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From the Laboratory to the Field: A Practical Guide to Environmental Independence
We have become adept at generating tranquility in the Laboratory—the controlled environments of the meditation cushion or the quiet room. We limit sensory input and lower the lights to induce a state of calm.
But the moment we cross the threshold into the Field—the high-friction reality of relationships and the marketplace—that peace can dissipate.
This breach of containment reveals a central limitation of modern spiritual practice: We are not cultivating structural stability; we are building temporary shelters.
From the Laboratory to the Field is a technical manual for the integration of the constant.
Rather than using traditional poetic metaphors, we will utilizes the lexicon of physics and mechanics—voltage, torque, signal, and resistance—to ground our understanding of the consciousness-only model. Here, the stabilization of awareness is not a mystical hope, but a structural necessity.
Softcover, 38 pages, In a Sense Books, 2026
Keeping the Story Alive: The Economics of Identity Preservation
The common consensus is that the past creates the present. We may believe we are the result of previous events, and that traumatic or significant memories intrude upon our consciousness against our will.
This text proposes the inverse: The present constructs the past.
The past, ontologically speaking, does not exist. It creates no energy, exerts no force, and has no agency. It is an inert archive. So how can it feel like a dynamic, overwhelming force?
Because of the process of excavation.
We engage in this labor not because we are broken, but because the mechanism of identity requires material to sustain itself. To survive, the personal self needs boundaries, coordinates, and history to maintain its form. We do not remember the past because we must; we remember because it provides sustenance.
Keeping the Story Alive is a philosophical inquiry into the economics of this labor. It explores the metabolic cost of resurrecting dead events and offers a precise manual for laying down the shovel—not by resolving the history, but by realizing that the present is the only reality that is actually alive, and therefore the only source of true sustenance.
Softcover, 29 pages, In a Sense Books, 2026
Sovereign Desire
In the landscape of modern spirituality, desire is often viewed as a defect—a symptom of the ego’s restless hunger. We are taught to repress the impulse, to purify the self, and to wait for a state of desirelessness.
But a repressed current does not disappear. It distorts.
Sovereign Desire is a philosophical inquiry into the nature of volition. It suggests that the urge to create is not a flaw in the design of consciousness, but its primary function. The text distinguishes between two opposing currents:
The Desire of Lack: The attempt to extract value from the world to fill an internal void.
The Desire of Sovereignty: The impulse to extend value into the world to express an internal fullness.
This is not a manual on acquisition. It is a manual on alignment.
Softcover, 26 pages, In a Sense Books, 2026
Eating Time to Taste Eternity: On the Metabolism of Experience
If we view our minds as storage units—archives where memories are filed away like documents in a cabinet—we believe the purpose of the mind is to retain the past.
But the kinetic model of consciousness suggests that the mind is not a storage unit; it is more like a digestive tract.
Every moment of waking life is a form of intake. A sunrise, breakfast, a conversation— these are not merely events that happen to the subject; they are experiences that are consumed by the subject.
Consciousness tastes the moment, but it is the metabolic activity of the mind that must assimilate it.
Therefore, the health of the psyche does not depend on what it experiences, but on how effectively it metabolizes what it experiences.
To understand the metabolism of experience, one must distinguish between the nutrient and the husk….
Softcover, 29 pages, In a Sense Books, 2026
The Power of Manifestation and the Creation of Reality: Five Meditations on the Gospel of Thomas
In the popular imagination, manifestation is defined as a technique of acquisition, a method by which an individual attracts desired objects. The Power of Manifestation and the Creation of Reality suggests that this definition is flawed.
Manifestation is not the acquisition of the foreign; it is the projection of the familiar. It is the process by which the internal state of the observer is externalized as the field of experience.
Drawing on five specific sayings from the Gospel of Thomas, this book offers a clear argument for the absolute sovereignty of consciousness. It proposes that true power is not found in the force required to move the world, but in the understanding required to move the self.
Softcover, 20 pages, In a Sense Books, 2026
The Covering
We are accustomed to believing that we interact directly with the world. We assume that our eyes act as clear windows and our minds as objective recorders. We believe that the personal self is a solid, independent entity navigating its way through an external world.
In the process, we overlook the coverings or conceptual layers that filter reality.
The idea of a covering implies safety. We build psychological barriers to cover or protect ourselves, much like the story of our ancestors who stitched together fig leaves to hide their vulnerability.
But coverings also create separation, not only from each other, but from the direct experience of life. In this text we look at how words conceptualize reality, how time distracts from the present, and how the ego obscures the open space of awareness.
The goal of this investigation is not to remove the fig leaf, for it serves a useful function. The goal for now is simply to know that it is there, and how to wear it.
Softcover, 18 pages, In a Sense Books, 2026
The Sense of Being Stared At: How Looking Is a Resonance That Can Be Felt
There are cracks in the materialist model of the world, small, persistent anomalies of human experience that standard biology cannot explain. The feeling of being stared at is one of them.
It is a common experience: the sudden, inexplicable urge to turn around, only to lock eyes with someone who was watching us from a distance.
If the mind is sealed inside the skull, and if the eye is merely a passive receiver of light, this experience should be impossible. Science often dismisses this sensation as coincidence or paranoia.
But what if the materialist model is wrong?
This book explores the mechanics of that connection. It proposes that we are not separate, biological islands and that consciousness is not limited to the body-mind. As such, attention is not a private activity; it is an energetic, tangible event.
Softcover, 22 pages, In a Sense Books, 2026
Made of Awareness: An Inquiry into the Nature of Reality
To the rational mind, the universe appears to be a matter of “us” and “them.” We are the thinking, feeling subjects and out there is the world of objects and others. This division isn’t just a theory; it is the bedrock of our sanity, the functional map that allows us to navigate a complex environment.
But what if this division is a trick of the light? What if the wall between the knower and the known is not a feature of reality, but a constraint of our sensory perspective?
This book is an inquiry into the fundamental substance of the world. It is not an invitation to leave the world behind for the vapors of fantasy, but rather an invitation to look more closely at the world right in front of you. By sticking to the raw data of direct experience, we will investigate a single, radical question: Is the universe truly split into two separate realities—mind and matter—or is there only one seamless field, from which both the “inner” and the “outer” borrow their existence?
If the latter is true, then the world is far more intimate than we have been led to believe.
Softcover | 40 pages | In a Sense Books, 2026
The Half-Second Secret: The Hidden Gap Between Impulse and Thought
Your mind thinks it’s the CEO. Neuroscience says it’s the press secretary.
The Half-Second Secret explores the philosophical and practical implications of the verifiable neurological lag between impulse and thought. This gap suggests that the mind is not the originating agent of our lives, but a retroactive interpreter, a narrator that spins a story about actions that have already been initiated by a deeper intelligence.
This is not a self-help book about gaining more control; it is an investigation into why control is an illusion, and how dropping that illusion is the key to true efficiency.
Read the flipbook to:
Explore the scientific evidence showing that your brain initiates action before "you" decide to.
Recognize how your mind retroactively claims credit for impulses it didn't generate, creating unnecessary psychological friction.
Learn why willpower-based override strategies lead to burnout and how to align with the antecedent energy that actually drives behavior.
Discover the mechanics of flow states, where the distance between doer and deed collapses and action becomes effortless.
Softcover, 27 pages, In a Sense Books, 2026
The Unobserved Room: Object Permanence and the Myth of a Passive World
Every age uses the tools of its time to describe the indescribable. Two thousand years ago, sages used the metaphors of clay and potters, of gold and jewelry, of oceans and waves to explain the nature of reality. They spoke in the language of craftsmanship and nature because that was the technology of their day.
Today, we live in an age of silicon, software, and simulation. We understand the world through screens, servers, and data streams. So for this inquiry, we swap the potter’s wheel for the game engine.
This book is an experiment in translation. It takes the perennial understanding that the world is a projection within the mind and maps it onto the architecture of modern computing.
You do not need to be a programmer or a gamer to follow the thread. You only need to be willing to entertain the radical possibility that the apparently solid world is not a fixed space we inhabit but rather a fluid and stable appearance within awareness.
Softcover, 25 pages, In a Sense Books, 2026
The Procedural Game: Ontology of the Real-Time Universe
The Procedural Game is a radical exploration into the nature of consciousness through the lens of video game architecture.
In this model, the universe is not a static archive of pre-determined events, but a process akin to a procedural generation engine. The future is not a destination waiting to be discovered, but an experience being rendered by the dynamic interaction between the rules of the code, the constraints of the avatar, and the choices of the player.
Excerpt:
If time and space are the lens through which consciousness views itself, then an object only possesses spatial properties like location, shape, and color when it is being viewed through that lens. To ask what the room looks like when no one is looking is like asking what a dream looks like when no one is dreaming.
Softcover, 34 pages, In a Sense Books, 2026
Resonance: The Acoustics of Consciousness
Resonance moves beyond the witnessing mode of traditional spirituality, which is often the philosophy of subtraction—“I am not this body; I surrender my mind”—to explore the philosophy of addition. It is a movement from apparent emptiness to dynamic fullness.
This is not, however, a book about magical thinking or manifestation.
Instead, Resonance offers a practical guide for transmuting all experience, from the mundane to the sublime, into divine recognition. Through the practice of actively engaging with reality as the divine energy of consciousness (rather than withdrawing from the world to experience the divine in solitude), the peace and flow that passes all understanding is revealed.
Softcover, 20 pages, In a Sense Books, 2026
Heirloom
Before you are a person, you are a capacity.
If you strip away the content of your identity, your thoughts, feelings, perceptions, sensations, name, and history, what remains? It is not nothing. There is still an aware presence. There is a knowing that is capable of noticing that everything else is not there.
This knowing is the fundamental layer of reality. It cannot be seen, because it is that which sees. It cannot be conceived, because it is that which conceives. It has no dimensions, no age, and no location, yet it is the necessary precondition for dimension, age, and location. It is the prerequisite for the person.
The person is the content. Awareness, the real self, is the singular, timeless capacity in which that content takes place.