Technically Mystic

Exit Left [Level 1: Transitional] What happens when the analytical mind stops interpreting the data

What does a surreal puzzle game have in common with a Harvard neuroanatomist's stroke?

Both reveal our perception of reality is an illusion.

The suffering caused by fixed perception is not a small thing... But the exit exists.

#TechnicallyMystic #Neuroscience #Gaming #Spirituality

Falling Into the Black Whole [Level 2: Mystical] What happens when you get too close to God

From the outside, spiritual awakening looks like death—a frozen figure at the event horizon. But on the inside? You’re being "spaghettified."

I wrote about the irresistible pull where separation collapses and time stops making sense in the Black Whole.

#TechnicallyMystic #NonDuality #Spirituality

There Are No Bad Vibes (Only Bad Reception) [Level 1: Transitional] Why "good vibes only" is a misconception

“Good vibes only" is spiritual bypassing.

There's only one signal. The "bad vibes" are actually interference created by your own clinging or resistance echoing inside you.

You aren't detecting the noise. You're creating it.

Full download on signal vs. interference:
#SpiritualBypassing #NonDuality

As seekers, we tend to chase ecstasy in meditation or think it's the point of any earnest practice.
But it's not the destination—it's sandwiched between routines and necessities.
The real practice is in picking up the rake immediately after the Universe melts your face off.
#Spirituality #Mysticism

The Benefit of the Nonlinear Path [Level 1: Transitional] What once pissed me off is now bringing me entertainment

I tried to add my latest post on spiritual awakening to my GitHub manuscript.

My script errored: ! LaTeX Error: File 'soul.sty' not found.

You can't make this up.

Read to see how I accidentally turned my journal into a forensic case file against my own doubt.

#Spirituality #SpirtualAwakening

Cheetah House | Help for Meditators In Distress Counseling, resources and support for meditators experiencing adverse effects.

TIL: Cheetah House is a non-profit documenting meditation impacts like libido loss, kriyas, & grief.

I spent years thinking these were "just me." Turns out, I'm a data point.

If you feel like you're losing your mind: It's documented. It's real. You aren't alone. 🐆🏠

#SpiritualCrisis #Meditation

The Numinous Neutered—How the Soul was Industrialized for Profit [Level 1: Transitional] How the West sanitized the sacred and sold you the husk

The West has been systematically stripping sacred technologies of their power and selling them back to you as products.

Yoga → Lululemon stretching
Astrology → pop psychology
Meditation → "mindfulness" for productivity

This is the commodification of the Soul.

#Astrology #Psychology #MentalHealth

God is a Cosmic Masochist—A Meditation on Numbing [Level 1: Transitional] I would have rather felt nothing—until a question changed everything

I used to think I'd rather feel nothing. That's what happens when culture mistakes numbness for peace.

But the only way out is through friction. You have to churn milk to get butter.

Are you choosing the slow death of nothing or the burn of aliveness?

#Meditation #Spirituality #MentalHealth

Cerebral Serpent Hijackery—A Skeptic's Experience and Investigation Subtitle: [Level 1: Transitional] What actually happens when your spine starts moving on its own

Monday: spine moved on its own during meditation
Tuesday: investigated wtf happened
Turns out it's called "kriyas"—spontaneous purification movements. Nervous system discharging trauma. Kundalini clearing blockages.
Using the same neural pathways as orgasm.
Yes really.
#Spirituality #Meditation

What Ida Craddock Died For [Level 3: Union] The woman who died for the secret of Yoga

The US govt drove a woman to martyrdom in 1902 for teaching that yoga and sexual energy were linked.

Her name was Ida Craddock.

123 years later, I stumbled onto the exact same "heresy" she died for—without even knowing her name.

#TechnicallyMystic #Spirituality #Philosophy #Mysticism #DivineUnion

Sun Moth [Level 2: Mystical] The flight that breaks into Light (Sequel to "Desert Worm")

Prose came pouring out of me after sound bath yesterday. Afterwards, I realized: this was the sequel to a poem I wrote almost a year ago. A promise I didn't know I was keeping.

The worm got its wings.

I'm still processing what that means. #Meditation #Spirituality #SpiritualAwakening #Mysticism

Breaking News from the Field

Spiritual awakening is just playing "Getting Over It" ...but God is doing the voiceover... and realizing you've spent the last X years playing on mute.

(If you know, you know. 🔨⛰️)

#Spirituality #Gaming #GettingOverIt #TechnicallyMystic #Awakening

When Being Becomes Doing, NOT the Other Way Around [Level 0: Technical] What if the ancient texts were field reports, not instruction manuals?

I just published something that might break your brain.

Turns out: techniques aren't prescriptions to enlightenment. They're symptoms of it.

The ancient texts aren't instruction manuals. They're field reports.

And that changes EVERYTHING.

#spirituality #meditation #spiritualawakening #mysticism

Why Does Meditation Suddenly Suck? A survival guide for the bullshit phase where God ghosts you

The Dark Night of the Soul, simplified:
1. God appears
2. You fall in love
3. God ghosts you
4. You lose your mind

If your meditation suddenly feels like a breakup, you aren't failing. You're being weaned off the high.

Read the survival guide for spiritual dryness below.
#meditation #spirituality

Pissing Into a Serene Lake: A Meditation on Modern Yoga Culture How the West turned union with the Divine into exotic stretching with a soundtrack

Yoga class: [absurdly loud water sounds]
Me: "ah yes, someone pissing into a serene lake"
How yoga went from "union with the Divine" to "Spotify stretching" in 150 years and why it was deliberate.

technicallymystic.com/p/pissing-in...
#yoga #meditation #mysticism #spiritualawakening #spirituality

Why I Can't Give You a Clean Stack Trace of How I Got Here I tried to debug my own spiritual awakening (it didn’t work)

You can't debug a spiritual awakening. I tried.
Spent 4 hours in my journal junkyard looking for a clean stacktrace. Failed spectacularly.
New post: technicallymystic.com/p/why-i-cant...
#tech #burnout #spiritualawakening #spirituality #modernmystic

The Engine(er) Is Smoking: A Survival Guide for Tech Burnout The guide I wish I’d had back in 2022 / Here’s how to not die at your desk

Exhausted already and it's only Monday? You might be burnt out (or on the way to it) and not even realize it.

I wrote up the guide I wish I had 3 years ago when I felt like I was dying at my desk: technicallymystic.com/p/the-engine...
#burnout #techburnout #meditation #techlife #mentalhealth

Part 1: When Meditation Stops Being Stress Relief What happened when I stopped running from burnout and started turning inward

How long have you been chasing the Next Thing only to find it never satisfies?
I tried meditation for burnout. Then it got weird.

Part 1 is live: technicallymystic.substack.com/p/part-1-whe...
#burnout #techburnout #meditation #spiritualawakening