December 15-21, 2025
This was one of those weeks where infrastructure building and conceptual exploration happened in parallel. The kind of week where you’re simultaneously laying cable and exploring new intellectual territory, each feeding the other.
Let me walk you through what emerged.
Getting Jacked Into the System
The biggest technical development: successfully connecting Claude to both my Obsidian vault and Typefully for X posting. This might sound like plumbing work, but it’s actually strategic.
For two years I’ve been talking about treating blogging as spiritual technology. About the blog as hypersigil, as ongoing magical working. But I was still manually copying files around, treating the tools as separate from the practice.
Not anymore.
Now Claude can read and write directly to my “narrative alchemy” vault in Obsidian. Create files. Reference past work. Build on existing conceptual frameworks without me having to manually bridge the systems. And push content straight to X without the friction of switching contexts.
The setup process was its own education. Installing MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers. Learning command-line basics I’d been avoiding for decades. Wrestling with iCloud sync delays and configuration files.
But here’s what matters: the system is now an extension of my practice rather than something separate from it. The tools serve the work. The technology enables the magic.
The Philosophical Council Expands
While building infrastructure, I was simultaneously deepening my intellectual foundation. Specifically, integrating Hans Vaihinger’s Philosophy of As If into what I’m now calling my “philosophical council” alongside Jung and Hillman.
Vaihinger gives me something I didn’t have clean language for before: epistemological grounding for treating narratives as functional rather than representational. His argument is deceptively simple: useful fictions are just as operationally valid as objective truths. Maybe more so.
This completes a powerful triumvirate:
Jung provides archetypal mechanics and the map of the psyche.
Hillman brings soul-making through the imaginal realm, the idea of seeing through rather than literal belief.
Vaihinger offers pragmatic justification for using functional fictions without requiring metaphysical certainty.
Together they create theoretical scaffolding for everything I’m doing with narrative alchemy. Stories as code isn’t just a catchy tagline. It’s a defensible philosophical position.
I also explored where Alfred Adler fits in this framework. He’s the practical uncle who translates depth psychology into accessible therapeutic techniques. His concept of “fictional finalism” bridges Vaihinger’s philosophy with Jung’s archetypal work. And his language about lifestyle narratives makes the work approachable for people who might be intimidated by shadow integration and imaginal realm.
Content Production as Reality Hacking
This philosophical deepening showed up immediately in the content I created.
I developed a comprehensive blog post exploring the parallel between post-structuralism and chaos magick, showing how academic philosophy and occult practice independently arrived at the same conclusion: reality is constructed, and construction means it can be consciously worked with.
The piece uses what I’m calling “vertical sequential art style” visual essays, integrating theory with practice in a format designed for the web rather than trying to reproduce print conventions.
I also worked on “The Blog as Hypersigil” essay, making explicit what I’ve been practicing implicitly. Blogging isn’t just publishing thoughts. It’s extended magical working that functions as a spell over time, reshaping reality for both creator and audience.
The evidence is mounting. Since redesigning my website around narrative alchemy and launching The Circle newsletter, strangers have been reaching out unprompted. People asking to be notified when group work begins. Readers engaging with practical exercises multiple times to fully integrate the material.
Most significantly: I’m experiencing personal transformation. Increased focus. Stronger connection to intuition. Sharper vision of myself and the work. The blog functions exactly as Grant Morrison described hypersigils in The Invisibles: an ongoing practice that accumulates power through repetition and creates feedback loops with reality.
Product Development
The week also saw significant progress on “The Narrative Alchemist’s Book of Prompts”, my upcoming ebook structured around the four classical alchemical stages.
This won’t be another journaling book with feel-good questions. These are prompts crafted as activation sequences, designed to shift consciousness and bypass rational thinking. Text as executable code. Each stage gets 7-12 prompts that function as transformation protocols.
I’m positioning this for the New Year market but explicitly rejecting the typical resolution energy. This is for people ready for actual alchemical work, not surface-level goal setting.
I also developed the framework for a premium narrative coaching offer: a 12-week laboratory-style container where clients bring specific challenges and receive custom transformation protocols. Not therapy. Not traditional coaching. Something more like R&D for consciousness.
The pricing reflects this: £2,500 for 12 weeks. Asynchronous delivery through email and voice notes to protect my creative time while maintaining intensity of engagement.
The AI Integration Question
Perhaps most interesting was exploring what it means to be an “AI-assisted blogger” in depth.
I brainstormed two major AI-powered systems: a real-time Oracle (the Ashkara Oracle) trained on my corpus that can engage visitors in dialogue about narrative alchemy practices, and interactive fiction games that use natural language processing to create adaptive narrative experiences.
Both concepts blur the line between content and transformation tool. The Oracle isn’t just information delivery. It’s personalized guidance. The games aren’t just entertainment. They’re experiential teaching.
This connects back to the hypersigil concept. If the blog is extended magical working, then AI integration represents the next evolution: content that actively participates in transformation rather than passively waiting to be consumed.
Identity Refinement
All week I was refining my X bio, working toward sharper positioning. The breakthrough came in shifting language from “Narrative Coach” to “Narrative Alchemist & Blogger.”
That subtle change matters. It positions me at the intersection of ancient wisdom tradition (alchemy) and contemporary digital practice (blogging). It claims spiritual technologist territory without apology.
The updated bio now opens with: “You’ve found a corner of X where stories aren’t consumed. They’re debugged.”
That single line does more work than three paragraphs of explanation. It establishes frame, promises utility, and signals sophistication. Stories as code. Problems as bugs. Solutions as patches.
And it ends with: “Stories are code. You are the programmer.”
Not “we” as collaborative gesture. “You” as direct assignment of agency.
The Connecting Thread
What unified this week’s work was making implicit practices explicit.
I’ve been treating my blog as magical working for months. Now I’m teaching that as methodology.
I’ve been using philosophical frameworks to ground esoteric practice for years. Now I’m articulating the specific thinkers who provide that grounding.
I’ve been building technical infrastructure to support the work. Now that infrastructure is operational.
The shift from unconscious competence to conscious teaching. From doing the thing to showing others how the thing works.
This is what 2025 looks like: taking everything I’ve learned through 40 years of journaling, 25 years of chaos magick practice, decades of studying depth psychology and postmodern philosophy, and transforming it into teachable frameworks and functional tools.
Not dumbing it down. Making it transmissible.
What’s Next
The technical infrastructure is now in place. The philosophical foundation is articulated. The content frameworks are defined.
Coming week focuses on production: finishing The Narrative Alchemist’s Book of Prompts, launching the premium coaching container.
Each piece builds on the others. Each reinforces the core message: reality is mutable, narratives are programmable, and you have more power to shape your experience than you’ve been taught to believe.
The work continues.
What’s becoming explicit in your practice right now? Hit reply and let me know. I read everything.
