Writing and conceptual synthesis
SANE
SANE is the working framework I use to coordinate four dimensions that otherwise tend to drift apart: the somaesthetic, the anthropotechnical, the noetic, and the emergent. It is the project where inner ecology, technics, mediation, pedagogy, and morphogenetic thinking are being forced into one usable vocabulary.
Framework
What the acronym is doing
The somaesthetic dimension keeps the framework grounded in lived bodily practice, cultivation, and attention. The anthropotechnical dimension keeps technics, tools, interfaces, and educational or pharmacological supports inside the model rather than treating them as neutral containers. The noetic dimension tracks symbolic, social, narrative, and inner-dialogic processes. The emergent dimension keeps the system open to multi-scale dynamics, morphogenesis, and the way patterns can become real through repetition, coupling, and coordination.
Publicly, the work is still early. I do not want to publish it yet as a finalized doctrine. But I do want the site to make clear that this is not a vague spirituality page. It is a structured attempt to build a critical and practice-facing language for inner ecology, technical mediation, and collective sense-making.
Active modules
- SANE as the coupling layer between practice, tools, narrative, and emergence
- Attentive yielding and inner ecology as a disciplined practice line
- Recursive agency, techno-animism, and digital-familiar questions
- Scholar clusters and lineage maps across somaesthetics, technics, mediation, and social mind
Connected projects
- Plasmatic Multitudes for embodiment and design translation
- Phenomenological Control for imagery, porosity, and visionary cognition
- Brain Candy for altered-perception design and cyberdelic practice questions
Guardrails
What the project is not
SANE is not meant to collapse everything into one cosmic explanation. It is not an excuse to blur body practice, AI, ritual, pedagogy, and systems theory into a single vague mood board. The point is the opposite: to make those lines comparable without pretending they are identical, and to build a structure flexible enough to hold relation, imagination, and technical mediation without abandoning discipline.
That is why source control matters so much here. The framework currently rests on a mix of stabilized anchors and still-partial humanities sources. The public page should therefore read as a map of active work, not as a final manifesto.
Current public emphasis
- Framework clarity over maximal ideological scope
- Lineage and vocabulary control over premature proclamation
- Practice, mediation, and emergence as interacting dimensions rather than isolated themes
Reference Surface
Current references
These are the main anchors currently shaping the SANE line and its public vocabulary.
Somaesthetics, technics, and mediation
- Shusterman. Thinking Through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics. (2012).
- Stiegler. Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus. (1998); Taking Care of Youth and the Generations. (2010); and "Relational Ecology and the Digital Pharmakon." (2012).
- Simondon. "Technical Mentality." (2009 translation); On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects. (translated edition, 2017).
- Serres. The Parasite. (English translation, 2007); Hermes I: Communication. (English translation, 2023); and Angels: A Modern Myth.
Spiritual experience, technopaganism, and social mind
- Luhrmann, Nusbaum, and Thisted. "The Absorption Hypothesis: Learning to Hear God in Evangelical Christianity." American Anthropologist (2010); Luhrmann and Morgain. "Prayer as Inner Sense Cultivation: An Attentional Learning Theory of Spiritual Experience." Ethos (2012).
- Luhrmann et al. "Sensing the Presence of Gods and Spirits across Cultures and Faiths." PNAS (2021); Lifshitz, van Elk, and Luhrmann. "Absorption and Spiritual Experience: A Review of Evidence and Potential Mechanisms." Consciousness and Cognition (2019).
- Davis. TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information. (1998); High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies. (2019).
- Dos Santos. "(Techno)Paganism: An Exploration of Animistic Relations with the Digital." Religions (2023).