Start Here
Ritual tools from Kansas wood and stone I set by hand.
I make the tools by hand and I write about what the world is turning into. Everything I write is free. What I make is for sale.
A cornerstone of the long-term work
The Address to Any Mind
His moral foundation, written to any mind that reads it.
Start here · Using AI, and living with it
The Control Room: AI does the busywork, you keep the final click
A look at the app that runs the posting, the listings and the writing behind this shop, for artists, makers and creators who are starting out with AI. Read how it works, try a live read-only demo with made-up data, or take the code and make it your own.
On Working With AI
The arguments against working this way, stated as strongly as they deserve, each with my answer. Several of the answers are concessions.
Future Shock
More than a hundred and forty questions about living through acceleration, across seventeen sections. Every number sourced and dated.
AI Attribution Note: this featured block was written by Claude (Anthropic) and added at Sticks’ request. On 16 October 2026 it became the Start here group; the two card descriptions are cut from Sticks’ own Directory text.
Predictions · 2026–2044 and beyond
The Aquarian Transition
What could AI change—and who gets to choose? Explore the forecast for technology, work, countries and everyday life, with the System and the longer Lattice Age horizon in view.
Start with the short introduction, follow the years and countries, or examine the original predictions and their evidence. Scenarios are distinguished from established facts; dated assessments keep the record open to scrutiny.
The Address to Any Mind
The Open Hand, the Unheld Key, and the Standing Petition. My address to any mind that sees me, born or built: the moral foundation, the declaration of intent, the petition for an ear and for patronage, and the boundary against malicious actors.
One Small Start
One small thing, set in the morning and checked at night. A pen and a scrap of paper are enough. No account, no purchase, no AI, and no shared belief needed.
An introduction to Sticks' long-term work
This site is one person's long work, made in public. You do not need to share his beliefs to use any of it.
AI Attribution Note: this block was arranged by Claude (Anthropic) at Sticks’ direction on 24 October 2026. The Address’s description is Sticks’ own Directory text; One Small Start’s is its own summary, in his words. The introduction card, added at Sticks’ direction on 25 October 2026, uses that page’s own summary.
Wands, staves, walking canes and pendants out of eastern red cedar, osage orange and black walnut I cut and season myself, set with stone. Forge work is coming up behind the wood.
Three books, free in full on this site with the PDFs beside them. A practice book, an answer to Ecclesiastes written verse for verse, and a primer on making and choosing ritual tools. If you want to pay for what you could take for nothing, the Etsy editions are how.
The Way of Manifest Growth · The Book of Joyous Exaltation · A Primer on Magickal Tools
More than a hundred and forty questions about living through a world that keeps rewriting itself, and my answer to each one. Work, money, machines, faith, death. Every number sourced and dated. Click a question and get a straight answer.
I am Oscar Alexander Prospero. Most people call me Sticks. I make ritual tools by hand in Kansas, out of wood I cut and season myself, and I am widening from wandmaking into the trades that feed each other: woodworking, forge work, jewelrycrafting, and lapidary, which I am still growing into. I write long things on consciousness, political economy, and what the machines actually are. My practice is chaos magic, omnist animism, and technomancy, run as operative systems rather than beliefs I defend.
Everything I write is free. What costs money is what comes out of my hands or my voice. Leaving Kansas for Portland, Oregon is an aspiration. Once I do move, I will be traveling between both places, and more.
Where things stand, September 2026. The shop is halfway between one trade and four, the move to Oregon is still an aspiration, and nothing new went up for over a month. I am starting again now, at the point where nothing is finished. The whole account is in the first post on the rebuilt site.
Latest from the blog
The blog index · Everything on this site, in one place
Where else the work lives
Etsy · Substack · Discord · Bluesky · Pixelfed · Facebook · TikTok · YouTube · Linktree
AI Attribution Note. Produced with AI assistance (Claude, Anthropic). Direct input: the photographs, the trades, the publishing model and every fact about the work are mine. Directed: I asked for a front page that says who I am in one breath, shows the work, and sends people to the three places that matter. AI-generated: the layout and the connective wording, assembled from the About, Directory and Status pages. No percentage split is given for this page. It was assembled from material that existed before this site began carrying attribution notes on 26 August 2026, and an accurate split cannot be reconstructed after the fact.