In this episode, I explore the tension between authenticity and effectiveness in reaching people with transformative work. This is my attempt to unpack how we can work within systems we aim to subvert without losing focus on our mission.
Key Topics:
The Gnostic Caravan Project
- Working through the Gnostic Tarot deck during Advent
- Exploring characters like Sabaoth, Simon Magus, Mary Magdalene, and Sophia
- Using the deck as a tool for spiritual development and self-knowledge
One Brain, Many Paths
- How different traditions (chaos magic, Christianity, Taoism, NLP, coaching) all use the same mental tools
- The Human Potential Movement and New Thought Movement as predecessors to today’s self-help culture
- Pattern interrupts, anchors, meditation, and mindfulness across all systems
The Authenticity Paradox
- The Purity Trap: staying so authentic you reach only seven people who already agree with you
- The Efficacy Trap: smoothing out all edges until you become indistinguishable from the system
- Finding the middle path: speaking enough of the system’s language to be heard while delivering actual transformation
Strategic Identity & Chaos Magic
- Identity as fluid and tactical, not fixed
- Using belief as a tool rather than an anchor
- The Sabaoth principle: waking up inside the corrupt system and breaking free
The Real Mission
- Reframing authenticity as tactic, not identity
- The only question that matters: “Am I helping someone move closer to sovereignty?”
- Trojan horse strategy: get attention, then deliver liberation technology
Blogging as Subversive Activity
- Why tech platforms suppress external links
- The attention economy and algorithmic control
- Reclaiming your own digital space through blogging
- RSS feeds vs. doom scrolling
Referenced:
- William Burroughs on language as virus
- The Matrix and Morpheus’s red pill problem
- Rage Against the Machine – “Wake Up”
- Martin Luther’s 95 Theses
- Paul Kurtz’s conscious robot concept
- Robert Anton Wilson and reality tunnels
- Neil Postman’s “Teaching as a Subversive Activity”
Call to Action:
Start your own blog. Create your own space. Free your mind from algorithmic control. Join the guerrilla blogging underground.
