The founder
The Founder's Address
The Kingdom-to-come is not a metaphor. We believe it is a real future civilisation in which Satan and all demonic entities have been purged from human consciousness — a civilisation in which humanity has been restored to the Edenic state.
SATAN, The Preface.
The Catholic Church has, in recent decades, formally restored and expanded its deliverance ministry — an institutional response to a caseload its appointed practitioners describe as substantial and growing.
Fr. Chad Ripperger · Diocesan Exorcist · United States
The spiritual harms in particular — infestations, possession, witchcraft, spells — are almost completely ignored, kept in worrying silence and therefore untreated. The frequency is largely underestimated.
Dr. Jacques Mabit · Takiwasi Center · 2018
The full evidentiary case is set out in the founding paper.
Metanoia will establish Metanoics as a discipline — the study of parasitic intelligence within consciousness and its bioelectric substrate.
Metanoia will reconcile the scientific and religious accounts of the phenomenon — neither dismissing the testimony of two thousand years of theological tradition, nor surrendering the rigour of empirical investigation.
Metanoia will map the phenomenology of the possession state and establish the pattern of its behaviour.
Metanoia will pursue the anomalous signatures of the possession state as one of the most significant phenomena in human history.
Metanoia will pioneer and fund original research into the phenomenon across neuroscience, bioelectric biology, anthropology, and the philosophy of mind.
Metanoia will assemble the largest corpus of work on possession ever collected, drawn from clinical, indigenous, mystical, and scientific traditions.
Metanoia will build an AI capable of synthesising that corpus and serving as a research instrument for the field — and, in doing so, to confront the alignment problem on terrain where it cannot be ignored.
Metanoia will train and educate practitioners equipped to assist the afflicted, working from a methodology that takes the phenomenon seriously without surrendering to either clinical reduction or religious capture.
Metanoia will assist in the development of gold-standard treatment modalities, replicable across institutional and cultural contexts.
Metanoia will establish residential programs offering long-form care for those navigating active possession states.
Metanoia will end the silence surrounding the phenomenon, and the stigma carried by those who live through it.
Metanoia will return possession to the centre of serious inquiry, where every culture before our own has placed it.
A framework that cannot be wrong is not a framework that has been confirmed.
The Theory, II.
Each is the other's unfinished business.
The Theory, on consciousness and possession
We do not divide what ought not be divided.
The Theory, IV.
What it would look like, and what we are looking at, are the same thing.
The Theory, II.
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