About
“Wendy, TruthWeaver — well you surely are a weaver of a web so deftly woven into a pattern so compelling, even Truth fears getting caught.” — from a fellow wanderer
Why Wandering Truthweaver?
I call myself Wandering Truthweaver because I connect things — broadly, deeply, and across domains.
At the heart of this work is analogical reasoning: perceiving relational patterns in seemingly unrelated areas and tracing how insight travels between them. I see when different situations share the same underlying structure, even when their surface details diverge. This lets ideas move — from economics to psychology, from markets to myth, from history to the present moment.
I don’t work in silos. I trace patterns.
Wandering across domains and weaving them into something coherent is the essence of what I do.
How I Think and Write
Big-picture systems thinking
I explore how economies, markets, culture, and belief systems operate beneath the surface, asking questions most people never pause to ask.
Independent, often contrarian perspective
My writing does not repeat consensus narratives. I’m interested in paradoxes, long arcs of history, and the points where dominant stories begin to fracture.
Practical insight, grounded in meaning
I connect macro trends — finance, energy, geopolitics — to deeper human concerns: values, creativity, renewal, and the search for coherence.
Reflective rather than prescriptive
I don’t preach. I think with the reader, testing assumptions and inviting reconsideration.
A touch of spirituality and cultural history
Even when writing about markets or systems, threads of myth, meaning, and civilizational memory inevitably surface.
Who Wanders Here?
This space is for people who want more than cookie-cutter news and recycled opinion.
It’s for those who sense that modern life rests on fragile illusions — and who feel the quiet pull to step outside them.
If you’re familiar with The Matrix, you might call it the red pill — though what’s really at stake is the slower, harder work of reclaiming a coherent mind and a meaningful life across cultures, professions, and belief systems.
Readers include fellow writers and thinkers — among them James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency and other works that anticipated many of the fractures now unfolding.
Three Layers of Reality
Much of my work moves across three interwoven layers of meaning:
1. The Structural Layer: Shifting Foundations
What tangible systems are changing beneath our feet?
This is the realm of economics, energy, technology, and geopolitics — the structural hardware of civilization quietly being rewritten.
Some threads: The Illusion of Credit, The Law of Reversal, Gold is Quietly Replacing US Treasuries
2. The Psychological Layer: The Fractured Mind
Why do we feel increasingly anxious, polarized, and at odds with ourselves and one another?
This is the inner landscape: identity, narrative, attention, and mental health — shaped by a culture that profits from fragmentation and speed.
Some threads: Jung’s Lens on America’s Divide, The Secret Life of Booms and Busts
3. The Spiritual Layer: The Crisis of Meaning
What essential connection has been lost — and what are we really searching for?
This is the dimension of myth, logos, language, and the quiet absence where shared purpose once lived.
Some threads: The Distance That Makes Us Whole, New Gods of the Systemic World
These layers are not separate. A shock in one reverberates through the others. To understand our disorientation, we must learn to see them together.
New to the Weave?
You might begin here:
→ Grazing on Value: Lessons from Uruguay
A diagnosis of our psychological predicament.
→ The Two Trees Within
An exploration of the spiritual void shaping modern connection.
→ From Gold to Code—and Back Again
A clear look at a foundational material shift.
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Background
I’m an independent writer, researcher, and former international education leader. I hold a master’s degree in counselor education and have served in senior roles in global education, directing university programs and consulting on cross-cultural learning.
A former Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador and Cameroon, I bring lived experience from the edges of different systems into my analysis. I’m also the author of several books, including Love Evil: An Extraordinary Journey of the Heart, and have written for The Chronicle of Higher Education.
My work is driven by a single, persistent question:
What’s real?
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— Wendy
