Soulcruzer

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Working Notes: The Quest for the Self

A working note on Ruth Netzer, tarot as active imagination, and the Jungian Quest for the Self as a spiral of symbolic integration rather than a simple heroic journey.

21h ago·8 min read·1515 words

Shadow Work as an Ongoing Conversation

A short note on rereading Debbie Ford, noticing our reactions, and treating shadow work as an ongoing conversation with the self.

2d ago·4 min read·628 words

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I finished Spotify the Gnostics, Here's the First Church of David Bowie. The first part was a nostalgic trip through the 80s. I enjoyed that; however, I bought the book for the second part, Sean Manse…

3d ago·1 min read·127 words

Somewhere I Belong (and it’s not in my head): a mixtape

A rock mixtape for crawling out of the rut: Linkin Park, Papa Roach, System of a Down, Avenged Sevenfold, and the stubborn desire to live the thing instead of performing a brand.

4d ago·3 min read·475 words

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I asked this question a couple of years ago. I would rephrase the question now. The world definitely doesn't owe you a meaning. You have to make it for yourself. It's built slowly from the choices you…

4d ago·1 min read·164 words

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I'm wondering if invoking the ends justify the means argument to support why it's ok to use AI in creative endeavours is a little extreme. I was reading Moody Warlock's blog post last night about usin…

6d ago·4 min read·711 words

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Existential Consent Consent is the move most people miss when they talk about uncertainty. We have better words, or at least more familiar ones. Acceptance. Surrender. Choice. Courage. Faith. We reach…

6d ago·5 min read·901 words

The Mirror That Answers Back

The old questions have not changed much. How should I live? Who am I becoming? What is worth paying attention to? What is freedom? What is wisdom? What is the soul, if we dare still use that word? The…

Jun 6·14 min read·2639 words

Kospet Tank M4

I've been testing the Kospet Tank M4 special edition smartwatch. It's a fraction of the cost of something like the Apple Ultra smartwatch. Performance so far has been top-notch.

Jun 5·1 min read·61 words

What happens to human meaning-making when thought itself becomes networked?

I'm not asking what happens to productivity or output. I'm asking what happens to meaning. When thinking is distributed across human-AI systems, something genuinely new appears. Not better thinking or…

Jun 5·2 min read·280 words

Ted Nelson: The universe is a system of ever-changing relationships

https://youtu.be/Bqx6li5dbEY?si=wO7lmNCkCIT33JI_ This short clip from Ted Nelson in Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World is less about technology and more about a philosophy of connection. N…

Jun 5·4 min read·652 words

Likes Me, James Baldwin and the Un-fragmenting of …

Likes Me, James Baldwin and the Un-fragmenting of Euro-modern Time by folukeifejola. This essay reminded me of the famous quote often attributed to Churchill: "Those that fail to learn from history ar…

Jun 4·1 min read·135 words

A Lamp at the Doorway

I finished Richard Cavendish's The Black Arts this week. Not in the heroic readerly sense of having sat down and consumed it cleanly from first page to last, pencil in hand, scholar's lamp burning int…

Jun 4·9 min read·1757 words

Unhinged Bio

I stole this idea from Justin Brooke on his LinkedIn profile. It's a FUN PROMPT, and what came back from ChatGPT was pretty cool. I also asked Claude; the results were good, but they lacked an edge. A…

Jun 3·2 min read·364 words

What did God do when he buried his breath in the clay?

Maybe he made matter remember music. Clay, before breath, is just earth with potential. Dense. Damp. Waiting. It belongs to gravity, riverbed, field, grave, brick, and vessel. But breath is movement. …

Jun 3·4 min read·669 words