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.
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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.
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.
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'.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Was Schizophrenia Once Normal? Psychosis, Language, and the Evolution of the Self
Explores whether schizophrenia-like states were once common, connecting psychosis, language, ancient DNA, and the evolution of consciousness.
The Snake and the Syntax Tree: Why Language Had to Break the Garden
How recursive language, FOXP2, and fast-evolving regulatory DNA turned Golden Man’s mythic world into Eve’s self-conscious Garden exile.
Ten Papers that Push the Eve Theory of Consciousness Toward Science
Ten recent genetics and neuroscience papers that quietly support the Eve Theory of Consciousness: selection on language, psychosis, and the human self.
Golden Man as Control System: Cybernetics Before the Self
Before introspective consciousness, humans were control systems without a narrative self. This essay reconstructs Golden Man using cybernetics, animal cognition, and Eve Theory of Consciousness.
Against the Myth of the Ancient, Finished Self: Why “We Haven’t Changed in 50,000 Years” Is Obviously False
Ancient DNA, polygenic scores, and psychiatric genetics all say the human mind has evolved dramatically since the Ice Age—contra the 50,000-years myth.
New Evidence Bolstering the Eve Theory of Consciousness
Fresh interdisciplinary evidence – from prehistoric rituals and myth to genes and neurochemistry – supports the Eve Theory of Consciousness, which posits women-led serpent venom rites ignited human …
Nephilim, Fallen Angels, and the Eve Theory of Consciousness
A speculative exploration of ancient 'fallen angel' myths through the Eve Theory of Consciousness, suggesting a bygone age when men lacked modern self-awareness while women led the way.
The God Within and the Eve Theory of Consciousness
Exploring mystical traditions of the divine spark within humanity and their connection to the Eve Theory of Consciousness.
EToC as Mystic Answer: Consciousness and the God Within
Exploring how the Eve Theory of Consciousness connects to mystical traditions of the divine spark within humanity.