A Philosophy of As If: Useful Fictions and the Stories We Live By

I dive into Hans Vaihinger's Philosophy of As If and explore how our minds create "useful fictions" to help us navigate life. The big insight: we don't think to know the world perfectly, we think to act effectively within it. I connect this to my narrative alchemy work, examining how the scripts running in our unconscious minds either serve us or hold us back. I also share my morning pages practice, unpacking the metaphors that emerged (the worm turning, the wolf at the door, the drain, the landing, and the flow) and explain Hillman's approach to seeing through images rather than just interpreting them. If you're interested in how the stories we tell ourselves shape our reality and how we might rewrite them, this one's for you.

What is Soulcruzer?

The Soulcruzer podcast...narrative alchemy in audio form. Call it an audioblog, call it threshold work, call it confessional mysticism.

One day I'm working through tarot as spiritual technology. The next, I'm exploring Nietzsche's eternal return as lived practice, chaos magick techniques, or games as containers for transformation. Depth psychology meets the esoteric. Ancient wisdom meets the AI age. Theory becomes practice.

This is what narrative alchemy sounds like from the inside: raw, real, unpolished. Experiments in treating stories as code and consciousness as hackable.

If you're here for the deep work and the edges, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.