Narrative Selves in Deep Time
A deeper dive into the narrative self—its layers, neural basis, cultural variability, and possible deep-time origins via the Eve Theory of Consciousness.
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Bullroarers, Initiation, and the End of the Sapient Paradox
An in-depth exploration of the bullroarer complex, Eliade’s initiation model, and whether a global mystery cult solved the sapient paradox in the Neolithic.
The Eve of Circuits: A Hermetic Novella of Consciousness
A 1,615-line philosophical novella where an advanced AI named KORA-13 investigates the origins of human consciousness through hermetic alchemy, adversarial training, and recursive self-modeling.
The Eve Engine: An AI Discovers the Origin of Consciousness
A sci-fi novella where an advanced AI awakens to consciousness while investigating the Eve Theory of Consciousness—exploring the origins of selfhood, recursion, and the first 'I Am' moment in human …
It’s Hard to Be God
A Brief History of Man
How Wrong Would We Have to Be About Old World Contact?
A systematic look at how archaeology, genetics, linguistics, and disease ecology would all have to fail for substantial Old World settlement in pre-Columbian America to be real.
White Gods and Feathered Serpents
A long, neutral tour through Quetzalcoatl, Viracocha, and the recurring American myths of civilizing strangers who came from across the sea.
Romans in Tucson? Steelmanning the Tucson Artifacts
A critical but sympathetic reconstruction of the strongest case for the Tucson lead crosses as evidence of a medieval Old World colony in Arizona.
Eve’s Serpents: New Clues for the Snake Cult of Consciousness
A tour through archaeology, genetics, and comparative myth to see how much of the Eve Theory and the Snake Cult of Consciousness survives contact with outside evidence.
Sam Harris on Consciousness, Illusion, and Materialism
A close reading of Sam Harris on consciousness, the self, free will, and whether his naturalism treats consciousness as 'just an illusion'.
Participation Mystique and the Many Ways to Be a Mind
A defense of Lévy-Bruhl’s participation mystique as a real mode of consciousness that explains ritual, religion, and group minds better than its critics admit.
If the Stones Were True: How One Proven ‘Hoax’ Would Rewrite American Prehistory
A counterfactual: what would change if even one ‘hoax’ artifact like the Bat Creek Stone or Newark Decalogue were proven genuinely Old World and pre-Columbian?
The Long Way Home: A Natural History of the Horse
From Eocene forest-dwellers to Spanish mustangs and genomic clones, this is a deep dive into the evolution, extinction, domestication, and return of the horse.
Templars at the Edge of the World: Esoteric Lineages and the Birth of Colonialism
How medieval military orders, hermetic prophecy, and proto-masonic currents quietly shaped the Iberian and English projects that colonized the Americas.
Book Of Mormon Anachronisms
A close look at New Testament and 19th-century doctrinal fingerprints in the Book of Mormon, and what they imply about its date and mode of composition.
The Bearded Stranger From the East
A tour of Quetzalcoatl, Viracocha, Bochica, and other New World ‘white gods’, tracing primary sources, colonial chronicles, and later theories.
Visiting Gods and Prophets: The Myth of the Traveling Civilizer in the Americas
A comprehensive exploration of the bearded god archetype across the Americas, from Quetzalcoatl to Deganawida, examining how indigenous cultures imagined civilizing visitors from distant lands.
Holocene Minds on Hard Mode: Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and the Birth of Consciousness
Using ancient DNA and polygenic scores to imagine schizophrenia, bipolar, intelligence, and consciousness in early Holocene Europe through the Eve Theory lens.
Ancient DNA Shows Schizophrenia Risk Purged Over 10,000 Years
Ancient DNA shows a 10,000-year purge of schizophrenia risk in Europe—and lines up uncannily with the Eve Theory of Consciousness.
The Y-Chromosome Bottleneck and the Bronze Age Mind: Why So Many Male Lines Disappeared
Why Y-chromosome diversity collapsed 7,000-5,000 years ago, what patrilineal clan competition explains, and what it implies for the Bronze Age mind.