“The way up and the way down are one and the same.”—Heraclitus I’ve spent years waking at 3AM with the same burning question: Why does everything turn into its opposite? I’ve come to call it the Law of Reversal. For this essay, I’m using the word flip. But here’s what…
A Three-Part Mini-Series — Part Three “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” — Matthew 18:3 In Part I, we met the Builder—not a single person but an archetype, a pattern of thinking that has shaped Western…
A Three-Part Mini-Series — Part Two “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens.” — Genesis 11:4 Every tower begins with a promise. People surrender tangible wealth—time, money, labor, health—in exchange for the promise of something greater. This essay traces one of…
Three Forces & the 1983 Pattern That Explain It All “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” — Winston Churchill If you follow markets, you’ve probably seen the headlines: Gold down nearly 20% in two months. Bombs are falling in the Middle East. Oil is above $100 a…
A Three-Part Mini-Series — Part One “They know us better than we know ourselves. That should frighten you.” — Shoshana Zuboff, Author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Doesn’t it give you the creeps—that you’re being studied by the minute? Right now, somewhere yonder, a server is coalescing around your identity—your name,…
“The woman whom thou gavest to be with me—she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.” — Genesis 3:12 The First Audit Listen to the first words spoken by a newly self-aware humanity. They are not filled with curiosity, wonder, or love. They are an audit. An accounting….
The Algorithm of Exile and the Mercy of Scattering “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” — Genesis 11:4 The Summit of…
What Neuroscience and Genesis Reveal About the Five Who Live Inside You “Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, after our likeness.’” — Genesis 1:26 Us. Our. God does not begin with “I.” From the first sentence, there is conversation. For centuries, theologians have circled this plural…
“I am not fighting a bad habit. I am re-enacting a 5,000-year-old systems failure.” — Wendy Williamson My last essay ended with the algorithm live in my chest. The Auditor had won. He’d silenced the Steward, deleted the offering (my essay that received no likes or comments), and deemed the…
“I posted an offering from my heart. The algorithm returned an error. This is the oldest story we know.” —Wandering Truthweaver I write an essay. I work on it, shaping and reshaping it, pouring something I believe is true into the vessel of words. My heart is in it. I…