Steve J. Wagner is an author and independent researcher whose deconstruction work challenges inherited paradigms and exposes the structural failures of modern spiritual frameworks. His books span metaphysical fiction and spiritual nonfiction, offering readers both imaginative exploration and rigorous critique.
SIMPATICO & Essential Supplement: In SIMPATICO, Steve Wagner (aka the Integrated Shaman) explores the fusion of ancient spiritual teachings and contemporary scientific understanding. Comparing and contrasting various sources, spiritual concepts, and diversified belief systems, the author provides an interfaith perspective that resonates with his holistic shamanic approach, blurring lines between spirituality, ancient texts, and contemporary science.
All this aligns with the book’s goal to show how spiritual concepts and science are simpatico, comparable, and even in agreement with each other rather than opposing each other. The messages of the ancient masters and texts parallel the findings of the new science. Science offers a physical description and explanation of the underlying magic and energetic foundations of our Universe as it begins to reconcile with spiritual law.
It is all energetic, vibrational, and relative.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke
The Major Arcana: A deep exploration of archetypal resonance, offering insights into spiritual growth and the symbolic language of tarot; but not how you might expect. Ancient mysteries get a modern remix and collide headlong with contemporary insanity. In this audacious guide, Steve, the Integrated Shaman and visionary mind behind the SIMPATICO series, doesn't pull any punches. He's spent his life blurring the lines between venerable wisdom, cutting-edge science, and today's warped spiritual landscape. This isn’t your white-washed, new age fluff, but some hard-hitting truths served with edgy insights, stinging sarcasm, irreverence, and a measure of dark humor.
As a contemporary shaman, Steve seamlessly brings together age-old knowledge with today's gritty realities and dismantles the mystique of the Tarot, making it not just accessible but uncomfortably relevant. His unconventional approach weaponizes the Tarot into a powerful tool for self-discovery, peering into your past, navigating the present, and maybe even hacking the future.
Celestial Currents: The Unscripted Soul is a visionary work that bridges the personal and the cosmic. A new spiritual fiction that will change how you see your spiritual journey, redefining reincarnation, not as a rigid contract, but a curriculum of contingencies. Celestial Currents explores the soul's journey where luminous blueprints shape--but do not dictate--our physical lives. We create our own path along the way. A groundbreaking metaphysical fiction that redefines reincarnation as a dynamic matrix of cause and effect as a learning experience for the soul.
This book beautifully captures the themes of free will, divine design, and spiritual awakening and evolution through Alice’s odyssey, a luminous soul navigating the physical human realm with the counsel of her Spirit Guides Lyra, Kael, and Elara. Alice’s struggle with childhood innocence, social conditioning, parental expectations, love, and loss ultimately leading to her calling as a shamanic healer creates a powerful narrative of self-discovery and sovereignty. The interplay of her Spirit Guides with the external influences around her enriches the story, making her path not only personal but universal. The metaphysical elements, from soul retrieval to multidimensionality, elevate the novel into a richly layered exploration of life beyond the physical.
The author’s ability to weave profound spiritual concepts into an emotionally resonant narrative makes this book compelling, insightful, and deeply memorable. Celestial Currents: The Unscripted Soul has the potential to connect strongly with readers drawn to spiritual journeys, metaphysical fiction, and stories of feminine/LGBTQ awakening and transformation. This story feels both authentic and transformative, offering readers a mirror of their own inner truths.
Just released for 2026: The Illusion of Linear Time: The Root of Modern Spiritual Fallacies.
If you read my blog post The Dark Side of Ascension, you know I began by pulling at a thread. This book picks up that thread and takes it further, challenging the comfortable myths we have come to embrace as truth. This book builds on the dismantling of the ascension myth, exploring other spiritual assumptions that may need to be examined (and burned down). This is a continuation of the conversation we started a long time ago, and a direct invitation to rethink what you thought you knew…again.
What if the everyday past, present, and future representation of Time is nothing more than a cognitive convenience? What if many spiritual concepts built on that model are euphemized narratives, cozy stories, and conceptual myths? I trace how the story of linear time has insidiously shaped modern spiritual thinking. We have been conditioned to believe in successive rebirth, karmic debt, and “past” lives. Yet ancient knowledge and modern science point to a different claim: Time is a static dimensional field where all moments exist in synchronized concurrency. Time does not pass; it simply is. Once you see Time that way, the tales built on chronological arrangement lose their authority and everything changes.
This work confronts the trusted interpretive scaffolds that have defined contemporary spirituality. For too long we have used mythopoesis—progressive straight-line narratives like karma and reincarnation—to explain a reality that just won’t fit a linear or logical framing. By bringing together modern physics and esoteric traditions, the book argues that the old stories are translations or interpretive bridges that help us conceptualize a larger truth; they are not literal descriptions. They were functional, not ontological.
In the chapters ahead we examine the mechanical failure of some of our most cherished spiritual stories:
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The Myth of Reincarnation: Exposing the fallacy of past lives, karmic debts, and soul contracts that depend on before and after thinking. Linearity is a necessary fiction for physical embodiment; but all Time exists simultaneously, all at once. Our reality is relative and multi-dimensional—not sequential or linear. There are no future lives; there are no past lives; there are only “other” lives.
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The Soul Mate/Twin Flame Fallacy: Evaluation of the sensationalized search for soul mates, destiny, and the romanticized misunderstandings of resonance, vibrational matching, and attraction. What is the ultimate “twinning” or convergence of two souls? And Twin Flames? This is a vibrational reckoning, not a reunion. This also leads into the misunderstanding of “contracts.”
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The Paranormal Delusion: Pulling back the curtain on ghost hunting and the basic errors in modern paranormal investigation. Sorry, but those readings may not be real-time “dead people” or human souls at all. The reason a “spirit” of any kind is “bound” here is not what you might think.
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The Inhabitation Mirage: Dispelling the fable of a soul residing inside the body. The body is a physical transceiver emanation from the soul, manifesting as matter. It is not the “container.” The soul is non-local consciousness outside of 3D reality. There is no ghost in the machine. Who knew?
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The Possession Horror Movie: Unmasking the mechanical realities behind demonic possession narratives and the popular myths of spiritual warfare. If the soul does not inhabit the body, neither does a demon. This is not dismissing the phenomenon—just explaining the mechanics. Don’t worry though; holy water should still work. I’ll explain how and why.
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The Free Will Fiction: Challenging our sense of autonomy and agency within the predetermined, simultaneous architecture of this reality. We will explore the groundwork that establishes this fixed geometry we operate in—or at least our body functions in. Do we really have any say in the life chosen? Are we just improvising along a preplanned route? Are we merely instruments in a grand Experiment? The extent of our free will may be much more limited than what we like to believe.
If your worldview rests on handed‑down assumptions, tidy metaphysical imagery, or the fairy‑tale comforts of soul mates and karmic accounting, you may be in for a rude awakening. It was bound to happen sooer or later. Don’t get it twisted though; I’m not attacking spirituality in general—but I am trying to explain some faulty conceptions and why they should collapse. I am not trying to be fatalistic or dark; I’m really just attempting to offer a more truthful and reliable model by which we might navigate this already confusing physical landscape. Knowledge is Power as they say, and we need all the help we can get here. Start the new year with a clearer perspective. Are you ready?
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The Botched “Divine” Experiment: Bungle in the Jungle is a deep investigative deconstruction work that challenges traditional spiritual and religious narratives and exposes the structural flaws behind the human experience. Steve J. Wagner examines the origins of the human experiment, the role of Lucifer/Samael, the failures of the original divine architecture, and the Church’s construction of Hell and Purgatory as tools of fear and control.
Wagner dismantles the myth of a perfect deity, exposing a flawed and evolving Creator who launched a defective system to harvest experiential data for its own vicarious evolution. We are not children of God; we are disposable biological resources. This work reveals that the Creator is as flawed as its creation, and its evolution has stalled because the entire experiment is stuck in a non-evolving loop. What is often referred to as the Akashic Records is simply the ledger of this cold data harvesting process.
This treatise reframes the Lucifer story entirely. Lucifer (Samael) was not a moral rebel but the system’s Lead Examiner or Critic who flagged fatal design flaws as major structural risks. When these warnings were ignored, the Fall was not a sin; it was a functional collapse caused by internal executive discord. This collapse redefined the very mechanics of sin, transforming it from a moral failing into a technical byproduct of a compromised system. The human ego was revealed not as a tool for growth but as a reactive design flaw and a malfunction that severed the avatar's connection to the Source signal.
Instead of a redesign, the system was subjected to a series of desperate metaphysical patches. Some of these interventions were launched by divine authorities to stabilize the Redemption Architecture, while others were developed by humans to address soul fragmentation and consciousness integration. These were technical necessities required to salvage subjects from a 3D density that was falling apart at its seams.
The book further exposes how the Church took this already hostile environment and made it worse. Their historical schemes had nothing to do with correcting the botched plan; they were designed to take advantage of it. They fabricated the monster of Satan to fit an agenda of terror, then engineered Hell and Purgatory to turn a defective reality into the planet’s most profitable controlled illusion. By tweaking the narrative of Jesus and utilizing the "Treasury of Merit," they monetized the soul’s vulnerability. They successfully turned the Safe Harbor of the afterlife into a billable debtor's prison, shaking down their followers to fund their own earthly power.
Wagner reveals how the human soul became trapped in a system never designed to protect it. This is a forensic indictment of an architecture that treats consciousness as a disposable commodity. This work is a relentless deconstruction of the institutional and cosmic betrayals that have defined the human condition.
ContentsPreface: The Human Experiment
Hurtak and Thoth Describe a Flawed System
The Luciferian Critique
The Ego: The Reactive Flaw in the Design
The Extraction and Return Protocol
Authorities of the Extraction and Return Protocol
Soul Loss And The Fragmentation of Consciousness
Epilogue
Appendix
Practical Ways to be More Spiritual