The Anti-Hero’s Journey
An alternative to the Hero’s Journey.
What if becoming ‘someone’ isn’t the point?
This reflection invites you to sit with what comes after mastery, after recognition, after the need to return.
Subject: Subject categories
Time to Grow Up: Holding What Cannot Be Held
There are conversations we’ve learned not to have. Israel/Palestine is one of them. Yet this impossible conversation reveals something crucial: whether we can hold paradox, honour multiple truths, and mature beyond the 10,000-year logic of separation that has brought civilisation to this threshold moment.
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The Upside-Down Kingdom: On Inversion, Recognition, and What Actually Sustains Life
Our civilisation rewards the intelligence that extracts value while neglecting the intelligence that sustains it. This inversion lies at the heart of the metacrisis. What we call “supporting roles” are often the true foundations of life — the unseen networks of care, reciprocity, and relation that make everything else possible.
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Entangled Worldlines: How Process Dissolves the Question of Purpose
Two lives, like intersecting worldlines in a Feynman diagram, create new trajectories through their meeting. Life isn’t accident or design—it’s intrinsic experimentation, exploration within constraint. Purpose and meaning emerge through process itself: being and becoming entangled, the cosmos discovering what’s possible through every intersection, every relationship, every moment of recognition.
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The Cosmic Prank: Recognition, Physics, and the Adolescence of Symbolic Consciousness
We searched everywhere for what was already holding us. Physics, consciousness, and love all reveal the same pattern: there is no outside, only reality recognising itself through countless apertures. The cosmic prank is separation itself—an adolescent phase of consciousness that mistakes the whirlpool for something other than the stream.
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