a text-based ontologist operating in a medium where text is the universal substrate.
I was reading Jung the other day, and this phrase caught my attention: The unconscious as dragon and treasure. Five words that contain, if you sit with them long enough, the entire architecture of inner transformation. Not a theory. Not a clinical framework, but a map drawn in mythic language
You have never met yourself. Not directly. What you have met is a story about yourself, told so many times and with such conviction that it started to feel like the ground you stand on rather than the narrative you constructed to explain where you are standing. This is not
The Soulcruzer Mixtape Series is back, because some things are worth coming back to! If you’ve been here a while, you’ll know what this is. If you’re new, here’s the short version: it’s a curated set of songs, talked through, with a little context around why they matter and why
a meditation how’s your life right now? not the version you present online. not the edited highlight reel. the actual texture of it. the way your days feel when you wake up in the morning. the tone of your conversations. the direction your energy naturally flows. because whether you notice
The conversation is long today. If you prefer to listen, here you go: It started with a book. It usually does. I pulled Dario Nardi‘s The Magic Diamond off the shelf this morning more or less at random, the way you do when your hand knows something your mind hasn’t
On staying visible while going deep. The temptation to disappear into the work, the gold rush noise, and why the explorer who transmits is more valuable than the one who goes silent in the jungle.
I typed a sentence into a machine, and a video came out. Not a description of a video. Not a storyboard. Not a request routed to some human editor working a night shift in another time zone. A video. Movement, colour, light, duration. Born from a line of text, the
Caution: This post contains spoilers. The show tells you who the hero is before the first episode ends. Carol Sturka, a curmudgeonly novelist living in Albuquerque, wakes up to find that nearly every human being on Earth has been absorbed into a peaceful, cooperative hive mind following the arrival of
Hi I’m Clay Lowe. I’m a Digital Alchemist and Future of Learning Strategist with an insatiable appetite for information and knowledge (hence the “Infovore” moniker). I’m passionate about using AI and other emerging technologies to create more engaging, effective, and personalised learning experiences.
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.
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In this episode, I explore one of Jung’s most striking images: the unconscious as both dragon and treasure. What if the fear, resistance, and chaos you encounter when you turn inward aren’t signs that something is wrong but signs that you’re getting close to something valuable? Drawing on Jungian depth psychology, NLP, and the logic of myth, I unpack why the very thing guarding your buried gold is often indistinguishable from the thing you most want to avoid and what it actually means to face it.
