The Operating System
Informed Delivery
The USPS as Surveillance Infrastructure and the Institution the Government Is Allowing to Die
The Cartographer
Psychedelics and Consciousness Research
The Second Psychedelic Renaissance
MAPS, Johns Hopkins, and the Return of the Research
American Seers
The Man in the Chair
On Edgar Cayce — the Sunday school teacher from Kentucky who accurately diagnosed illnesses from hundreds of miles away while unconscious, left 14,306 transcribed readings in an archive in Virginia Beach, and accidentally became the most documented case of trance-state information retrieval in the h
Life as Initiation
The Dark Night of the Soul
On what St. John of the Cross actually described, why it is not depression, and what the tradition knows about surviving the dissolution that is preparing the most complete transformation
The Captured Game
Penske and the Closed Loop
On Roger Penske's ownership of IndyCar, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and multiple competing teams, and what happens when the same entity sets the rules, owns the tracks, and enters the competition
The Sacred Feminine
The Feminine Mystics: Hildegard, Julian, and Teresa of Ávila
On how women denied institutional authority in the medieval church claimed direct mystical access to the divine, and what their embodied, intimate theology reveals about the limits of institutional power
Propaganda and Influence
Baudrillard: Simulacra, Hyperreality, and the Desert of the Real
On how the real has been replaced by its simulation, why the map now precedes the territory, and what it means to live in a world of pure hyperreality
Western Philosophy
The One and the Return
On Plotinus and the soul's journey from the One through all creation and back to its source through direct mystical experience
Eastern Philosophy
Zen: The Koan Tradition and the Direct Transmission
On the transmission of mind outside language, the koan as deliberate impossibility, and why pointing at the moon requires the finger to disappear
Ancient Greek Philosophy
Epicureans and Cynics: Pleasure, Simplicity, and the Philosophical Life
On how Epicurus and Diogenes answered the question of how to live when community dissolved, and why their radical revaluation of pleasure and simplicity challenges everything modernity assumes about desire
World Religions
Zoroastrianism: The First Prophet and the Cosmic Choice
On Zarathustra's vision of cosmic dualism, how human free will became the battleground between truth and lie, and the religion that shaped three empires and invented the afterlife
Western Magic
Crowley and Thelema: Liber AL, the Great Work, and the Beast That Cannot Be Dismissed
On Aleister Crowley's synthesis of Western magic traditions, the revolutionary concept of True Will as the path of self-discovery, and why dismissing the work leaves the tradition incomplete