We Are Not Deconstructing Faith. Just Christendom.

This collection of essays is the overflow from the excavation that birthed my book, The Son of Man & Its Mystical Awakening. They are the necessary tangents, arguments, invitations, and deep dives that wrestle with the psychological and cultural gridlock preventing genuine spiritual life now.

The central claim is simple, but absolute: The Gospel is not a system of managed belief or a superior political program. It is a radical apprenticeship in being human. The chaos we see in political division, identity warfare, and addiction is all rooted in the failure to surrender the internal sovereign ego.

These essays expose a toxic performance of American Christianity that, in its pursuit of tribal loyalty, looks less like the empire-subverting euangelion and more like the Augustinian and Pharisaical Empires Jesus came to dismantle at the level of the soul.

The required work is metanoia—a total repentance of mind and heart.

What’s Inside:

• The Royalty in All of Us: How Jesus Ended Kings 2,000 Years Ago
  The crisis is ontological, not political. Kingship is the original sin of human governance, and Jesus abolished it at the level of the soul. This essay traces the biblical dismantling of empire and the true meaning of the “Son of Man” as shared, human authority.
• Reclaiming Evangelism: From Performative Propaganda to Authentic Awakening
  A cold-eyed critique of modern evangelism as imperial marketing and propaganda. The antidote is the AA principle of attraction rather than promotion—change driven by transformation, not manipulation.
• Jesus as Bodhisattva, Shaman, and the Strange Middle Ground Between Them
  Reading Christ not as a cultural stereotype but as the archetype of awakened and healing humanity. It explores convergences with bodhisattva ethics and shamanic praxis, recovering the practices of self-emptying service and inner discipline.
• The Confession Crisis: Why Vulnerability Is the Only Path to the Future
  The diagnosis that societal fracture is an epidemic of confession avoidance. Confession must be risked to overcome egoic defenses, shame, and the “narcissism of small differences.”
• Getting Over the Problem of Evil
  This essay reframes the Problem of Evil as not a cosmic riddle, but a pathology inside our egoic machinery. The work involves facing the inner conflict that drives projection and scapegoating.
• Walking the Path of Least Action: From Photons to the Fabric of Life
  Connecting the fundamental laws of physics (the universe’s tendency toward energetic efficiency) to the spiritual path, arguing that peace is found in surrender and the cessation of frenetic, wasteful striving.
• The Wrecking Ball of Christendom: Kierkegaard’s Prophetic Voice
  A direct assault on mass, diluted Christianity. This essay uses Kierkegaard’s critique to argue that cultural Christianity betrays the rigorous demands of the Gospel, insisting that honest despair is better than false comfort.

This collection is for seekers who still pray, and deconstructing believers who refuse to trade wonder for cynicism.

“Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!”

— Søren Kierkegaard

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