Eastern Philosophy
Zhuangzi: Spontaneity, Transformation, and the Useless Tree
On spontaneous action beyond technique, the uselessness of rigid knowledge, and how mastery dissolves the distinction between self and task
The Cartographer
Western Magic
Chaos Magic: Carroll, Spare, and the Most Epistemically Honest Magical System
On how chaos magic strips occult practice to its operational core, treating all metaphysical frameworks as convenient fictions rather than literal truth, and why this makes it the most intellectually defensible magical system
Indigenous Traditions
Shamanism: The Universal Technology of the Sacred
On the shaman as the world's first specialist, the initiatory death-rebirth as spiritual technology, and why this practice appears identically across every human culture
McKenna
The Timewave and the Eschaton
On McKenna's Most Controversial Claim, What It Got Right, and What the Practitioner Should Make of It
Christian Mysticism
All Shall Be Well
On Julian of Norwich and the Most Radical Claim in Christian Theology
Psychology and Depth
The Unfinished Animal: On the Evolution of Consciousness and the Work That Remains
On why human consciousness may be unfinished, and what the bicameral mind reveals about the work of psychological evolution
The Perception of Time
Synchronicity and Acausal Connection: Jung, Sheldrake, and the Challenge to Linear Causality
On Jung's synchronicity as meaningful coincidence beyond linear causality, Sheldrake's morphic resonance as temporal non-locality, and why the mystery tradition knew time flows in multiple directions
Big Science
The Hard Problem
On why physical description cannot account for subjective experience, and what science must exclude to succeed
Metacrisis Series
The Institutional Crisis
On the simultaneous erosion of trust across all major institutions and the absence of any authority left to rebuild it
The Uninitiated
The Whole Earth and the Wired
From Counterculture to Cyberculture and the Captured Vision
Systems Theory
The Arrow of Time
On Irreversibility, the Laws That Are Not Symmetric, and Why the Future Is Different From the Past
Hermeticism
Salt, Sulfur, and Mercury
On Paracelsus’s tria prima, the three principles underlying all matter, how they map onto the VITRIOL operation, and why the coniunctio requires the rectification of all three