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
“What if imagination isn’t something we use—but something we see through?” Long ago, before the world was hemmed in by spreadsheets and satellite maps, there was a way of seeing that didn’t require eyes. The old mystics called it the soul’s eye, or sometimes the mundus imaginalis—the imaginal world. Not...
Invocation: The Spark Before the Fire “Prometheus did not ask permission. He saw the fire of the gods and knew it belonged to us.” I believe the mythic revival now underway is no mere fad. It is not a trend dressed in archetypes or a phase of spiritual nostalgia curated...
Imagine, for a moment, a fire crackling in the heart of an ancient forest. Sparks leap like tiny stars into the velvet dark, spiralling skyward in silent communion with the heavens. You sit close enough to feel the fire’s gentle warmth kiss your skin, hear its whispers blending with the...
A personal resurrection in seven acts Threshold Moment: The Phoenix Stir There’s a moment just before the flame catches, when the ashes still whisper the name of who you used to be. I find myself standing in that moment now. It’s a Friday—gray-skied and bone-cold here in the UK—but mythically...
What if the third act of your life isn’t about slowing down but becoming the myth you were born to tell? Join me on a wisdom walk through memory, metaphor, and mythic insight as I unpack the tension between old worlds and new callings. Guided by mythic imagination, story, and...
Blogger’s Note: The Alchemy of a Simple Cup of Tea Why just have a simple cup of tea when you can activate your mythic imagination and transform the act into a mindful ritual? In a world that rushes past the sacred in favour of the efficient, we often forget that...
Carrying on from my conversation on the mythic imagination and Stephen Larsen’s book on the subject, I did a quick SketchWow infographic to give a quick overview of the book.
I’ve been dipping in and out of Stephen Larsen’s book, The Mythic Imagination: The Quest for Meaning Through Personal Mythology for a while now. It’s become an ongoing companion that keeps nudging me to explore how I exercise my own mythic imagination. I find myself tapping into this deeper way...
Fired off episode 3 of the new podcast series I’ve been working on with Naomi. We’re beginning to find our natural cadence and rhythm as co-hosts. The podcast too is beginning to morph into what I believe it’s destined to be, which is ostensibly The Journey: The Wisdom Experience Podcast...
I spent most of today researching the idea of the mythic imagination. It’s the topic of our podcast on Wednesday. It’s an area that has long fascinated me. As a boy, I grew up reading heroic fantasy novels, comics, and history. I loved epic stories of good versus evil, the...
