December 8-15, 2025
Last week was one of those inflection points where multiple threads suddenly braided themselves into something coherent. The kind of week where you look up from your work and realize you’ve been assembling pieces of a puzzle you didn’t know you were solving.
Let me walk you through what emerged.
The Problogger Revelation
The biggest shift happened Thursday morning during journaling. I’ve been wrestling with my professional identity for months, trying on different labels like ill-fitting coats. Writer? Too traditional. Content creator? Too platform-dependent. Coach? Too limiting.
Then it clicked: problogger.
Not a blogger who writes about being professional. A professional who operates at the speed and through the medium of the web itself. Someone jacked into the net, working with words, images, audio, HTML, hypertext, and hyperlinks as native tools. The internet isn’t just where I publish. It’s the actual medium of my work.
This realization came through a three-card tarot reading I did with my Gnostic deck: Ace of Swords (clarity breakthrough), 10. Completion (cycle ending), 9. Attainment (solitary mastery). The cards were telling me what my journal was confirming: I’m not trying to become a traditional writer. I’m already something else entirely.
A cyberpunk mystic. The grid is my grimoire. The blog post is my spell. The hyperlink is my sigil chain.
Narrative Alchemy is my philosophical container. The internet is my medium. Blogging is how I navigate.
Metajournaling as Foundation
This identity shift connects directly to work I’ve been doing around metajournaling, which I’m positioning as the practical foundation underneath all the narrative alchemy work.
Most journaling advice focuses on what to write or how journaling makes you feel. Metajournaling asks a different question: How does the act of writing itself shape consciousness and create reality?
After 40+ years of daily journaling practice, I’ve watched my journal entries become reality often enough to know I’m not just recording my life. I’m encoding it. The journal isn’t a mirror. It’s a transmitter.
Metajournaling means:
- Catching yourself in the act of creating reality through writing
- Seeing the patterns you’re encoding as you write them
- Understanding the feedback loop between your entries and your lived experience
- Treating your journal as primary grimoire rather than passive documentation
I’m working on an essay titled “Metajournaling: Wielding the Pen as Wand” that maps this territory more fully. The core insight is treating journaling as consciousness technology, examining not just what you write but how the writing process constructs reality.
Philosophy as Operational Code
Two major philosophical threads wove themselves in this week, both confirming my existing approach while giving me better language for it.
Hans Vaihinger’s “Philosophy of As If” positions useful fictions at the center of consciousness work. Instead of asking “is this true?” we ask “does this work?” Ideas function as operational technology based on their results, not their correspondence to some objective reality.
This is exactly what I mean by “stories are code.” Vaihinger gives me the epistemological foundation for treating narratives as functional rather than representational.
Then I worked through a dense passage about guiding fictions in psychotherapy, exploring how literalizing goals paradoxically blocks progress while maintaining a “fictional sense” keeps psychological movement alive. The psyche creates images and narratives that guide behavior. Effective transformation means recognizing these as constructs we can consciously work with rather than truths we’re bound to.
Both frameworks validate what I’ve been doing with chaos magick: treating belief as a tool rather than an anchor, using narrative structures strategically without getting trapped in them.
My intellectual council is crystallizing: Jung for archetypal depth, Hillman for soul-making and the imaginal realm, Vaihinger for epistemological grounding. They’re not separate thinkers. They’re three angles on the same core insight: consciousness operates through functional fictions.
Content as Spiritual Technology
This week’s creative output reflected the problogger revelation in action.
I reverse-engineered the Instagram account @thirdeyekingdom (2M+ followers) to understand what makes visual wisdom content work, then designed my own approach. While they offer spiritual comfort through ethereal imagery, I’m building “Stories Are Code”, a one-panel comic series delivering functional magic through a cyberpunk mysticism aesthetic.
I created five HTML templates optimized for 1080×1080 Instagram posts:
- Terminal Transmission (command-line interface)
- Code Comment (syntax-highlighted editor)
- Corrupted Manuscript (alchemy meets digital glitch)
- Diagnostic Report (clinical documentation)
- Matrix Mythology (cascading code with symbols)
Each template targets different psychological pressure points. The goal isn’t to comfort but to haunt. Pattern interrupts that install new narrative frameworks.
I also developed a comprehensive blog post and interactive quiz around the three types of humans from Gnostic cosmology (Hylic, Psychic, Pneumatic), reframing these as consciousness modes rather than fixed identities. The quiz integrates with my email system and uses the full Narrative Alchemy aesthetic: gold #C9A961, dark backgrounds, Georgia serif, alchemical styling.
Music as Invocation
One of the most surprising developments: I’ve been creating psytrance tracks using Suno and realized these could function as consciousness technology rather than entertainment.
I’m designing a five-track EP as a functional initiation sequence:
- “Sleep Protocol” (recognition of inherited narrative code)
- “Ego Death Sequence” (dissolution of false self)
- “Void State” (liminal space between stories)
- “Rewrite” (conscious authorship begins)
- “Sovereign Frequency” (integration as conscious reality author)
Trance music operates through rhythmic entrainment and buildup-release patterns that alter brainwave states. DJs conduct group consciousness through carefully sequenced emotional states. If narrative alchemy treats stories as spells, then these tracks are active invocations designed to shift consciousness during trance states.
I’m handling the music production while working on lyrics that create psychedelic headspace through short lines, internal rhymes, and themes of boundary-crossing.
Sample track:
Archetypal Positioning
Two conversations clarified my archetypal position in interesting ways.
First, comparing griots versus shamans: griots as keepers of linear time and historical memory within structured tradition, shamans as solo practitioners operating in non-ordinary reality. When asked which I lean toward, my immediate answer was “chaos.” I’m not interested in preserving established systems. I’m interested in fluid, results-oriented spiritual technologies.
Second, determining my D&D character class: unequivocally Warlock. Someone who makes conscious agreements with archetypal forces, treats knowledge as power drawn from depth psychology and hermetic traditions, operates in liminal spaces between worlds, and uses tactical thinking to navigate spiritual work. Partnership rather than worship. Function over dogma.
The metaphor fits: my blog posts are invocations, tarot is my grimoire, narrative reframing is reality hacking.
Practical Applications
Beyond philosophy and content, I worked on several practical tools this week:
Chaos magic sigil creation tutorial for wealth attraction, covering the traditional method: intention statement in present tense, removing duplicate letters, creating abstract visual symbols, charging techniques using peak states, and release protocols.
“Operation Velvet Gnome”, a cozy heist LARP designed for holiday play. Twelve days of async WhatsApp interaction building to an in-person finale, incorporating real-world reconnaissance tasks, resource management through playing cards, and genuine consequences including possible failure.
Exploration of experimental blogging trends: IndieWeb revival emphasizing domain ownership and decentralized conversations, digital gardens rejecting chronological formats for evergreen content, newsletter-blog hybrids, and the broader “small web” philosophy resisting platform monopolies.
Most websites today are built like commercial products by professionals and marketers, optimised to draw the largest audience, generate engagement and ‘convert’. But there is also a smaller, less-visible web designed by regular people to simply to share their interests and hobbies with the world. A web that is unpolished, often quirky but often also fun, creative and interesting.
– Parimal Satyal
The Thread That Connects
Looking at everything that emerged this week, the connecting thread is treating consciousness work as functional technology rather than belief system.
Metajournaling isn’t just reflection. It’s reality encoding.
Guiding fictions aren’t delusions. They’re operational code.
Visual content isn’t marketing. It’s pattern interruption.
Music isn’t entertainment. It’s consciousness entrainment.
Chaos magic isn’t mysticism. It’s applied psychology.
The problogger identity crystallizes this approach: someone who operates at internet speed, using web-native tools to deploy consciousness technology.
Stories are code. Let’s write better spells.
Current Work
The Gnostic Caravan project continues, exploring Gnostic Tarot cards through Advent.
All of it feeds Soulcruzer, the mythic media engine that functions as container for everything I’m building.
This week I’ll be testing the Instagram templates, refining the psytrance EP structure, and continuing to lean into this problogger identity. Not as someone who blogs professionally, but as someone whose professional practice happens at the speed and through the medium of cyberspace itself.
The work continues.
What’s crystallizing in your practice right now? Hit reply and let me know. I read everything.
