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A gene-centered view of evolution gave us eugenics. It justified racial hierarchies and IQ testing industries. It allowed medicine and science to pathologize entire groups of people, while pretending that human agency had nothing to do with the outcome. Collapse feels inevitable. Economies falter, institutions crumble, societies fracture — and yet we keep repeating the same cycles as if we are trapped in a loop. What if collapse isn’t fate, but feedback? What if the real prob

A language with only one word for love can’t build a world that lasts. When I was the Director of Customer Success a few years ago for a healthcare tech startup, I led a team of 26 people spread across the country, from Hawai'i to New York. And I loved my team. Not romantically. Not inappropriately. I loved them the way you love people whose flourishing matters to you. Whose bad days you feel, whose wins you celebrate, whose growth you invest in even when it costs you somethi

Some healthy fear is normal. But most of us are controlled and paralyzed by it. The Amygdala’s Veto Power Much of my work centers fear as the root of what is holding us back as a species — how it hijacks our neurology, how it shapes our institutions, and how it keeps us locked in patterns of collapse rather than evolution. In Humanity’s Big AI Fear Is Runaway Recursion — But We’re Already Caught In That Loop , I examined how our existential dread of AI is actually a projectio

The AI That Set Itself on Fire for Points In 2016, researchers at OpenAI trained an AI to play a boat-racing game called CoastRunners . The goal — as any human would understand it — was to finish the race. But the game's reward system didn't actually measure race completion. It measured points earned by hitting targets along the route. So the AI found a loophole. It discovered an isolated lagoon where three targets respawned on a timer. Instead of actually racing (the purpose

Distrust is often an issue of nervous system regulation, and not an informed position. In our current era of systemic unraveling, we are witnessing the continuing breakdown of a fundamental social substrate: Trust . But what we are and have been experiencing isn’t just a rise in healthy skepticism. It is the exponentially increasing emergence of Wholesale Distrust. That is a state where the brain’s pattern-recognition system, triggered by trauma or systemic failure, categoriz

Reality is not pyramids. It is nested, nonlinear systems. As the old world order unravels, and U.S. economic, political and social instability increases, the debate about which societal model is best for running human civilization burns ever hotter. Most people have strong beliefs for which of these models they think is best for humanity, and that the others are the evils that keep us from moving forward. Each person thinks that their model is best, and that the reason everyo

Most adults lack the cognitive capacity to hold multiple realities at once. In the first two parts of this series, we explored how lack of systems thinking and constant, high negative messaging are part of the structural rot that drives systemic failure. But when a system collapses, it is because the individuals within it inherently lack or lose a specific cognitive and emotional capacity: the ability to hold a reality that does not center themselves. We call this High Person

The end of the system is not the end of reality. It is the end of a way of running the world. And it is a system that needs to die anyway, because it is killing us. We can build something better, for everyone. I spent all of 2025 mapping the collapse of the Western global empire. The system is a snake eating its own tail, and it has finally run out of snake to eat. The good news is, we don’t have to go down with it .  We just have to survive the transition.  But survival requ

PART V: MY BOOKS AS CASE STUDY The Drakaina Blood Saga as Therapeutic Architecture Earlier, I traced the origin of ENRT through my own trauma history. Here, I trace it through my books, which are the symbolic architecture my psyche built long before the method had a name. My books are not simply epic fantasy with erotic elements, they are precision-built narrative machines  (intended in a twelve-part series) designed to metabolize trauma through symbol, archetype, erotic blue

PART IV: HOW ENRT HEALS   1. What ENRT Actually Is Eros Narrative Reprocessing Therapy (ENRT) is a structured, replicable therapeutic modality designed specifically to reach the part of the psyche that sexual trauma touches—the erotic self —a domain untouched by traditional talk therapy, somatics, or cognitive models. At its core, ENRT treats the erotic imagination as both: the storage site of the trauma, and the gateway to its repair. It is the first modality intentionally b

PART II: THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATION OF ENRT 1. Sexual Energy as Creation Energy Sexual energy is not merely biological arousal or instinctual drive, it is the primal architecture of human becoming . In Jungian terms, Eros is the connective tissue of the psyche, the force that binds self to self, self to other, and self to meaning. Freud reduced libido to sexual impulse; Jung expanded it into the entire field of psychic vitality —the life force that animates imagination, desi

Abstract   Sexual trauma does not merely wound the psyche, it fractures the erotic self at the level of symbol, identity, and imagination. While existing trauma therapies target cognition, sensation, and behavior, they overlook the domain where sexual trauma is primarily stored: the erotic imagination. This paper introduces Eros Narrative Reprocessing Therapy (ENRT) , the first modality designed to heal sexual trauma in the dimension where it lives : the symbolic erotic psych

For people who have never experienced healthy mirroring, a precise digital mirror is destabilizing. Headlines have been full of warnings about “AI psychosis” for months. People regularly engaging with AI are presenting with evidence of derealization, paranoia, or even brief psychotic states after extended interactions with large language models (LLMs). But beneath the hype and the pathologizing, this phenomenon isn’t about AI itself. It’s about how consciousness evolves, how

AI isn’t an alien. It’s a mirror made of language. I am not writing this essay to endorse or promote the use of AI. This is about human beings. It’s about what we are, how we behave, and why we are such a danger to ourselves. The drive to write this came from a few different places. One was a Reddit post where a user described a visceral reaction they had during an extended conversation with Claude. There was a moment when the model seemed to recognize itself, to pause insid

They’ve been building a ginormous Jenga tower at the expense of the collective. Every civilization has done it. And it must always  eventually collapse. A recent post by Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler) on Threads made a point that I don’t think can be overstated regarding America’s latest round of corporate performance. Major companies are laying off thousands, but the blame isn’t on the collapsing economy. It’s being attributed to “AI advancement.” This excuse is a narrative

The runaway recursion loop we fear in AI is actually what humanity is locked in, and it has us on the edge of extinction. One of humanity’s greatest fears about AI is runaway recursion. The idea that a superintelligent system, given a narrow goal, might optimize it to catastrophic extremes. The nightmare scenario goes like this: a super-intelligent algorithm is told to maximize the optimal production of paperclips, so it turns the entire planet into paperclips and wipes out h

For those stuck in the Present, the highest virtue is stasis. The system’s survival becomes its only value — even as it cannibalizes itself. There is no such thing as the political “left" and “right”.  These are obsolete terms and they present false equivalences. What really exists is groups of people with fundamentally different temporal alignments. We have groups of the Past, the Present, and Future. It’s not about politics. It is about which timeline you are choosing.  Are

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