The Surreal Journal

Essays channelled from the unconscious.

Writing on the unconscious patterns running your life, the Matrix we live in, and the hidden superpower most people never use.

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How social media hypnotises you: 5 techniques it borrows from hypnotherapy

Social media uses five hypnotic techniques, borrowed from hypnotherapy, to keep you in a trance. Here is how the induction works, and how to break it.

9 July 20265 min read

Expand Your Consciousness

20 Ways to Get An Apple to Listening to the Music of Mozart

Silicon Valley is turning AI into the oracle we consult before ourselves. A Kabakov apple, the blind men, and why your truth was never outside you.

11 June 20264 min read

Stop People-Pleasing & Set Boundaries

How People-Pleasing Becomes Your Business Model (And How to Stop)

If you constantly feel energetically drained running your business, always over-giving, being indispensable, undercharging, saying yes when you want to scream no, and getting little back in return, you may have commercialised your people-pleasing. A founder's story and a two-step rewire.

19 December 202511 min read

Stop Self-Sabotage

What Is Self-Sabotage? Why You Do It (And How to Stop)

The science and psychology of why we self-sabotage, what's running underneath each pattern, and how to stop.

12 December 202511 min read

Coaching for Entrepreneurs & High Achievers

15 Mental Models From The World's Top Performers

The most successful people consciously design their mental models. 15 frameworks from Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Jobs you can install today.

4 December 202510 min read

Coaching for Entrepreneurs & High Achievers

Abundance vs Scarcity Mindset: How One Habit Made Wahei a Billionaire

Most rich people aren't happy. The ones who are share one filter, abundance. How Wahei Takeda built a fortune on a single morning ritual.

25 November 202510 min read

Expand Your Consciousness

Kundalini Rising: What I Learned When the Serpent Found Me

A first-person account of kundalini rising, ayahuasca, and what the serpent actually represents in ancient traditions.

14 November 202513 min read

Shadow Work: Discover Your Hidden Self

The Anger I didn't know I had

Anger doesn't disappear when you suppress it. It stores in the body. A first-person account of finding suppressed anger and the workshop that released it.

6 November 202512 min read

Shadow Work: Discover Your Hidden Self

Shadow Work Prompts: 50 Questions to Surface What You've Been Avoiding

Fifty shadow work prompts in eight themes (family, anger, envy, money, desire, intimacy, mortality) to surface what you've been avoiding.

30 October 202513 min read

Find Your Purpose and Inner Truth

Speaking Your Truth: Why the Ancient Egyptians weighed hearts, not brains

The ancient Egyptians weighed hearts against truth. Their ritual hides a modern lesson about authentic voice in the age of AI and copy-paste content.

24 October 20257 min read

Coaching for Entrepreneurs & High Achievers

How to Use Jungian Active Imagination to Solve Business Problems

Carl Jung built a method for talking to the unconscious in metaphor. I used it to ask what my business actually looked like, and the answer changed how I ran it. A practical exercise for founders who want to see what their unconscious knows about their business.

17 October 20259 min read