Essay series
Sacred Technology
Essays on biology, light, water and sound as technology: how living systems build color, move energy and repair themselves.
Sacred Technology is a series on the Substack. The essays start from a specific organism or mechanism, such as the painted turtle that survives months without oxygen, the structure that makes a peacock’s blue, or the cavitation that drives a heartbeat, and ask what it implies about how living systems work. They are essays, not clinical guidance.
The Forest in the Acorn
A temple that builds itself from the inside out
The Drums Inside Your Body
How Heartbeats, Cavitation, DNA, and Crystals Reveal a Hidden Technology of Life
The Impossible Beauty of the Peacock
How the most astonishing color in nature is built from darkness — and why knowing exactly how only makes it more implausible.
We Are Beings of Light
How plant blood hidden inside your mitochondria silently harvests the sun — and what this means for everything you thought you knew about energy, aging, and what it means to be alive.
When Water Becomes Sovereignty and the Oldest Reason for War Dissolves
How American Cavitation Engineers May Have Solved the Rare Earth Crisis — and Redefined Civilization
A Benevolent Superfluity
On Flowers
The Strongest Medicine I Know
What Beauty Knows That the Abyss Doesn't
Related
Two items in the series touch commercial projects, and I label them. An astrology that can say no to itself introduces Scalar Flower, a research project that publishes its failed tests; see other work. Beauty Is an Ingredient in our Multivitamin is about a product from my company; see the disclosure.
Last reviewed October 4, 2026.