The written school

Essays.

Consciousness, first-person practice, and life design, written for rational people.

Published · Awakened Magazine · in English

What happens when a rational neuroscientist has a near-death experience?

The story that turned a professional question into a personal one, and the beginning of the road that became this school.

Daniel Branco · read at Awakened Magazine ↗

A Verb, Not a Position

What two hundred theories of consciousness cannot tell you. Appears first in Awakened Magazine; the full essay lands here after the magazine publishes.

Daniel Branco · monthly essays begin here
Essay · in English · 4 min

What is Fundamentally Fundamental?

The deeper science digs, the less real matter becomes, until the most irreducible thing left looks less like matter and more like an idea. Might ultimate reality live inside consciousness?

Daniel Branco · from the orbit of Spiriduality
Essay · in English · 6 min

The Short Sprint of Science in Human History

Science is a recent, brilliant method for building consensus about a shared world, but it was never built to reach first-person reality. What happens when the assumptions crack?

Daniel Branco · from the orbit of Spiriduality
Essay · in English · 9 min

Want to Live Forever? You Got It! (A Thought Experiment)

A man asks to live forever. A neuroscientist obliges, replacing neuron by neuron, copying brain to brain, until the question becomes unavoidable: are you your brain, or something that can't be copied?

Daniel Branco · from the orbit of Spiriduality
Essay · in English · 6 min

You Have the Power to Become Rich. But Is That All You're Gonna Do?

If you are the creator of your reality, wealth is just one thing you could make. Wealth is a metric in creation, not in the creator. So what are you actually here to create?

Daniel Branco · from the orbit of Spiriduality

Essays appear in English and Portuguese as translations complete, on both of the school's homes.