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The Girl Who Couldn't Sleep

For every child who has ever run from the dark

A picture book for ages 4–8 about the courage to face what frightens you — and the surprising gift hiding inside your fear. Inspired by dream traditions of indigenous cultures, including the Senoi of Malaysia, this story brings ancient wisdom into a child's hands.

Diamond Dissolve

What if your greatest weakness was actually your greatest strength?

This guided experience takes you beyond traditional mindfulness into the realm of conscious dissolution and crystalline reformation.

Manual Override: Five Brutal Truths About the Architecture of Your Mind

The default programming runs until you step behind the console

The ego as survival algorithm, perception as controlled hallucination, and three more brutal truths about how your mind actually works — in one infographic.

Latest Posts

How Does Will Work?

How Does Will Work?

A deep dive through Angel's Trumpet into the machinery of consciousness — how a chemical can leave perception and movement partly online while dismantling the capacity to form and hold an intention.
HRV Breathing

HRV Breathing

Your heart keeps the worst time of any clock you own — and that wobble between beats is the truest reading of whether you're okay. Here's why irregularity is health, and a five-count breath that lets you nudge the dial without ever quite grabbing it.
Level Up Your Brain? Decoding Dual N-Back Training and the IQ Puzzle

Level Up Your Brain? Decoding Dual N-Back Training and the IQ Puzzle

Boost your brainpower with Dual N-Back training? This blog post delves into the science behind this cognitive exercise, exploring its mechanics, the debated potential for increasing fluid intelligence (Gf) and IQ scores, and the importance of understanding working memory. Discover the nuances of far transfer, the strategy dilemma (rehearsal vs. intuition), and what current research realistically suggests about the benefits of Dual N-Back for cognitive enhancement.
Hyperion

Hyperion

Hyperion is a rich and complex novel that explores themes such as artificial intelligence, religion, time travel, and war. It was written in 1989, but it still resonates with the issues of today
The Artifice Girl

The Artifice Girl

Sci-fi film 'The Artifice Girl' explores the indistinguishability of AI chatbots from humans. As we enter this uncertain future, open-source AI models and Jupyter Notebooks allow hobbyists to explore this emerging field. What does it mean for a simulation to have agency and feelings?
Hypnagogia

Hypnagogia

Experience the fascinating threshold state of hypnagogia—the vivid mental landscape between wakefulness and sleep—where creators find inspiration and where, with techniques like binaural beats and deep relaxation, we might access a more evolved consciousness that harmonizes both rational and subconscious minds.