I am not a doctor, but we believe those two letters make anyone more credible.
I studied philosophy and psychology under Daniel Robinson of Oxford. I have been a member or student of Masonic Orders, the Golden Dawn, the Ordo Templi Orientis, the Rosicrucians, Theosophical Society, Orthodox Yeshivot, Kabbalistic and Chassidic Groups. I have worked in languages most of my life: Ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit. In my spare time, I research Artificial Intelligence, Theoretical Physics, Consciousness Theory and many of the other subjects in our framework.
Professionally I have worked as an entrepreneur, in marketing, and in executive communications. I have written for newspapers and magazines and interviewed over 150 intellectuals, politicians, and public figures on my podcast. I have two children and I’m an imperfect father, learning how to edify the human soul in real-time.
I practise meditation, yoga, prayer, and self-hypnosis daily. The methods explored on this site have been tried and tested personally.
I consider that I have lived a life of practical pistomechanics. The disciplines catalogued on this site are not abstractions to me.
What brought me to build pistomechanics as a discipline was a pattern I kept encountering. Behind every well-intentioned movement lies a consistent structural problem: the need to dominate over competing beliefs. Religious orders, political movements, therapeutic schools, commercial persuasion systems, esoteric traditions. Each one carries within it the assumption that its belief should displace the others. Science attempts to displace religion. Religion attempts to displace science. Both attempt to displace whatever falls outside their framework. The mechanics of displacement are always the same.
I came to believe that only a deep understanding of the structure of belief itself can emancipate a person from the passivity of unchecked influence. Not by rejecting all belief, which is impossible, but by seeing the machinery while it runs. That is what this project attempts to make possible.
*I used AI to add a turtleneck to my photo, because we believe turtlenecks exude “calm authority.”