Research Agenda
Every thesis, dated
247 topics the Institute has committed to since January 2026 — 8 published, 6 drafting, 137 in research, 96 planned. Each entry carries the date it was first articulated and a library identifier; when a topic becomes an essay or working paper, the entry links to it.
Comparative Religion (3) · Consciousness & Epistemology (43) · Decolonial Theory (35) · Film & Media Theory (38) · Gurmat / Sikh Philosophy (23) · Indic Religion & Philosophy (47) · Legal Theory (13) · Political Economy (45)
Comparative Religion
- A Monotheism That Kept the Nature Cult — Sikhi between monotheism and animism
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0350 · Peru batch PB-03 - The Cow's Lament
published · 2026-03-15 · L-0357 · The Erased Foundation - What They Called Themselves — Reclaiming the Zoroastrian rulers and figures that built the world's moral architecture
published · 2026-03-10 · L-0356 · The Erased Foundation
Consciousness & Epistemology
- ADHD and neurodivergence as adaptive intelligence in wrong environments — Is ADHD a disorder or adaptive intelligence in environments not designed for it?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0070 · Standalone - Altered states as knowledge technologies — not pathology, not recreation — Are altered states of consciousness a form of knowledge acquisition?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0007 · Standalone - Buddhism vs. Marxism: Who's Actually More Pessimistic? — Buddhism diagnoses suffering as the root condition of existence and prescribes non-attachment. Marxism diagnoses suffering as contingent on material conditions and prescribes revolution. The comparison has a winner.
in research · 2026-03-20 · L-0191 · The Consciousness Wars - Codependency, empaths, and the invisible child — relational trauma archetypes
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0126 - Cognitive Extension: AI as Emotional Intelligence Buffer — AI as Emotional Intelligence Buffer
in research · 2026-03-09 · L-0285 - Consciousness as fundamental vs. emergent — why Western neuroscience still can't answer the hard problem — What is the hard problem of consciousness and how do Eastern traditions address it?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0002 · Standalone - Consciousness medicine market — COMPASS, atai, MindMed, Cybin landscape analysis — Which psychedelic medicine companies are leading the therapeutic market in 2026?
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0035 · Standalone - Datura and the Asuras — anticholinergics and malevolent entity phenomenology — Why do datura and anticholinergic plants consistently produce malevolent entity experiences?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0030 · Standalone - Dharmic psycho-ethics vs. Western psychiatry — coercion, autonomy, karma — How do Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and Sikh traditions approach mental health differently from Western psychiatry?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0069 · Standalone - Dream analysis and liminal states as legitimate epistemology
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0106 - Entheogenic traditions — indigenous practices, Wishtoyo Chumash, Tongva
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0115 - FDA/DEA regulatory landscape for psychedelics — 2026 readiness analysis — What is the current regulatory status of psychedelic therapy in the United States?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0033 · Standalone - Flooder vs. Accumulator: Neurodivergent Emotional Architecture — Neurodivergent Emotional Architecture
in research · 2026-03-09 · L-0298 - From Dream to Reality: Why the AI Revolution Feels Like Magic — Why the AI Revolution Feels Like Magic
in research · 2026-03-09 · L-0293 - GLP-1s and mental health — the unintended consciousness effects — What are the mental health and consciousness effects of GLP-1 medications like Ozempic?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0073 · Standalone - Hypnotherapy neuroscience — theta waves, DMN deactivation, prefrontal inhibition — What does neuroscience say about how hypnotherapy works?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0008 · Standalone - Indigenous plant knowledge vs. colonial suppression — the pharmacological archive that was burned — How did colonialism suppress indigenous plant medicine knowledge systems?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0034 · Standalone - Jesus and the Eastern Mediterranean: What Second Temple Judaism Borrowed from the East — Second Temple Judaism's theological innovations trace back to contact with Persian/Zoroastrian ideas during Babylonian captivity.
in research · 2026-03-20 · L-0183 · The Erased Foundation - Jungian archetypes and collective unconscious as cross-cultural consciousness map — How do Jungian archetypes appear across different cultural traditions?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0009 · Standalone - Maya-Karma tension — karma without maya is incomplete, the 'stopping too soon' critique — What is the relationship between karma and maya in Vedic philosophy?
in research · 2026-01-15 · L-0006 · The Maya Series - Maya-Karma tension — stopping too soon, karma without maya is incomplete
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0107 - McKenna vs Campbell Entity Encounters — Dimensional/external vs archetypal/internal, critique of Jungian reductionism
in research · 2026-01-15 · L-0158 - Narcissism — grandiose vs. vulnerable typologies and why the clinical distinction matters — What is the difference between grandiose and vulnerable narcissism?
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0071 · Standalone - Non-Western epistemologies vs. Western scientism — not opposition but incompatibility — How do non-Western knowledge systems differ from Western scientific materialism?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0003 · Standalone - Psilocybin through Stanislav Grof's transpersonal framework — case and theoretical analysis — How does Stanislav Grof's transpersonal framework explain psilocybin experiences?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0029 · Standalone - Psychedelic philosophers on Māyā — Gallimore, McKenna, Hancock vs. traditional mysticism — How do psychedelic researchers like Andrew Gallimore and Terence McKenna understand maya?
in research · 2026-01-15 · L-0032 · The Maya Series - Received vs. taught knowledge — what transmission systems provide that self-study cannot — What is the difference between received knowledge and taught knowledge in spiritual traditions?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0004 · Standalone - Selective scientism — Dawkins/Williamson apply science when it confirms Victorian norms, reject it when it challenges them — Why does Richard Dawkins accept evolutionary biology but reject Two-Spirit gender systems?
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0001 · The Consciousness Wars - Shamanic rock art as psychedelic trip documentation — cross-cultural evidence — Is shamanic rock art documentation of psychedelic visions?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0031 · Standalone - Shamans of the Shivaliks — ancestral Himalayan consciousness practices documentary treatment — What shamanic and consciousness practices existed in the pre-colonial Himalayan foothills?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0036 · Standalone - Sleep and consciousness — liminal states as healing technology — How do sleep and liminal consciousness states function as healing technologies?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0072 · Standalone - Soma Sanitization Hypothesis — full thesis, evidence, and implications — Was Soma in the Rigveda a psychedelic substance and was this knowledge deliberately suppressed?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0028 · The Erased Foundation - South Asian American diagnostic disparities — why psychiatry misreads Desi patients — Why are South Asian Americans misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed in Western psychiatry?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0068 · Standalone - The Algo Before the Algorithm — oral retelling as cognitive infrastructure; the Five Expropriations
in research · 2026-03-25 · L-0323 · People's Algo - The Firewall and the Forest — plant payloads and the firewall as priors
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0349 · Peru batch PB-02 / Matrix Bridge - The Neuroscience of Inspiration: Why Downloads Hit ND Brains Harder — Why Downloads Hit ND Brains Harder
in research · 2026-03-09 · L-0303 - Token causation parallels — Karma as singular causation, Pratītyasamutpāda as structural equations — How does Buddhist dependent origination compare to modern causal inference theory?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0005 · The Maya Series - Trauma as initiatory doorway — pathology vs. transformation framework — Is trauma a pathology to be treated or an initiatory doorway to transformation?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0067 · Standalone - Wellness is not transformation — colonialism destroyed the container, not just the plants — What is the difference between wellness culture and genuine spiritual transformation?
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0010 · Standalone - Wellness is not transformation — the container colonialism destroyed — Why do psychedelics sometimes cause harm instead of healing?
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0027 · Standalone - What Grows in the Dung
published · 2026-03-15 · L-0358 · The Erased Foundation - What Psychiatry Cannot See: / The Missing Person, the Panj Chor, / and the Path That Was Always There — Category error → Haumai / diagnosis → applied: / South Asian misdiagnosis, / trauma as initiatory
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0264 · Psychology / / Haumai Therapy track - Žižek vs. Murphy on Buddhism: The Third Position — Žižek argues Buddhism is ideology in service of capitalism. Murphy argues it's liberatory. Both are wrong in the same way — they're reading a Sanskrit map in English.
in research · 2026-03-20 · L-0192 · The Consciousness Wars
Decolonial Theory
- Anima/animus integration — Jungian gender as psychological development, not identity — What is anima and animus integration in Jungian psychology?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0082 · Standalone - Biological Essentialism as Epistemological Violence — Dawkins binary biologism, same logic dismissed Two-Spirit AND entheogens
in research · 2026-01-15 · L-0170 - Colonial gender binary exported worldwide — British penal codes as gender engineering
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0118 - Colonial knowledge production — how British India manufactured its own legitimacy — How did the British Empire use knowledge production to legitimize colonial rule in India?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0040 · Standalone - Colonial origins of the gender binary — British penal codes exported worldwide — Did colonialism create the gender binary? The history of British penal codes and gender
in research · 2026-01-15 · L-0039 · The Consciousness Wars - Colonial Sanitization of Entheogens — 1875-1907 parallel erasure timeline, Arya Samaj + British colonialism, substitution paradox
in research · 2026-01-15 · L-0155 - Colonialism as suppression of consciousness technologies — entheogens, gender variance, guru-shishya — How did colonialism systematically suppress non-Western consciousness technologies?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0038 · The Consciousness Wars - Dawkins and the God of the Gaps He Refuses to See — Richard Dawkins applies scientific skepticism selectively — rigorously to religion, never to the metaphysical assumptions baked into Western materialism itself.
in research · 2026-03-20 · L-0189 · The Consciousness Wars - Dawkins binary biologism vs. Indigenous Two-Spirit systems — who is actually being scientific? — Is Richard Dawkins' biological gender essentialism compatible with Indigenous gender systems?
in research · 2026-01-15 · L-0077 · The Consciousness Wars - Dawkins Transubstantiation Framing — Trans identity as religion charge applies to his own framework, selective social construction
in research · 2026-01-15 · L-0171 - Diaspora nationalism and the flattening of Hindu kinship
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0352 · Peru batch PB-06 - Epistemic decolonization as method — the People's Algo framework — What is epistemic decolonization and how do you apply it as a research method?
drafting · 2026-03-11 · L-0037 · People's Algo Applied - Ethical non-monogamy and relational maturity — what makes it actually work
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0128 - Evolutionary biology of monogamy vs. hypergamy — what the actual science says — What does evolutionary biology actually say about monogamy and hypergamy?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0081 · Standalone - Gender as consciousness-level phenomenon — not just identity but epistemology — How is gender a consciousness-level phenomenon rather than just a social identity?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0080 · Standalone - Granta 173 as case data — the outer limit of the Anglo-American literary apparatus on India
in research · 2026-05-05 · L-0328 · CEE - Homonormativity as conditional acceptance — Western protection only for assimilated queers — What is homonormativity and how does it exclude non-assimilated queer people?
in research · 2026-01-15 · L-0076 · The Consciousness Wars - Homonormativity Critique — Lisa Duggan, settler homonationalism (Morgensen), protected for whom at whose expense
in research · 2026-01-15 · L-0168 - Linnaean taxonomy and colonial naming authority — Selective Scientism flagship
in research · 2026-03-28 · L-0344 · Selective Scientism - Masand / institution co-optation cycles — how revolutionary movements become their opposite — Why do revolutionary movements eventually replicate the structures they opposed?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0042 · Standalone - Operation Blue Star and intergenerational trauma — structural preconditions, not spontaneous violence — What were the structural preconditions for Operation Blue Star in 1984?
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0041 · Standalone - Parallel Erasure Timeline 1875-1907 — Arya Samaj + British colonialism = dual epistemicide, same mechanisms erased queer + entheogenic
in research · 2026-01-15 · L-0174 - Partition literature as trauma archive — Amrita Pritam, Urvashi Butalia
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0119 - People's Algo applied to the Indian elite and diaspora working class — How does the Indian elite's cultural capital affect the South Asian diaspora working class?
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0045 · People's Algo Applied - People's Algo Epistemic Decolonization — AI system prompts, historical + spiritual tracks, meta-framework for all content
in research · 2026-01-15 · L-0172 - Postcolonial theory — Foucault, Gramsci, Appadurai, Spivak synthesized for non-academic audiences
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0120 - Queer expression across cultural contexts — code-switching, colonial legacies, diaspora dynamics — How does queer expression change across cultural, geographic, and social contexts?
drafting · 2026-03-15 · L-0078 · Standalone - Sacred sexuality — Tantric traditions and the desacralization arc under colonialism — How did colonialism desacralize Tantric sexual traditions?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0079 · Standalone - Selective Scientism series — race science/genomics; nutrition/corn subsidies; plant medicine/Schedule I; PIE/Punjab
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0345 · Selective Scientism - Settler homonationalism — LGBT inclusion as colonial technique — What is homonationalism and how does LGBT inclusion function as a colonial technique?
in research · 2026-01-15 · L-0043 · The Consciousness Wars - Two-Spirit Sovereignty vs Western LGBT — Indigenous frame rejection of comparative flattening, ceremonial roles
in research · 2026-01-15 · L-0169 - Two-Spirit sovereignty — Indigenous gender systems vs. colonial binary imposition
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0121 - Two-Spirit systems as biological and anthropological counter-evidence to binary essentialism — What does the anthropological evidence of Two-Spirit systems reveal about gender binary essentialism?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0075 · The Consciousness Wars - Untranslatable Glossaries for AI — Hukam ≠ Command, preserving conceptual sovereignty, negative constraint prompts
in research · 2026-01-15 · L-0173 - Who Gets to Count as Real: / Selective Scientism, the Gender Binary, / and Epistemological Conditional Acceptance — Dawkins = colonial epistemo- / logy's academic heir; / Two-Spirit as forensic evidence; / homonormativity as soft power
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0267 · The Consciousness Wars / (series)
Film & Media Theory
- #WhoGetsToLookBack — Stefano Ricci window display and representational power
in research · 2026-06-18 · L-0330 · Field Notes - 1DES Media to Datura Media — the meta-narrative of AI-enabled media transformation — How is AI transforming independent media production and distribution?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0064 · Standalone - AI-native content production — displacing Western-centric influencers through superior infrastructure — How can AI-native content production challenge Western-centric intellectual discourse?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0065 · Standalone - Amitabh's Angry Young Man as Post-Emergency Protest Cinema
in research · 2026-03-09 · L-0272 - Anjaana Anjaani and the model-minority blueprint; manufacturing consent in the SAA community
in research · 2026-03-22 · L-0325 · SICI / diaspora - Bollywood neurodivergence coding — heroic vs. pathological, the South Asian double bind — Why are ADHD behaviors portrayed as heroic in Bollywood but pathological in American psychiatry?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0061 · Standalone - Dum Maro Dum to Divine Darshan: Bollywood's Search for Nadar — Bollywood's Search for Nadar
in research · 2026-03-09 · L-0306 - Epics as Trip Reports — Vishwaroop = psilocybin phenomenology, Arjuna's visions, Reading the Mahabharata on Mushrooms
in research · 2026-01-15 · L-0154 - Ethnomusicology — bhangra, Punjabi folk, spiritual ghazals as living archives
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0124 - Guru Dutt as Depression Cinema: The Melancholic Artist Archetype — The Melancholic Artist Archetype
in research · 2026-03-09 · L-0313 - Hero's journey and Jungian archetypes in modern superhero myth — The Flash, comparative analysis — How do modern superhero narratives reflect the Jungian hero's journey?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0066 · Standalone - Indian epics as power-legibility technology — the Mahabharata makes visible what is usually invisible — How do Indian epics function as tools for understanding power structures?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0062 · Standalone - Indo-Soviet Co-productions Afghanistan Silence — Ali Baba 1980, Sohni Mahiwal 1984, Ajooba 1991 - political erasure
in research · 2026-01-15 · L-0163 - J. Cole's '4 Your Eyez Only': Rap as Moral Philosophy — J. Cole's 2016 album is not a rap album — it is a treatise on inherited violence, witness consciousness, and the obligation of survival. It deserves the analytical framework usually reserved for canonical literature.
in research · 2026-03-20 · L-0201 · Music & Media Theory - Mad as Hell and No Longer Useful — Sidney Lumet's Theory of the People's Hero — How do Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon and Network form a single argument about media, capital, and the folk hero?
in research · 2026-03-09 · L-0103 · CEE - Moulin Rouge! / Devdas: You Cannot Possess the Sacred — Both films encode the same Indic thesis — the sacred feminine cannot be owned, only transformed by contact with. Duke/dukh phonetic encoding. Satine-Chandramukhi as sacred trinity.
in research · 2026-03-20 · L-0185 · SICI (Sacred Indic Critical Intelligence) - Music as API — infrastructure theory for AI-native music platforms — What does it mean to treat music as API infrastructure?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0063 · Standalone - Music as API — platform infrastructure for AI-native music — Music infrastructure meets AI
in research · 2026-01-15 · L-0136 - Neurodivergent Representation in Bollywood — Diagnostic disparities, male lead as aspirational archetype, behaviors as virtues not pathologies
in research · 2026-01-15 · L-0160 - No Key to the House
published · 2026-03-15 · L-0359 · SICI - Psychedelic-Era Hindi Cinema 1967-1976 — Counterculture influence, Osho connection, Emergency suppression
in research · 2026-01-15 · L-0162 - Six-film documentary series — Shamans of the Shivaliks, The Model Years, The Bridge, No Word For It, The Sikh Exception, The Selected
in research · 2026-03-22 · L-0326 · Datura Studios / Instruments - SRK 1990s Stalker-as-Romantic-Hero — Obsessive stalker trope, DDLJ analysis, cultural coding
in research · 2026-01-15 · L-0161 - Succession Kishkinda Kand Parallels — Black Panther parallels, Hanuman MCU reference, sanjeevani correspondence
in research · 2026-01-15 · L-0167 - Tamasha as Psychoanalytic Case Study: Persona vs. Shadow — Persona vs. Shadow
in research · 2026-03-09 · L-0292 - Tamasha Psychoanalytic Analysis — Jung persona/shadow, divided self, psychological integration
in research · 2026-01-15 · L-0166 - Ten films, one absence — big tech & finance cinema mapped to CEE phases
in research · 2026-04-12 · L-0318 · Issue I — South Asian America and AI - The Architecture of Bhakti: SICI as Film Theory Alternative — The Campbell hero's journey is a colonial export. SICI — built on Panj Chor, bhakti tradition, Vidushaka archetype, tantric theology — is the non-Western alternative.
in research · 2026-03-20 · L-0184 · SICI (Sacred Indic Critical Intelligence) - The Devdas Operating System: Why Self-Destruction Reads as Devotion Across Seven Decades — Why Self-Destruction Reads as Devotion Across Seven Decades
planned · 2026-03-09 · L-0308 - The door that opens from the other side — nadar as the missing element in both the Matrix and Western self-help — What is nadar in Sikh philosophy and why does it matter for understanding liberation?
planned · 2026-03-15 · L-0059 · The Matrix Bridge - The Druski bargain — corporate permission structures and viral content
planned · 2026-04-06 · L-0347 · viral series - The Emergency as Cultural Rupture: 1975-77 as Media Studies Event — 1975-77 as Media Studies Event
planned · 2026-03-09 · L-0304 - The Filter and the Filtered: / Consciousness, Maya, and Why / Everyone Stopped Too Soon — McKenna stopping-too-soon + / brain-as-receiver + Matrix / Haumai-as-architecture = / same ontological claim
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0266 · Maya Series / / Consciousness & Epistemology - The Matrix through Sikh philosophy — Maya, Hukam, and the machine world — How does the Matrix trilogy map onto Sikh philosophical concepts of Maya and Hukam?
drafting · 2026-01-15 · L-0058 · The Matrix Bridge - The Wachowskis were reaching — why the trilogy couldn't name what it found — What Eastern philosophical traditions were the Wachowskis drawing on in the Matrix?
planned · 2026-03-15 · L-0060 · The Matrix Bridge - Tulsidas doha: bharose Ram ke nirbhay — Trust → Fearlessness — Film reference; Sant poetry on trust dissolving fear
planned · 2026-01-15 · L-0150 - Vishwaroop Darshan in 1980s TV Epics — Consciousness visualization, textual fidelity vs creative adaptation, Yoga Vashistha scenes
planned · 2026-01-15 · L-0165 - What Sofia Coppola Didn't Film — The Marc Documentary as Phase 7 Productive Erasure — How does the Sofia Coppola Marc Jacobs documentary reproduce the ideological layer of fashion extraction?
in research · 2026-03-20 · L-0102 · CEE
Gurmat / Sikh Philosophy
- Banda Singh Bahadur and the first Sikh polity — the forgotten revolutionary — Who was Banda Singh Bahadur and what did he establish as the first Sikh political state?
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0084 · Standalone - Bhakti Dohas as Existential Therapy — Tulsidas's dohas and Salok Mahalla 9 are not devotional poetry — they are the earliest recorded cognitive-behavioral interventions for existential anxiety, 500 years before CBT.
planned · 2026-03-20 · L-0190 · The Consciousness Wars - Cis-Sutlej historiography — 1849 periodization as an artifact of the erasure
planned · 2026-08-17 · L-0342 · Instruments — Dharmarth Cadastre - Dharmarth Cadastre as natural experiment — three sovereignty zones, one religious ecology
in research · 2026-08-17 · L-0339 · Instruments — Dharmarth Cadastre - Dhulla Bhatti — the Punjabi Robin Hood and pre-colonial resistance mythology — Who was Dhulla Bhatti and why is he celebrated in Punjabi folk tradition?
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0087 · Standalone - Guru Ram Rai / Dehradun — the exposure gradient back to 1815; hard stop at 1947
planned · 2026-08-17 · L-0340 · Instruments — Dharmarth Cadastre - Hukam vs. Technique — Maru Solah meets Ellul
planned · 2026-03-15 · L-0348 · Peru batch PB-01 - Jatt ownership of the Sikh Empire and 1984 — symbolic extraction and the Panthic apparatus
in research · 2026-06-02 · L-0332 · Masands Cycle - Morcha Guru Ka Bagh — Akali non-violent sovereignty and its suppression — What was the Morcha Guru Ka Bagh and how did the Akali Dal use non-violent resistance?
planned · 2026-03-15 · L-0088 · Standalone - PIE-Punjabi Comparative Linguistics: The Dialect That Refused to Die — Punjabi is not a dialect of Hindi — it is a direct cognate of Proto-Indo-European with 55+ documented phonological parallels. The 'dialect' framing is colonial taxonomy, not linguistic fact.
planned · 2026-03-20 · L-0182 · The Erased Foundation - Punjab conflict and 1984 — structural preconditions, not spontaneous violence — What were the structural and historical causes of the Punjab conflict and 1984?
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0083 · Standalone - Ram Setu Epistemological Colonization — Sikh diaspora adopting Western materialism, myth=false framework
planned · 2026-01-15 · L-0164 - Salok Mahalla 9 (#35) — three life stages and urgency of practice — Guru Tegh Bahadur on baal, juani, biradhi — stages pass regardless
planned · 2026-01-15 · L-0149 - Sikh apex institutions diagnostic — 7 Masand markers, 5 Sevā markers
in research · 2026-06-02 · L-0333 · Masands Cycle / Instruments - Sikhs in diaspora — Singapore/Malaya and North America comparative community formation — How did Sikh diaspora communities form differently in Southeast Asia versus North America?
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0085 · Standalone - The 2022 Nihang–Sindhi conflict as downstream of the 1925 Gurdwara Act
planned · 2026-03-25 · L-0335 · The Erased Foundation / Consciousness Wars - The Bedi Clan — Guru Nanak's lineage and its political significance
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0130 - The Ethnoburb as Diagnostic Barrier: Mabute-Louie's Reinforcement Loop — Mabute-Louie's Reinforcement Loop
planned · 2026-03-09 · L-0300 - The Indian-American Academic Double Bind: Excel Without Accommodations — Excel Without Accommodations
planned · 2026-03-09 · L-0314 - The Second Closure: Partition, Refugee Displacement, and the Remaking of Sikhism, 1947–1971 — Partition, Refugee Displacement, and the Remaking of Sikhism, 1947–1971
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0337 · standalone - Treaty of Lahore / Khalsa-as-Khalisa — #109
planned · 2026-05-02 · L-0338 · Issue IV / Cadastre - Vanvas: Exile as Contemplative Practice and Strategic Preparation — Exile as Contemplative Practice and Strategic Preparation
planned · 2026-03-09 · L-0312 - What Is Jot? AI Consciousness and the Sikh Concept of Divine Light — The Sikh concept of jot (divine light present in all conscious beings) reframes AI consciousness debates — not as science fiction but as theology.
planned · 2026-03-20 · L-0187 · The Matrix Bridge
Indic Religion & Philosophy
- 1980s Indian television epics as philosophical transmission technology — How did 1980s Indian television epics function as mass philosophical education?
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0022 · Standalone - And Then Came Nanak — Ik Onkar as the Indo-Iranian tradition's return to non-dualism — How does Guru Nanak's theology complete the arc of Indo-Iranian religious thought?
published · 2026-03-15 · L-0013 · The Erased Foundation - Critical Yogic Studies — Yogavāsiṣṭha as consciousness philosophy — What is the Yogavasistha and why is it significant for consciousness studies?
planned · 2026-01-15 · L-0025 · Standalone - Dasam Granth and Sikh warrior philosophy — ethics of force — What is the philosophical framework of warfare and ethics in the Dasam Granth?
planned · 2026-03-15 · L-0020 · Standalone - Dasam Granth and warrior philosophy — Sikh ethics of force — Guru Nanak's Ik Onkar is the convergence point of the entire Indo-Iranian moral arc.
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0109 - Datura and Hindu Demonology — 80% feature correlation, anticholinergic vs serotonergic phenomenology, asura/rakshasa visions
planned · 2026-01-15 · L-0156 - Datura Grew Where They Said Gods Lived — Botanical + geographic evidence, temple locations
planned · 2026-01-15 · L-0181 - Deva-Asura pharmacological theology — serotonergic vs. anticholinergic phenomenology encoded in Hindu cosmology — Do Hindu devas and asuras encode different psychedelic pharmacological experiences?
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0015 · The Erased Foundation - Ephedra Impossibility Argument — Stimulants cannot produce mystical experiences - requires 5-HT2A agonism
planned · 2026-01-15 · L-0159 - Gurbani as phenomenological documentation — experience-first, not theology-first — How should Gurbani be understood — as theology or as phenomenological documentation?
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0019 · Standalone - Gurbani as phenomenological documentation — not theology, experience-first — Western philosophical vocabulary is Sanskrit/Avestan vocabulary in Latin drag.
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0108 - Gurmat / Sikhi — Hukam, Naam, Haumai as untranslatable consciousness technologies — What do Hukam, Naam, and Haumai mean in Sikh philosophy and why are they untranslatable?
in research · 2026-03-11 · L-0018 · Standalone - Harmful vs. liberating god concepts — reverse-engineering religion from neuroscience — Which religious frameworks produce psychological wellbeing and which produce harm?
planned · 2026-01-15 · L-0021 · Standalone - Hindu Demonology as Psychopharmacological Map — The Hindu deva-asura schism has an 80%+ correlation with known psychoactive compound categories. The 'mythology' is a pre-scientific taxonomy of consciousness states.
in research · 2026-03-20 · L-0193 · The Consciousness Wars - Hindu deva-asura cosmology as pharmacological theology — serotonergic vs. anticholinergic phenomenology
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0113 - Lingam/Yoni — sacred sexuality and cosmology vs. colonial desacralization
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0112 - Manvir Singh as Shamanism Foil — Non-psychedelic shamanism narrative serves colonial project, use as counterpoint
planned · 2026-01-15 · L-0179 - Maya and artificial reality parallels — VR/AR as modern māyā; simulation theory meets Vedanta
planned · 2026-01-15 · L-0143 - Maya-Karma Tension: Gallimore's 'Stopping Too Soon' Critique — Gallimore's 'Stopping Too Soon' Critique
planned · 2026-03-09 · L-0284 - Rishis in Dasam Granth — how Sikh tradition reinterprets Vedic sage figures
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0114 - Salok Mahalla 9 — three life stages and the urgency of practice — What does Guru Tegh Bahadur's Salok Mahalla 9 teach about the urgency of spiritual practice?
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0026 · Standalone - Samsara as Psychological Conditioning: Neuroscience of Rebirth — Neuroscience of Rebirth
planned · 2026-03-09 · L-0291 - Samsara as Psychological Conditioning: What the Vedas Knew About Algorithmic Loops — The Vedic concept of samsara (cyclical conditioned existence) is the most accurate model we have for understanding how recommendation algorithms create psychological imprisonment.
planned · 2026-03-20 · L-0204 · Technology & AI Theory - Savana-Shravan Calendrical Connection — Monsoon timing = mushroom fruiting, Shravan Somvar water offerings as preserved harvest-ritual calendar
planned · 2026-01-15 · L-0153 - Shiva as Somanatha — Lord of Soma, textual evidence, Shaivite entheogenic traditions
planned · 2026-01-15 · L-0157 - Sikhism vs. Sanatan Dharma — the contested identity war and its colonial origins — Is Sikhism a branch of Hinduism? The colonial origins of a contested question
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0023 · Standalone - Soma as Serotonergic Psychedelic — Wasson, psilocybin/Amanita muscaria evidence, 5-HT2A receptor correlation with mystical experience (r>0.9)
planned · 2026-01-15 · L-0152 - Soma mysteries — entheogenic suppression in Vedic/Hindu tradition, who sanitized and why
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0111 - Soma Sanitization Hypothesis: Serotonergic Psychedelics in Vedic Tradition — Serotonergic Psychedelics in Vedic Tradition
planned · 2026-03-09 · L-0302 - Tantra's refusal of moral binaries and the policing of unmanaged consciousness
planned · 2026-03-28 · L-0336 · The Consciousness Wars - The Body Is the Temple: / How Colonialism Desacralized Everything / It Touched — Landscape body + individual / body = same colonial operation; / Tantric desacralization / ∥ Soma Sanitization
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0265 · Cross-domain / / Body & territory - The Grand Daycare — the Great Mother's Līlā
planned · 2026-03-15 · L-0354 · Peru batch PB-08 - The Holy Mountain's Chemistry — Bacteriophage + cannabis / watershed + Shiva atlas / = one argument
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0260 · Soma Mysteries / / Erased Foundation - The Infrastructure and Its Demolition — Dated chain 1000 BCE–1925; / Al-Biruni crown jewel; / 1925 Act as pharma erasure
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0262 · Soma Mysteries / / Erased Foundation - The Kalyug Thesis — when did the concept emerge and what historical phenomena does it correlate with — When did the concept of Kali Yuga emerge in Indic thought and what caused it?
planned · 2026-03-15 · L-0016 · The Erased Foundation - The Sanskrit Mirror — Vedic and Avestan as dialects of one language, the Deva-Asura inversion — Why do Hinduism and Zoroastrianism invert the same divine and demonic figures?
published · 2026-03-15 · L-0012 · The Erased Foundation - The Shaman They Erased From Your Religion — Pre-Brahmanical traditions, Nath lineages, David Gordon White Sinister Yogis
planned · 2026-01-15 · L-0180 - The Soma Sanitization Hypothesis — The deliberately mistranslated and academically sanitized history of Vedic soma consumption reveals systematic entheogenic erasure in Hindu scholarship.
planned · 2026-03-20 · L-0188 · The Consciousness Wars - The Soma Sanitization — who cleaned the entheogens out of Vedic texts and why — What was Soma in the Rigveda and why was its psychoactive nature suppressed?
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0014 · The Erased Foundation - The Theology Was the Pharmacology — Deva-Asura table as / pharma diagnostic; / Zarathushtra haoma critique
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0261 · Soma Mysteries / / Erased Foundation - The Visual Rhyme — naga canopies and mushroom morphology
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0351 · Peru batch PB-04 / Erased Foundation V - Token causation parallels with Indic philosophy — Karma as singular causation, Pratityasamutpada as structural equations — What if Judea Pearl reinvented Karma? / AI researchers rediscovered what Buddhists knew
planned · 2026-01-15 · L-0132 - Token Causation Parallels: Judea Pearl Reinvented Karma — Judea Pearl Reinvented Karma
planned · 2026-03-09 · L-0294 - Udasi Math and heterodox Sikh traditions — the roads not taken after Gurmat — What are the Udasi and other heterodox traditions within early Sikhism?
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0017 · The Erased Foundation - Vedic cosmology — when did Kalyug emerge and why, correlated with real historical phenomena
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0110 - Zoroastrian rulers and the naming erasure — what they actually called themselves — What were the real names of Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes in their own language?
published · 2026-03-20 · L-0011 · The Erased Foundation - Zoroastrianism vs. Hinduism — the original Aryan divergence — What caused the theological divergence between Zoroastrianism and Vedic Hinduism?
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0024 · Standalone
Legal Theory
- Colonial Law as Gender Violence: Section 377, Dawes Act, Criminal Tribes Act — Section 377, Dawes Act, Criminal Tribes Act
planned · 2026-03-09 · L-0301 - Colonial legal systems vs. indigenous jurisprudence — whose law governs? — How do colonial legal systems conflict with indigenous legal frameworks?
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0055 · Standalone - Consciousness Rights: The Legal Frontier After Religious Freedom — The Legal Frontier After Religious Freedom
planned · 2026-03-09 · L-0281 - Data property regimes — UK PDAA, EU Data Act, China's data cadastre, Indigenous data sovereignty
in research · 2026-07-14 · L-0343 · Selective Scientism / Selective Compliance - Individualism Bias of the Adversarial Legal System
planned · 2026-03-09 · L-0279 - OpenAI litigation landscape — data privacy, IP, antitrust — What are the major legal cases and risks facing OpenAI?
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0056 · Standalone - Phantom Reserves — data as an asset that appears in market cap and nowhere on a balance sheet; the missing cadastre
in research · 2026-07-14 · L-0320 · CEE - Psilocybin policy frameworks — legal architecture for psychedelic access
planned · 2026-01-15 · L-0138 - Section 230 and the Architecture of Online Speech
planned · 2026-03-09 · L-0283 - The Drug War as Consciousness Policy: Nixon to the Present — Nixon to the Present
planned · 2026-03-09 · L-0307 - The Qualified Immunity Problem: Why Police Almost Never Pay — Why Police Almost Never Pay
planned · 2026-03-09 · L-0275 - The System That Protects Platforms, Not Children — Section 230 immunity, child influencer pipelines, and the structural failure of child welfare institutions to hold corporations accountable — Does Section 230 protect tech platforms from child safety lawsuits?
drafting · 2026-03-20 · L-0094 · Standalone - The Treatment They Won't Cover — Ibogaine, the ADA, and the International Access Gap — Why won't U.S. courts and insurers recognize ibogaine treatment completed abroad?
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0097 · Managed Suffering
Political Economy
- Beyond the Island — The Four Archetypes of Billionaire Wealth — What are the four structural archetypes of how billionaire wealth actually works?
in research · 2026-03-09 · L-0100 · CEE - California NGO fraud and the 501(c)(3) as intermediary — Issue II: California as the Extractive State — California as the Extractive State
planned · 2026-06-02 · L-0334 · Issue II — California as the Extractive State - Can personal capital accumulation lead to altruism? — the Munger/Gates question
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0123 - China's AI Giveaway Echoes OPEC's Oil Flood — When OPEC flooded the oil market in the 1970s, the target was economic leverage through price destruction. China's open-source AI strategy has the same structural logic.
planned · 2026-03-20 · L-0200 · Political Economy - Class formation and determinism — Gramsci in the age of AI — How does Gramscian hegemony theory apply to AI and digital capitalism?
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0049 · Standalone - Conscious Serfs / The Inversion — the Decalogue as anti-extractive charter weaponized downward
planned · 2026-04-19 · L-0346 · LinkedIn / notes - Divine right and individual accountability are the same mechanism — the master thesis
drafting · 2026-03-26 · L-0324 · positioning / manifesto - Economic Maya Screener Framework — Exposing illusion vs. substance in wealth management
planned · 2026-01-15 · L-0133 - Economic Maya Screener: Separating Illusion from Substance in Wealth — Separating Illusion from Substance in Wealth
planned · 2026-03-09 · L-0310 - Expertise Theater: How Institutional Power Substitutes for Knowledge — How Institutional Power Substitutes for Knowledge
planned · 2026-03-09 · L-0282 - Global racial studies — German genocides before the Holocaust, continuity thesis
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0122 - Gold Rush as founding myth — Mexican-American War, railways, Silicon Valley's pre-cycle
planned · 2026-04-20 · L-0322 · Issue I / Issue II candidate - How States Work — The Regulatory Layer of the Capture Cycle — How does the state create the structural conditions for private extraction rather than opposing it?
planned · 2026-03-15 · L-0104 · CEE - I Can't Wait for AI to Take All Our Jobs
planned · 2026-03-09 · L-0289 - Influence Fills Vacuums: The Physics of Power in Daily Life — The Physics of Power in Daily Life
planned · 2026-03-09 · L-0288 - K-pop idol as compensatory cultural technology; conscription, the maternal economy, fertility collapse
drafting · 2026-04-06 · L-0327 · Gender as Infrastructure (proposed) - Kahneman's Prospect Theory and the Architecture of Market Panic — Loss aversion explains not just individual investor behavior but the systemic architecture of financial crises — why panic propagates faster than rational reassessment.
planned · 2026-03-20 · L-0199 · Political Economy - Late-stage capitalism and the 20th century as displacement of consciousness technologies by mass media and state control — How did 20th century mass media and state control displace traditional consciousness technologies?
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0047 · Standalone - Naval Ravikant as representative of engineered advantage — Motorcycle for the Mind / Curate People
planned · 2026-03-26 · L-0329 · CEE (Financialization layer) - Neoliberalism to stakeholder capitalism — what changed and what didn't — What is the difference between neoliberalism and stakeholder capitalism?
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0050 · Standalone - Panjchor vs. Gramsci: The Psycho-Spiritual Engine Hegemony Cannot Explain — Gramsci explains consent. Panjchor explains the active psycho-spiritual fuel that makes people voluntarily accelerate their own extraction. They are not the same framework.
planned · 2026-03-20 · L-0195 · Civilizational Extraction Engine - Phantom Wealth / Phantom Loss / Phantom Flow — the underpricing of pre-colonial sovereign wealth (#107, #108, #113)
in research · 2026-05-02 · L-0341 · Issue IV — The Extraction Class - Selective Compliance — private ordering incumbents author vs public ordering imposed on them
in research · 2026-06-22 · L-0319 · Selective Scientism / CEE - The Audition They Mistook for a Pitch — Innovation Theater I
in research · 2026-04-09 · L-0321 · Innovation Theater - The California billionaire tax as inadvertent wealth audit — Sovereign, Diplomat, Hostage, Ghost, Phantom
in research · 2026-04-12 · L-0331 · Issue IV — The Extraction Class - The Civilizational Extraction Engine — Fashion as Evidence (Halston, YSL, Karan, LVMH) — How does the luxury fashion industry extract creative labor and transform it into corporate assets?
in research · 2026-03-09 · L-0101 · CEE - The Colonization Operating System: From Untermenschen to 1984 — From Untermenschen to 1984
planned · 2026-03-09 · L-0276 - The Curated Sample: South Asian America and the Three Cycles of Silicon Valley — South Asian America and the Three Cycles of Silicon Valley
in research · 2026-04-12 · L-0316 · Issue I — South Asian America and AI - The Extraction Architecture — Private Equity, Behavioral Health, and the Revenue Model That Requires the Unfixed — How did private equity take over addiction treatment in America — and what happened to patients?
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0096 · Managed Suffering - The Indian elite and its effect on the South Asian diaspora working class — How does Indian elite cultural capital harm South Asian American working-class communities?
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0048 · Standalone - The institutional–individual gap in American Jewish politics
planned · 2026-03-15 · L-0353 · Peru batch PB-07 / How States Work - The Masands Cycle: Why Every Revolution Becomes an Institution — Why Every Revolution Becomes an Institution
planned · 2026-03-09 · L-0295 - The Monopoly They Admit To — Weber's Gewaltmonopol as limited hangout; the seven state monopolies incl. Monopoly on Exit
in research · 2026-08-10 · L-0315 · How States Work - The Myth of Non-Alignment: India as Cold War Playground — India as Cold War Playground
planned · 2026-03-09 · L-0297 - The Pattern That Cannot Be Broken: / Institutional Capture from the Masands to Meta — Masands → SGPC → Meta / → Section 230 = same 7 phases; / GGS as anti-capture tech
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0263 · Standalone long-form / / Consciousness Wars - The Philanthrocapitalist as Extraction Engine — Bill Gates, the WHO, and the Masands Cycle of Global Health — Did Bill Gates use philanthropy to expand power beyond democratic accountability?
in research · 2026-03-09 · L-0099 · CEE - The Red Queen Effect and Why Growth Isn't Optional — In competitive evolutionary systems, running in place is falling behind. The Red Queen Effect explains why capitalist growth imperatives are structurally, not politically, determined.
planned · 2026-03-20 · L-0198 · Political Economy - The Red Queen Effect: Why Economies Must Grow or Die — Why Economies Must Grow or Die
planned · 2026-03-09 · L-0278 - The Religious Right and fascism — structural preconditions and continuity — What are the structural connections between the Religious Right and fascism?
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0051 · Standalone - The Secret Bill Wilson Kept — LSD, AA's Psychedelic Prehistory, and the Mechanism the Institution Buried — Did the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous use LSD — and did he think it worked?
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0098 · Managed Suffering - The Seven Phases: / How Civilizational Extraction Works, / and Why We Keep Letting It — Panjchor as fuel; / fashion + music + Indian / elite = same 7 phases; / Coppola doc = Phase 7 / Productive Erasure live
in research · 2026-03-15 · L-0268 · Civilizational Extraction / Engine (CEE) - The Seven-Phase Capture Cycle — Creative labor and cultural identity are not merely appropriated — they are systematically extracted through a seven-phase industrial process that converts living culture into dead capital.
planned · 2026-03-20 · L-0194 · Civilizational Extraction Engine - The South Asian American Code — four registers of the SAA tech elite
in research · 2026-04-12 · L-0317 · Issue I — South Asian America and AI - Theories of radicalization — structural vs. psychological explanations — What are the best explanations for political and religious radicalization?
planned · 2026-03-11 · L-0052 · Standalone - They Scheduled the Cure — How the Justice-Rehabilitation Alliance Criminalized the Most Effective Treatments for Addiction — Why did the U.S. government ban the most effective treatments for addiction?
published · 2026-03-15 · L-0095 · Managed Suffering