what is the god who eats?

the god who eats is my name for the way entropy, emergence, and decay-into-new-life show up across everything from soil to stars. if you want the fuller, nerdy version, you can either watch the video essay or read the written one.

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verdant verse vault

most of these songs aren’t lectures about entropy or ecology- they’re field notes from inside a world where that pattern is always humming underneath. I write about awe in nature, consciousness , grief, sedimental souls, human constructs rotting and composting into something stranger. I’m not beholden to any one genre or doctrine anything that lights my heart on fire goes in; The God who eats is just the lens that keeps it all connected.if you want to feel the patterns vibrate through you click here

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garden of verse

this is where i tuck the stranger roots of the framework: prayers for lichens and landfills, love letters to spores, odes to decomposition, the sun, and the first ones who tried to name whatever this is. some poems stay close to field notes and microscopes; others chase ghosts through anthropology, archaeology, and dream logic, stacking images like rock layers until a pattern starts to hum. all of them live under the same sky where death is just how the soil learns a new song.If you want to hear me read some aloud, you can slip over to the poetry videos on youtube. If you would rather wander at your own pace, a big slice of my corpus is gathered in my first collection, available as a kindle or paperback.

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compost pile of ideas

this is where the curiosities that won’t let go of me end up. I follow a question - about systems, death, consciousness , power, whatever- down into the research , watch how it collides with the god who eats, and then try to pin the pattern in essay form. some pieces stay closer to the science; others drift into story and speculation, but they all start from the same itch to see whats happening under the surface.if you like longer, slower dives into the framework, you can wander those essays on substack.

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Who’s behind this?

I’m Brett- an amateur mycologist/ ecologist and post theological ecophilosopher who fell in love with the living world and never climbed back out. i've spent years wandering through philosophy and theology first, trying to make sense of things, then i fell hard into mycology and ecology and everything snapped into focus. i've spent those years learning the language of fungi and ecosystems and then stealing back spiritual words to point back at the soil, roots, and star-stuff instead of distant heavens. the god who eats is what i brought back from wandering in that wilderness: a way for sharing the joy and strangeness of this universe so anyone who feels the same pull can come sit by the fire and chew on bigger questions for a while.