Manifesto for Consciousness Engineering

An Open Invitation to Fellow Practitioners

I am developing frameworks—Emergy, Natural Affinity Mapping, and The Manual for Being Human—that attempt something deceptively simple: to treat consciousness not as mystery or metaphor, but as an operational field with measurable leverage.

These are not slogans. They are equations, logs, canvases, and practices already being applied across community projects, performance environments, micro-studios, and clinical-adjacent spaces.

The Problem

Without peers, any theorem risks collapsing into a cul-de-sac: closed loops of untested brilliance. Without practice, even elegant models remain abstractions. And without critique, the work risks becoming belief rather than science.

The Proposal

I am inviting a relay of peers—practitioners and sympathetic scholars—to test, refine, and challenge these frameworks in the open.

This is not traditional academic peer review locked behind journals. It is field-testing in studios, classrooms, bookshops, phone-box labs, and performances. Logs, feedback, and critique are as welcome as validation.

The Ethos

• Transparency: log what is changed and why.
• Consent: no dark patterns, no manipulation.
• Low-matter interventions first: light, timing, story, ritual.
• Accountability: evidence before proclamation.

These principles extend from my own Emergy ethics—context is a lever, so use it with care.

Who This Is For

• Fellow practitioners: artists, coders, musicians, facilitators who want operational tools for reality-shaping.
• Academics with imagination: professors who, like Rupert Sheldrake and others before him, are willing to test unorthodox but structured hypotheses.
• Community builders: those designing cultural infrastructure that needs to be both rigorous and alive.

Current Sites of Application

• Procrastinatrix (electronic performance; context-sequenced sets)
• The Literature Laboratory, Brecon (a children's bookshop re-engineered as a time machine of stories)
• TimePods (heritage phone-boxes turned micro-studios)
• The Oliverse (transmedia mythology rooted in Welsh identity and computational consciousness)

These are not thought experiments. They are live environments where the equations meet the world.

Invitation

If you are a fellow reality-engineer—inside or outside academia—I invite you to enter this relay. Test the theorem. Challenge the methodology. Send logs of what happens when you apply these models in your own work.

Let us create a network of practice where consciousness engineering is not speculation but shared experiment.