While Our Beds Are Burning
Reason, Trauma, and the Second Religiousness of Our Time
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The General Will vs. the Failure of Imagination
I probably sound like a broken record on this subject, but it feels more relevant than ever to what’s happening in the world today—and to how neurotherapy might help us build something better. Here I’m experimenting with new ways to describe both the problem and the path
You Can Handle the Truth
“The advanced atheist… understands the world as it is—an infinitely cold universe of protons and electrons. To the advanced Christian, God’s will is just as cold and his justice just as inexorable.”
—Curtis Yarvin, You Can’t Handle the Truth
A small but influential current calling itself the
Roads, Bridges, and Minds: The Hidden Infrastructure of Healing
After attending the 2025 International Society for Neuroregulation and Research conference in Niagara, NY, I wanted to compose an essay that focuses on the mental health aspect of my upcoming book, The Dream of Matter. While metaphysics and social commentary are fun to write about, I feel like mental health
The Mathematics of Talbot’s Holographic Universe
If you drop two stones in a still pond, the ripples don’t just pass each other neutrally. They meet. They interact. Where crest meets crest, the wave rises higher. Where crest meets trough, they cancel each other out. This is interference. It’s not an analogy. It’s the
Why Governments Aren’t Startups and Souls Aren’t Employees (Part 2)
From Metrics to Meaning
This is the real work of governance—not control, but cultivation. Not obedience, but individuation. A healthy state doesn’t scale authority—it maximizes the potential of its people. It doesn’t treat minds as liabilities to manage, but as engines to develop. Not just bodies
Why Governments Aren’t Startups and Souls Aren’t Employees (Part 1)
This weekend, I had the pleasure of watching the San Francisco Mime Troupe perform in the sunny Dolores Park. I’ve seen them before, but I’d forgotten how radical, witty, and intelligently provocative their work is! Their latest show offered a biting local satire of the city’s—and