Questions, answered.

A working notebook at the intersection of spiritual practices, science of mind, and quantitative finance. The recurring thesis is that several traditions — scripture, contemplative practice, neuroscience, and quantitative finance — are describing the same operations in different vocabularies. Start with the Foundations reading path or browse the full archive.

Depends on what you came in for. There are eight curated reading paths — Foundations (frame first), Practitioner (action first), Skeptic (peer-reviewed evidence first), In Crisis, Finance crossover, Scripture-first, Body-first, and Counterintuitive. Pick the one that matches why you're here; each is an ordered sequence, not a pile of links.

No. Scripture is treated as an operational instruction manual rather than as doctrine — the claim is that the texts encode repeatable practices, not that you must believe anything. Every article ends with the same caveat: take nothing literally, subject everything to inquiry, keep what aligns with direct experience, and discard the rest.

SATS is the State Akin To Sleep — the hypnagogic window at sleep onset and the hypnopompic window at wake-up, when the analytical filter is offline and the subconscious is most receptive to a deliberately held state. It recurs across several articles, including The Biology of Belief and the I AM deep dive.

Shorthand from Neville Goddard's work: occupying the felt sense of the wish already fulfilled, rather than wishing for it. The breakdown of how a held assumption stabilizes into the body runs through three stages in Belief, Faith, Confidence, with the cellular layer underneath it in The Biology of Belief.

No. The material is operational, not doctrinal. The articles distinguish carefully between established science, frontier interpretation, and contemplative claim — and explicitly invite you to test rather than accept. The practices either produce a felt result in your own direct experience or they don't.

The articles separate three layers explicitly: established science (e.g., the placebo response, pineal photosensitivity, caffeine's EEG signature), frontier-but-published interpretation (e.g., biophoton coherence, endogenous DMT), and interpretive contemplative claim. Sources are cited inline and listed at the foot of each piece so you can check the originals.

Roughly one long-form essay every couple of weeks — written carefully, published sparingly. The archive is open and chronological at /blog/.

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The site is published under a pseudonym. The author's background is a decade across management consulting, investment banking, private equity, and startups, with self-taught quantitative research as the throughline. More on the About page.