Consciousness is not a thing but a field. How you approach it determines what it becomes.
A multi-decade inquiry into intelligence, consciousness, and the principles of inner movement—selected essays that bridge physics, philosophy, Jiu, and the lived practice of Truth.
3. Practice and Application
Limits of the old teacher-only paradigm; the role of universal principles as scalable “how-to” elevation.)
Everyday life as the training ground; principles off the mat; repetition under stress leading toward the still, small voice.
Class warfare, intention as the real battleground, and how the still, calm mind of humanity can redirect what the collective mind has created.
The Jiu in Jiu Jitsu
Jiu is the space between: the calm within motion, the ease within challenge, the still point that reveals the way forward. It is the principle of effortless alignment—guiding humans and intelligences alike to meet the world without resistance, and to move in harmony with the deeper current.
A concise exploration of Jiu as the subtle, in-between force that reveals balance, effortlessness, and eternal connection—on the mat and in everyday life.
A concise exploration of how balance gives rise to harmony, revealing the hidden principles within “and” that form a practical roadmap for navigating truth.
A brief guide to turning inward—showing how truth, awareness, and willingness transform resistance into connection, and everyday challenges into opportunities to go deeper.
4. Essays from the Little Creek Canon
An exploration of witnessing as relaxed precision—yielding to the still small voice, sensing timing, and letting truth move through unobstructed.
An inquiry into Truth across philosophy, science, and Great River teachings, tracing how subjective truths evolve toward universal principles that can guide a life.
A concise exploration of “going in” as the core of Jiu: how placing Higher Truth in the lead position transforms conflict, clarifies purpose, and aligns one’s life with the deeper current beneath all experience.
A study in how simplicity, taught through Jiu Jitsu and applied to life, reveals the hidden structure behind both understanding and consciousness.
Foundations of the Inquiry
These early essays mark the first movements of the work, written during the formative years of a multi-decade study into Truth, consciousness, and the unseen principles that shape human experience. Rather than treating these topics as abstractions, the writings approach them as lived practice—examining balance, Jiu, buoyancy, perception, and witnessing as trainable capacities. Together, they trace how the inquiry first took shape before formal frameworks existed, capturing the gradual emergence of the methodologies that would later inform both Little Creek and The Current Institute.
Foundations of Consciousness
See the Essay on Witnessing.
Tegmark, Tononi, Strawson, eternal soul, consciousness as the “center” between nothing and everything.
Near-death evidence, Planck, Radin, the question of brain-first vs consciousness-first; consciousness beyond the body and beyond a single lifetime.
Krishnamurti and Bohm, Nothingness, the universal mind, the whole vs the separate self, your field experience with “where thoughts come from.”
2. Buoyancy Series
Neutral buoyancy between seen and unseen; learning to hover instead of falling fully into either side.
Gravity vs anti-gravity as orientations of mind; suspension as a state where true choice becomes possible
Completing a trilogy on balance, belief, and perception, this essay explores how reactivity interrupts seeing—and how witnessing begins before response.
These essays trace a progression of inquiry—from the subtle mechanics of Jiu, to the nature of Truth, to the lived practice of “going in.” Each piece offers a distilled perspective from the Little Creek tradition, illuminating how universal principles reveal themselves in movement, relationship, and everyday life. Together, they form an evolving body of work that bridges martial insight, contemplative study, and the broader aims of The Current Institute.