Most people are not deceived by the world around them. They are deceived by the picture they assembled of it, and they defend that picture the way people defend things they cannot afford to lose. The confidence that comes from having already decided what is true is one of the most expensive things a person can carry, because it makes looking unnecessary, and looking is the only thing that was ever going to help.

DVN THEREPE is governed by ten directives I call the Alchemist's Law, a seal that has been sitting underneath every chamber, every session, and every offering inside the atelier long before anyone outside of it ever saw it named. With the relaunch of dvntherepe.com, that architecture is finally visible, and this is the first time I am walking anyone through  ...