The agency for

for the thinking soul.

Hello, welcome to my cave!

The Metaphysics Agency is a research, design and information science practice that reimagines how we give structure to inner life. The practice serves people with large inner worlds by creating instruments for wayfinding, knowledge organization and self-reflection, made for an interconnected reality.

Mirror, Meaning
and Magic.

From UX to IX

For decades, we’ve used design to shape how we interact with digital worlds. But what if UX became a spiritual practice for intimacy, instead of extraction? Where designing for individual experience (IX) can serve as a mirror for our inner worlds?

EXPLORE ESSAYS

Self-cultivation accelerated in the Information Age. We outgrew the structures that once defined the boundaries of ‘self’. Our inner worlds call for new forms of organization and expression, so that no matter where the mind goes, we can recognize home, and the way to our soul’s deepest longing.

Interior Mirrors to Work With Uncertainty, Indecision & Disconnection

Ancient and emergent symbolic systems go far beyond divination. Interior mirrors like Tarot or the I Ching interrupt recursive loops by bringing information possibility into view, revealing what lies between the unknown and your own reflection.

A Library of Mind to House Your Multitudes

Your brain gets full of ideas. Podcasts, notes, research and lived experience rarely sit in one place. How do you organize and make sense of it all? A Library of Mind runs structural analysis over the whole, organized by how you relate to what you know, and not only the utility it serves.

Technology for Self-Intimacy. Not Data Extraction.

When the individual is the source of the technology, UX becomes an expression of identity instead of a function of utility. Unlike applications, an instrument is shaped around how you think. It runs locally, with no sign-up. You own the intelligence and the data.

Eastern Systems Thinking

The Architecture of Interconnected RealityI Ching

The I Ching is a foundational text that has shaped much of East Asia for the past 3,000 years. It confirmed Leibniz’s binary in 1701, shaped Carl Jung’s synchronicity, and guided Ursula K. Le Guin’s vision of a yin utopia. Predating Buddhism, it offers an understanding of reality through yin and yang, 64 patterns of change, and the science of feedback and self-regulating systems. For anyone living between roles, places, and identities, it becomes a way to query reality and your position within an Everything Everywhere All at Once world.

The Metaphysics Agency draws deeply on this work, and has put together a free learning portal, a hexagram lookup, and in-depth philosophical writing on the classic text.

EXPLORE THE I CHING

Projects & Instruments

What’s cooking…

  1. 01I Ching Hexagram LookupHexagram lookuplive
  2. 02I Ching: A Primer8 short lessonslive
  3. 03Idea SorterThinking instrumentcooking
  4. 04Objects of VirtuThought infrastructurealmost cooked
  5. 05ChamberA place to writealmost cooked
  6. 06The New Wheel of FateEvery wheel of fate, in onealmost cooked
  7. 07The Interface of TarotSymbolic instrumentcooking
  8. 08The Future as an InterfaceField notescooking

For I Ching practitioners, the free Hexagram Lookup is here →

Coming soon!
The Interior Mirror: hexagram lookup
I Ching: Book of Changes
Idea Sorter: sort ideas into a living map
Objects of Virtu: infrastructure for your thoughts
Chamber: a place to write
The New Wheel of Fate
The Interface of Tarot
The Future as an Interface: a field guide to identity architecture

If you have an interesting project or instrument that you’d like to share, please send a feature request to xli@metaphysics.agency