Beyond Within: A Moral Guide to the Evolution of Consciousness
A book-album that begins and ends with music.
Beyond Within is a forthcoming book-album about the moral evolution of consciousness. I’ve been writing it for a decade, the first draft is nearly complete, and a long refinement and editing process awaits.
It aims to raise the ethical bar for how we should live our personal, interpersonal, and transpersonal lives and serve as a guide for understanding the best and worst parts of us and their role in the creation and destruction of life.
With this moral understanding of the evolution of consciousness as its foundation, the book creates and integrates new models of the following fields of knowledge:
Moral philosophy, showing how the evolution of morality is no different than the evolution of reality
Perennial theology, showing how God can be both good and evil, and how destruction does not necessarily lead to creation
Evolutionary psychology, showing how the psyche is structured, how it evolves, and how we can shape evolution
Asymmetrical neuroscience, showing how the right hemisphere of the brain morally leads the left hemisphere
Attentional ontology, showing how our attention changes the reality of what we attend to
We have far more control over how we shape our lives than we’ve been conditioned to believe, but it’s only by morally evolving beyond ideology that our lives can ever be ours. This book provides the moral map to reevaluate every aspect of not only our lives, but of life itself.
It is intended to make fundamental changes to the way we think about morality and provide a blueprint for the healing and growth of individuals, relationships, and societies.
Real-world applications of this book include, but are not at all limited to:
Holistic psychology models to reinvent the healthcare system
Dynamic moral frameworks to upgrade the justice system
Ethical technology protocols to ensure human-AI symbiosis
Cooperative governance structures to increase social harmony