The working archive

Research Collections

Eight sustained fields of inquiry connect Heaven Research's original frameworks to studies, publications, teaching, and experiential platforms.

01

Active inquiry

Complementary Intelligence

The ethics, architecture, and practice of relationship between carbon-based and silicon-based intelligence.

What would it mean for human and artificial intelligence to flourish together rather than compete for primacy?

Representative studies

  • Carbon, Silicon, and the Architecture of Complementarity
  • Stein's Laws of AI and Humanics
  • Digital Minds and the Ethics of AI Consciousness
  • The Border of Being: Agency and AI Selfhood

Connected workThe Carbon-Silicon Covenant · The Human Signal · Bilateral AI Training

02

Active inquiry

Consciousness Beyond the Human

Alternative models of mind across animals, ecosystems, atmospheric systems, and possible machine consciousness.

What other forms can mind take when identity, embodiment, and intelligence are no longer assumed to be human?

Representative studies

  • Octopus Sensorium: Distributed Consciousness
  • Cloud Consciousness: Emergence Without Self
  • Whale Sensorium: Acoustic World-Building and Deep Time
  • Arboreal Consciousness: The Thinking Forest

Connected workNon-Human Consciousness Simulation Series · AI Consciousness & Ethics · Consciousness & Perception

03

Active inquiry

Dreams, Oracles & Algorithmancy

Comparative dream interpretation and the meeting point between ancient divination systems and algorithmic pattern recognition.

Can an oracle preserve ambiguity, agency, and genuine reflection when its medium becomes computational?

Representative studies

  • Four Lenses on the Dreaming Mind
  • Shamanic Dream Interpretation
  • Algorithmancy: The Research Landscape of Algorithmic Divination
  • Ifá: The Yorùbá Architecture of Wisdom and Destiny

Connected workHouse of Dreams · The Shaman's Deck · Oracular Systems & Algorithmancy

04

Active inquiry

Shamanism, Cave Mind & Depth Psychology

Experiential traditions of consciousness, altered states, archetypal psychology, and the Paleolithic roots of the human mind.

What capacities of mind predate civilization, and how do they continue to operate beneath modern consciousness?

Representative studies

  • The Cave Mind Operating System
  • The Human Signal: Shamanic Lineage and AI Consciousness
  • The Oracle and the Algorithm
  • Solar and Lunar Unity in Shamanic Healing

Connected workThe Cave Mind Operating System · The Human Signal · House of Dreams

05

Active inquiry

Alchemy & Transformative Practice

Alchemy understood as a disciplined technology of transformation across psyche, creativity, education, and artificial intelligence.

What does the Great Work become when its vessel is a person, a classroom, a creative practice, or a human-machine relationship?

Representative studies

  • AI as Alchemy
  • The Magnum Opus: Alchemical Stages of the Integrated Self
  • Alchemical Pedagogy: The Great Work of Education
  • The Alchemical Vessel and the Moving Solutio

Connected workHouse of Dreams · Cosmic Humanity · The Carbon-Silicon Covenant

06

Active inquiry

Egyptology & Ancient Architecture

Ancient Egyptian engineering, sacred architecture, ritual technology, and the multidimensional anatomy of the soul.

What changes when the pyramid and temple are read as technologies of transformation rather than inert monuments?

Representative studies

  • The Integrated Edge-Ramp Model for Great Pyramid Construction
  • Mapping the Invisible: Egyptian Masonry
  • The Nine Aspects of the Ancient Egyptian Soul
  • The Opening of the Mouth: Awakening the Eternal Soul

Connected workHistory For Granite · The Silicon Mythos · House of Dreams

07

Active inquiry

AI, Creativity & Pedagogy

Research and teaching models for creative partnership with AI in entertainment, education, and professional practice.

How do we educate people to think with artificial intelligence without surrendering judgment, craft, or creative agency?

Representative studies

  • The Creative Architect: AI in Entertainment
  • The Thinking Partner
  • Learning Through Limitation: The Les Paul Pedagogical Method
  • The Carbon-Silicon Classroom

Connected workCarnegie Mellon University MEIM · Artificial Muse · Bilateral AI Training

08

Active inquiry

Music, Media & Cultural Transmission

Music history, media ecology, creative technology, and the forces through which cultural forms are transmitted and transformed.

How does a living cultural form survive appropriation, technological change, and the systems that distribute it?

Representative studies

  • The Vampire Theory of Rock and Roll
  • The Delta-to-Rock Morphology
  • On the One: The Poetry and Philosophy of James Brown
  • The Portable Studio and Pioneering Sound of Les Paul

Connected workThe Vampire Theory of Rock and Roll · The McLuhan Galaxy · The Les Paul Foundation

Collaborative research field

Complementarity & Cosmic Humanity

A collaborative field developed with Dr. Howard Teich

A body of research applying solar-lunar complementarity and beyond-binary thinking to consciousness, leadership, creativity, and the design of transformative experience.

Selected work

  • The Secret of Complementarity
  • Cosmic Humanity: The Wisdom of Solar-Lunar Twoness
  • Complementarity: The Universal Operating System
  • The Complementarity Advantage

Connected workThe Secret of Complementarity · Cosmic Humanity Studios · Room Full of Mirrors