โจ Welcome, seeker. You have arrived at the threshold of transformation. โจ
This is the Unfurling of the Scrollsโa living archive of Fires of Alchemy.
Each post is a breadcrumb on the map.
Start where you feel drawn.
There is no wrong place to begin.
Recent Posts:
Returning Home: Your Inner Child Is Still In There ๐๏ธ
Sometimes, itโs not your adult self who reactsโitโs the child within you, still longing to be seen. This post explores how our early experiences shape our nervous systems, why gentle parenting can unexpectedly trigger old wounds, and how a simple visualisation can open the door to reconnecting with the one part of you that never stopped hoping: your inner child.
The Reflection Trap: How Fear Keeps Us Stuck ๐ช
Fear feels real because our brains havenโt evolved to tell the difference between real and imagined threats. Discover how the amygdala, hippocampus, and stress hormones shape our perceptionโand how you can take back control.
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๐ต๏ธ Chapter 1: The Roots of Fear and Anxiety
Journaling is more than just writingโitโs a powerful tool for reclaiming your voice, breaking fear-based cycles, and reconnecting with your true self. Learn how self-expression can shift your mindset, unlock creativity, and transform the way you navigate life
Fear isnโt the enemyโitโs an ancient survival tool. But in modern life, our brain reacts to emails, social pressure, and uncertainty the same way it would to real danger. Discover how the amygdala, hippocampus, and stress hormones trap us in fear loopsโand how to break free.
Fear feels real because our brains havenโt evolved to tell the difference between real and imagined threats. Discover how the amygdala, hippocampus, and stress hormones shape our perceptionโand how you can take back control.
๐ฅน Chapter 2: Recognising & Feeling Patterns
What if the competing voices in your head werenโt a sign of brokennessโbut a sign that your council is waiting to be heard? In this post, we explore Internal Family Systems, Schema Therapy, and the practice of building your Inner Council: a roundtable of archetypes representing your mind, body, soul, and shadow. By learning to recognise these inner voicesโnot silence themโyou create space for true self-leadership and integration. Healing isnโt about exiling your parts. Itโs about upgrading their roles and remembering whoโs really at the head of the table.
What if the guilt you carry isnโt yours? This blog post explores the hidden emotional contracts we inheritโfrom childhood conditioning to societal expectationsโand how guilt often disguises itself as love, duty, or care. Blending psychology, nervous system science, and grounded spiritual insight, it offers practical tools to help you release chronic guilt, reclaim your energy, and give without self-abandonment. If youโve ever felt like youโre never doing enoughโeven when youโre giving your allโthis post is for you. A gentle yet powerful reminder that you donโt need to earn rest, love, or worthiness. You already deserve it.
Sometimes, itโs not your adult self who reactsโitโs the child within you, still longing to be seen. This post explores how our early experiences shape our nervous systems, why gentle parenting can unexpectedly trigger old wounds, and how a simple visualisation can open the door to reconnecting with the one part of you that never stopped hoping: your inner child.
๐๏ธ Chapter 3: Reconnecting Mind & Body
We often overlook the healing power of the natural environment around us. Yet, studies show that simply spending time in natureโwhether through forest bathing, tending to houseplants, or walking barefoot in the grassโcan profoundly impact our mental health. By integrating simple practices like these into our daily lives, we begin to reclaim a sense of peace, reconnecting not only with the earth, but with ourselves. This is the magic of nature prescriptionsโa gentle yet powerful remedy for the soul
What if tracking your steps, your sleep, or even your weight wasnโt about controlโbut about care? The Gentle Metric explores how self-accountability, when rooted in compassion, becomes a quiet ritual of reconnection. Itโs not about chasing numbers. Itโs about noticing your rhythms, honouring your needs, and letting awareness become the first act of healing.
๐ฎ Chapter 4: Technology, AI & External Support
Open source tools arenโt just for codersโthey power much of the modern world and can give you real choice in how you work and create. From private file syncing with Nextcloud to building apps and games with Godot, recording with OBS, blocking ads with Piโhole, and even running your own AI models, open source means freedom and shared innovation.
What if the reason youโre feeling stuck isnโt because somethingโs wrong with youโbut because your brain hasnโt felt newness in a while? In this post, I explore how depression, boredom, and repetition are all linked through neuroplasticityโand how adding tiny moments of novelty can help shift your perception, stretch time, and remind you that youโre still alive and choosing. Trying something new every day helped save my life. Maybe it could help you too.
What if your attention was currencyโand every scroll, click, and thought was a vote for the world you live in tomorrow? In this post, we explore the algorithms that shape our digital feeds, our inner dialogue, and even our soul patterns. From social media manipulation to subconscious schemas, youโll learn how to spot the loops youโve been unknowingly reinforcingโand how to consciously train your external and internal algorithms toward alignment, peace, and purpose.
What happens when we treat AI like a magic mirror instead of a mind-reader? In this post, I explore the ethics, risks, and revelations of using AI in creative and spiritual workโfrom privacy concerns and environmental costs to the hidden biases built into its design. I share how Iโve been using AI to co-write Fires of Alchemy, why I still use AI-generated art (for now), and how the real magic isnโt in the techโitโs in the intention you bring to it.
๐ Chapter 5: Tuning Into Intuition & A Higher Calling
This post explores how to consciously craft your own belief system by drawing from Taoism, personal experience, and a wide range of philosophies. It invites you to reflect on where your beliefs come from, how they shape your life, and how to rewrite the ones that no longer serve you. At its heart, itโs a reminder that your spirituality doesnโt need to be perfectโit just needs to be true to you.
You donโt need incense or clarity to live a spiritual lifeโyou just need willingness. In this post, I explore what it really means to walk devotionally: not as a mood or performance, but as a daily decision to show up, soften, and choose differently. From making your bed with care to staying present through workday fatigue, this is about reclaiming the sacred in the smallest actsโand remembering that you are not falling behind, you are weaving your life with every step. You are the temple. How can you be of service today?
Tarot is not about predicting the futureโitโs a tool for reflection, intuition, and personal insight. In this post, I explore how tarot (and even Pokรฉmon cards) can act as mirrors for your inner world, sparking meaning when youโre open and grounded. I break down what โtake what resonates and leave the restโ really means, how to use discernment when a reading triggers fear or anxiety, and why so-called โscaryโ cards like Death or the Devil arenโt bad omens, but invitations to grow. With personal stories, symbolic reflections, and gentle encouragement, this post offers a beginner-friendly, soul-guided lens on using tarot to deepen your connection with yourselfโand the world around you.
Change isnโt just possibleโitโs inevitable. In this post, we explore how true transformation happens not through force, but through small daily choices, radical self-permission, and the willingness to release old reflections of ourselves and others. Offering practical steps like carrying a โquantum relicโ or shifting daily routines to honour intuition, this piece invites readers to anchor their growth in physical ways and walk consciously toward their highest timeline. Change is not about becoming someone elseโitโs about becoming more fully, unapologetically yourself.
After feeling disconnected from my spiritual practices and slipping into old patterns, I was reminded of a simple but powerful truth: you donโt have to be perfect to ask for help. In this post, I reflect on channelling messages from spirit. What it means to live devotionallyโeven when life feels messy or mundane. Through dream symbolism, sacred reminders, and the weaving of daily intention, I explore how we can reconnect with our inner guidance, reclaim the golden thread, and remember that we are the temple.
Some stories stay with us long after weโve forgotten why. In this post, I reflect on a childhood message about shame, worthiness, and the labels we inherit from those we love. What begins as a quiet memory unfolds into a deeper realisation about intuition, identity, and the long path back to my inner voice. This is a chapter about shedding what was never truly mineโand remembering what always was.
๐ฐ Chapter 6: Zooming Out to the Bigger Picture
We were taught colonialism endedโbut it didnโt. It rebranded. This post traces the blueprint laid in 1871 through modern slavery, surveillance, economic manipulation, and spiritual fragmentation. From prisons to protest coverage, we reveal how fear is manufactured and alchemisedโand why healing means seeing the system clearly, then acting from soul.
In this soul-mapping exploration of Desire as Divination, we unpack how our cravingsโboth gentle and terrifyingโcan act as sacred signals rather than shameful distractions. Weโll unravel the systems that taught us to fear wanting too much, from religion to capitalism to spiritual bypassing, and reframe desire as a compass guiding us toward embodiment, integrity, and personal truth. Whether your longing is for intimacy, freedom, visibility, or just a slower life, this post invites you to stop apologising for wantingโand start listening.
In an age of information overwhelm, learning to discern truth from noise is not just a skillโitโs a form of self-protection. This post explores how media, data, and emotion can all shape our perception, often without us realising. From understanding the difference between primary sources and sensational headlines to tuning into your bodyโs intuitive wisdom, this chapter invites you to pause, question, and reclaim your inner compass. Because discernment isnโt just about whatโs out thereโitโs about what resonates within.
๐งโ๐พChapter 7: The Creative Rebellion & Alternative Systems ๐ญ
I used to think I was just burnt out. But it wasnโt exhaustionโit was spiritual stagnation. This chapter is about what broke that loop: not a breakthrough, but a doing. Small, local, imperfect action as nervous system medicine. From inherited fear to embodied presence. From Upthreads to Earth Angels, this is the moment I moved.
What if the war between masculine and feminine was never meant to be fought at all? This post explores how polarity, shame, and inner balance shape our worldโfrom hustle culture to homophobiaโand offers a Taoist lens for integration. Youโll meet your Council of Two and learn to listen for whatโs been missing.
What if we designed with love instead of fear? This Solarpunk Manifesto is a grounded invitation to imagineโand buildโa future where cities breathe, nature returns, and common sense leads. From native wild lawns to Miyawaki forests, floating solar to circular economies, this is a vision of regeneration rooted in science, soul, and soil.
What if itโs not your actions that shape your lifeโbut the intention behind them?
This post explores how unconscious patterns shape our decisions, why awareness is the first act of transformation, and how tuning into your intention can change everything.
โจThe loom is already spinning. The question is: what thread are you weaving with?