Blood & Ink: Saturday
psychological strength / body-mind connection / warrior initiations
Eric Brown
Student of the Way.
Blood & Ink: Friday
the secret of bodhidharma’s eyes / intense aliveness / buddha’s journey
Reckoning With the West 🏛️
the epitome of evil / western inheritance / incremental improvement
Blood & Ink: Thursday
psychological defeat / persistence / unbroken
Blood & Ink: Wednesday
being a good man vs. being good at being a man
Blood & Ink: Tuesday
the emptiness machine / empire of nothing / problem of difference
Blood & Ink: Monday
musashi’s twofold way / man vs. civilization / arc of history
🕍 Cathedral Consciousness: Three Uncomfortable Truths.
the lost arts of legacy, transcendence, and economic bedrock.
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How to Be Prepared for the Future Without Losing Your Cool.
Finding the sweet spot between spiritual passivity and neurotic hyper-vigilance.
POV Perversion & the Splitting Western Psyche 📸
An insidious development in collective self-perception.
I Was Made for Times Like These… ✊🏻
A mantra to never forget who you are.
An Antidote to Ontological Shock. 💊
Exploring Zen's role in ontological fluidity, Tier 2 thinking, and surfing reality.
32 Reflections for 32 Years. 🪷
A reminder to myself on my birthday.
Radical Redesign: The Blueprint to Holistic Lifestyle Design 🗺️
Open-sourcing our guide to creating a life of meaning, purpose, and passion.
The Art & Science of Digital Lockdowns 🔐
How to slay the algorithmic hydra technocracy ravaging your attention.
How Excellence Re-Orients Your Life ☀️
Exploring greatness as the driving engine of humanity, and a meta-virtue for all.
The No-B*llshit Guide to Reinventing Yourself 🗺️
Radical change is possible. This is your blueprint.
Bodhisattva-Warriors: Mahakaruna for Eternity 📿
Exploring the shared DNA between Warriors and Bodhisattvas.
On Sparring Partners & Growth Challenges 🥋
Being challenged to greatness is an act of love...
Stop Plashing Around 🤭
No, that’s not a typo...
Why Resolutions Are Designed to Fail. ❌
And the timeless formula for what actually works.
A Counterintuitive Approach to Banging the Drum. 🥁
Flipping the script and sharing words of wisdom from the heroic voices.
Using AI to Imagine the Future Heroic Self. 🪬
How Bing Images lets you alchemize a potent future visualization.
The Misogi: A Different Way to Do Resolutions ⛩️
Embracing the subtle art of getting shit done.
Exploring the 26 Books I Read in 2023. 📚
Anarchist philosophy, Warrior archetypes, and the 6 books I re-read every year.
3 Lessons from Taking 100’s of People Through 100-Day Initiations 💯
The spirituality of discipline, the profundity of support, and mistakes as gurus.
Going from Altered States to Altered Traits 🤟
Integration as trait development for the initiated.
You Are the Masterpiece. 🎨
An invocation and invitation to a radically divergent worldview.
6 Immaculate Insights After 100 Days of Warrior Initiation ⚡️
Personal and transpersonal reflections on the WARRIOR100 experience.
Overcoming the Tyranny of the Dull Mind
A path to presence and purpose in a world that's lost its mind.
Reflections on the Recent Convergence of Interdimensional Hyperspace Entities 👾
Or: a recap of my visit to Meow Wolf Denver.