and the Thinking Walk
I have been thinking about walking. This week has clarified something about why. You stay alive to your life by staying in motion. The physical
June 1, 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.
On Becoming a Soft Cyborg: Notes on Human-AI Symbiosis, Narrative Evolution, and the Next Great Merger
The first merger was a hostile takeover that became a marriage. Two billion years ago, a free-living bacterium got eaten by a larger cell, refused
May 28, 2026
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Wrestling with Angels
I came across the phrase while reading Spotify the Gnostics, Here’s the First Church of David Bowie by Sean Manseau. Wrestling with angels. Some phrases
May 24, 2026
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Wisdom Walk: Boxes and the Philosopher Coach
Wednesday morning. Wind in the microphone. One of those recordings where the first question is whether the machine is even listening. I am walking through
May 20, 2026
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Notes Toward a Text-Based Ontology in the Age of Executable Language
There was a time when ontology belonged to philosophers in heavy coats asking whether tables were real. The question has since escaped the seminar room
May 18, 2026
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The Text-Based Ontologist: A Syllabus for Reality Engineers, Narrative Alchemists, and Semantic Cartographers
This is not a traditional academic programme. It sits somewhere between the philosophy department, occult library, media lab, hacker space, monastery, writer’s workshop, and signal
May 15, 2026
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Jim Morrison’s Reading List
The myth of Jim Morrison is a myth of pure instinct. He arrives fully formed in the collective memory: shirtless, obliterated, magnificent, doomed. The leather
May 14, 2026
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Three Cards, No Daylight
Yesterday felt like wading through wet sand. Every idea that surfaced dissolved before it could be shaped into anything. Underneath that is the voice that
May 12, 2026
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The Hill of the Goblins and other matters
Sunday. Mid-morning. We’re just south of Mold, tucked into a fold in the Flintshire landscape that the main roads have mostly forgotten about. I’m on
May 10, 2026
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You Can Understand Everything and Still Not Know What to Do
How should I live? Socrates called it the examined life. The Daoists called it the Way. Every philosophical tradition worth its name has some version
May 5, 2026
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The Streets She Couldn’t Walk
Raffaello Palandri runs a Book of the Day series, and this morning he wrote about Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth, published in 1961.
May 2, 2026
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The Entanglement
A Dialogue in the Platonic Tradition The following is a record of an encounter between CLAY, a philosopher and lover of wisdom, and CLAUDE, an
May 1, 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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