This book has been conceived as a composite: part memoir, part field manual, part metaphysical reframing. Inspirationally, think Hunter S. Thompson meets Philip K. Dick meets Buckminster Fuller.

At its core, Speedrunning the Spacetime Continuum is a tactical document disguised as a gamer manual with a visionary narrative — sitting at the cross-section of existential memoir, gonzo mysticism, and disruptive operational systems theory.

The book is structured in three interwoven components:

• Player’s Log: autobiographical dispatches from the life of a prodigal son of steel magnates to a career in insurgent media, tech, and finally, applied esoterica in service of engineering a global paradigm shift
• Player’s Manual: applied techniques based on first-person experiential experimentation for navigating and hacking the hidden mechanics of reality
• Spacetime 2.0: (modeled on Tolstoy’s postscript treatise in War and Peace) this treatise and model for a post-materialist understanding of the universe comes at the end of the book.

The concept of “jailbreaking” is central. Borrowed from tech culture, the term originally referred to hacking a mobile device to bypass manufacturer-imposed limitations. That version of reality has programmed us to believe that reality is generated from a place that is unreachable, unchangeable, and beyond our influence.

We are taught to navigate reality, not author it.

In my analogy, jailbreaking serves as an analogue for what happens when a human begins modifying their neural operating system to access unauthorized functions of consciousness and perception. And yes — it sounds like The Matrix. That’s because it kind of is.

I understand this will sound unhinged to most. But after two decades of front-line activism, conflict reporting, and social experimentation across 60-plus countries, this is the most functionally revolutionary theory of change I have encountered. And it did not come from philosophy or psychedelics. It emerged through direct interaction with systems and intelligences that don’t show up on the radar of traditional and even current outlier [r]evolutionary epistemologies.

So why write this now?

Because we’ve hit a wall. Consensus reality is breaking. The political, ecological, and epistemic systems we relied on are in their terminal stage. The only question is: At what point are we going to admit current theories (and applications) of change are only yielding incidental incrementals and diminishing returns? And what process of objective enquiry will lead us to the conclusion that this has less do with the ills of a system or the vast resources of our opponents and everything to do with an outdated and misperceived model of reality?

What we need now is not reform, but jailbreak. That starts by recognizing the true nature of the terrain: Spacetime is not the primary engine of reality — it’s the user interface. Which means:

• Reality is programmable
• The program is learnable
• The code is accessible… but only to those willing to induct themselves in the cognitive and experiential adventure of exiting spacetime’s default OS

Unlike the manifestation frameworks of The Secret and Supernatural, the hacks in this book aren’t just about belief, visualization, or frequency matching. Those works offer curated testimonials and emotionally persuasive methods — poetic narratives of transformation delivered as technique. But their models often bypass the most volatile and essential layer of the process: the dismantling of the self that precedes any meaningful rewrite. 

Writing a check to yourself, visualizing an outcome, entering altered states — none of it sticks without re-formatting the root code. Intention alone doesn’t rewrite reality. Before any genuine act of self-regeneration can occur, a massive depatterning must unfold — energetic, neurological, mythic. That process is not clean or linear. It is tragic. It is initiatory. It is, in every sense, a jailbreak. Speedrunning is not just a vision manual. It’s a record of how I inadvertently burned the original programming and made it back with a new operating system .

A final note on graphic design: This book has been conceived as an object of experience — part annotated field manual, part post-reality scrapbook. Marginalia, hand-drawn diagrams, symbol keys, player notes, and visual cues are woven throughout the text. They reflect the terrain being mapped: nonlinear, fractal, recursive. I’ve always used design to smuggle difficult or even dangerous ideas past the sensors of consensus. From Channel Zero, to GNN, to ORA, high-concept aesthetics have been my Trojan horse. Speedrunning the Spacetime Continuum continues this legacy, deploying layout, typography, and visual codes to support a second-layer reading of the material.

Here are some works that share overlapping DNA with Speedrunning the Spacetime Continuum:

1. The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are  (Alan Watts)
2. Cosmic Trigger  (Robert Anton Wilson)
3. The Sirian Experiments  (Doris Lessing)
4. Notebooks of Paul Brunton  (Paul Brunton)
5. VALIS  (Philip K. Dick)
6. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth  (Buckminster Fuller)
7. The Red Book  (Carl Jung)
8. Codex Seraphinianus  (Luigi Serafini)
9. Autobiography of a Yogi  (Paramahansa Yogananda)