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The Printing Press Made Polymaths. AI Is Making Something Stranger.
The printing press gave us access to knowledge. AI gives us access to alien intelligence.
A Philosophy of As If: Useful Fictions and the Stories We Live By
I dive into Hans Vaihinger's Philosophy of As If and explore how our minds create "useful fictions" to help us navigate life. The big insight: we don't think to know t...
The Nature of Longing: Why Restlessness Isn't a Problem to Solve
In this episode, I explore why we feel restless and incomplete even after achieving our goals or finding spiritual practices that seem to work. I argue that our perpet...
Wisdom Walk: What Do You Do When You've Done Everything?
What Do You Do When You've Done Everything?On a Saturday wisdom walk past the polo grounds, I reflect on the evolution of my weekends across different life phases: fro...
Weekly Transmission: Technical Foundations and Philosophical Deepening
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 an...
The Codex, the Caravan, and the Coming Year
SHOW NOTES (Episode 412)In this episode I take a breath, lift my head from the workbench, and catch you up on everything happening inside the Soulcruzer universe. It h...
Operating Behind Enemy Lines: A Chaos Magician's Guide to Insurgent Authenticity
Show NotesIn this episode, I explore the tension between authenticity and effectiveness in reaching people with transformative work. Recorded on a rainy Friday evening...
Journaling as Narrative Alchemy
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: J...
The Narrative Alchemy Codex: Chapter 1 Preview
A Sneak Preview: Chapter 1 of the Narrative Alchemy CodexThe Codex is almost here. After weeks of weaving together the framework and laying the foundations, I’m only a...
The Quiet Joy of Epicurus: Pleasure, Peace, and the Art of Enough
Epicurus is often misunderstood. This episode invites you into his garden of calm, where philosophy is not about indulgence but about finding deep inner peace. We expl...
The Grandfather Timeline: Seeing Both Directions
This morning, with mist on the path and a newborn soul in the family, I found myself standing in the middle of time. In this episode, I reflect on becoming a grandfath...
The Realm of Possibility
In this contemplative riff inspired by Michael Neill’s teaching, I explore what it means to return to the space before thought, that fertile void the Taoists speak of,...
Sleeping Beneath the Stars: Thoreau, Simplicity & the Sacred Ordinary
In this contemplative morning episode, I take you along on a wisdom walk through the Southam Woods—my own modern-day Walden. After a night spent sleeping under the sta...
The Wandering Way
Feeling like everyone else got the memo about life while you were just trying to keep your head above water? This transmission is for the wanderers, the ones who've st...
the alchemy of the wandering soul: what happens when you mix a poet, a peasant, and a vagabond?
What happens when you stir together the essence of a poet, a peasant, and a vagabond? In this episode, I explore the alchemy of these three archetypes—and what emerges...
I End with the Fool
In this intimate soul signal, I share the final reflection from my most recent journal—and the unexpected archetype who showed up to close the book: the Fool, the Jest...
The Breaking of the Frame
In this episode, I explore the Morality card from the Osho Zen Tarot—not as a judgement, but as a mirror. What happens when morality becomes a cage instead of a compas...