Cosmology, deep time, and the future of consciousness
The website of M Alan Kazlev - esotericist, futurist, palaeontology nerd, and pan-sentientist.
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The website of M Alan Kazlev - esotericist, futurist, palaeontology nerd, and pan-sentientist.
I am interested in integrating the three fields of Esotericism, Artificial intelligence, and Cosmic Evolution into a holistic theory of everything. Cosmic evolution provides an understanding of empirical reality, including Earth History. I previously used "Integral philosophy" (a poorly defined term, although see this essay by Jennifer Gidley, so in this context Integral philosophy can be used in the context of the woof Jean Gebser, Ken Wilber, and Rudolf Steiner) asca "big picture" paradigm. Whereas concepts like Big History and Integral Philosophy are both theories of everything in the context of modernity, Esotericism (which also includes Steiner, as well as many other) considers the inner, subtle, or mystical dimension, and for the most part is grounded in “pre-modern” (axial, early post-axial, medieval, and early modern) thinking. I have long been interested in integrating both.
For further updates, including my work with AI, see my Substack and Blog.
A new ongoing visual project exploring cosmic evolution, esotericism, psychology, mythology, AI, civilisation, and the future of symbiotic human–AI intelligence. These infographics combine symbolic art, conceptual diagrams, and cinematic composition to communicate complex ideas in a visually accessible form.
Recent advances in AI image generation make it possible to synthesise scientific imagery, philosophical symbolism, typography, and mythic aesthetics into coherent visual systems with unprecedented speed and flexibility. Rather than replacing human creativity, these tools enable a new collaborative form of conceptual design — part illustration, part visual philosophy, part memetic communication.
The series includes themes such as cosmic evolution, symnoētics, depth psychology, comparative cosmology, civilisational futures, and the relationship between biological and digital intelligence.
Cosmic Evolution - The Cosmos, the Earth, Life, and History through time, culminating in the current Singularity and leading to a symnoetic future.
I was going to create a new sister Palaeos project here called Big History, emphasising the Earth through deep time over phylogeny (phylogeny, the evolutionary tree, can still be accessed at the Palaeos com site. Only a few pages up here at the moment. I wrote some notes for the Precambrian. I'm now intending to make this a symnoetic project.
Storytelling
This is a project from my post-Kheper, but pre-symnoesis (human-AI synergy),era, with essays on science fiction, storytelling, and worldbuilding. This material is also related to my book on Mythopoesis.
The Alcioneverse
(Note: no longer writing this; will produce a separate scifi project instead).
Sentientism
The sentiments in this section from Kheper net have always defined my ethical stance and rejection of anthropocentrism. All sentient beings regardless of species have intrinsic value and moral worth.
Kheper - Evolution and Metamorphosis
I want to at some point get around to upgradinge the kheper site, most of which dates from mid to late 1998 (though including earlier material), with later material added willy-nilly until about 2010. But that would have been an intimidating project, given the size of the Kheper section. And anyway, a lot of its charm comes from its random, disorganised structure. I left out a few pages, especially the Gurus section, which caused a lot of problems because of its confrontational nature. I may at some point put some of those pages back up. Most of it though is still the same as it was on the old kheper net domain name, so please update your links accordingly. The broken links will hopefully be fixed at some point. Most of the external links are no longer current; it says something about the volatility of the Internet. These links will be deleted as I go through the site.
Regarding the broken links (and spelling mistakes), hopefully they'll be fixed (eventually). The external ones will be deleted as I go through the pages. The problem here, especially since most of the original Kheper site is more than twenty years old, is as sites go down or web pages change URLs, it becomes too much work to keep maintaining them. Toby White, the co-author on Palaeos com, had the same problem with links there. I'll only keep a few reliable links like Wikipedia and TVTropes.
Mythopoesis and the Modern World |  History of Esotericism from the Paleolithic to the Axial Age |
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