Psychedelics and Consciousness Research
The Spirit Molecule
Rick Strassman, DMT, and the Neuroscience of the Threshold
The Cartographer
The Captured State
What Dulles Built
On the CIA's operational playbook for managing populations perceived as threats, its explicit turn inward through COINTELPRO and the Reagan-era War on Drugs, and why the Goetz moment was not an eruption of white rage but its legible surface expression
The Second Transmission
The Petrodollar and the End of Bretton Woods
On Nixon's 1971 decision, the secret arrangement that replaced the gold standard with oil, and what it means that the global reserve currency is now backed by military projection and fossil fuel
The Long Transmission
The Two Adam Smiths
On what Smith actually argued versus what was built in his name, the book everyone forgot, the corporation he despised, and the founding vision that was betrayed at the first available opportunity
The Captured Game
F1 and the Media Cartel
On Bernie Ecclestone's four-decade reign, Liberty Media's acquisition of a sport it reshaped as content, and what happens when Formula 1 becomes a product before it becomes a race
Trauma and the Wounded Self
The Path Through
On how trauma's full integration can move beyond symptom relief into post-traumatic growth, and what conditions make the wound itself become generative
The Sacred Masculine
The Reunion
On the sacred marriage within the psyche, and why the reunion of masculine and feminine principles is the prerequisite for both individual wholeness and genuine love between persons
The Sacred Feminine
Mary and the Black Madonna: The Suppressed Feminine in Christianity
On the goddess suppressed by Christian theology who returned unconsciously as Mary, and how the Black Madonnas reveal the divine feminine Christianity could not destroy
Psychology and Depth
Stanislav Grof: The Cartography of the Deep Unconscious
On how four thousand documented LSD sessions revealed the deep layers of human consciousness, from personal trauma systems to the perinatal and transpersonal domains
Propaganda and Influence
Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle and the Colonization of Lived Experience
On how capital extends beyond economics to colonize experience itself, transforming lived life into consumable images, and why Debord's 1967 diagnosis describes our present moment with uncanny precision
McGilchrist
The Matter with Things
On how materialism is a left-hemisphere confabulation, why consciousness precedes matter, and what McGilchrist's metaphysics demands we reconsider about reality itself
Girard
Beyond Mimesis
On how Girard's diagnosis of mimetic desire points toward liberation through interior work, mystical love, and the integrated self that desires from its own fullness