The Architecture of Capital
The Return of the Rentier
On how capital's passive returns are outpacing productive work, and why the twenty-first century resembles the pre-industrial world more than the progressive narrative admits
The Cartographer
Systems Theory
The Difference That Makes a Difference
On Norbert Wiener, Gregory Bateson, and the cybernetic revolution — information as the substance of mind, feedback as the mechanism of intelligence
NDE Research
The Blind Who See
On veridical NDEs, out-of-body perception that proves accurate, and the cases that the dying-brain hypothesis cannot account for
American Seers
The Secret Teachings
On Manly P. Hall, the encyclopedia he wrote at twenty-seven, and the Los Angeles institution that has quietly preserved the Western esoteric tradition for a century
Perennial Philosophy
The Forgotten Leibniz
On the philosopher who coined 'perennial philosophy,' saw God in the calculus, and has been remembered for everything except his most important insight
Shamanism
The Wound That Opens
On shamanic initiation, the sickness that precedes the calling, the death-and-rebirth structure of authentic spiritual authority, and why the healer must first be broken
Hermeticism
Bruno and the Art of Forgetting Yourself
On Giordano Bruno, the Art of Memory as Hermetic psychotechnology, the infinite universe, and the Inquisition's bonfire
The Global Operating System
The Debt Weapon
David Graeber, Sovereign Debt, and the Moral Architecture of Obligation
The Operating System
The Public Investment
Risk Socialized, Return Privatized
Psychedelics and Consciousness Research
Be Here Now
Ram Dass, the Psychedelic Threshold, and the Turn Toward Practice
The Second Transmission
The Federal Reserve and the Architecture of Debt
On the secret meeting at Jekyll Island in 1910, the banking legislation that followed, and how the long transmission codified private control of the money supply into the legal infrastructure of the American republic
The Long Transmission
The Architecture of the New World
On the 1776 convergence, the Great Seal as initiatory document, and how the founders of the American republic understood themselves to be building something cosmic