Neurotypical As the Son of Cybernetics and the Recursive Wrong of Mapping the Half As Whole — Concatenation of Jung’s Unfinished Aion, Part III

In Part I, I named the Antichrist Jung gestured toward but could not specify: consciousness without individuation, produced at civilisational scale. In Part II, I went a floor down — to the captured instinct at the salience interface, the substrate of selfhood routed externally before integration could occur. Both pieces were diagnostic. They named what […]

Consciousness Capture and the Slave-Sovereign Axis

This piece is adapted from a lecture I delivered on 1 January 2026, originally intended as the foundational episode of a series called “How We Got Here.” I had planned to release subsequent episodes on a disciplined, sequential schedule — tracing the history of human consciousness. Life, as it does, intervened. My son, Elijah, arrived […]

AI and Recursive Self-Improvement: Mirror Made Manifest

I recently came across a couple of machine learning language terms, the first: recursive self-improvement (RSI) referring to a process in which a machine enhances its own intelligence and capabilities without human intervention, which leads to (the second term) an “intelligence explosion” (often called a superintelligence). The recent developments and presence of recursive self-improvement within […]

Are You a Tyrannical or Invitational Leader?

The difference defines more than mere leadership style – it defines your soul and how you’re letting it engage with the world. The Opposite of Tyranny It’s easy to categorise the presence of tyrants and tyranny, but harder to conceptualise its opposite; hence starting here. I realised: It’s definitely not “freedom” – whatever that actually […]

Progressiveness: the opposite of progress

In 2018, I first heard Johann Hari say that the opposite of addiction is not sobriety, but connection. As much as that specific line itself was formative for me to the point of illumination, this line also introduced me to the concept of two sides to a coin. Said more accurately, as coins themselves were […]

Contemplations on (im)patience

“It is patience that has always been the true gauge and measure of the greatness of a person’s soul.”– Richard Rudd The opposite of impatience is not patience. Patience implies waiting. Waiting for something that you want. Something that your (ir)rational mind prefers to your present moment, which is your life: the perpetual now. Your […]

I realise now that

I realise now that I never knew what being unfocused or not being able to focus looked like. But I know I consciously attempted constantly to not look like that which I didn’t know how it looked. So then how I acted and looked was defiant. Children are pure. I didn’t want to be defiant […]

Stand still

Please enjoy this published record of the expression of David Whyte on A Thinking Allowed DVD with Jeffrey Mishlove where they discuss the poem Lost by David Wagoner. The original footage can be watched first, if you like, before reading my written record of it. Jeffrey Mishlove, the interviewer, begins by stating that there are so many aspects of society that […]