You're not a soul on a journey. You're the power that creates souls.Featured in The National Law Review and taught at Esalen Institute, Platonic Surrealism is the modern metaphysical framework introduced by Kevin Cann and praised by leading scholars of consciousness and religion.Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripal calls it "e;a treasure of a book… ontologically profound,"e; while Dr. Anya Foxen describes it as "e;simple in the way all truly transformative things must be."e;A modern framework for awakening, afterlife inquiry, and inner wholeness—without religion, dogma, or woo‑woo."e;You"e; exist at multiple layers at once.Not as a single fragile soul, but as something vastly deeper:POTENTIALITY — the boundless field beneath all existenceAWARENESS — the luminous mirror that makes experience possiblePrimordial Consciousness — the first "e;I"e; before timeFractured Consciousness — the human perspective, local but not lesserThe Monad — your enduring, creative sparkThe Soul — a temporary interface woven for each world you enterThe Pain Self — the conditioned mask you can learn to outgrowThis is not a belief system — it is a clear, experiential map of what you are across life, death, and all the Movies of existence.A Practical System for Becoming WholePlatonic Surrealism teaches ten simple, non‑religious practices used by thousands of readers and workshop participants to:calm the nervous systemreunite fractured layers of identityintegrate painful experiences into stability through shadow work and inner child healing.activate deep nonverbal awarenessexperience "e;ascend‑in‑place"e; statesbuild a stable inner interface capable of genuine transformationThese practices are neuroscience‑aligned, accessible to atheists and mystics alike, and safe for those recovering from religion.For Seekers of the Afterlife, Awakening, Consciousness Studies, and High StrangenessWhether you've had a near‑death experience, a moment of high strangeness, a profound synchronicity, or simply feel larger than your personality, Platonic Surrealism offers a grounded way to understand your experience without superstition or self‑delusion.Readers who loved works by Jeffrey Kripal, Bernardo Kastrup, Michael Newton, or Rupert Spira will find here a fresh, practical, and non‑dogmatic framework.Endorsements from Scholars, Thinkers, and Explorers"e;A treasure of a book… Platonic Surrealism is profound and practical."e;—Jeffrey J. Kripal, Rice University"e;Self‑aware, unpretentious, non‑dogmatic… deceptively simple and deeply transformative."e;—Dr. Anya Foxen, Cal Poly"e;Revolutionarily insightful. Open your heart and you'll find peace."e;—Joshua Cutchin, Ecology of Souls"e;Bridges ancient tradition and modern spirituality… It's time to fly, Neo."e;—Miguel Conner, Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio"e;Kevin has innovated a metaphysical framework for the modern age."e;—Mike Fiorito, National Book Award Runner‑UpIt is possible that this work may shift your reality. It shifted mine. We are in safe hands."e;—Frank Malone, Psy.D., Licensed Psychoanalyst, 33 years clinical practiceA clear, contemporary path to wholeness, transcendence, and the deeper layers of what you truly are.No dogma. No fear. No hierarchy. Just clarity.

You feel like you suck. Your life doesn't work. You may be unemployed. You may be a university professor. You may have been beaten and abused. I understand. I lived your world for nearly thirty years.I was beaten with rods for ten of them. I was sexually battered in front of my high school graduating class.All this made me stronger.I am luminous now.It's no accident; I understand why this change happened.It did take me fifty years to fully understand all the pieces.I share these with you now.There's no bullshit.No massive intellect or philosophy is required.No positive thinking.No spirituality or religion.Just your own self that you were born with.I do use famous figures from philosophy and culture as examples, but as examples only.This book is for everyone.Eight people who found it are examined in depth — Harriet Tubman, Socrates, Viktor Frankl, Eckhart Tolle, and four others. Some arrived by falling. Some by forty years of ordinary mornings. None of them had what you are about to be given: a description of the mechanism, in plain language, with three practices that build it.You do not need to fall. You do not need decades.Two to five minutes a day. Three practices. Ninety days.The body learns what the mind cannot teach it. This book is the practice.Compliments of Kevin Cann, an autistic, retired navy veteran, published author, scientist, co-author with Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripal. Esalen institute instructor. I share this with you, not to impress you; but just to let you know that I have the brain cells required to do what I say that I did.

He trained as a nuclear engineer, taught to trust instruments and evidence. He spent the rest of his life seeing things no instrument could record.With a foreword by Joshua Cutchin, author of Ecology of Souls.A black triangle the size of several jumbo jets crossed the night sky in silence while he stood and watched. A being stripped to the blood once appeared at his patio door. During a near-death experience, he rose into a light he did not want to leave.Kevin Cann gave seven years to the Navy's nuclear program and thirty-one more as a systems engineer. He never wanted to believe any of it. He kept seeing anyway, and finally set it all down.Autobiography of an Experiencer gathers a lifetime of these encounters, each told plainly and left standing. A closing section lays out every honest reason to doubt them, written by the author against himself. One rule holds throughout: debunk the explanation, never the experience.This is not a book of proof, and it does not ask to be believed. Jacques Vallée investigated one of its events. Jeffrey Kripal of Rice University became Kevin's friend and stood beside him on the stage at Esalen. Cutchin reads the whole book as a study in twoness, the experiencer and the explainer turning out to be the same man.The story moves through childhood terror, a late diagnosis of autism, addiction, and collapse, and arrives somewhere the hard years never promised: a contented life.For readers of UFOs, near-death experience, neurodivergence, and the far edges of human consciousness. And for anyone who has suffered and needed to know that a strange and painful life can still come out whole.

Western and Eastern enlightenment are usually treated as opposites, one built on reason and the distrust of feeling, the other on dissolving the thinking self. This book argues that they are the same move aimed at opposite halves of a single instrument. Both erase part of the person in the name of seeing clearly, and both leave the seeker running on half his cognitive capacity. The real division was never geographic. It runs between the verbal mind and the wordless one, the two channels every human being is issued at birth.Addressed to two scholars by name and to the professors of the humanities generally, the book traces this division across civilizations. It sorts what the Eastern systems actually claim, one at a time, and shows that the category "e;enlightenment"e; was manufactured in nineteenth-century English and applied to traditions that never asked for it. It follows the Western antibody, the demand for public evidence that broke the Church's monopoly on transcendence and then overshot, ruling the wordless channel inadmissible. And it gathers the witnesses who reached the seam and were failed by it: Wallas, whose 1926 account of incubation went out of print; Gopi Krishna, who asked both civilizations to study him and was studied by neither; Suzuki, Obeyesekere, and the flow researchers who measured a wordless state without noticing the other one.The evidence is drawn from moral psychology, the incubation and flow literatures, and the history of religion, and it is held to a strict discipline. Every finding is entered as a candidate on a ledger, named as testimony, self-selected and unblinded, and denied a verdict the data cannot support. The book offers one candidate solution of its own, a set of plain practices with no lineage and no cosmology attached, and sets it on the same ledger as everything else.

You're not a soul on a journey. You're the power that creates souls.Featured in The National Law Review and taught at Esalen Institute, Platonic Surrealism is the modern metaphysical framework introduced by Kevin Cann and praised by leading scholars of consciousness and religion.Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripal calls it "e;a treasure of a book… ontologically profound,"e; while Dr. Anya Foxen describes it as "e;simple in the way all truly transformative things must be."e;A modern framework for awakening, afterlife inquiry, and inner wholeness—without religion, dogma, or woo‑woo."e;You"e; exist at multiple layers at once.Not as a single fragile soul, but as something vastly deeper:POTENTIALITY — the boundless field beneath all existenceAWARENESS — the luminous mirror that makes experience possiblePrimordial Consciousness — the first "e;I"e; before timeFractured Consciousness — the human perspective, local but not lesserThe Monad — your enduring, creative sparkThe Soul — a temporary interface woven for each world you enterThe Pain Self — the conditioned mask you can learn to outgrowThis is not a belief system — it is a clear, experiential map of what you are across life, death, and all the Movies of existence.A Practical System for Becoming WholePlatonic Surrealism teaches ten simple, non‑religious practices used by thousands of readers and workshop participants to:calm the nervous systemreunite fractured layers of identityintegrate painful experiences into stability through shadow work and inner child healing.activate deep nonverbal awarenessexperience "e;ascend‑in‑place"e; statesbuild a stable inner interface capable of genuine transformationThese practices are neuroscience‑aligned, accessible to atheists and mystics alike, and safe for those recovering from religion.For Seekers of the Afterlife, Awakening, Consciousness Studies, and High StrangenessWhether you've had a near‑death experience, a moment of high strangeness, a profound synchronicity, or simply feel larger than your personality, Platonic Surrealism offers a grounded way to understand your experience without superstition or self‑delusion.Readers who loved works by Jeffrey Kripal, Bernardo Kastrup, Michael Newton, or Rupert Spira will find here a fresh, practical, and non‑dogmatic framework.Endorsements from Scholars, Thinkers, and Explorers"e;A treasure of a book… Platonic Surrealism is profound and practical."e;—Jeffrey J. Kripal, Rice University"e;Self‑aware, unpretentious, non‑dogmatic… deceptively simple and deeply transformative."e;—Dr. Anya Foxen, Cal Poly"e;Revolutionarily insightful. Open your heart and you'll find peace."e;—Joshua Cutchin, Ecology of Souls"e;Bridges ancient tradition and modern spirituality… It's time to fly, Neo."e;—Miguel Conner, Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio"e;Kevin has innovated a metaphysical framework for the modern age."e;—Mike Fiorito, National Book Award Runner‑UpIt is possible that this work may shift your reality. It shifted mine. We are in safe hands."e;—Frank Malone, Psy.D., Licensed Psychoanalyst, 33 years clinical practiceA clear, contemporary path to wholeness, transcendence, and the deeper layers of what you truly are.No dogma. No fear. No hierarchy. Just clarity.

You feel like you suck. Your life doesn't work. You may be unemployed. You may be a university professor. You may have been beaten and abused. I understand. I lived your world for nearly thirty years.I was beaten with rods for ten of them. I was sexually battered in front of my high school graduating class.All this made me stronger.I am luminous now.It's no accident; I understand why this change happened.It did take me fifty years to fully understand all the pieces.I share these with you now.There's no bullshit.No massive intellect or philosophy is required.No positive thinking.No spirituality or religion.Just your own self that you were born with.I do use famous figures from philosophy and culture as examples, but as examples only.This book is for everyone.Eight people who found it are examined in depth — Harriet Tubman, Socrates, Viktor Frankl, Eckhart Tolle, and four others. Some arrived by falling. Some by forty years of ordinary mornings. None of them had what you are about to be given: a description of the mechanism, in plain language, with three practices that build it.You do not need to fall. You do not need decades.Two to five minutes a day. Three practices. Ninety days.The body learns what the mind cannot teach it. This book is the practice.Compliments of Kevin Cann, an autistic, retired navy veteran, published author, scientist, co-author with Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripal. Esalen institute instructor. I share this with you, not to impress you; but just to let you know that I have the brain cells required to do what I say that I did.

He trained as a nuclear engineer, taught to trust instruments and evidence. He spent the rest of his life seeing things no instrument could record.With a foreword by Joshua Cutchin, author of Ecology of Souls.A black triangle the size of several jumbo jets crossed the night sky in silence while he stood and watched. A being stripped to the blood once appeared at his patio door. During a near-death experience, he rose into a light he did not want to leave.Kevin Cann gave seven years to the Navy's nuclear program and thirty-one more as a systems engineer. He never wanted to believe any of it. He kept seeing anyway, and finally set it all down.Autobiography of an Experiencer gathers a lifetime of these encounters, each told plainly and left standing. A closing section lays out every honest reason to doubt them, written by the author against himself. One rule holds throughout: debunk the explanation, never the experience.This is not a book of proof, and it does not ask to be believed. Jacques Vallée investigated one of its events. Jeffrey Kripal of Rice University became Kevin's friend and stood beside him on the stage at Esalen. Cutchin reads the whole book as a study in twoness, the experiencer and the explainer turning out to be the same man.The story moves through childhood terror, a late diagnosis of autism, addiction, and collapse, and arrives somewhere the hard years never promised: a contented life.For readers of UFOs, near-death experience, neurodivergence, and the far edges of human consciousness. And for anyone who has suffered and needed to know that a strange and painful life can still come out whole.

Western and Eastern enlightenment are usually treated as opposites, one built on reason and the distrust of feeling, the other on dissolving the thinking self. This book argues that they are the same move aimed at opposite halves of a single instrument. Both erase part of the person in the name of seeing clearly, and both leave the seeker running on half his cognitive capacity. The real division was never geographic. It runs between the verbal mind and the wordless one, the two channels every human being is issued at birth.Addressed to two scholars by name and to the professors of the humanities generally, the book traces this division across civilizations. It sorts what the Eastern systems actually claim, one at a time, and shows that the category "e;enlightenment"e; was manufactured in nineteenth-century English and applied to traditions that never asked for it. It follows the Western antibody, the demand for public evidence that broke the Church's monopoly on transcendence and then overshot, ruling the wordless channel inadmissible. And it gathers the witnesses who reached the seam and were failed by it: Wallas, whose 1926 account of incubation went out of print; Gopi Krishna, who asked both civilizations to study him and was studied by neither; Suzuki, Obeyesekere, and the flow researchers who measured a wordless state without noticing the other one.The evidence is drawn from moral psychology, the incubation and flow literatures, and the history of religion, and it is held to a strict discipline. Every finding is entered as a candidate on a ledger, named as testimony, self-selected and unblinded, and denied a verdict the data cannot support. The book offers one candidate solution of its own, a set of plain practices with no lineage and no cosmology attached, and sets it on the same ledger as everything else.