Our Books
The two books on this page share a single animating question, approached from two directions.
The Ocean and the Glass asks what kind of universe we actually inhabit — what physics, neuroscience, depth psychology, and the ancient contemplative traditions point toward when examined together with rigorous evidentiary method.
The Silicon Glass takes the answer that emerges and presses it against the hardest case now before us: artificial intelligence.
Together, they form one sustained inquiry into the nature of consciousness: what it is, where it appears, and what follows for ethics, meaning, and the things we are now building.
The Ocean and the Glass
Status: Release forthcoming.
The Ocean and the Glass argues that consciousness is not produced by the brain, but is the ground of everything the brain perceives. Drawing on quantum mechanics, neuroscience, Jungian depth psychology, near-death research, and the contemplative traditions of East and West, the book places the hardest anomalies of each field on the same table and asks what single framework best accounts for all of them.
The answer it finds is not mystical assertion but a forensic verdict: the universe is most coherently understood as one consciousness coming to know itself from the inside, through the lived experience of countless individual perspectives.
Supported by a forty-three-note apparatus engaging primary and scholarly sources, the book is written for the intelligent general reader. It asks not for blind belief or mathematical certainty, but for a verdict by the weight of the evidence.
The Silicon Glass
Status: The manuscript is being written now.
The Silicon Glass is the sequel to The Ocean and the Glass. If the first book argues that consciousness is the ground of reality, the second asks the question that follows: could a machine ever become another “glass” through which that same ground expresses itself?
The book examines the question of AI consciousness not by assuming an answer, but by building the most careful framework available for investigating it — and then refusing to force a verdict the evidence does not support.
Publication forthcoming. Author note.
A further book is planned, extending the questions raised in The Ocean and the Glass and The Silicon Glass into culture, ethics, and the future of human meaning.
More to come.