🜃 Wilding (Non)Therapy

Jon Hook

The end is already here.

The machine—a rattling mess chugging on fumes.

(No wonder your chest hurts.)

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Phase I: Separation

Step Outside.

Refuse the script.

Walk offstage.

No diagnosis. No fixing. No ascent.

Just a quiet exit from the farce.

Suspension

Drop your roles.

Let structure collapse.

Stand still in the unknowing.

Neither this nor that.

Only the stark air of freedom.

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Phase II: Liminality

Betwixt and Between

You’re in the crack between worlds.

Not what you were. Not yet something else.

The system’s grip slips here.

No rules. No hierarchy. No name.

Devastation

Let it fall apart.

The mask, the grind, the lie of becoming.

Grief is initiation.

Rage is clarity.

Disorientation is sacred.

Immanence

There is no gap to bridge.

The real is not hidden.

You are standing in it.

You always were.

Let that ruin you.

Play

Play like a weapon.

Mock the order. Desecrate their ladder.

Spit on optimization.

Make games out of ruins.

Break things. Laugh loud.

Live like the world already ended—

because it did.

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Phase III: Reaggregation

Spontaneous Destiny

Don’t go back.

Don’t improve. 

Don’t emerge.

Go on forgetting.

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What Emerges Is reWilding

Unrepentant. Undomesticated.

⟶ Growth by rot

⟶ Joy by despair 

⟶ Creation by theft 

⟶ Life by death 

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Jon Hook is a psychotherapist and writer exploring the intersections of clinical practice, political radicalism, and play. His work spans therapy process and outcome research, the politics of psychotherapy, game design, and contemplative practice. He founded Counterpsych, an organization creating a counter-hegemony within psychology. He created the role-playing game SURREALPUNK!