The Path of the Dragon
A Compass for the Soul in a Messy, Triggered World
Have you felt a fire inside—rage, grief, desire, wild creativity—too
big for the life you’ve been told to live?
The old maps are brittle. Platitudes don’t hold. You were taught to dim
the flame, to be good, to be safe.
What if wholeness isn’t putting the fire out—but building a hearth strong enough to hold it?
The Path of the Dragon is a living compass for when your story has cracked open. It braids neuroscience and embodied trauma work with Jungian depth and ancient spiritual wisdom—so you can walk with integrity in the world as it is.
A path for those who seek direction, not dogma.
Who trust lived experience over borrowed certainty.
Who are ready to cultivate inner authority.
It’s completely free, and available online.
What You’ll Be Able to Do
- Integrate your whole self: light and shadow, creation and destruction, order and chaos.
- Embody wisdom, not just think it: root insight in breath, fascia, and nervous system.
- Navigate with integrity: wield power with consent, accountability, and compassion.
This is a spiral path. You’ll revisit key themes with deeper awareness each time—integrating at the psychological, somatic, relational, and existential levels.
How the Compass Works: A Three-Phase Initiation
This is more than a book. It’s an initiation into a new way of orienting: Orient → Illuminate → Integrate.
Phase I — Orientation: Forging the Compass
(Introduction, Parts I–II)
Align with a greater field. Meet the Entangled Firmament, a cosmology that holds science and spirit as one living fabric. Learn the Five Energetic Bodies—physical, emotional, mental, energetic, transpersonal—as the real terrain of your life. This is foundation, not abstraction.
Phase II — Illumination: The Mirror and the Fire
(Parts III–V)
Turn the compass inward. First it becomes a mirror for the archetypes shaping your life: Lover, Warrior, Sage, and the primal Creator-Destroyer. This is shadow reclamation—the return of exiled power. Then the compass becomes fire, guiding change into the body. Neurobiology, trauma, and somatic practice are not obstacles to spiritual work—they are its ground. You don’t transcend the body; you become whole through it.
Phase III — Integration: Becoming the Path
(Parts VI–VIII)
Anchor power in the world. Walk with ethical clarity in power, consent, and intimacy, so the fire you carry illuminates rather than burns. From this ground, the path opens into Void Meditation, a direct encounter with the formless source. The spiral completes. The compass dissolves. You become the path.
Is This Path for You?
Yes—if you’re ready to:
- Do deep self-inquiry and practice radical accountability
- Honor your body as a teacher (not a hurdle)
- Trade borrowed certainty for lived, embodied truth
Not now—if you’re seeking:
- A quick fix for acute crisis
- A substitute for therapy or medical care
- Dogma, bypassing, or “love and light” without ethics
The cost of entry is your comfort zone. The reward is sovereignty no one can give or take away.
What’s Inside (Highlights)
- The Entangled Firmament: a participatory cosmology to re-situate meaning
- Five Energetic Bodies: a practical map for integrating experience
- Archetypal Work: Lover, Warrior, Sage, Creator-Destroyer
- Somatic Practices: nervous-system regulation, breath and fascia-based integration
- Ethics & Power: consent, accountability, intimacy, and repair
- Void Meditation: meeting the formless without bypassing the human
A Unique Synthesis for a New Era
The Path of the Dragon stands apart by weaving threads often kept separate. It’s an integrated framework built on four pillars:
1) Neuroscience & Embodied Trauma Work
Ground your practice in the body’s reality. Drawing on trauma science (e.g., polyvagal-informed principles and somatic memory), you’ll learn practical tools to regulate and integrate change at a cellular level. Spirituality that honors your biology.
2) Unflinching Shadow Work & Ethics
Go beyond “love and light.” Explore Shadow, sacred sexuality, and power dynamics within a safe, ethical container. With non-negotiables of consent and radical accountability, you’ll reclaim power you can trust.
3) Neuro-Affirming & Inclusive
Your brain is not a bug to fix. Informed by the author’s late diagnoses of ADHD and autism, practices are adaptable and compassionate, honoring diverse wiring over one-size-fits-all awakening.
4) A Living, Personal Cosmology
Enter the Entangled Firmament, integrating insights from systems thinking, physics-inflected inquiry, and myth to build a coherent, participatory vision of reality. Intellectually respectful. Spiritually alive.
About the Author
Jóhann Haukur Gunnarsson (Reykjavík, Iceland) bridges the precision of neural networks and fintech with a lived passage through illness, rupture, and initiation. His work is devoted to embodied integration that changes real lives—uniting technology’s clarity with mythic depth.
Ethical Scope & Care
This path invites profound inner work. It is educational, not medical or clinical advice, and not a substitute for therapy. If you’re in acute distress, please seek qualified support. Move at the speed of trust with your body.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is it really free?
Yes. The full book is available to read online at no cost.
Do I need a background in psychology or
spirituality?
No. The compass is designed to be clear, grounded, and learnable.
Will this conflict with my existing practice or
faith?
It’s a framework for orientation, not a belief system. Take what serves;
leave what doesn’t.
How do I actually use the book?
Read Phase I to set your compass, then move through Phases II–III at a
humane pace. Revisit practices as you loop the spiral.
Is this safe for trauma survivors?
The work is trauma-informed and consent-centered. Still, please titrate,
pause, and seek professional support when needed.
In Summary
The Path of the Dragon is an ethical, embodied, soul-centered framework for a world in upheaval. It won’t hand you answers. It gives you a compass.
Stop seeking. Start being.
Stop chasing the Dragon. Meet the one breathing within you.