lluminate Within.
Radiate Without.

A metaphysical journal exploring consciousness, paradox and the fractures between belief and knowing.

Enter the Portal

Welcome to Portal & Paradox

This is a space for questioning the stories we were handed and exploring what sits beneath them. Consciousness, reality, non-human intelligence, spirituality, history, religion, symbolism, and the patterns that connect them all. Nothing here is treated as sacred simply because it is old or popular. (Consider yourself forewarned)

This blog exists to pull threads. To examine where belief ends and experience begins. To look direclty at the paradoxes baked into religion, modern spirituality, and human identity, without softening the edges or pretending certainty where none exists.

You will find reflections, breakdowns, and long form thoughts shaped by lived experience, deep research, and years spent navigating altered states, metaphysical frameworks, and uncomfortable questions most people avoid. Excerpts from our books may appear here as well, not as doctrine, but as invitations to finally think for yourself.

Explore at your own pace. Take what resonates. Discard what does not. And if these perspectives challenge something you have been holding onto, then that is precisely the point.

Published Books

Explore our published works and offerings designed to deepen your spiritual practice.

Book cover titled 'Beyond the Illusion: Awakening the Infinite Within' by B.P. Blackwood, depicting a person standing in front of a cosmic scene with an aura and lightning, and a large mystical face behind a circular portal.
Book cover titled "Beyond the Veil: The Untold Journey" by B.P. Blackwood, featuring a doorway revealing a large face of a blue-skinned, fantasy-style character with glowing orange eyes, surrounded by nebulae and stars, and a silhouette of a person standing in front of the door.
Book cover titled 'Beyond the Fracture: A Song Beneath the Ashes' by B.P. Blackwood. Features two women with tribal-like markings and beads, a lion's face, and a figure standing at the bottom. Surrounded by a glowing, cracked, dark forest background with trees and vines.
A book cover titled 'The Alchemy of Descent' with a subtitle 'A Higher Being's Guide Through the Shadow of the Self' by B.P. Blackwood. The cover features a dark, mysterious underground scene with skull masks, chains, pocket watches, bones, and a glowing, lightning-like vertical line descending into a circular symbol on the ground, illuminating a crack in the earth.
BROWSE COLLECTION

Featured Insights & Writings

Portal & Paradox presents two writers exploring the unknown from different internal orientations, each engaging with consciousness through their own natural lens.

B.P. Blackwood explores a wide range of subjects including metaphysics, UFO phenomena, non-human intelligence, spirituality, religion, altered states of consciousness, the paranormal, ancient history, symbolism, and the structures underlying belief systems. Rather than treating these topics as separate fields, his writing examines how they intersect, influence one another, and reveal larger patterns about human perception and reality itself. His work often moves between experiential accounts, research driven analysis, and philosophical inquiry, drawing connections across disciplines that are rarely examined together.

J.D. O’Ryan approaches consciousness through emotion, sound, and frequency. His writing is rooted in music, vibration, emotional awareness, and the subtle ways feeling shapes perception and internal experience. Rather than focusing on systems or frameworks, his work tends to unfold through resonance, expression, and lived emotional insight. His subject matter remains intentionally open, allowing exploration to move naturally across creativity, inner states, and the energetic dimensions of human experience.

Both voices aim to inspire, guide, and accompany you on your spiritual journey.

Thank you for joining us.