The Orientation

I write about the deep structure of story, myth, and symbolism—how fictional worlds carry psychological and metaphysical truth, and why some narratives endure.

I’m not interested in opinion dressed up as insight. I’m interested in structure.
The hidden architecture beneath culture, what a story assumes about reality, what a world treats as sacred, and what kinds of lives its metaphysics makes possible.

This publication is about load-bearing frames, not ideology. My work moves between narrative, myth, religion, psychology, and philosophy because they were never truly separate. Myth is not decoration. Story is not “just entertainment.” They are among the oldest instruments we have for compressing reality into forms a human being can actually live inside.

About me

I’m Chris—born between languages, cultures, and temperaments. I grew up between England and Bavaria, with one side of life pulling toward creativity and exploration, the other toward order, stability, and care.

That tension shaped how I see the world. I’ve always moved across forms—books, games, film, philosophy, music—not looking only for plot or surface, but for structure, atmosphere, symbol, and the deeper logic holding things together. I’m interested in works that can be inhabited, not just consumed.

This publication is where I try to make that way of seeing explicit. The aim is not mastery, but clearer vision.

And clearer vision starts with humility.