Reimagining Rebellion

A Rebel’s Guide to Coming Alive in a System That’s Crushing You

The most rebellious thing you can do is come fully alive.

I wrote a book about that, and it takes place entirely in a tavern. One song per chapter, scored by Pink Floyd. Four voices at the bar you may recognize in yourself.

Available now on Kindle and paperback. 336 pages.

The Tension You’re Holding

For a long time you thought something was wrong with you. The tiredness. The numbness. The sense that you’re going through the motions of a life instead of living one.

It isn’t a defect. It’s a call. That tension is the sound your soul makes when it isn’t being answered — and you’ve been holding it shut, every day, with both hands.

There’s a whole system built to keep you holding it. One that runs on your exhaustion — tired enough to keep buying, numb enough to keep complying, convinced enough that the problem is you that you never look up and ask who profits from you staying that way.

Which system?

That’s the question the title raises, and most people have heard the word so often it has stopped meaning anything.

So here’s a way to find out what it’s actually doing to you. Thirty-three questions, about six minutes. At the end you get a readout of how the four forces are shaping your life — conditions that changed faster than anyone could adapt to them, the things you got good at, the rules you absorbed, and the language that settled it all into place.

Built from your own answers. Free, no sign up, no email.

Where this sits

Before itRewilding Your Soul: A Rebel’s Guide to Being Human in a World Gone Wild

The ground this book stands on: how the world quietly pulled you away from yourself. The full audiobook, free.

Free inside the Rebel’s Playground. You’ll need to register — an email address, nothing more.

The bookReimagining Rebellion: A Rebel’s Guide to Coming Alive in a System That’s Crushing You

Two days, set in a tavern, in conversation with very good company. The walk, start to finish.

After itThe Rebel’s Mythos

The book walks the whole territory. The Mythos goes further into it than a book can reach, in your own life. Seven stages, fifty waypoints, one a week — twenty minutes or less to read, and rather longer to live.

For the next oneHeroic Kids

Everything in this book is work done backwards — unwinding something that was set in place before you could read. Heroic Kids is the same arithmetic, met before it runs.

A story for a kid in your life, a guide for you, and the same words for what’s going on. It’s the one place any of this lets you change the conditions rather than only your relationship to them.

Also freeThe Voices’ Shelf

Four voices hold the bar, and more are poured across the chapters. What they lit, what gets drawn from them, and where to go next. No registration.

1 in 1,000,000

That’s roughly 8,000 people — choosing, on purpose, to stop holding the tension and come alive.

That’s not a ceiling. It’s a ground floor. Because aliveness is the most contagious thing there is — every person who answers the call becomes permission for the next one. Eight thousand isn’t where it ends. It’s where it starts to spread.

The book is the walk, start to finish. Two days in a tavern, in very good company.

I’m looking for 1 out of a million.