Philosophical Correspondent & Wandering Essayist

I wander the borderlands of philosophy, psychology, mythology, technology, and everyday life, following questions about what it means to be human and how we might live more deliberately. Soulcruzer is where I send my dispatches: essays, field notes, experiments, and working observations from the textual underground. I write to discover what I think. I walk to see what I might have missed. And I keep returning to the same question: How shall I live?

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Soulcruzer

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.

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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Why My Blog Is Still My Home on the Internet

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The Unconscious as Dragon and Treasure

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What Are We Becoming?

February 8, 2026

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On Social Audio, Wild Podcasts, and Why I’m Bringing Radio Back

February 4, 2026

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Self-Observation Without Judgment: The Lost Practice That Changes Everything

January 27, 2026

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The Printing Press Made Polymaths. AI Is Making Something Stranger.

January 19, 2026

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A Philosophy of As If: Useful Fictions and the Stories We Live By

January 15, 2026

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The Nature of Longing: Why Restlessness Isn’t a Problem to Solve

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Wisdom Walk: What Do You Do When You’ve Done Everything?

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Weekly Transmission: Technical Foundations and Philosophical Deepening

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