Welcome to Fractal Kinship
This isn’t going to be a polished essay or a slick sales pitch. I’m just showing up as myself, thinking out loud, and inviting you into the process.
Fractal Kinship is my ongoing conversation with the big, tangled questions of our time: spirituality, creativity, community, kinship, and how we make meaning in a world that feels, for so many of us, fractured and unmoored.
The Meaning Crisis
Let’s be honest, everything in the world feels like it is on fire. Well, maybe not everything, but enough that we are experiencing more loneliness, isolation, and loss of meaning and purpose. This is the meaning crisis running through our culture.
The old stories aren’t working, the easy answers have all fallen flat, and most of us are just trying to find something real in the noise. Cults and conspiracy theories are on the rise, but that is just people desperately seeking in a world working hard to strip all meaning from us.
Like many people, I cobbled together a patchwork of ideas and philosophies that allowed me to jury rig a Rube Goldberg machine, constantly working one step ahead to keep meaning and purpose from falling apart.
Throughout my life, I have practiced, Christianity, Hermetic Magic, Buddhism, Creation Spirituality, and Druidry, just to name a few. I have found processes to that help me, but the system has evolved slowly over time.
The Inflection Point
When I tried to integrate my understanding of anarchism and the noosphere into my hodge podged network of ideas, something happened. Everything rearranged itself into a new system that worked on its own and synthesized the older ideas into a new system that made everything clear to me in a way it hadn't been before. We are calling this new understanding Fractal Kinship.
I am not vain or narcissistic enough to think any of this is new, novel, or original. This project simply reflects how all these parts formed into a new whole for me and how I am using this system to explore and reexplore the world.
I don’t have all the answers, and I’m suspicious of anyone who claims they do. What I do have is a need to hold space for complexity and paradox, to be present with the mess, and to resist the urge to flatten everything into some neat, marketable package.
What is Fractal Kinship?
Fractal Kinship is an attempt to see, and participate in, the fractal patterns that repeat and evolve across all scales of life, from the deeply personal to the planetary. That’s where holarchies come in: the idea that everything is nested, interconnected, and meaningful, from the smallest part to the largest whole.
My kinship isn’t limited to blood or tribe or any simple definition; it’s something that emerges when we notice the ways we belong to one another, and to the earth, and to something more than ourselves.
Here, I want to explore the noosphere, which is the collective field of thought, story, creativity, and spirit that we all contribute to (and are shaped by), even if we don’t always have the words for it.
I believe that by sharing our real, unfinished thoughts and creative sparks, we actually help grow that living field. This site is part of that: an offering to the noosphere, a place whatever feels alive in the moment.
What it contains
What you’ll find on Fractal Kinship won’t be a curriculum or a brand or some influencer’s fantasy. Sometimes it’ll be messy, sometimes it’ll feel more like a journal or a voice memo or a long walk in the woods. Always, it will be honest. Always, it will be searching.
My promise is simple: I’m here as myself. Sometimes as a priest, sometimes as a teacher, and just as often as another pilgrim stumbling through the dark, looking for the next spark. I want this space to be a sanctuary for real questions and raw experience, but also a place where new connections and insights might flicker to life.
If you’re here because you feel the fracture of the meaning crisis, if you’re looking for kinship in a world that can feel so fragmented, or if you’re just curious about how we might help co-create the next layer of the noosphere, welcome. Let’s show up honestly, see what emerges, and maybe, together, make something beautiful out of all this complexity.