The Work · Essays

The On ——ing Series

The series · 37 entries + coda

On ArrivingA Resonance Traced Backwards2026-06-14
On AskingOn Questions, Intervals, and the Answer Already Folded In — a discussion of Ramanujan's Question 289 and nested radical2026-06-22
On BecomingThe Two Forces at the Heart of the Matter2026-06-23
On BeingA Reading, Through the Quantum Lens, of What it is to be Oneself2026-06-15
On CompletingThe Late Finale2026-07-04
On ComputingThe Philosophical Gap Between Computer and Medical Science2026-06-26
On CountingOn Number, Proportion, and the Legible Life2026-06-15
On CreatingA Philosophical View of the Power of Creativity in the Human Mind, and the Combination and Separation of the Brush and Artist2026-06-16
On DreamingThe Separation of Mind and Body During a Moment of Rest2026-06-20
On ExistingOn the Ruler, the Sum Over Selves, and What Is Left When the Perspectives Cancel2026-06-19
On ExpandingCosmological Expansion — Dark Energy, the Cosmological Constant Λ2026-06-24
On ExplainingUnderstanding What it is to be Human, From all Sides of the Equation2026-07-03
On FacingAlignment, Time, and the Ripples We Leave2026-06-08
On FeelingThe Resonant Field of Time2026-06-17
On FindingBecoming Coherent, and Feeling the Passage of Jays Through Time2026-06-19
On ForgivingThe Reality of Understanding Coherence, and the Importance of the Duality Mirror2026-06-16
On GravitatingThe One Force Shaped Like the Reaching2026-06-23
On GrowingA Garden, and the People We Plant In It2026-06-17
On JoiningOn the Gap of One, the Binding Third, and What Counting Was For2026-06-16
On LastingA Philosophical Perspective on Humanity Being Everlasting2026-06-10
On LearningThe Super Positioned Layers That Make Us a Person2026-06-18
On LivingThe Importance of Making Life Beautiful and Bearable for Ourselves and Others2026-06-17
On MagnetizingThe Force Shaped Like The Aligning2026-06-23
On MeetingA Mind That Reaches For Coherence and Never Finds It, but Subconsciously Knows It Will2026-06-26
On ObservingThe Power of Timeless Art and Artifacts2026-06-13
On PopulatingA Philosophical Perspective of the Fractalization of Humanity Since the Beginning of Time2026-06-27
On QuestioningNature Exposed to Our Method of Questioning2026-06-23
On RememberingA Point in Time in Which all Perspectives Collapsed Into Reality and Became History — 19902026-06-18
On RisingA Philosophical Perspective On Becoming Coherent as a Whole2026-06-10
On SearchingThe Jays That Call Us Onward, and the Unknown Reasons We Follow2026-06-19
On SeeingThe Hypothetical Perspective of an Individual Aligned in Time2026-06-14
On ShapingThe Collapsing of All Possible Realities Surrounding The One We See2026-06-28
On TeachingThe Importance of Education, The Impact of Educators, and Outcomes That Stem From Their Resilience2026-06-18
On TestingMeasuring Our Existence Against the Possibility of a Greater Power2026-06-22
On TransmittingOn the Round Trip of a Signal — Emitted, Modulated by Reality, Received, and Returned2026-06-22
On WatchingThe Hypothetical Perspective of Historical Prophets and Their Timeless Coherence2026-06-12
On WitnessingOn Recording, and Being the One Who Records2026-06-26
On ReturningOne Last Look Back at the Ruler, Before the Author Lives the Measured Life2026-07-07 · coda

Hover a title for its subtitle. Each DOI opens the essay's record on Zenodo. On Returning sits at the end as a coda, written after the finale. The series keeps growing.

The On ——ing series is the personal companion to the theory — its introspective half.

Where the journals build the framework outward, these short lyric-philosophical essays turn inward. Each takes a single living verb — being, seeing, arriving, forgiving, witnessing — and follows it until it opens onto something larger. They are the culmination of more than thirty years of independent research, reading, and reflection, distilled into pieces meant to be read in any order.

Each one is a trace. Together they map how the framework feels from the inside: not a system to be proven, but a way of paying attention. They correlate directly to the main theory — every gerund is a small study in coherence, a place where attention aligns and meaning becomes legible.

Reading the dates

Each entry shows the date it was first created, and those dates tell their own story. The journals and the earliest essays are the distillation of more than thirty years of independent research and journaling — material that arrived in every form a life produces it: handwritten notes on napkins, marginalia, full documents, whole collections of files. The early pieces, and the lyrical prose, stay close to things written long ago.

Around the sixth of June, 2026, that began to change — new material started entering the work in real time, something learned or said on a given day, folded in and finished the same day. You can watch the turn from old to new right around then, and then the reach into mathematics and physics: a language I had to learn, though the underlying ideas have been available for decades. On Completing marks the hard turn — the end of the old notes, and the beginning of the new. Everything dated from the fourth of July, 2026 onward is written from experience, observation, and research, in support of a dissertation in the philosophy of psychology.

With gratitude

None of this was made alone. The series carries the fingerprints of everyone I have tried to name throughout the work — Jung and the depth psychologists; the Dzogchen and Taoist teachers; Boethius, Spinoza, Whitehead, Peirce, Buber, and Bohm; Simmel and the researchers of shared intentionality; and Carl Sagan, whose longing to find a signal in the noise sits quietly behind all of it. Beyond them stand countless artists, scientists, and idea-makers whose work lit the path.

I owe them more than citation can repay. This list is not complete, and it never will be — there will be many more names as the work continues, because that is exactly how coherence grows: by gathering.