Essays · Poetry · Practice of Perception

Seeing accurately
is an act of love.

Writing for the moments when the old answers no longer fit and something more true is beginning to emerge.

Venom to Medicine: the Alchemy of Growth

Presents shadow work as an alchemical practice for converting defensive traits into mature capacities—shame into honor, fear into courage, anger into boundaries, and envy into aspiration—through attention, grief, embodiment, and repetition.

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“Life is not something to earn.”

— Eye of the Mountain · Aliveness Manifesto · No. 58

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The Quartet of Sovereignty

The Devout and the Profane

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Liberating the Parentified Child

I was made responsible for the emotional functioning of people who had power over me.

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September 19, 2026

Before Touching the Ground

First you build the castle in the sky

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A triangle-like shape made by reflected light on a textured wall

Fine folded layers running through a desert stone

A long human shadow stretching toward desert mountains

The book

The Underwhelming
End of Urgency

Part memoir, part poetry, part field guide—for those standing at the threshold of a more honest life. What if reality is less threatening than the fantasies we create to escape it?

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Seeing accuratelyis an act of love.