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A Library of Research for Systemic Change

Research publications exploring methodologies and frameworks for addressing complex systemic challenges.

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Governance 2025

Preventing 1933: The Architecture of Democratic Resilience

A systems architecture analysis of the Weimar Republic's collapse, demonstrating how dual-currency systems and epistemic protocols could prevent a modern democratic failure.

📅 Dec 18, 2025 📄 27 pages ⏱️ 35 min 📝 v1.0
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Consciousness 2025

Beyond Integration: Nonduality, Psychosis, and the Aperture Problem

A personal and theoretical exploration of consciousness development, modal flexibility, and the systemic barriers preventing safe exploration of psychiatric medication necessity. Integrates Project Janus framework with nondual recognition to propose new approaches to mental health, AI alignment, and human development.

📅 Dec 4, 2025 📄 135 pages ⏱️ 4-6 hours 📝 v1.0
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Consciousness 2026

The Fractal-Cybernetic Model of Consciousness

A transdisciplinary framework bridging cybernetics, fractal geometry, and contemplative science to explain consciousness evolution toward awakening. Integrates Ashby's requisite variety, Mandelbrot's fractality, and nondual mysticism into a unified model of consciousness development.

📅 Feb 7, 2026 📄 51 pages ⏱️ 1 hour 📝 v1.0
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Methodology 2025

Cognitive Scaffolding: A Multi-Model AI Synthesis Method

A comprehensive methodology for leveraging diverse AI models to develop robust, holistic solutions for the global polycrisis.

📅 Aug 25, 2025 📄 21 pages ⏱️ 25 min 📝 v1.8
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Governance 2025

The Regenerative Governance: Integrating the Hardware, Heart, and Nervous System

A foundational white paper introducing the core architectural innovation of the Global Governance Frameworks.

📅 Sep 3, 2025 📄 52 pages ⏱️ 40 min 📝 v1.0
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Economics 2025

The Currency of Care: Why Universal Basic Income Isn't Enough

An in-depth exploration of why UBI is a necessary but insufficient solution to the 'crisis of value,' proposing the AUBI system.

📅 Aug 31, 2025 📄 30 pages ⏱️ 35 min 📝 v1.0
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Systems 2025

Addiction as Integration Failure: A Multi-Domain Framework

A rigorous analysis applying Project Janus to the crisis of attention, proving that modern addiction is a systemic integration failure, not an individual pathology.

📅 Dec 1, 2026 📄 90 pages ⏱️ Quick skim: 1 hour | Full read: 3-4 hours 📝 v1.0
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Methodology 2025

The Change Paradox Field Manual

A comprehensive, open-source protocol for building transformative political power. Integrates nervous system regulation, Spiral Dynamics, and on-the-ground organizing tactics into a 7-step framework for movements that win.

📅 Nov 23, 2025 📄 ~100 pages ⏱️ 2-3 hours 📝 v2.2
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Governance 2025

Beyond the Duopoly: A Playbook for Post-Polarized Politics

Diagnoses political polarization as a systems failure and proposes an integrated framework to restore democracy’s capacity for collective wisdom.

📅 Sep 15, 2025 📄 54 pages
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Governance 2025

The Infinite Paradox: Non-Dual Ethics for Planetary Governance

A comprehensive framework for governance that honors both moral clarity and systems humility, providing practical tools for navigating ethical dilemmas.

📅 Sep 3, 2025 📄 64 pages ⏱️ 45 min 📝 v1.0
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Philosophy 2025

The Responsive Society: Aligning with Truth in an Unknown World

A foundational white paper exploring how societies can navigate uncertainty with wisdom rather than fighting it with force.

📅 Oct 4, 2025 📄 50 pages ⏱️ 45 min 📝 v1.0
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Methodology 2025

Beyond Fragmented Truth: A Reasoning Path from Ancient Wisdom to Modern Governance

A methodological framework for using AI-enhanced reasoning to bridge ancient wisdom traditions and contemporary governance challenges.

📅 Sep 1, 2025 📄 65 pages ⏱️ 45 min 📝 v1.0
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Consciousness 2025

A Collaborative Map of Awakening: Integrating States of Consciousness

Introduces a bi-dimensional framework distinguishing between universal awareness development and diverse contemplative realizations.

📅 Sep 23, 2025 📄 36 pages
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Consciousness 2025

Beyond States: Weaving the Five Streams of Holistic Co-Flourishing

Argues that consciousness development alone is insufficient, requiring integration across five interdependent streams for true flourishing.

📅 Sep 29, 2025 📄 57 pages
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