Hi, I'm Jon Ray Emotional Sobriety. Become Your Own Mystic.

When we learn to feel our big feelings fully without trying to make them go away, something mystical happens: we end up knowing exactly what we need to know, when we need to know it. That's what abundance is.

mys·tic /ˈmistik/ noun — a person who, through presence & surrender, comes to know truths beyond the intellect. Trusting what arises when thinking stops.

Combined with business strategy & AI, you find right ideas faster & turn authenticity into resonance (your ideas, said so your audience hears them).

What You'll Find Here

Books, systems, spiritual reflections, creative frameworks, and emotional practices. Choose the path that fits where you are right now.

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Jesus Lightning Books

A mystical, psychological reinterpretation of the Bible for modern life. Spiritual growth without dogma. 66+ books of symbolism, emotional healing, and inner transformation.

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Shadow Work: Feel Your Feels

The emotional sobriety practice. Simple, grounded methods to feel what you've been avoiding, integrate what you've been hiding, and stop the patterns that keep running your life.

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AI Tools for Creators

AI-powered creative and thinking systems I actually use to write, research, and build without losing depth or voice. AI as an amplifier, not a replacement.

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SEO for Authors & Creators

Bottom-of-funnel SEO that finds readers already searching for what you write about. Build a body of work that compounds, not content that disappears.

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Essays & Longform Writing

Deep reflections on spirituality, identity, creativity, and personal evolution. A living library for people who think in layers.

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You Were Never Meant to Live in a Box

The internet tells you to pick one topic, repeat one idea forever, and compress yourself into something an algorithm can easily classify.

But real spirituality expands you. It doesn't simplify you.

Real growth widens your range. It doesn't force you to narrow it.

Real creativity asks for your whole self. Not a tiny, optimized fragment.

If you've felt friction trying to fit into one lane, one theme, or one identity, there's a reason: you've been trying to discipline yourself into a box instead of clearing the emotional weight that keeps you scattered.

The answer isn't more focus. It's more presence. When you stop running from what you feel, clarity shows up on its own.

A New Kind of Spirituality

This isn't religious dogma. This isn't vague self-help. This isn't algorithm-approved content designed to perform. (It just happens to.)

This is spirituality built on one premise: the inner work makes the outer work actually work.

My work weaves together:

Mystical Bible interpretation Psychology and shadow work Nervous system wisdom Emotional sobriety practices AI systems for creators SEO and business strategy

It's for messy, curious, multi-passionate humans who are growing, changing, and building as they go.

Do the emotional work. Then watch everything else get easier.

Featured Podcast

What If You Stopped Trying to Make Your Feelings Go Away?

In this conversation with Ben Laws, I break down the practice that changed everything for me: feeling your feelings fully, without trying to fix, escape, or spiritually bypass them.

  • Emotional Sobriety — Why the goal isn't to feel better, it's to feel what's there
  • The Three-Step Process — Feel, Glimpse, Dwell: a simple framework for presence
  • Mystical Bible Reading — How I'm reinterpreting all 66 books through a psychological lens
  • AI as a Thinking Partner — Using Claude to write, process, and build without losing depth
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Essays on emotional sobriety, spiritual growth, and the inner work that makes everything else work better.

I Pointed Claude Code at the Wayback Machine. It Found 18 Years of Writing I’d Been Hiding.

I told Claude Code to scrape the Wayback Machine API and find everything I’ve ever written online. 18 years of mystical, metaphysical, emotional stuff. Most of which I’d deleted. Why? Because every time I was about to book a big client or go in for a corporate consulting gig, I’d get this tightness in my chest and pull the whole blog down. Get the gig, finish the work, spin it back up at a different URL. Repeat for almost two decades. I was afraid to be me. Afraid that “being me” wouldn’t be profitable. By presenting a metallic facade to

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Jon Ray

Who Is Jon Ray?

Writer, creator, mystic, and builder behind the Jesus Lightning book series.

I've spent decades exploring spiritual frameworks, emotional healing, creativity, personal development, entrepreneurship, and technology. What I've learned: all of it works better when you've done the inner work first.

Feel what you've been avoiding, and everything else starts to click.

I don't believe in the one-lane creator myth. I believe your inner world is the most powerful technology you have.

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Time Travel Is Real

I've been writing publicly for 18 years, 6 months, and 4 days. That's a lot of coffee, books, late-night conversations, and lived experience. Some ideas here I've deepened. Others I've outgrown. A few have transformed into something I couldn't have imagined when I first wrote them.

Everything stays online. Not because it's all "right," but because it's all real. Growth leaves a trail, and people further behind on the path often recognize something in an older version of you that helps them take the next step.

One note for context: I've been sober for 9 years, 1 months, and 21 days. Anything written before that may contain questionable party logic, unfinished thinking, or raw edges. It's part of the arc.

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The work isn't becoming something new.

It's feeling what you've been avoiding.

When you stop running, everything else starts working.

This is a place where nothing has to be edited out.