Decode This: The Ritual in Plain Sight

Why We Wrote This

You are four years old.
The shag carpet smells like peanut butter and dust.
Your sister left the TV on again.

It’s 1975, and you creep downstairs like it’s a heist.

There it is: the on/off switch. You’ve watched her do it. You push it in, and it clunks with the force of a spaceship airlock. The tube hums to life. Colors flicker. You wait. You’re not supposed to be up.

And then—he appears. A man in a scarf long enough to strangle a galaxy. Hair like a mad lion. Eyes like he knows something you don’t. The room he's in is round, glowing, strange. He touches a control panel like it’s alive. He says things you don’t understand—but you believe him.

You don’t know who this is yet. But you will.
Tomorrow, you’ll wake up early and do it again.

What you’re watching isn’t just a show. It’s a ritual in plain sight.

You’ve just found your first Mystery School.
But nobody calls it that.

They’ll say it’s fiction. Entertainment. Sci-fi.
They won’t say it’s architecture for how to survive time, identity collapse, transformation, and impossible odds with nothing but your voice and a sonic screwdriver.

This book was written for that moment.
Not just for you—but for every grown-up kid who sensed something sacred underneath the weird.

It’s for the ones who walk into a courtroom, a gym, a church, or a startup pitch deck and feel déjà vu—not because they’ve been there before, but because the pattern is the same.

You already know this.
But it helps to have language for what you’ve lived.

That’s what we made.
A decoder ring.
A Rosetta Stone for the sacred-in-disguise.
So you don’t just feel the pattern.
You see it, read it, use it, shape it.

This isn’t fiction anymore.
It’s meaning in motion.
And you’re the architect now.