Work & Credits

I wrote my first novel at sixteen. I went to school for screenwriting and film, and studied comparative mythology alongside it the whole way through. Anthropology came out of wanting to know more — and out of needing something worth writing about. That led to shamanism, to archaeology, to plant medicine, and eventually to a place in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at CIIS.

I deferred it, and then let it go. An essay of mine had been published, a job followed, and then a residency in Brooklyn for the Transmissions Project — and I was suddenly working in the field I had been about to spend years studying, alongside the anthropologists and authors I had been reading for a decade.

The novels never stopped. Screenwriting arrived alongside them and I've loved it ever since, but the books have always been the center.

Everything else has run behind the curtain for twenty years: running the sessions, cutting the audio, shaping conversations other people got to have on the record. It turns out that's the same well the fiction comes from.

Everything below links to the work itself.

Multimedia & New Media Advisor, Producer, Director · 2018–2022

Team page (archived) · Production credits, Podchaser

Co-Creator, Director, Producer, Co-host · April–October 2018 · Summit ran September 23–29 · 22 speakers

Developed the summit's theme and content, researched and booked the speakers, and co-hosted with founder Amanda Pua Walsh — conducting eight of the twenty-two speaker interviews:

Carolyn Elliott — Existential Kink & Your Saturn

Eric Meyers — Embracing the Seasonal Rhythm of Astrology for Raising Consciousness

Patricia Walsh — Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? Chronos vs. Kairos

Julene Louis — Vedic Lunar Mansions for Amplified Energy & Shakti Power

Ron Baker — Using Astrology for Practical and Proactive Fulfillment

Adam Elenbaas — The Role of Predictive Astrology in Awakening Consciousness

Sherene Vismaya — How to Embody the Stars & Deepen Your Spiritual Path with the Zodiac Dance

Tashi Dos Santos — Healing the Divine and Sacred Feminine Through Reclaiming the Divine and Sacred Masculine

Also conducted an interview with the late Alan Oken, recorded but never released.

→ Day 2 Q&A Panel · Final Day Q&A Panel · Sneak Preview Panel · Full schedule (archived)

Co-Creator, Producer, Director · October 2018–2021 · Episodes 001–318 · 15M+ downloads

Built and launched the show with the founder following Summit 3.0, and produced it from its first episode. Guest selection and scheduling, production schedule, episode content, editing, promos, voice work, and managing the podcast team. Recurring formats included Cosmic Connection, Special Edition, Seeds of Light, StarryTelling, Shamanic Astrology, and the annual Prep Series. Booked and produced episodes with Chris Brennan, Jessica Lanyadoo, Colin Bedell, Rick Levine, Nadiya Shah, Christopher Renstrom, Judith Hill, Barbara Hand Clow, Gemini Brett, Charles Eisenstein, Adam Elenbaas, Rebecca Tarnas, Catherine Urban, Frank Clifford, David Cochrane, Henry Seltzer, Donna Woodwell — much of the contemporary astrology field.

I now produce and host my own podcast, and offer readings of my own.

→ Astrology Hub Podcast

Creator, Co-Editor · January–October 2021

Conceived and developed Astrology Hub's print and digital magazine — assembling the team, setting editorial direction, and producing content, art and copy through to pre-launch. The project was halted before publication.

→ CLMP publisher listing

Also, across the full engagement: writing and editing for newsletters, classes, workshops and live events; graphic design for courses and marketing; audio and video production; and management of the website, academy portal and social platforms.

Co-Founder & Director · 2013–2016

An online education and broadcast studio producing multi-session live courses, ongoing web series, and remote live-stream production for in-person conferences.

Radio Free VALIS: Tuning In to the Involution — with Professor Richard Doyle, offered as part of Penn State University's online curriculum and free to all. A six-part course exploring Philip K. Dick's novels, essays and The Exegesis across fifteen hours, opening with an introductory session and running through Awakening From Half Life with Ubik, Through A Scanner Darkly, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Pink Light Incursion, and Zebrapedia and the Digital Tractate, with bonus sessions through 2015. Doyle annotated The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick and wrote its afterword. I've since written about Dick's birth chart.
→ Introductory session · Session one, Ubik · Class five, The Exegesis · Richard Doyle, Penn State

GTT: Adventures in Self-Discovery and The Transpersonal Perspective — with Stanislav Grof. Ten-plus sessions, 2014, on holotropic states, spiritual emergency, perinatal matrices, the roots of human violence, death and dying, and the frontiers of human consciousness.

Shapeshifting with EarthWisdom — with Llyn Roberts. Guests: Sandra Ingerman, Michael Stone, Sheila Belanger, Nan Shumantla Fenix, and Don Valerio Cohaila.

Between the Domestic and the Wild — hosted by Kathe Izzo. Six-part series on female elders, power, spirit and connection. Guests: Joanna Harcourt-Smith, Linda Montano, Linda Mason, Lorna Kepes, Sheila Belanger; introductory panel with Pamela Sneed and Katharine Krueger.

Crop Circles, Jung and the Archetypal Feminine — with Gary S. Bobroff. Six sessions, 2014. Guests: Andrew Harvey, Suzanne Taylor, Jazz Rasool, Andy Thomas, Louise Bellairs, Nina Elshoff.

Archetypal Nature — with Gary S. Bobroff. Four classes, 2015.

Relationships in the Age of Ecological Apocalypse: How Do We Love and How Do We Leave? — with Carolyn Baker. Six sessions, from November 2014. Guests: Guy McPherson, Jack Adam Weber, Francis Weller, Ann Amberg, Linda Bender.

Befriending the Dark Emotions: Healing in Turbulent Times — with Carolyn Baker. Five-part course, from March 2014, opening with a free introductory session, "Becoming a Student of Fear," with special guest Andrew Harvey.

Grief & Joy in a Flatline Culture — with Carolyn Baker and Francis Weller, 2015.

Calling In Your Muse: The Five Keys to a Creative Life — with Roger Housden. Five sessions, 2014. Guests: Charles Eisenstein, Marci Shimoff, Jan Phillips, Ellen Bass.

Further Dimensions of Evolution — hosted by Eric Meyers. Five sessions, 2014. Guests: Andrew Smith, Armand Diaz, Patricia Walsh, Jeff Jawer.

Energy Clarity Immunity: The Power of the Amazon — hosted by Morgan Maher. Three sessions on Amazonian ethnobotany, May 6, 13 and 20, 2014, with guests Dennis McKenna and Richard Doyle.

The Light Cellar Vision Sessions — an ongoing online symposium with The Light Cellar, the Calgary superfoods and herbalism company, hosted by Morgan Maher. Opened September 2013 with Activate Your Renaissance: Creating Dynamic Health, Balance and Optimism in the New Now. Sessions with Light Cellar co-founder and intuitive chef Malcolm Saunders on superfoods, medicinal mushrooms, elixirs, fermentation and wild foods, and master herbalist Yarrow Willard of Harmonic Arts on energetic perception of plants and plant medicine.

The Eagle and Child — a SynchCast Web Salon with Dr. Frank Albo, architectural historian and author of The Hermetic Code. Salon I: Archetypal Mythemes and Monomyths — a crash course in mythological archaeology, working toward a foundation myth for Astana, Kazakhstan. Sessions covered the Golden Thread, image magic, Axis Mundi, microcosm and macrocosm, hierophany and the Tree of Life. A wider three-salon series was developed but not completed.
→ The Eagle and Child, frankalbo.com

Sex and Power: The Quest for Wholeness — with Sajit Greene, M.A., relationship and dating coach, and Rebecca Chaplin, MA, somatic sexologist and gerontologist. Free introductory session followed by a full class, 2013, on power dynamics, sexual energy and integration.

Ongoing collaboration with Richard Doyle, spanning more than a decade: a guest on 2012: How to Reach Your Potential at the Center of Time at Evolver, then four projects at SynchCast — Radio Free VALIS, the web series Awakening Beyond Thought with Gary Weber, Exploring the Soul of Nature with Joanna Harcourt-Smith, and the Power of the Amazon sessions with Morgan Maher — and a forthcoming appearance on the From Yonder Shore Podcast.

Ongoing collaboration with Andrew Harvey, carried over from the Evolver years: Sacred Economics and Turning Hope Into Action at Evolver, then Befriending the Dark Emotions, the Crop Circles and Jung series, and the 2015 Sacred Activism Kashmir benefit at SynchCast — five years across two companies.

Ongoing collaboration with Eric Meyers, spanning fourteen years: a guest appearance in Galactic Alignments at Evolver, then Awakening to Astrology — sixteen episodes across two years — and Further Dimensions of Evolution at SynchCast, his Summit 3.0 interview at Astrology Hub, and a return as guest on episode 002 of the From Yonder Shore Podcast.

Ongoing collaboration with Adam Elenbaas, across fifteen years and four projects: co-created Galactic Alignments with him at Evolver, produced his Awakening Consciousness interview for Astrology Hub's third summit, and booked him for the Astrology Hub Podcast. I was also in the inaugural New York cohort of his school, Nightlight Astrology, in its first year.

Exploring the Soul of Nature — The Pattern That Connects: Spiritual Ecology and Its Importance in the Modern World. A monthly webshow with Joanna Harcourt-Smith, host of Future Primitive Podcast, and Richard M. Doyle, from May 2013. Episode two, "What We Went Through!: Awakening from the War on Drugs, Now." Episode three with special guest Jeffrey Kripal, author of Mutants and Mystics.

Awakening to Astrology — with Eric Meyers. Sixteen episodes, May 2013 – May 2015. Guests included Jessica Murray, Kelly Lee Phipps, Sherene Vismaya and Rick Levine.

Awakening Beyond Thought — with Richard Doyle and Gary Weber. Nine episodes, 2014–2015.

The StArmy: Navigating by the Stars of Pop Culture and Charting Synchronicity — with Jake Kotze and Jim Sanders. Five episodes, 2013. Guests: Frank Albo, Kevin Halcott.

Creative Time Summit — Producer, interactive sessions. October 25–26, 2013, New York. Produced the Summit's interactive online sessions and presenter training for a global broadcast reaching 70 screening sites in roughly 30 countries, including MASS MoCA, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Tamayo Museum, ETH Zurich and NYU Abu Dhabi. The 2013 stage featured Vito Acconci, Lucy Lippard, Rebecca Solnit and Nato Thompson.
→ 2013 Summit · Screening sites

SYNCHRONICITY: Matter & Psyche Symposium — Remote live-stream production. September 2014, Joshua Tree Retreat Center. Live-stream sessions for a symposium featuring Rupert Sheldrake, Graham Hancock, Richard Tarnas, Jill Purce, Anne Baring, Marilyn Schlitz, Stephen Aizenstat and Jim B. Tucker.
→ Symposium

Modern Food: A Survival Guide for Eating in the 21st Century — How to Reconnect with Nature Using Superfoods and Indigenous Plant Knowledge. Hosted by Jill Ettinger of Organic Authority and Eat Drink Better, with special guest Chris Kilham, the Medicine Hunter. October 23, 2014.

Living Love in Our Mad World: A Special Online Event of Sacred Activism — with Andrew Harvey and Adam Bucko. March 10, 2015. Benefit for Sacred Activism Kashmir.

Pyramid Power: Examining the Bosnian Pyramids and Worldwide Pyramid Network — 2013, with Semir Osmanagić and Linda Star Wolf.

Unleashing the Power of I AM — 2013, with Howard Falco

Creating Sacred Space for the Holidays — a special live online event with Jill Angelo, author of Sacred Space: Turning Your Home Into a Sanctuary. December 17, 2013.

New Media Director, Producer & Writer · 2007–2013

Creator, Co-Editor · January–October 2021

Created, developed and produced Evolver's online course series — multi-session live video seminars pairing a lead teacher with guest experts across consciousness research, shamanism, archaeology, ecology and economics. Concept, booking, scheduling, live production, editing, copy and delivery for the full run.

Evolver Intensives published under a house byline, so individual courses carry no producer credit. The complete production archive — raw session masters and edited releases — remains in my possession.

Consciousness & Plant Medicine

Awakening the Cosmic Serpent, I and II — with Jeremy Narby. 2011. Guests: Stanislav Grof, Wade Davis, Kat Harrison, Luis Eduardo Luna, Daniel Pinchbeck, Steve Beyer, Susana Bustos, Kenneth Tupper, Martina Hoffmann, Ede Frecska.

Psychedelic Adventures at the Edge of the Abyss — with Dennis McKenna. 2012. Guests: Ralph Metzner, Erik Davis, Mark Pesce, Matthew Watkins, Daniel Pinchbeck, Luis Eduardo Luna.

Plant Spirit Shamanism — with Howard Charing. 2012. Guests: Chris Kilham, Steve Beyer, Sitaramaya.

Shamanism & Healing

Shamanic Initiation — with Alberto Villoldo. 2012. Guests: John Perkins, Sandra Ingerman, Linda Fitch, Marcela Lobos, David Perlmutter, CJ Castaneda.

Shamanic Protection and Self-Defense: Indigenous Techniques for the Modern World — with Itzhak Beery. From July 2012. Guests: John Perkins, Lynn Andrews, Oscar Miro-Quesada, Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq.

Ancient Mysteries & Archaeology

The Pyramid Code — with Carmen Boulter. 2012. Guests: Robert Bauval, John Anthony West, Christopher Dunn, Laird Scranton, Walter Cruttenden, William Henry.

Learning From Ancient Aliens and the Egyptian Wisdom Tradition — with Philip Coppens. 2012.

Crop Circles — with Suzanne Taylor. 2011. Guests: Daniel Pinchbeck, John Martineau, Gary S. Bobroff, Nancy Talbott, Jeffrey Wilson.

Disclosure & the Edges of Science

Two Worlds in Collision: Extraterrestrials, the Secret Government and You — with Richard Dolan. 2012. Guests: Jim Marrs, Linda Moulton Howe, Stephen Bassett, Daniel Pinchbeck.

Doorways to Another Reality — with Suzanne Taylor. 2012. Guests: Edgar Mitchell, Stephan A. Schwartz, Barbara Lamb, Andy Thomas, Klaus Dona.

Breakthrough Energy: Beyond Fossil Fuels Into a New Epoch — with Jamie Janover. 2012. Guests: Ryan Wartena, Joel Garbon, Nassim Haramein, Mark Hinds.

Culture, Economy & Ecology

Sacred Economics — with Charles Eisenstein. 2012. Guests: Andrew Harvey, Orland Bishop, Mark Boyle, Fernanda Ibarra, John L. Petersen, Lynne Twist.

Redesign the World — with Starhawk. 2011. Guests: Van Jones, Carolyne Stayton, Toby Hemenway, Mark Lakeman, Ernest Callenbach.

Turning Hope Into Action / Sacred Activism — with Andrew Harvey. 2012. Guests: Adam Bucko, Heather Murphy, Carolyn Baker, Diane Berke, Ellen Gunter, Caroline Myss.

Awakening the Global Heart-Mind — with Darrin Drda. Two parts, 2012. Guests: Joanna Macy, Richard Tarnas.

Visionary Nutrition: Enhancing Your Health in a Psychedelic World — with Morgan Maher. 2012. Guests: David Wolfe, Daniel Vitalis, Morgan Brent, Peter Gorman.

Raw Food and the Real World: How to Start a Rawvolution Every Day — with David Wolfe. 2012.

Preparedness Now: Create Your Emergency Survival Plan — with Aton Edwards. December 2012.

Astrology & Time

2012: How to Reach Your Potential at the Center of Time — with Jarrett Cole. 2012. Guests: Graham Hancock, Dennis McKenna, Daniel Pinchbeck, Carl Johan Calleman, Bruce Scofield, Richard Doyle, Jonathan Zap, Sergio Magaña, Shannon Kring Buset, AumRak.

Galactic Alignments: Charting the Soul's Journey Through Astrology — created with and hosted by Adam Elenbaas. 2012. Guests: Erin Sullivan, Eric Meyers, Ari Moshe Wolfe, VerDarLuz.

62 pieces

Articles, essays, interviews and news columns on shamanism, archaeology, consciousness and the visionary arts. Also assisted with peer review of submissions for Evolver Editions, the imprint at North Atlantic Books.

→ Shamanic World Mirroring: The Artist's Inner Journey (2009, republished here) · original · Transcendent Transmissions (2010)

An ongoing aleatoric practice in sound and image. Each tone of the twelve-note chromatic scale corresponds to a zodiacal phase; each zodiacal phase to a point on the electromagnetic spectrum. Working from the color and tone specific to a given date, a piece of music and an image emerge as products of their moment of conception.

Exhibited in the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition's Lineage exhibit, autumn 2010, with live performances every Saturday through October.

→ The Transmissions Project · Transcendent Transmissions, Reality Sandwich, 2010

An ongoing body of mythological, cosmological and archetypal work across four mediums: painting, ink and pastel, digital photo remix, and moving image and sound — synth composition with remixed art and photography set in motion.

→ Numinous Explorations

The Mountain Astrologer — "Quincunx: The Paradox of Being," forthcoming.

Metanoia Press — Editorial Sangha, 2020–2024. A listed advisory role for the press's non-fiction list: assessment of new submissions, peer review for the editorial board, and manuscript development with authors and the Editor-in-Chief.

Freelance editor — 2020–present. Story development, macro and line editing, fiction and non-fiction.

Evolver Editions / North Atlantic Books — 2009–2013. Assisted with peer review of submissions for the imprint.

See also: Creator and Co-Editor of Astrology Hub magazine (2021), and 62 pieces as contributor and research journalist at Reality Sandwich (2009–2013), above.

Transmissions From Yonder Shore — In the Key of Dream — poetry collection, manuscript complete.

Speculative fiction & screenwriting — as Christopher Alexander Kaplan. Novels, short fiction and screenplays across science fiction, fantasy and climate fiction. Semifinalist for America's Next Great Author with the novel Midnight Suns; placements in the Cannes Screenplay Contest, the ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship and the Los Angeles International Sci-Fi Film Festival, and four projects ranked on Coverfly's Red List.

→ Portfolio and accolades · ckalexander.com