SIMPATICO: Reconciling the Disparity of Spirituality, Ancient Wisdom, and Modern Science
Primary Work Overview
SIMPATICO: Reconciling the Disparity of Spirituality, Ancient Wisdom, and Modern Science is the first primary work in Steve J. Wagner’s Deconstruction Library. It is a first-person, chronological record of teaching, practice, study, symbolic exploration, and comparative inquiry.
The work begins in the practical world of journey circles, workshops, ceremony, healing work, and shamanic practice. From there, it follows an expanding inquiry across ritual, symbolism, sacred language, Kabbalah, the 72 Sacred Names, biblical and esoteric texts, Hermetic and Egyptian material, Thoth and the Emerald Tablets, prayer, the labyrinth, Tarot, Nordic runes, fragmentation, integration, consciousness, energy, vibration, manifestation, and modern scientific language.
SIMPATICO is neither a conventional academic comparative-religion study nor a detached account of spiritual systems. It is an origin document: the record of a practitioner and teacher testing possible connections among ancient teachings, lived spiritual practice, symbolic systems, and contemporary language about consciousness.
By gathering these strands into an early working framework, SIMPATICO establishes the formative questions, symbolic vocabulary, ancient esoteric reference points, and comparative method from which the later Deconstruction Works develop.
Governing Method and Philosophy
Its governing idea is simpatico: the recognition that sources commonly treated as unrelated may share recurring patterns, language, correspondences, and points of resonance.
A formative working rule was the rule of three. When three or more systems appeared to express a related principle, that convergence warranted closer examination. This was an investigative method within SIMPATICO, not a claim that apparent correspondence automatically proves a final conclusion.
SIMPATICO records a search for coherence across spiritual practice, ancient wisdom, symbolic systems, lived experience, and modern scientific language. That search produced meaningful resonances, but it also revealed contradictions, discrepancies, competing interpretations, and popular spiritual assumptions that could not withstand deeper examination.
The book therefore preserves more than conclusions. It preserves the formative questions, practices, discoveries, tensions, and unresolved material through which the later Deconstruction Works emerge.
Agency, Belief, and Lived Experience
The later chapters and personal epilogue bring the work’s central concerns back to the individual: belief, accountability, decision, lived experience, and the responsibility to participate in one’s own life.
SIMPATICO does not present the individual as a passive recipient of spiritual authority, divine direction, or inherited explanation. It emphasizes that thought, language, decision, intention, prayer, personal responsibility, and lived action have consequences.
The work closes by returning to the capacity of the reader to participate in shaping a life, respond to experience, and place trust in the self as well as in God.
That emphasis on responsibility and participation matters across the entire Deconstruction Library. Although later works challenge, dismantle, and reconsider many early spiritual and metaphysical assumptions, the demand for discernment, autonomy, direct engagement with experience, and accountable action remains central.
The Essential Companion Volume
An Essential Supplement to SIMPATICO is a focused companion volume that expands selected reference frameworks introduced in the primary work. It is related to the SIMPATICO period but is not a numbered installment in the nine-work Deconstruction Library sequence.
The Supplement contains three principal areas of study:
1. The Cosmic Web Model of Time
The Supplement includes the Shamanic Cosmic Web Model of Time, an early framework associated with the SIMPATICO inquiry into time, consciousness, possibility, and lived experience.
The later Illusion of Linear Time: The Root of Modern Spiritual Fallacies returns to related questions through a much broader metaphysical and structural deconstruction. The later work should not be treated as identical to this earlier model; it develops its own larger examination of linear time, simultaneity, consciousness, identity, and spiritual fallacy.
2. Directory of the 72 Sacred Names
The Supplement expands the Kabbalistic reference material introduced in SIMPATICO, including sacred language, divine resonance, personal transformation, and the 72 Sacred Names.
3. The Divine Hierarchy
The Supplement includes material on the Divine Hierarchy, gathering early reference points concerning named authorities, celestial beings, relationships, and levels within a spiritual cosmology.
In SIMPATICO, the discussion of Kabbalah, sacred names, the creation process, and the Tree of Life introduces material related to celestial beings and orders, including sources associated with J. J. Hurtak’s The Keys of Enoch. The Supplement’s chapter, “The Divine Hierarchy Defined,” brings together multiple sources to identify and define possible celestial beings and levels within this early cosmological structure. The Supplement also includes a “Diagram of the Divine Hierarchy.”
This material provides historical and conceptual context for questions later examined in The Botched “Divine” Experiment: Bungle in the Jungle. In that later work, cosmological hierarchy, divine authority, religious rhetoric, suffering, correction, rescue, and the claim of a perfect Creator and perfect creation are subjected to a more direct theological and structural challenge.
Transition to Deconstruction
SIMPATICO records the formative search for resonance among spiritual practice, ancient wisdom, symbolic systems, lived experience, and modern scientific language. It establishes the earlier framework from which the later sequence begins, but it also preserves the contradictions that make systematic deconstruction necessary.
The irony is that the governing principle of simpatico carries forward into the Deconstruction Works in an unexpected form. What began as a search for shared qualities, correspondences, and possible reconciliation among ancient texts, spiritual practice, symbolic systems, and modern scientific language also reveals shared structural fallacies.
Once a foundational contradiction is exposed within one system, related contradictions become visible across others. The same resonances that initially appeared to suggest coherence can also disclose the repeating patterns through which the larger spiritual game begins to unravel.
The nine-work sequence unfolds from this initial synthesis through rupture, spiritual deconstruction, metaphysical critique, theological indictment, cultural and psychological examination, and reconstruction after collapse.
SIMPATICO in the Deconstruction Library
SIMPATICO is Work 1 of the nine-work Deconstruction Library. It begins with the search for resonance among spiritual practice, ancient wisdom, symbolic systems, lived experience, and modern scientific language.
That search does not remain intact. As its assumptions, tensions, and contradictions are tested, the sequence moves into ascension rupture, spiritual deconstruction, metaphysical critique, theological indictment, cultural analysis, and finally the reconstruction-oriented conclusion of The Empty Mirror.
The full sequence is not a rejection of every question raised in SIMPATICO. It is the prolonged testing of those questions. What returns at the end is not the original synthesis, but the practical ground beneath it: discernment, agency, accountable action, and a deliberate life grounded in lived reality.
The Full-Circle Movement
The Deconstruction Library begins with SIMPATICO’s search for resonance and possible reconciliation among spiritual systems, ancient wisdom, lived practice, symbolic language, and modern scientific thought. The later works progressively test and challenge the assumptions that made that early synthesis possible.
The sequence ultimately returns to ground already present in SIMPATICO: personal agency, discernment, decision, accountability, lived experience, and trust in one’s capacity to participate in life.
The return is not a restoration of every early framework. It is a return after rupture and deconstruction—after inherited narratives, authority structures, spiritual promises, and identity scaffolding have been tested. What remains is the demand to build a deliberate, embodied, accountable, and functional life.
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