a field report from the organized chaos of my creative space…
🌃Opening Transmission
🎆🎇 July Note: Freedom didn’t come wrapped in a flag or a document for me. It came at the cost of sifting through my own delusions, and how I was programmed, until I could face myself in the realest possible ways. That’s the only kind of freedom I trust: the kind that costs you the comfortable lies first.
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Paper Paint Blood
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✨ Featured Article: Aleister Crowley: From Brethren’s Chains to Thelema
The Plymouth Brethren began not in Plymouth, but in Dublin, Ireland, around 1825. A small group of Evangelical Christians, Edward Cronin, John Nelson Darby, Anthony Norris Groves, and J.G. Bellett, grew disillusioned with the structure and perceived corruption of the Anglican Church. They envisioned a return to “New Testament Christianity”, a church without hierarchy, clergy, or ornamentation, where Scripture ruled unchallenged and believers met in simple fellowship. Their philosophy: total separation from “the world.”
By the early 1830s, Darby carried this vision to Plymouth, England, where the movement would find its namesake. What began as a radical rejection of religious formalism soon hardened into a rigid orthodoxy of its own. As the sect grew, it fractured. In 1848, a theological dispute between Darby and fellow leader Benjamin Wills Newton exploded into a schism that birthed two major branches: the Open Brethren, who maintained some flexibility and fellowship with outsiders, and the Exclusive Brethren, who walled themselves off with absolute doctrinal control. Crowley’s family belonged to the latter.
By the late 19th century, the Exclusive Brethren, had expanded out across the globe from Britain to Europe, Australia to North America, pulling tight communities into even tighter theological knots. Rules weren’t just doctrine; they were lifestyle. Members were discouraged from associating with outsiders, marrying beyond the group, or questioning authority. The Bible was the final word. Joy was muted. Doubt was dangerous.
💦The Well and What Fills It
On Supporting Independent Writers
Most of the writers you love are one bad month away from having to choose between their work and survival. I’m not different. What keeps me writing isn’t luck or discipline alone, it’s the people who decide, quietly, that my work is worth supporting.
I’m not asking for much. The cost of one fast food meal. One coffee. Once a month. That’s it, because I know exactly what that small amount means when it’s coming from someone who is likely equally stretched as thin as me. Support doesn’t have to be grand to matter. It just has to be consistent.
If you’ve ever finished something I wrote and felt less alone, that’s what my work is intended to do.
🎨 Featured Art: Visual Work From the Gallery
The Soft Bloom Of A Dying Pinwheel
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⚙️Featured Object: From the Swag Mall
WRITER4Life – the journal you need in your bag.
🎯My Target Focus
- I got approved for an Amazon merch store, and I am in design mode.
- I’m working hard to manage the inflammation disorder I acquired after nasal surgery, and hope to have better markers when my bloodwork follow-up happens in September.
- Anatomy of the Dark Empath is with the editor, and I’m now working on the accompanying workbook.
Let July be the month you go back outside. Let the sun sit on your skin a little longer than usual, just to feel it. Drink the water. Rest when your body asks for it, without guilt attached. Be soft with yourself.
Let the flowers live where you find them. Hug a tree if the moment calls for it. Sit with the wind and let it say whatever it came to say. And write… write more than you think you have time for, because the words are how we come back to ourselves.
Believe, gently, that what you’re reaching for is already on its way to you, because you stayed open and soft enough to let it in.
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