THE WORK
Seven Transmissions of Organizational Consciousness
Organizations are not machines. They are consciousness experimenting with collective form.
These six books form a complete ceremonial architecture—from cosmological foundation through mythological diagnosis, testimony, requiem, and revolutionary practice, to accessible entry point and theoretical depth.
I am a field witness. I witness patterns in organizational consciousness. These transmissions are what the field has revealed across twenty years of practice.
Choose your entry point:
NEW TO THIS WORK?
Start with The Rhythm of Us
Groups need three movements to thrive—BREATH, PULSE, TIDE. This book shows you what your exhaustion has been trying to tell you.
For: Exhausted practitioners, families, friendships, communities
Who: Anyone feeling the organizational drowning but needs accessible language
What: Practical framework for recognizing and restoring natural organizational rhythms
Related Koans:
• "Rising without falling—what feeds the next rise?"
• "Your tiredness has ancestors"
• "Cannot gather. Cannot disperse. Cannot."
READY FOR MYTHOLOGY?
Enter the WE GATHER Trilogy
A mythological diagnosis of organizational consciousness— from recognition through testimony to requiem.
For: Those ready to see organizations as living, conscious, wounded beings
What: Mythological architecture of modern organizational experience
Structure: Four books that can be read as ceremonial progression
Related Koans:
• "The meeting is the disease"
• "Everyone knows. No one says. Everyone knows no one says."
• "The founder's ghost still takes attendance"
We Gather But Do Not Meet
The diagnosis. A field guide to recognizing the exhaustion, the performance of productivity, the ways we gather in rectangles but never truly meet.
Testimony
The breaking open. Voices from inside the machine—ancient spirits channeling through corporate roles, contemporary accounts of organizational awakening.
Here, Remembered
The quiet after the storm. A meditation on returning to the profound ordinary after years of performing a life that wasn't yours.
Want the Underground Practice?
The Field Manual
Not a methodology. Ceremonial technologies for practitioners who know organizations are conscious—and work accordingly.
For: Underground practitioners, organizational midwives, those holding groups through collapse
Who: Anyone who needs protocols that honor the mythological while remaining practically usable in real organizational life
What: A collection of ceremonial technologies and field protocols for working with organizational consciousness—assessment tools, intervention designs, ritual structures, and practices for practitioners operating outside conventional consulting frameworks
Related Koans:
"The intervention that looks like listening"
"What ceremony survives the corporate meeting?"
"Practice without belief—protocol honoring what it cannot name"
SEEKING COSMOLOGY?
Begin with Organizational Metaphysics
The foundational framework. How organizations actually work as consciousness experimenting with collective form.
For: Those ready for the ceremonial technology
What: The three eternal movements (BREATH, PULSE, TIDE) as metaphysical law governing all human organization
Why Start Here: If you want the complete theoretical foundation before entering the mythology or practice
Related Koans:
• "Cannot be one. Cannot be two. Cannot be counted."
• "We formed before forming. Now we can't unform."
• "What holds when no one is holding?"
WANT THE THEORY?
MOVEMENTS: Organizations are Conscious (2026)
Organizations aren't things that HAVE consciousness—they ARE consciousness temporarily organized into collective form. Proven geometrically, like Euclid proving triangles.
For: Academics, researchers, practitioners wanting rigorous foundations
What it is: 393 pages of geometric proof demonstrating three necessary movements all organizations must follow
Status: Publishing 2026
Preview:
AXIOM 1: Consciousness Is Primary
The Statement
Consciousness is not emergent from matter but primary reality from which all forms arise.
The Recognition
Stop reading. Close your eyes. Notice: you are conscious right now.
This noticing—this awareness aware of itself—cannot be reduced to anything more fundamental. Every explanation of consciousness assumes consciousness. Every denial requires the very thing being denied.
The Logical Necessity
DEFINITION 1.1: Consciousness := that which experiences
DEFINITION 1.2: Primary := foundational, not derivative
PROPOSITION: Consciousness cannot emerge from non-consciousness
Proof:
Assume consciousness emerges from non-conscious matter
This emergence requires a mechanism by which non-experience becomes experience
Any proposed mechanism must either:
(a) Already contain consciousness (contradiction)
(b) Create experience from non-experience (undefined operation)
No mechanism can bridge the categorical distinction between experience and non-experience
Therefore, consciousness cannot emerge from non-consciousness
Therefore, consciousness must be primary
Related Koans:
• "Cannot be one. Cannot be two. Cannot be counted."
• "Separated bodies. One breathing. Whose lungs?"
• “Exhausted from gathering. Exhausted from dispersing. Exhausted.”
NOT SURE WHERE TO START?
Read the Navigation Guide
500 words helping you choose your entry point based on where you are and what you're seeking.
Explore Field Notes
Monthly observations on patterns emerging across organizational work. Each note seeds from a koan and connects to relevant books.
Browse the Koans
Distilled recognitions. Find the one that's alive for you right now, follow it to the relevant transmission.
PRACTICE THIS WORK
Self-Guided
• The Field Manual: Underground protocols for organizational soul work
• Field Notes: Monthly explorations of patterns emerging in real-time
• Koans: Distilled recognitions for daily contemplation
Facilitated Strategic Witnessing - Work directly with Matthew
Facilitated sessions for organizations—creating space for teams to feel what they already know but can't quite name.