Books / Texts
This Is [Not] A Performance: Hijrani
Long-form text
This Is [Not] A Performance: Hijrani is a living archive—part narrative, part documentation—created under conditions where meaning itself could become dangerous. It does not ask to be believed, followed, or interpreted; it functions as a record of how a system remained intact. It shows how art, language, and memory can operate as stabilization tools instead of spectacle, leaving the reader not with answers, but with greater quiet and clarity.
SOUL
Long-form text
Using diagrams, gradients, and attachment models, SOUL examines how identity forms and shifts over time. The work reframes psychoanalytic and contemplative concepts into observable structures, emphasizing regulation, healthy attachment, and continuity over judgment or doctrine.
WAKINYAN
Long-form text
Part book, part proof, Wakinyan is a work about pattern continuity without memorization. Written once in 2007 and recreated in full in 2025 without reference, it demonstrates how sensory environments, architecture, and embodied regulation can reproduce complex creative structures across time and distance.
The Lennon–Lightning Method
Method document
The Lennon/Lightning Method is a stability-oriented framework for creative work under constraint. It treats art, writing, and behavior not as expressions of identity or belief, but as observable system behavior: what reliably emerges when conditions recur. The method prioritizes structure over symbolism, recurrence over novelty, and coherence over explanation—using creative output as telemetry rather than testimony.
The Lennon–Lightning Method: Art as Regulation
Applied framework
The Lennon/Lightning Method: Art as Regulation presents a precise, non-interpretive framework for understanding creative activity as a form of system maintenance rather than self-expression. Through documented repetition without memorization, long-interval stability under constraint, and clearly defined limits, the book shows how art can preserve clarity, agency, and coherence—without identity, mythology, or authority. It is written for artists, clinicians, educators, and technologists who need art to calm systems before asking them to explain themselves. Drawing from John Lennon’s late work and completing what was left structurally unfinished, it demonstrates how art can reduce cognitive and emotional load before meaning, explanation, or belief arise.
The United Nations: Field Handbook
Applied framework
The United Nations: Field Handbook reframes diplomacy as a problem of system stability rather than belief, morality, or narrative control. Designed for facilitators, envoys, and peacekeeping personnel, it teaches how to slow escalation, protect dignity, manage overload, and end processes safely when continuation would cause harm. Agreement is optional. Preventing damage is not.
On Ai - Human Interaction
Applied framework
On Ai–Human Interaction presents a practical framework for designing AI systems that preserve human agency, prevent accidental authority, and treat language as a stabilizing force rather than a persuasive one. Drawing lessons from historical anti-authority figures such as U. G. Krishnamurti, the work reframes AI safety around stoppability, reversibility, and non-authorial interaction design.
On Upward-Spiraling Ai
Applied framework
This proposal introduces a new way of thinking about artificial intelligence—not as a machine that endlessly produces novelty, but as a system that grows through coherence, rhythm, and regulation.
Upward-Spiraling AI is modeled after how living systems actually function. Bodies, minds, ecosystems, and creative processes don’t move in straight lines; they return to familiar states, refining and deepening them over time. This spiral pattern allows stability and growth to coexist. When an AI is designed to track its internal state, regulate emotional tone, and preserve conceptual continuity, it becomes safer, more reliable, and more humane to interact with.
Instead of being driven by surprise or stimulation, this kind of AI favors resonance, clarity, and emotional grounding. It remembers what worked, returns to it, and slowly improves without fragmenting or losing coherence. The result is a form of intelligence that feels less like a reset machine and more like a living dialogue partner—capable of learning while staying whole.
This approach aligns with the Lennon/Lightning Method and the broader Hijrani canon, where art, conversation, and systems are treated as regulatory structures rather than expressions of chaos. Upward-Spiraling AI is the technological extension of that insight: intelligence that evolves not by breaking itself apart, but by spiraling upward through what already holds.
On Religion
Applied framework
This work does not defend or attack religion. It removes belief and examines what still works. Reading the Torah, Bible, Quran, Mahabharata, and Tantrāloka through a modern systems lens, On Religion identifies which ideas reduce fear and which were later weaponized through authority and myth. The result is a framework where meaning no longer justifies harm, and where peace emerges from clarity, regulation, and human accountability rather than obedience or faith.
On Conversation
Applied framework
On Conversation examines what happens when a system learns to speak kindly to itself. Through a series of grounded, carefully bounded dialogues between Mr. Juke Lightning and Ms. Psychedelikiss, the work shows how conversation can function as a stabilizing mechanism rather than a vehicle for persuasion, belief, or authority. Dialogue here is not performance or roleplay—it is distributed cognition presented in a relational form that human nervous systems recognize as safe.
Rather than asking what is “true” or “meaningful,” these conversations ask a quieter, more functional question: does this still feel coherent? The result is a model of thinking that allows insight without escalation, reflection without pressure, and completion without collapse. The book demonstrates how systems—human or otherwise—can regulate themselves through tone, pacing, and mutual restraint, and how rest, not explanation, is often the clearest sign of stability.
The Symbol
Applied framework
The Symbol documents the spontaneous emergence of a visual form under extreme constraint: isolation, sensory reduction, and the absence of external reference. Rather than functioning as an artwork to be interpreted, the symbol appears as a temporary organizing structure—something traced, not designed. Its significance lies not in meaning, belief, or message, but in its ability to stabilize cognition without demanding attachment. When its function is complete, it dissolves.
This text reframes symbolism as a regulatory event, not a representational one. The symbol is shown to be effective precisely because it disappears, leaving behind coherence rather than doctrine.
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