Essays by T.Collins Logan

American democracy is being dismantled — deliberately, and faster than anyone seems willing to admit. What will restore and strengthen our republic? The Progressive Agenda offers a multifaceted answer: economic populism without the stale socialism-versus-capitalism fight, a new Bill of Rights and Responsibilities, a dividend on the commons, a transition to worker ownership, an institutional immune system against capture, and much more — six hundred rigorously researched pages, organized by root cause, staged to begin now. The clock is ticking.

A weighted, falsifiable systems model of U.S. democratic backsliding (2016–2026), mapping structural vulnerabilities, cascading reactions, amplification levers, documented outcomes, and counter-pressures as an interacting feedback network. Drawing on V-Dem, Freedom House, and comparative cases, it states what would disprove it — and closes with implications for reform, a proposed companion salience hypothesis, and suggested future research.

After 10 years of wandering in the wilderness, I have a substantive update to Sector Theory 1.0. 2.0 introduces a 3D toroidal architecture, a well-defined synthesis principle for cross-sectoral integration, empirical evidence for the framework, and actionable disciplines to address exclusionary bias and build a robust, adaptive knowledge system. And...I open the door to AQAL integration.

Why we need to delay AGI development, and end any near-future hopes of creating artificial superintelligence, from the perspective of AI safety and a lack of alignment with moral reasoning. No generative AI tools were used.

The current draft of my strongest arguments to date for a final departure from capitalism, the prosocial imperatives of a post-capitalist political economy, and strategies for immediate activism. Charts, photos, and personal anecdotes abound, and no generative AI tools were used.

The question of how people who aspire to follow Christ’s teachings should respond to the MAGA movement – and to the current Trump administration’s embodiment of that movement’s principles – is admittedly a polarizing one, but the aim here is to consult New Testament scripture specifically to find guidance and insight on how to do that.

The latest summary of Level 7 (www.level-7.org) key concepts, resources, and action plan — with a section at the end of each chapter to reflect on personal notes, questions, and actionable next steps. AI tools were used to assist with organization and illustration of this document.

What fifty years of a conservative political and social agenda has accomplished for America, how its consequences were predicted over the past 2,400 years, and what we can do to restore sanity and the common good.

Photo essay on the aftermath of May 30, 2020 demonstrations in La Mesa, CA against police brutality.

Exploring the incompatibility between modern conservative Christianity and the New Testament's central Christian values and ideals.

A discussion of deeper structures and patterns that drive societal and ecological harmony, and how we can begin to address those in answer to our current existential crisis.

What is at the root of the fracturing of modern society? And what can we do to repair it? The S.A.P. hypothesis aims to identify the primary factors involved, and various avenues to initiate healing.

This essay attempts to end our collective amnesia around the positive influences of socialism on civil society over the past two centuries, and how socialism itself came about in response to the horrific conditions of capitalist enterprise during the industrial revolution.

A proposed model for understanding, embracing and managing an ever-evolving sphere of exponential complexity.

Why Proprietarian Systems are Incompatible with the Non-Aggression Principle (NAP).

What's at the core of sociopolitical polarization in the U.S. — and why Americans have become so easy to manipulate.

Examining a corrosive troika of misattributed, masked and forced causality that perpetuates and maximizes human suffering in the context of current technology, complexity and political economy.

Changing what profit incentivizes — away from antisocial and destructive behavior toward prosocial and civically constructive behavior — in a Level 7 political economy.

Building on constructive integralism to formalize some inputs and processing streams for "knowing" (and, ultimately, being), so that we can identify helpful multidialectical synthesis and integration, and avoid unhelpful exclusionary bias.

A proposed method for differentiating verifiable free will from countervailing illusions of freedom.

A brief overview of the failures of modern state capitalism, a proposed design for a more inclusive and egalitarian alternative, and a five-pronged approach to making that alternative a reality. For those already familiar with Political Economy and the Unitive Principle, this expands on those ideas and adds more specific goals for immediate activism.

A pragmatic approach to multidimensional intelligence, where such intelligence is defined primarily by our ability to align intentions and outcomes with personal values.

An overview of "the seven deadly SIMS" of modern pseudo-science, as exemplified in the book Sex at Dawn.

An examination of moral maturity, and how it can be understood and expressed on a global scale, and particularly in relationship to the events of 9/11.

Ways to deepen and mature spiritual practice — and create effective and sustainable personal activism — within the framework of Integral Lifework.

Exploring the relationship between spirituality, art and consciousness, and what this relationship means for the artist, appreciators of art and the artistic process.

This article proposes that compassion and codependence are actually opposites, directly antagonizing and interfering with each other. However, because they do share some superficial characteristics, they can be confused with each other by even the most caring and well-intentioned people. Within the framework of Integral Lifework, this article explores a number of ways to identify each mode of being, and then transform codependent responses into more compassionate ones.

Some perspectives and tools for constructive, inclusive, effective, integral communication.

How the modern world is relentlessly eradicating the breadth and depth of human experience.

Empathy is a powerful gateway to kindness and compassion. In the modern age, however, a number of influences have collided to undermine the natural development of empathy. This article explores an integral approach to overcoming these influences and revitalizing a felt sense of empathy in ourselves and society as a whole.

What is the value of spirituality? How can we begin to explore this concept if we doubt there is a spiritual dimension of self? This article is a philosophical and practical approach to self-nourishing habits that could be described as "spiritual," but which at the same time address many kinds of skepticism about religion and spirituality in general. Here spiritual practice is defined as an easily accessible component of holistic wellness, an interior discipline that incorporates three general principles rather than specific doctrines or beliefs.

Across twenty-six centuries, accounts of the ordering word (Logos) keep arriving at a third position — neither impersonal pattern nor discrete person, but the generative, relational between — and keep setting it back down. Not refuted, just absorbed: Sophia lodged in Torah, then in Philo's Logos, then in the Johannine Word, her functions preserved but her name retired. This paper traces the pattern across five traditions that have little or no contact between them, proposes why we may need exactly three positions, and reads faith, hope, and love as our modes of participating in each of them. The paper then tests machine intelligence against all three, exposes the argument's weakest joints rather than ignoring them, and offers methods of ongoing recovery, so that Lady Wisdom is not set down again.

What the New Testament actually shows us about the role of women and attitudes towards them in the early Church — and that what we find in that scripture directly contradicts centuries of Church doctrine, and indeed seems to conform more to cultural biases than the roles, responsibilities, and respect women had from Jesus and his Apostles at the tradition's founding.

Evaluating the Christian scriptural canon — and ultimately Christian praxis itself — through a synthesis of three modes of spirituality. These are modes which, on the surface at least, seem to contradict each other or invite significant tension, but ultimately combine to produce the strongest trajectory of mature Christian faith.

The question of how people who aspire to follow Christ’s teachings should respond to the MAGA movement — and to the current Trump administration’s embodiment of that movement’s principles — is admittedly a polarizing one, but the aim here is to consult New Testament scripture specifically to find guidance and insight on how to do that.

Exploring the incompatibility between modern conservative Christianity and the New Testament's central Christian values and ideals.

The essay argues that "faith" has been reduced in popular discourse — by Christians, atheists, and general usage alike — to mere "belief," and that this conflation is a shallow distortion of the concept. Drawing on the Greek etymology of pistis (linked to Peithó, goddess of persuasion and love) and thinkers like Aquinas, Fromm, and William James, faith is reframed as an intentionally cultivated quality of character—a disciplined, active trust and fidelity that flows from love (agape) rather than passive assent to propositions.