About

I study and operationalize the elements common to transformative experiences. I believe that the intersection of contemplative practices, psychedelics, science, and nature projects a blueprint by which to formulate a new clinical model. My work looks at the past, present, and future.

Background in Brief

I currently work as a Substance Use Specialist, having previously worked as a residential counselor at a school for traumatized adolescents. Between counseling, intakes, crisis intervention, case management, care coordination between clinicians, psychiatrists, and nurses in both inpatient and outpatient, I have experienced and dealt with schizophrenia, anxiety, depression, addiction, and psychosis. Since it occurs to me that therapy in its current shape cannot by any sensible means outrun the pace by which mental disorders are proliferating, I have been led to seek the larger patterns responsible for any given state of consciousness.

Current Questions / Writing and Research

  1. Non-duality as a positioned base consciousness automatically creates a functional, non-negotiable morality. Study: we may study the correlation between non-duality, morality, and cortical integration between brain regions

  2. Brain region integration may correspond with mental health.

  3. Affective disorders and symptoms of psychosis may correspond to current non-dual baseline. Non-duality as a deepening, sideless spectrum: it is something which can be tapped into ad infinitum. 

  4. Non-duality as multi-modal: looking for clear physiological markers and indications of nonduality. Examination of multiple pathways toward non-duality, each with their specific physiological indicators + indicators common across pathways. 

  5. Physiology of non-duality 

  6. Define integration operationally: a composite change in (a) affective precision/expectancy calibration, (b) DMN self/other network flexibility, and (c) mirror-system gain—each tied to symptoms and functioning.

  7. Exploration of CBT and MBCT as existing on the same side of two coins

Work with Me

If you’re building aligned research, designing training for clinicians, or want help turning complex inner-life data into something measurable and actionable, I am open to collaboration.