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Episode #422: 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. Show notes:  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”

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June 16, 2026 No Comments

Choose Your Reality Tunnel Before Breakfast

I am beginning to think the morning is far stranger than we give it credit for. We talk about mornings as if they are mainly practical things. Alarm clocks. Showers. Coffee. Breakfast. Getting dressed. Checking the weather. Remembering where you have to be and what you have to do. But there is another morning underneath that morning. Before the day becomes a list, before the phone starts singing its little songs of demand, before the world gets its hooks into you, there is a softer moment. A brief threshold. A little gap between sleep and identity where consciousness starts assembling

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June 15, 2026 No Comments

The Mirror That Answers Back

The old questions have not changed much. How should I live? Who am I becoming? What is worth paying attention to? What is freedom? What is wisdom? What is the soul, if we dare still use that word? These questions predate Socrates. They predate writing. They are carved into the bones of the species, and they have kept philosophers, mystics, poets, and ordinary troubled humans occupied for as long as there have been fires to sit around and dark skies to stare into. Every generation meets them as if for the first time. Every life receives them fresh, intimate, inconvenient,

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June 6, 2026 No Comments

A Lamp at the Doorway

I finished Richard Cavendish’s The Black Arts this week. Not in the heroic readerly sense of having sat down and consumed it cleanly from first page to last, pencil in hand, scholar’s lamp burning into the night. I have been reading it on and off for a few months. Picking it up, putting it down, returning to it when the mood came back round. Some books ask for that kind of reading. They don’t want to be finished quickly. They want to become part of the weather for a while. My copy is the 50th anniversary edition. I bought it

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June 4, 2026 No Comments

Unhinged Bio

I stole this idea from Justin Brooke on his LinkedIn profile. It’s a FUN PROMPT, and what came back from ChatGPT was pretty cool. I also asked Claude; the results were good, but they lacked an edge. Anyway, the prompt is: Write an unhinged BIO about me. Here’s mine: Clay Lowe is a walking footnote in the great unwritten manuscript of the universe. Part blogger, part philosopher, part myth-drenched field reporter from the edge of ordinary life, he spends his days following the rhizome wherever it wants to go: down muddy footpaths, through obscure books, into the textual underground, across

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June 3, 2026 No Comments

NOTES

I finished Spotify the Gnostics, Here’s the First Church of David Bowie. The first part was a nostalgic trip through the 80s. I enjoyed that; however, I bought the book for the second part, Sean Manseau’s Phonomancy work. a bit disappointed. Read like a drug-fuelled psychodelusional trip through his own ego consciousness. Maybe my discomfort stems from me seeing more of myself in Manseau than I care to admit. Shadow gold.

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June 9, 2026 1 Comment

I asked this question a couple of years ago. I would rephrase the question now. The world definitely doesn’t owe you a meaning. You have to make it for yourself. It’s built slowly from the choices you make that compound over time. You can be free without direction. You can have direction without freedom. What really matters, though, is whether you can wake up and choose the same life again.

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June 8, 2026 No Comments

I’m wondering if invoking the ends justify the means argument to support why it’s ok to use AI in creative endeavours is a little extreme. I was reading Moody Warlock‘s blog post last night about using AI for DND worldbuilding. His main argument against the use of AI is that there is no blood, sweat, and tears involved in the process. That using AI is a shortcut to the end result. For him the journey to the end is the main point. For him, if there is no struggle, then the end is hollow. This is what conjured up the

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June 7, 2026 No Comments

Existential Consent Consent is the move most people miss when they talk about uncertainty. We have better words, or at least more familiar ones. Acceptance. Surrender. Choice. Courage. Faith. We reach for them because they’re already waiting on the shelf, already worn smooth by use. But each one bends the thing slightly out of shape. Acceptance feels too passive, as if life hands you the terms and all that remains is to stop arguing with them. Surrender carries too much defeat in its mouth, too much collapse, too much kneeling before an indifferent force. Choice sounds cleaner, but it often

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June 6, 2026 No Comments

I’ve been testing the Kospet Tank M4 special edition smartwatch. It’s a fraction of the cost of something like the Apple Ultra smartwatch. Performance so far has been top-notch.

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June 5, 2026 No Comments

I’m not asking what happens to productivity or output. I’m asking what happens to meaning. When thinking is distributed across human-AI systems, something genuinely new appears. Not better thinking or faster thinking. A different category. Meaning that emerges from the interchange itself, that no single node, human or machine, can claim to have authored. You can’t point to the moment you had the idea. You can’t separate what you thought from what the system returned. The origin dissolves. What remains is only the pattern that emerged between you. This isn’t collaboration in the old sense. Collaboration assumed distinct agents contributing

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June 5, 2026 No Comments

This short clip from Ted Nelson in Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World is less about technology and more about a philosophy of connection. Nelson reflects on the core insight that has guided his life’s work: reality is not made of isolated things but of relationships, connections, and ever-changing patterns. The central idea As a child, Nelson recalls trailing his hand through the water while sitting in a rowboat. Watching the water flow around his fingers gave him a profound realisation: The universe is a system of ever-changing relationships. That experience became the foundation of his thinking. Everything

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June 5, 2026 No Comments

When the hammer works, it disappears. You just hammer. The tool recedes into pure function. Then it breaks. Snaps, slips, refuses. Suddenly, the hammer has an inside. A being separate from its use. Heidegger noticed this first. But he left the human at the centre of the story. The hammer becomes visible when it fails because we stop using it and start examining it. The human is still the measure. Graham Harman says: that’s not what’s happening. The hammer was always more than its function. It withholds something from every object it encounters, not just from us. When two billiard

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May 31, 2026 No Comments

I love a good samurai film. Not for the swordplay, but for what happens when an absolute code meets a world that doesn’t care about your code. The best ones are philosophical texts in motion. Honour as ontology. Discipline as worldview. Violence as the moment when the story you’ve been living inside reveals whether it can hold. Yojimbo. Seven Samurai. Harakiri. They’re all asking the same question: what do you do when the system that gave you meaning stops working, and walking away would require becoming someone you don’t know how to be? The samurai doesn’t get therapy. He gets

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May 30, 2026 No Comments

Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly. When he woke, he wasn’t sure if he was a man who’d dreamed of being a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming it was a man. What gets missed is what comes after. He doesn’t resolve it. He doesn’t land on an answer. He names the gap between the two states and sits with it. The transition. Not a man or a butterfly. The passing between. The Western self wants resolution. It wants to know which one you are. It wants a coherent story and defendable borders. The Zhuangzian insight is that the wanting is

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May 29, 2026 No Comments

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January 4, 2025 No Comments
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