Daily writing promptWhat positive events have taken place in your life over the past year?View all responses After about five years of making the same New Year's resolution I can start to think about another challenge now that my novel The Maharajagar has finally been published. You can find it at the Library of Forgotten … Continue reading Reaching the Finish of A Personal Journey
4. The Book of the Dead (Ancient Egypt)
The Book of the Dead functions as a manual for traversing the post-mortem vacuum: a set of boundary conditions and selection rules for the soul-field’s passage through the underworld. Each spell is a local operator altering the probability amplitude of safe passage—preserving identity-mass against decay. The heart-weighing scene is a literal measurement device: the scales … Continue reading 4. The Book of the Dead (Ancient Egypt)
Φ² — The Compound Blossoms
I. The Upward Fountain Seed A small sphere released into descending body—petals imploding, throat unfolding.It dreams of weight, not flight. II. The Spindle Cluster Five arms listening to themselves,their mouths exhaling vaporous conjecture.Gold nodes murmur in signal-sleep—a nursery for thunder delayed. III. The Double Vessel Two halves orbiting a shared stillness.Their bridges quiver with unspoken … Continue reading Φ² — The Compound Blossoms
3. The Instruction of Ptahhotep (Ancient Egypt)
The Instruction of Ptahhotep is a low-energy effective theory: a compact Lagrangian of social rules that regulate interaction in an Egyptian legal-gauge. Its aphorisms act like conserved currents—protocols that minimize conflict and stabilize the civic vacuum. Each proverb functions as a mediated interaction (gauge boson) transmitting authority from elder to younger generations. The "mass" these … Continue reading 3. The Instruction of Ptahhotep (Ancient Egypt)
The Orphic Spheres and Associated Systems
(A Treatise on Contained Light and Living Mechanism) “Every sphere is a thought that forgot its boundary.” Φ — The Orphic Spheres I. The Ember Seed Formed in the still compression of hidden chambers,it hums when observed, as though warmth were a form of language.Its rotation escapes all clocks of soft matter.The elders whisper: “Do … Continue reading The Orphic Spheres and Associated Systems
2. The Tale of Sinuhe (Ancient Egypt)
The Tale of Sinuhe reads as an early field-theory experiment in identity and exile. Sinuhe is a fermionic excitation displaced from the Egyptian vacuum by war and rumor; his wandering through Levantine courts resembles a particle propagating through different media with varying coupling constants—hospitality, dishonor, foreign custom. Egypt itself functions as a dominant Higgs-like background … Continue reading 2. The Tale of Sinuhe (Ancient Egypt)
The Three Engines of Renewal
“From stillness, motion. From motion, stillness once more.” Where the Mechanisms end, the Engines begin.If the first taught matter how to transform,these teach it how to return —not to what it was,but to what it remembers itself to be. Each engine is a wheel within the greater wheel of being:a reversal, a turning, a breath.Their … Continue reading The Three Engines of Renewal
1. The Epic of Gilgamesh (Mesopotamia)
Gilgamesh is a prototypical heavy excitation resisting mortality. Enkidu’s entrance turns the two into a bound pair, like a baryonic composite stabilized by intense mutual coupling. Enkidu’s death is a perturbation that shifts Gilgamesh’s vacuum: the hero gains existential mass—grief, wisdom—forcing a search for permanence (immortality) that results in a renormalized appreciation of the communal … Continue reading 1. The Epic of Gilgamesh (Mesopotamia)
Fossil carburant engines
Daily writing promptWhat technology would you be better off without, why?View all responses The consortium of Ford (General Motors), Rockefeller (Standard Oil), and JP Morgan (bank) killed Tesla's electrical car. Imagine how world politics would look like without this eternal strive to control the oil reserves. And on the sideline, the ecological impact of this … Continue reading Fossil carburant engines
The Three Mechanisms of Transmutation
“When water remembers its shape, the world renews its pulse.” After the containments came the mechanisms —three instruments by which form learned to change without breaking,and thought to move without departing from itself.Each mechanism is both structure and spirit,for in the geometry of becoming, even matter dreams. I. The Basin of Reflection A circular enclosure … Continue reading The Three Mechanisms of Transmutation
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The Maharajagar: an algebraic system concept turned into a novel
As a cryptomathician I’ve tortured my mind how I could turn a mythic system into a novel. The Maharajagar is the distillation of this process. The novel is written in the language of shrines, artifacts, and the shifting balance between chaos and memory. At its center is the Qi’tet, a group of protagonists whose arcs … Continue reading The Maharajagar: an algebraic system concept turned into a novel
Toward a Standard Literary Model
This post proposes a speculative yet disciplined framework for reimagining world literature: the Standard Literary Model (SLM). Inspired by the elegance of the Standard Model of particle physics, the SLM treats stories not as static cultural objects but as fields, forces, and interacting particles within a vast narrative cosmos.The goal is not to collapse literature … Continue reading Toward a Standard Literary Model
The Birth of the Three Containments
Before the first migration, before form could travel,the world turned inward.Silence met its own reflection and folded —and from that inward turning came the Three Containments, the primordial shapes that taught all things to know their edges. I. The Caged Seed Within the first containment rests the Seed of Stillness:a perfect sphere bound by delicate … Continue reading The Birth of the Three Containments
The Windborne Carapaces.
When an idea leaves the waters of its origin,it does not vanish — it takes on a shell.Form hardens around motion; memory becomes structure.These are the Windborne Carapaces —living vehicles of meaning that drift between minds,gliding through unseen currents of intention. 1. The Shell-Chariot A creature of joyous velocity —its gleaming carapace glows with the … Continue reading The Windborne Carapaces.
The Migration of Ideas
When a thought has matured upon its tree,it loosens from its branch —not as a falling fruit,but as a seed that remembers both root and wind. The Moment of Release The fruit detaches. The current of imagination takes hold. Behind it, a luminous trail — memory dissolving into motion. Ideas, once bound to the soil … Continue reading The Migration of Ideas
The Growth of Understanding
At first, thought is like a tree —rooted in silence, yet reaching toward light.Its branches are questions,its leaves, the countless moments of awarenessthat breathe and fall in time. Each fruit is a realization.Some ripen and release themselves gently,falling into the fertile soil of reflection;others cling too long and wither in the grasp of certainty. The … Continue reading The Growth of Understanding
On the Circle, the Measure, and the Grid of Mind
In the silent discipline of form, thought first discovers its own edge.A point extends into a line, a line closes into a circle —and within that curve, the spirit recognizes itself.Thus, in the beginning, there were three acts of mind:Seeing, Shaping, and Knowing. The teacher drew three circles upon the sand.Each was the same in … Continue reading On the Circle, the Measure, and the Grid of Mind
Closing Meditation
Imagine a single straight line —a journey of purpose.Now imagine a gentle curve —a rhythm of grace. Between the twolies the way of truth: steady yet kind,measured yet alive. To live with awarenessis to write this line daily —not in ink,but in the quiet measure of being.
The Thread of Continuity
When we weave cloth,each thread crosses another —the warp and the weft.One moves, one holds. So it is with life:our actions move,our values hold.Only together do they createa fabric that endures.
The Maharajagar 