When I started to write an article using Quantum Jump Meditations as a storytelling device to reframe psychosis as an altered state of consciousness, painting a picture of possibilities instead of pathology, I didn’t realize it would unfold into a three-part adventure.  This series keeps teaching me things about my own experiences and helping me better convey the complexity of non-ordinary states of consciousness and the process of energy regulation, integration, and self-actualization.  This is the kind of writing I would do even if no one ever reads it… but I love when people read it! I deeply value hearing thoughts, reflections, and suggestions from others who share my interest in consciousness, metabolic healing, and spiritual growth. You can read the article on my free Substack. The link is in the comments.

In 2018, I started meditating from a pretty dark place. It ended up lighting the path, leading me on a transformative journey that helped me discover ketogenic therapy and eventually bring my bipolar 1 disorder into full remission. I enjoyed writing about that journey for my friends at Keto-Mojo. In this article, I explore how meditation helped me become more aware of my inner world and subconscious drivers, activate my imagination, and use visualization practices to elevate my emotions and drive behavior change. My hope is that it may inspire individuals in their own transformative journey with meditation, ketosis, and the powerful feedback loop of combining the two. The amazing thing about meditation is that there is no upper limit. Now, in 2026, my practice continues to deepen, yielding new benefits and insights. I explore my current meditation modalities, including nonsubstance-induced altered states, breathwork, dreamwork, and even playful quantum jump thought experiment meditations in Radiant Beast, my free Substack. Link is in the comments.

Could we create an AA for metabolic therapies? At Metabolic Collective, we’ve been exploring what a grassroots, peer-led movement like this could look like and how we might build it together. My latest article on my free Substack takes a closer look at this idea. The link is in the comments.

Sometimes, you can totally rewrite the past. In my previous article, Why My Future Self Had New Handwriting, I wrote about the conscious decision to alter my handwriting style, something that required ongoing practice. While writing that article, I had the idea to try something I had never done before. What would happen if, now, two years after beginning to craft and write in this new style, I tried to form letters the way I once had? Turns out, I absolutely cannot “turn off” my new style and return to my former handwriting. That version seems to have been deleted from my neurocircuitry, overwritten by the conscious style I chose, practiced, and gradually automated. I put bipolar I disorder into remission by implementing metabolic therapies that improved my brain and body’s ability to transform and utilize energy. Since then, I have spoken with many others whose experiences mirror my own, people who have recovered from serious mental illnesses. Many of us had to rebound from a prolonged loss of cognitive capacity. We clung to the concept of neuroplasticity as a lifeline, trusting that even after years of blunted cognition, our brains could be restored, that executive function, memory, and creative and intellectual vitality might return. Neural pathways shaped by years of mistreated symptoms, impaired metabolic function, medication side effects, and harmful coping strategies are not fixed. We rewired them and proved to ourselves that healing is possible. One of the reasons I launched Radiant Beast: The Open Workbook was a desire to connect with others who understand the steep trenches and ecstatic peaks of this adventure of remission and reinvention, and to offer those just beginning this journey a vision of empowering possibilities. Steve Wolf has been a consistent and thoughtful presence in the comments on the workbook, often making me reflect, sparking new article ideas, and pointing me toward resources worth exploring. He is clearly intelligent, inquisitive, and well-read. Recently, he shared in a comment the persistence it took to restore his cognitive faculties after years of impairment. He described how his ability to read had been “vaporized” for nearly a decade by olanzapine, the same antipsychotic I took for a similar length of time. I asked him what it felt like to regain that ability and whether he had any guidance for others on a similar path. (Read the rest of the article on my free Substack, Radiant Beast: The Open Workbook, generously sponsored by Baszucki Group and Metabolic Mind. The link is in the comments.)

“Somehow, I have always felt that there isn’t much time left. I could die next decade, or next year. I might not have that much time left. We desperately need a more accurate, holistic model of human health. So I have to move fast.” If you haven’t already, I highly recommend subscribing to Martin Picard's (@MitoPsychoBio) Substack and watching Healing Science, grounded in energetics, unfold in real time. Carried forward by Martin’s momentum and a growing interdisciplinary movement exploring our capacity to heal, systems change will happen more rapidly than you might expect. (Link in the comments.)