The wheel
Four relationships.
Body. Mind. Heart. Spirit.
Every one either clinging or channeling.
Addiction and devotion are the same surrender.
One gets signed for you. One you sign yourself.
Body.
Recover Power- Addicted
- your power handed to substances, screens, the couch.
- Devoted
- the practice.
Mind.
Recover Story- Addicted
- living a story someone else wrote for you.
- Devoted
- the confession.
Heart.
Recover Love- Addicted
- chasing love outside.
- Devoted
- sharing it.
Spirit.
Recover Playfulness- Addicted
- outsourcing the mystery to gurus and shortcuts.
- Devoted
- playing with it.
Which one is holding you?
The arc
Four acts.
Every relationship travels the same arc. You are not stuck. You are somewhere on the wheel, and it is still turning.
Act 1 · Forgetting.
You learned to fit in. It cost you the story. The addiction begins here, quietly, dressed as belonging.
Act 2 · Seeking.
You go looking for it out there. Money, love, highs, gurus, answers. Nothing outside carries the weight.
Act 3 · Autocorrect.
Life turns you around. Something breaks, ends, or wakes you up. The clinging cracks open.
Act 4 · Remembering.
You come back to what you never actually lost. Devotion, on purpose this time.
Which act are you in right now?
Unprepared and ready to go.
Developing the map since 2009, teaching it since 2019. Notebooks, ceremonies, rooms of every size. It kept getting simpler until it fit on one wheel.
Then I got stuck inside my own third act — teacher, ceremony leader, the whole arc — until the story I was telling about myself became the thing I had to recover from.
The biggest recovery is recovering yourself from your own story.
The book · the series · a showcase of the system
Very High Priest.
Remembering Who I Am.
Somewhere in America, in living rooms that cost more than most people's homes, a new kind of ceremony is happening. Ancient prayers. Designer chemistry. Wealthy seekers looking for God in a pill.
At the center of it is a man who grew up where devotion and addiction were the same thing, hustled his way across the country, fell into a spiritual empire and then burned it down to build his own. He became the High Priest of an underground world no one's supposed to talk about — until it all collapsed, and the people who want it buried found out he's putting it on screen.
"Breaking Bad meets Shtisel."
In development as a 12-episode limited series with Albert Cavaliero attached to produce. Registered with the WGA (I373375). A new edition is being rewritten in community; the original is offline while it takes shape.
The door
Two questions.
Which relationship are you stuck in or avoiding?
Which act are you on or avoiding?
Tell me your two answers in a voice note.
I read stories.
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