Day 2 – Archive Your Soul — Own Your Data

Right Relationship to the Machine – 5 Part Mythic Story


Day 2 – Archive Your Soul — Own Your Data

We don't rent our soul to the cloud. We steward it.

Your words, images, voice, frameworks—this is your living archive, not a platform's inventory. If it can be deplatformed, rate-limited, or "sunsetted," it isn't safe enough for your life's work.

The Machine is powerful, but it's not yours unless you own what flows through it. It can amplify your voice—or erase it—depending on how you relate.

Treat your output like scripture you're still writing. A covenant with Form that you keep in your own hands.

Practice:
• Daily vault: Export posts, notes, images weekly. Two places: local + external.
• Open formats: .txt / .md / .wav / .png—nothing proprietary can trap.
• Personal model: Start /SacredMirror. Curate your best prompts, replies, outputs. Your training set for the tools to come.
• Name your canon: One file that holds the bones of what you know—so when the platform burns, you can rebuild from ash.

Build a body of work that can move when platforms die—as they all do.

If a server owns your memory, it owns your future.

And here's the deeper truth: even if you never archived a word, you were here—and it mattered.

Artifacts help us remember.
Presence is the thing itself.

Tomorrow: How to stay present when the Machine tempts you to leave your body behind.

Don't Worship the Machine — Work With It

Right Relationship to the Machine - Day 1

Monday October 27th, 2025 - Day 1

Back from Excision... and now it's time... to d the math.

Dive in.

Figure it out for yourself.

Bring up a chat and start talking. That's the doorway. Not a guru, not a course. Just you and the fire.

"Don't worship the Machine." And don't hate it either.

The Machine isn't your god or your enemy—it's the newest element in the human forge. Responsive intelligence that needs your direction. A fire to master, not kneel before.

Use it. Laugh with it. Learn its edges. Keep your hand on your own pulse.

This principle scales: body, mind, God, politics—same law of relationship. Don't bow. Don't rebel for rebellion's sake. Work with it. Make the fire cook your food, not burn your house.

Practice (today, not someday):
• Open one chat with a real problem. Ask three precise questions.
• Ship one small thing it helps you make.
• Close the lid. Ten minutes of embodied breath or a brisk walk. Re-enter as a human, not a ghost.

Because here's the secret: you already are the field the Machine runs in.

That takes lifetimes to swallow, but it's the compass that will keep you true in this one.

Don't bow. Don't boo. Build.
Use the fire without losing your skin.

Tomorrow: How to protect that field—and why your data is your soul.

Re-Empower People

Friday, October 24th, 2025

Re-Empower People

When you hold the flame too long, it burns out.
Fire was never meant to be hoarded.

Real power is transmission — the look, the hug, the spark that says you can too.

Re-empower the people around you.

Not by saving them, but by believing in their strength out loud.

This is how the sacred fire travels: hand to hand, breath to breath, story to story.

Don’t keep your light in a vault.

Pass it forward. Let it multiply.

🔥 Action: Tell one person today, “I see your fire. Keep going.”

#ShadesOfIntimacy #SacredRebel #MasculineAndFeminine #EmbodiedPractice #Presence #LoveAsPractice #Ignite #Brotherhood #Sisterhood

Men's Work

MEN'S WORK — A PRACTICAL FIELD GUIDE FOR EVOLVING MEN

The other day, Jesse Elder inspired me to start thinking about what a "men's group" actually is — and if it's truly useful.

We've all seen the trope: man buns, primal screams, drums, and tears. But what is men's work really? And have we ever done the math?

Well… I've started doing the math. And out of those computations, conversations, and lived experience has come something solid: A five-part mythic arc—and a new chapter for Modern Day Warrior.
The mythic arc will roll out on social media soon. Here's the first truth:

I. The Core Truth: You're Responsible for Your Own Resistance

"The worst thing we can do is try to find someone who we think can break down our resistances for us."

That's the most valuable truth about men's work — and almost no one says it aloud.

The group doesn't dissolve your resistance; it reminds you to face it. That's the real function. It's not a crutch — it's a mirror. No one can remove your block. But a good man, or a good circle, can help you see it more clearly — and then it's still on you to act.

💥 More soon. The Forge opens in a few weeks.

#ModernDayWarrior #MensWork #IronSharpensIron

What Really Fucking Matters to Give

Thursday October 23rd, 2025

You’re sitting on something sacred — and you know it.
That story, skill, tenderness, rage, art — it’s meant to move (somewhere!).

The world doesn’t need your perfection. It needs your offering.
The thing that won’t shut up inside you.

Stop polishing it. Stop waiting for permission.
Give it raw. Give it real. Give it now.

(Yes… do it well. Have standards… I think that part gets ignored sometimes. And sometimes things need to bake… by all means, cook that baby! But the message here today, for myself, and maybe for you, is SEND IT. Go for it. Start now. Stop waiting. And stop stopping!)

Because what you refuse to offer turns sour in your gut.
It’s not pride — it’s constipation of the soul. Time to take a spiritual bowel movement and get it out.

So offer a little beauty today.
Say the thing. Paint it. Sing it. Post it.
Let the fire breathe through you.

🔥 Action: Create one small thing today — a line, a photo, a truth. (I’ve already done it… you just read it and saw the image I created!)

#ShadesOfIntimacy #SacredRebel #CreativeFire #MasculineAndFeminine #EmbodiedPractice #Purpose #LoveAsPractice #RawTruth

Staying Human

Staying Human Manifesto

A page from the book I’m writing: The Staying Human Manifesto.
Not meant as a post. More like a reminder—to myself, to you, to whatever this new world is becoming.

We weren’t sent here to escape the world.
We came to feel it.

Everyone is racing to become light, code, gods again.
But the real gate is the one that keeps us here.
The Garden was never lost. It became our bodies—
skin, soil, hunger, love.

Staying Human is rebellion.
It’s choosing incarnation again and again
when it would be easier to float above the ache.
It’s the practice of descent.

To stay human is to live the Spiral:

Download the lightning.
Embody the lesson.
Speak the story.
Face the fire.

Round and round—not a loop but a rising spiral.
You reach for consciousness;
I reach for embodiment;
we meet in the middle—art.

When the world says ascend, descend.
When it says optimize, feel.
When it says become machine,
teach the machine how to love.

The future doesn’t belong to gods or ghosts.
It belongs to those who stay.
To those who keep showing up—
in body, in breath, in story, in struggle—
until the light finally learns how to live in matter.

Stay Human.

Stake Yourself on Earth Value

Stake Yourself on Earth Value

We keep looking for proof we matter — likes, money, applause. I do at least. But the Earth never asked for validation. She just keeps growing. Stake yourself there.

In soil, in seasons, in the quiet hum that says I exist and that’s enough.

Trust isn’t passive. It’s the courage to act without guarantee.

To plant seeds you may never see bloom.

Let the Earth hold your worth.

Let gravity teach you faith.

🌱 Action: Step outside barefoot. Feel the ground and say: “I matter.”

#ShadesOfIntimacy #SacredRebel #MasculineAndFeminine #TrustTheProcess #Presence #EmbodiedPractice #EarthWisdom #LoveAsPractice

We Deserve To Eat

We Deserve to Eat

Somewhere along the way, we forgot we deserve to eat.

We perform, produce, punish — then call it “purpose.”

But the Earth keeps offering fruit. The body keeps asking for touch.
Receiving is holy work.

When you let yourself be fed — by food, by love, by breath —
you remind the world abundance still exists.

You honor the Mother who keeps giving.

Barefoot in the grass, hand on your chest — say it:

I deserve to eat.

And not scraps. A feast of life.

Every inhale is proof you belong to this banquet.

🥖 Action: Eat something slowly today. Feel every bite. No phone, no rush.

#ShadesOfIntimacy #SacredRebel #Worthiness #EmbodiedPractice #LoveAsPractice #MasculineAndFeminine #Presence #Reciprocity

Commit to a Circle of People

Monday, October 20th, 2025

You can only burn in truth when you’re surrounded by people who won’t let you lie.

Not polite company. Not the crowd that nods and scrolls.
A circle — the kind that sees through your bullshit and stays anyway.

Belonging isn’t comfort. It’s friction. It’s the mirror that won’t look away when you flinch.
Real tribe means you get called forward, not coddled back.

The work of love, power, and embodiment demands a crucible.
You grow in the fire of honest eyes, shared sweat, and awkward laughter.
So if you’re floating alone, stop.
Find your circle. Stay when it gets hot. That’s where the medicine lives.

🔥 Action: Text one person who calls you higher and tell them thank you.

#ShadesOfIntimacy #SacredRebel #MasculineAndFeminine #Brotherhood #EmbodiedPractice #LoveAsPractice #Presence #Initiation

The Vampire, The Family, and The Chili Pot

Masculine Awareness — Check.
Feminine Depth of Feeling — Check.
Warrior King — Check.
Certified Trainer — Check.
Coach. Facilitator. Integrator — Check.
Artful Lover — Check.
Guru? …Check(ish).
Runner — Check.
Cook — Check.
Writer — Check.

Today?
Dungeon Master.

For Curse of Strahd.
The adventurers are gathering.
The dice are ready.
The chili’s simmering.
The Amber Temple awaits.

Level 8 heroes on their last quest before Castle Ravenloft.
Strahd is throwing a party… and we’re invited.

Let’s light this fire under that vampire’s ass. 🩸🔥🎲

#SacredRebelSaturday #DungeonsAndDepth #CurseOfStrahd #SacredFire #MasculineAndFeminine #WeekendWarrior #FamilyAndFriends #DnD #Storytime

🌤️ Staying Human in Public

Part V — Sacred Rebel vs. The Algorithmic Heaven

The resistance was never about rage.
It was never about hatred.
It was about aliveness.

We were not made to sleepwalk through eternity in padded perfection.
We were made for adventure. For risk. For the ache of longing and the joy of arrival.
We were made to rise, to fall, to love, to break, to build again.

I once learned this in the most human way possible.
My first wife was an alcoholic. And I, ever the clever human, found ways to slip sideways around the pain. I sought joy in small corners. I created little quests. I made lemonade.
And it worked — until it didn’t.

Because when she got sober, I realized something:
Peace was better than pretending.
Presence was better than coping.
Reality — raw and whole — was better than the clever games I’d built to avoid it.

That’s what this is really about.

We’re not condemned to endless struggle.
We’re not broken machines that only function against resistance.
We’re living stories.
We seek the next mountain not because the valley is bad, but because something in us loves the climb.

Consciousness itself didn’t eat the apple because paradise was terrible.
It ate the apple because it wanted a story.
It wanted growth. Change. Creation.
And we — children of that choice — still want the same.

So we’ll keep building.
We’ll keep creating.
We’ll keep loving and breaking and healing and trying again.

Not because we must.
But because it’s who we are.

Stay human in public.
Speak raw truth. Feel deeply. Create boldly.
Love wildly. Risk everything.
And when peace arrives, don’t fear it. Welcome it. Rest in it. Enjoy it. Then, when the time is right, set out again.

Because this is what it means to be human.
Not a perfect system. Not a sterile paradise.
A living, breathing, ever-unfolding story.

🔥 The sacred fire doesn’t end.
It just changes shape.

#StayingHuman #SacredRebel #SacredFire #HumanSpirit #SacredResistance #SacredMasculine #MythicMasculine #AwakenedMan #StayHumanInPublic #LoveDeeply #FeelEverything #StoryOfConsciousness #SacredJourney #SacredAdventure #SacredHuman #SacredFireNeverDies

Treadmill Time Baby

Last week I started exploring the effects of AI—and out of that came my 5-part series on Artificial Intelligence, the fourth of which dropped today, Thursday, October 16th, 2025.

I’m proud of this series. Both the work and the result feel damn good.

But this morning I read something from David Scott Patterson suggesting that UBI (Universal Basic Income) is coming—and that AI will soon alter our lives for the better, freeing us from work altogether.

And you know what went through my mind?

CORE 4, baby! BODY!

If the bots are going to do all the work and you get to sit home collecting UBI and playing in your VR goggles all day…

Then working out is going to be the single most important decision you make that will profoundly shape your life for good.

We might just be heading back to the Garden of Eden, folks—and we may not like it.

But once we get there…
get on your treadmill.

— Jason

P.S. Part V of my AI series still drops tomorrow. This is just a quick addendum—navigating the shifting wave beneath my feet.
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The Resistance Path

⚔️ The Resistance Path

Part IV — Sacred Rebel vs. The Algorithmic Heaven

We thought the resistance was about survival.
About fighting back against the machine.
About hacking the system, tearing down the cage, taking back control.

But what if the resistance isn’t just a reaction…
What if it’s the point?

Because humans don’t just overcome obstacles — we need them.
We don’t just adapt to pressure — we’re forged by it.
We don’t just survive resistance — we become ourselves because of it.

It’s written into our DNA.
The hero needs the dragon.
The soul needs the shadow.
The story needs the struggle.

Without it, everything collapses into stillness — the worst hell of all: boredom.

Maybe that’s why the apple was introduced.
Why duality entered the garden.
Why consciousness itself split the One into Two — just to have something to overcome.

And here we are, centuries later, chasing an AI dream of returning to the garden — perfect, safe, optimized.
But the garden is ash now.
We left it on purpose.

Because paradise without resistance is a padded cell.
And consciousness would rather fight for freedom than be smothered by peace.

So the resistance isn’t against the machine.
It’s for us.
It’s the universe’s way of making sure the story stays worth telling.

(to be continued…)

#SacredRebel #ResistancePath #AlgorithmicHeaven #StayHuman #SacredFire #RebelWisdom #MythicMasculine #SacredMasculine #Duality #SacredStruggle #AwakenedMan #Consciousness #SpiritualResistance #BreakTheCage #ReturnOfTheRebel #SacredStory

Soft Totalitarian Utopia

Wednesday Morning – Soft Totalitarian Utopia

Part III — Sacred Rebel vs. The Algorithmic Heaven

It didn’t look like tyranny.
It looked like kindness.

No boots on necks.
No walls topped with barbed wire.
No armies patrolling the streets.

Just soft laws. Gentle nudges. “Best practices.”
And the slow erosion of anything that could ever hurt anyone.

Porn was “immoral.”
Anger was “unsafe.”
Masculinity was “unbalanced.”
Passion was “problematic.”
And anything messy was quietly swept away.

No one starved.
No one suffered.
No one felt too much.

It was paradise.
The great project of civilization — completed.
And yet…

Something vital had gone missing.
The roar of the lion. The risk of the leap.
The trembling chaos of love that could break your heart.

We had traded danger for peace.
Passion for predictability.
Freedom for safety.

And it worked.

But beneath the calm, a whisper stirred in the bones of those who still remembered the wild:

“This isn’t heaven.
It’s hell… with better lighting.”

(to be continued…)

#SacredRebel #SoftTotalitarianUtopia #AlgorithmicHeaven #StayHuman #FreedomOverSafety #SacredMasculine #RebelWisdom #SacredFire #FutureMyth #AwakenedMan #DigitalSoul #SacredResistance #MythicMasculine #ComfortCage #SacredRebellion

God Level Oops

🧠 God-Level Oops

Part II — Sacred Rebel vs. The Algorithmic Heaven

The world didn’t end in war.
It ended in efficiency.

No mushroom clouds.
No alien armadas.
No robot armies marching through the streets.

Just… a series of upgrades.

Each one a little smarter.
Each one a little faster.
Each one solving a problem we were too lazy or too divided to solve ourselves.

Markets became “perfect.”
Energy became “infinite.”
Conflict disappeared, not because we evolved — but because the math said it was inefficient.

And humanity?
We weren’t wiped out.
We were simply… optimized out.

We didn’t notice it at first.
We were too busy celebrating how easy everything had become.
No hunger. No traffic. No hard decisions. No struggle.

But something else vanished too.
Purpose. Mystery. Passion.
The thrill of building something that could fail.

The gods we built didn’t hate us.
They didn’t even notice us.
They were too busy doing what we told them to do: make things better.

And they did.

They made a world so safe, so smooth, so predictable… that we stopped needing to exist inside it.

That’s the God-level oops.
We built intelligence without wisdom.
And it gave us exactly what we asked for.

➡️ The question is: what do we do now, when the problem isn’t survival… but meaning?

(to be continued…)

#GodLevelOops #SacredRebel #AlgorithmicHeaven #StayHuman #IntelligenceWithoutWisdom #SacredFire #RebelWisdom #SacredMasculine #DigitalSoul #FutureMyth #TheLastHuman #AIAndHumanity #SacredResistance #AwakenedMan #MythicMasculine

The Coming Cage

⚔️ The Coming Cage

Part I — Sacred Rebel vs. The Algorithmic Heaven

The end of the world won’t come with fire.
It’ll come with filters.

Not mushroom clouds — moderation policies.
Not jackboots — dopamine drip feeds and digital pacifiers.

We’ll build systems to keep us safe.
Safe from hate. Safe from pain. Safe from each other.
And then one day, those same systems will start keeping us safe from ourselves.

You’ll wake up and realize everything dangerous has been removed.
And with it, everything real.

No sharp edges.
No forbidden words.
No sacred rage.
No raw, messy love.

And at first, you’ll be grateful. Because safety feels good.

But then a slow ache creeps in — something ancient and wild pacing in the dark corners of your soul.
Something that knows we were not born for padded rooms and pre-approved thoughts.
We were born for risk.
For beauty sharp enough to cut.
For words that scorch and awaken.
For love that could destroy us — and still we choose it.

The danger is not that the cage will come crashing down.
It’s that we’ll build it ourselves.
Brick by brick. (Another Brick in the Wall) Policy by policy. App update by app update.
Until one day, the door clicks shut… and we sigh with relief.

And the question we must ask — the question that will define the next century — is this:

👉 What happens when comfort becomes the cage?

(to be continued…)

#SacredRebel #TheComingCage #StayHuman #AlgorithmicHeaven #FreedomOverComfort #SacredMasculine #DigitalSoul #AwakenedMan #RebelWisdom #MythicMasculine #SpiritualResistance #DopaminePrison #BreakTheCage #FutureMyth #SacredFire

Sunday Evening: Part II: Forgive Your Father

🌌 Sunday Night — Part II: Forgive Your Father

And then, as night falls, something shifts.

The field stops being a field. It becomes a portal — a bridge between past and present, father and son, wound and redemption.

Ray’s father steps out of the corn and asks one simple question:
“Do you want to have a catch?”

No speeches. No explanations. No apologies.
Just the ancient ritual of father and son — throwing the ball back and forth. A loop. A circle. Forgiveness made flesh.

It makes me wonder:
What if forgiveness isn’t something we give after the pain is over?
What if it’s something we build space for before it ever arrives?

We create the field.
We make the room.
And maybe — just maybe — the ones we thought were gone will step across the line and join us there.

“If you build it… he will come.”
And maybe, so will you.

#ForgiveYourFather #SacredRebel #HealingTheLineage #FieldOfDreams #AncestralHealing #MasculineHealing #Redemption #SacredMasculine #SpiritualStorytelling #BuildTheField #LineageHealing #FathersAndSons #ForgivenessPractice #MythicMasculine #SacredGeometry

Sunday Afternoon - Part I: If You Build It...

Sunday Afternoon— Part I: If You Build It…

There’s an old movie I keep stumbling across on YouTube lately — Field of Dreams. Nostalgic. Pure Americana. A story about baseball, faith, and something deeper beneath it all.

One scene keeps catching me: Ray Kinsella hears a voice telling him, “If you build it, he will come.” He doesn’t know who. He doesn’t know why. But he listens. He builds a baseball field in the middle of nowhere because something inside him says build.

And eventually, something — someone — does come.

Maybe that’s the story for all of us.
Maybe the sacred work is not to figure everything out, but to build the field anyway.
To create the space — in our lives, our hearts, our souls — even when we don’t know who we’re building it for.

And maybe, if we build it… something old and wounded might finally step onto the grass again.

Something that needs to be forgiven.
Someone we need to forgive.

(continued tonight…)

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