Operating Behind Enemy Lines: A Chaos Magician's Guide to Insurgent Authenticity
Show Notes
In this episode, I explore the tension between authenticity and effectiveness in reaching people with transformative work. Recorded on a rainy Friday evening in the UK, this long-form conversation unpacks how we can work within systems we aim to subvert without losing our mission.
Key Topics:
In this episode, I explore the tension between authenticity and effectiveness in reaching people with transformative work. Recorded on a rainy Friday evening in the UK, this long-form conversation unpacks how we can work within systems we aim to subvert without losing our mission.
Key Topics:
The Gnostic Caravan Project
- Working through the Gnostic Tarot deck during Advent
- Exploring characters like Sabaoth, Simon Magus, Mary Magdalene, and Sophia
- Using the deck as a tool for spiritual development and self-knowledge
One Brain, Many Paths
- How different traditions (chaos magic, Christianity, Taoism, NLP, coaching) all use the same mental tools
- The Human Potential Movement and New Thought Movement as predecessors to today's self-help culture
- Pattern interrupts, anchors, meditation, and mindfulness across all systems
The Authenticity Paradox
- The Purity Trap: staying so authentic you reach only seven people who already agree with you
- The Efficacy Trap: smoothing out all edges until you become indistinguishable from the system
- Finding the middle path: speaking enough of the system's language to be heard while delivering actual transformation
Strategic Identity & Chaos Magic
- Identity as fluid and tactical, not fixed
- Using belief as a tool rather than an anchor
- The Saboth principle: waking up inside the corrupt system and breaking free
The Real Mission
- Reframing authenticity as tactic, not identity
- The only question that matters: "Am I helping someone move closer to sovereignty?"
- Trojan horse strategy: get attention, then deliver liberation technology
Blogging as Subversive Activity
- Why tech platforms suppress external links
- The attention economy and algorithmic control
- Reclaiming your own digital space through blogging
- RSS feeds vs. doom scrolling
Referenced:
- William Burroughs on language as virus
- The Matrix and Morpheus's red pill problem
- Rage Against the Machine - "Wake Up"
- Martin Luther's 95 Theses
- Paul Kurtz's conscious robot concept
- Robert Anton Wilson and reality tunnels
- Neil Postman's "Teaching as a Subversive Activity"
Call to Action:
Start your own blog. Create your own space. Free your mind from algorithmic control. Join the guerrilla blogging underground.