Writing & Reflections
I write about developing intuitive & psychic abilities, creative practice, skepticism, culture and my own experiences.
Sharing my writing is a way think in public, share my understanding of creative and intuitive work, and tell stories. Some pieces are personal, some are practical, and some are satirical.
I publish regularly on Substack, across two distinct but connected projects:
The Predella Project
Essays, satire, and creative fragments
The Predella Project is a home for ideas, satire, and essays that focus on deeply understanding people. I look at culture, gender, politics, and psychology through the lens of a professional psychic and witness to the zeitgeist and share bits of my creative work.
It’s all driven by a passion for understanding people and their inner workings.
The Enchanted Living Circle
Intuitive practice, psychic development, and community
The Enchanted Living Circle is about magical living through intuitive and psychic practices and the joy this can bring.
Here, I share resources, reflections, and teachings on developing intuitive and psychic abilities, along reflections and stories about intuitive living. The focus is on learning how to work with intuition in ways that support happier, healthier, more connected lives.
Start with these…
Selected Essays
On Analysis, Culture & Inner Life
Skeptical Explanations of Psychic Experience... and How They Fail
The Enchanted Living Circle
A multi-part essay series examining common skeptical explanations of psychic experience — and why they fail when applied to lived, repeatable intuitive practice. Written from the perspective of a former skeptic, the series explores what intellectual honesty requires when inner experience doesn’t fit existing explanatory frameworks.
The Anatomy of a Psychic Reading
The Predella Project
Using the Gwyneth Paltrow ski trial as a case study, this essay offers a rare, detailed account of psychic-intuitive process in action. Through blind readings and self-critique, I examine how inner experience can be used to understand people, how intuition can mislead when used sloppily, and why sincerity, authenticity, and truth are not the same thing.
Towards a More Natural Patriarchy
The Predella Project
A satirical essay that takes post–Roe biological determinism to its logical extreme, interrogating power, gender, and responsibility through the absurdity of proposed legal reform.
Guides & Reflections
On Intuitive Practice & Process
Why You Shouldn't Just Trust Your Intuition
The Enchanted Living Circle
Drawing on personal skepticism and years of disciplined intuitive practice, the essay explains why intuition requires training, discernment, and relationship, not blind faith. It explores how intuition can be confused with emotion, desire, or fear, especially when the stakes are high, and offers a grounded alternative: learning your own intuitive language over time so trust becomes informed, precise, and genuinely supportive in real-life decisions.
The Agony and Ecstasy of Setting Goals
The Enchanted Living Circle
A reflective essay about why the things that matter most to us are often the hardest to do. Beginning with a chance encounter with a blocked carpenter who can’t fix his chair, the piece explores how goals become tangled with identity, self-judgment, and worth. It invites a gentler, intuitive approach to change, that honours the present self, listens to the body, and moves forward from alignment rather than self-rejection.