About this site
Seek With What is a plain-English map of the spiritual and metaphysical world: what people believe, where those beliefs came from, what practising them actually involves, and what can honestly be said about whether any of it holds up.
It is part of the With What family, which asks one question across every site it runs — what do you want to do with what you have? Every other site in the family asks that about something you can inventory: the fridge, the shed, the fabric drawer. This one asks it about the one thing you cannot.
What this site does
It describes belief. It does not assert it. Every claim here belongs to a tradition, a text or a person, and is attributed to them. You will not be told what is true. Where a tradition makes a claim about the physical world that has been tested, the result of that test is reported plainly, without triumph and without sneering.
Every article answers the same four questions. What it is. Where it came from. How it is practised. And what we can and cannot say about it. That last one is not an afterthought — it is the reason the first three can be trusted.
It maps the harm. Coercive groups, spiritual bypassing, medical harm, financial exploitation and cultural appropriation are not footnotes on this site. They have their own section, with real articles, written with the same care as everything else. A map of this territory that leaves out the places people get hurt is not a map worth having.
What this site refuses to do
- It will not predict your future, read your fortune, or tell you what a card means for you
- It will not give medical advice, dosages, protocols, or anything that could lead someone to delay or abandon treatment
- It will not publish restricted or initiatory material from living traditions, or teach ritual belonging to peoples who have not offered it
- It will not sell you crystals, courses, readings, retreats or supplements
- It carries no advertising and never will
Who writes it
Ben Kirtland, from Strathalbyn in South Australia. Not a scholar, not a priest, not a practitioner of anything in particular — someone in middle life who got curious and decided that the honest way to learn a subject is to have to explain it properly.
That means this site is a record of an education in progress. Articles cite their sources so you can check them, and corrections are genuinely welcome at feedback@mousewheeldigital.com.
How it is built
Sections are published as complete units rather than drip-fed, so the site is always a small finished library rather than a large unfinished one. The order is deliberate: the philosophical groundwork and the material on harm came first, before a single tarot card appeared anywhere on the site.