As I’ve paid attention to what inspires me in this world, I’ve discovered that a lot of what I once thought to be dysfunctional behavior, once transmuted and integrated, has become a collection of powerful tools in challenging the patterns of thinking that once kept me in cycles of resentment and fear.

I believe it would prove to be fruitless for me to give a rulebook or list of things you can do to be a wizard. The way these things manifest are vastly different amongst different people. There are grimoires written by IT consultants that have knocked my socks off, so there’s really no particular narrative that the path has to take. It’s a wonderfully complex world, with intricately nuanced people, and as we learn to appreciate each other’s magic we have an opportunity to see how all our narrative are spectacularly intertwined when we embrace the kaleidoscope of reality.

My journey into becoming a wizard stemmed from recognizing that I thrive on assisting others in identifying similar patterns of thinking, and thus, showing others how to walk through the doors into their own liberation and empowerment. By walking my own path of individuation & integration, I’m able to help others identify those mental loops that keep us feeling stuck and bashing our heads on the same problems, over and over.

By collating many skills from past ventures, education, and interests, I’ve begun to synthesize a path to becoming the thing that I wish to be. It’s an age-old recipe of Thought, Word, Action that begins when we are still enough to swim in our imagination, that limitless pool of possibility. By formulating a vision for a future self, I began to crystallize a new Mode of Being. Then comes the task of writing my story, I get to play many parts as I move through the various myths, archetypes, and narratives, and pendulums of my life. And as I align my actions with what inspires me, I embody the conscious creative aspect of our human nature.

Throughout my inner and outer journeys in this life, I’ve come across & arrived at some frameworks for conceptualizing and embodying the wizard archetype. I’ve begun recording them, and offer them here as a sort of gallery of insights into the ways that I see and experience this fascinating reality.

A wizard writes the story for an Inner Quest, so to conjure an experience in the Outer realm. As above, so below. As within, so without.

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A wizard welcomes demons and goblins, the disintegrated selves. The wizard heals the wounds caused by these schisms that have fractured the psyche. By uniting dark and light, we end the war between order and chaos. They now dance together.

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A wizard removes the tattered boards from the stained glass of the Crystal Castle, and pulls down the dusty canvasses that obscure the ornate frescoes of the Inner Cathedral.

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A wizard sees the cyclical nature of growth, celebrating the continual unfolding of higher dimensions

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A wizard embraces death and rebirth and death and rebirth and death and rebirth

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A wizard decides which perspectives and ideas hold the most excess energetic potential, to step off the pendulum that seeks to harvest energy & draw him into emotional imbalance.

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A wizard comes back to heart, time and again, emanates from this center.

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A wizard weeds out conditional love, for a wizard embodies a deep cosmic fountain of acceptance for all.

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A wizard embodies the Logos.

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A wizard unites the bond between our perceived self and our inner child. Through this relationship, untold wealth is unlocked as we walk ourselves home after being lost for far too long.

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A wizard allows questions to guide attention. A cleverly crafted question can bring about wild

transformation

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A wizard knows, “everything is my fault.”

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A wizard has the mental flexibility to interface with the Outer world in a myriad of ways, isolating layers of perception to gain clarity, & stacking different filters like overhead projector screens onto the exterior world.

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A wizard is a philosopher of fire

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A wizard takes the log out of his own eye before pointing out the speck in another

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A wizard is at home with the process of transformation. There is no arrival.

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A wizard does not dream of a larger world as a local event, he is the world dreaming of local events.

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A wizard’s seat of power is the inner self.

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A wizard does not try to solve the mysteries of life, but rather lives them.

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A wizard appreciates the harmonics of his opposite qualities, without the need the change facets of himself to achieve his desires.

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A wizard is the teacher of transformation, of alchemy. For in practicing alchemy, you begin the quest for perfection. You are the world, when you transform yourself, the world you live in will also be transformed.

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A wizard inserts himself into the loop of perception-reality-perception-reality

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A wizard pauses the performance from time to time, to demonstrate to the audience how the marionettes work.

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A wizard knows there is medicine in the irreverent. Nothing is sacred because everything is sacred