Hey I’m Erick and I want a renaissance. If we don’t ignite one, and future generations were able to represent themselves in a world court; the generations on this planet today would be guilty of crimes against humanity. (if this sounds like poetry or hyperbole, spend a week rabbit-holing existential risk theory, and listen to "The Shimmer Series." Because this is what I see, and because I am a child of the mono-cropped ultra-processed americana culture; I’m a little underdeveloped to aid in...
13 days ago • 25 min read
As of the minute I write this sentence, I am 24 hours away from stepping out of the steaming doorway of a sweat lodge, and walking to a spot in nature where I will sit alone for 4 days -- without food or water. The circle is made of 411 prayer flags woven through 4 long strands of string. A prayer flag is a little square of cloth with a pinch of tobacco in the center. I spent the past week cutting each square, adding each pinch of tobacco, wrapping the square into a little pouch, and then...
23 days ago • 3 min read
I am both a child of God, and a child of the simulacrum generation of American culture; a 90s baby. I lived on fake food, primetime television, pop radio, the full vaccine schedule, and a Prozac commercial every 8 minutes repeating the chemical imbalance lie. I was told I didn't have a soul, and that there wasn't microplastics collecting in my testes. Both were lies. Not many people talk about what it means to have a soul during the collapse of an empire. When I say soul, I mean the the same...
about 1 month ago • 14 min read
In 17 days I'll be walking out of a sweat lodge and guided to a spot under a tree, where, for the following 4 days, I'll sit without food or water, listening. To nature, to the voices in my head, the pulses from my body, and god willing, visions sent by the dreamer. I'm nervous, and honored. I'll have a sleeping bag and a tarp. They tell me the tobacco will protect from the scorpions and snakes. I tell myself this quest will protect my dharma from the creeping opiate we call comfort. My...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
I: Welcome To The Egregory John Constantine could see angels and demons. To have Constantine vision is to be able to see egregores and nephilims. They’d die without us, and we’d be only animals without them. If you want to help this planet, the next generation, and your family, the crafts of our time are: Egromancy (the art and science of growing Egregores)Egronomics (the study of the egregore ecology). All egregores started in the heart of a human artist. Through their speech and behavior,...
about 2 months ago • 11 min read
Momma, if I start a cult, it'll be about dreams. I've caught 23 the past 12 days (don't worry, we catch and release over here). We all dream every night. I think the fact most people don't know that, don't notice that, is one of the loudest invisible signals that our culture is profoundly disoriented. Specifically, our attentional systems are dull, distracted, and disillusioned. Sleep research finds we all dream 6 to 7 dreams per night. So, it's not that you don't dream, it's only whether you...
about 2 months ago • 9 min read
What is it inside us that keeps lying when we know they know we're lying? Remember when, as a kid, you'd get caught in a lie, and would just have rather died than admit you lied? lol, me too. But have you considered when was the last time you did this as an adult? When was the last time you looked in the eyes of your best friend, child, parent, partner, or yourself, and lied knowing they knew you lied. I don't think Hell is a place in spacetime we go after we die. I believe Hell is a psychic...
2 months ago • 4 min read
“Which superhero would you be?” Normally, an innocent question, but not when Caitlyn Howe is asking me. Caitlyn is both my partner in entropy and mirror to my muse. I’ve learned that the more spontaneous her questions or intimations, the more likely she’s unknowingly musing on my soul’s behalf. Standing outside the Austin theater, having just finished James Gunn’s Superman, I found my mind blanking…I didn’t have an answer for her. This surprised me. I’m a big superhero guy. From a Jungian...
3 months ago • 9 min read
Let’s Talk About Entities One of the areas I feel most misunderstood by friends is the topic of entities. Specifically, entities they feel they have to ‘protect themselves’ from. I know a lot of people who invest a lot of time, attention, and money into practices, services, and products meant to clear, remove, or protect against entities. The result is a pantheon of techniques performed with quiet anxiety, like a friend who hand sanitizes every time they leave home. In the extreme, I’ve seen...
3 months ago • 11 min read