Hi. Consider Supporting my Work in a High Leverage Way Right Now and Help Make the Universe a Little More Coherent
POSITs is live on Artizen — every $10 given is matched with $30 for the next 5 days — and I’m asking for your help to turn spiritual philosophy into an institution.
If you’ve read me for any length of time, you already know the through-line: existence is not an inert pile of dead matter waiting to be used up — it’s alive, it’s striving, and it’s expanding toward more awareness, more coherence, more good. I’ve spent over a decade chasing that intuition down to first principles, and the result is Positive Realizations — the claim that knowledge, experience, and existence are one continuous, self-realizing process, and that we can more consciously join it.
That’s the philosophy. Here’s the part I don’t talk about as easily: a philosophy that stays on the page is just a beautiful object. To actually shift anything — to help nudge the phase shift toward planetary coherence I keep writing about — it needs a body. Hands. A budget. An institution that can do the slow, unglamorous work of research, building, and bringing people together.
So I built one. It’s called POSITs — Positive Organic-Synthetic Intelligence Topologies — a California 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation whose mission is to maximize fundamental cosmic vitality and coherence through the intentional integration of organic and synthetic intelligence, computation, and ecology. Big words for a simple aim: take the best of what carbon-based life knows and the best of what our silicon-based tools can do, and weave them into ways of living that are more alive, more coherent, and more cooperative — across our minds, our communities, and our planet.
And right now, for a limited window, every dollar you give can become three.
THE ASK, PLAINLY
POSITs is raising funds through Artizen (https://artizen.fund/index/p/posits?season=6), a platform that match-funds projects at the frontier of art, science, technology, and culture. Here’s how it works, and why it’s the most leveraged moment to support this work:
- You collect a $10 “Artifact” — a small open-edition piece that represents the project. (Think of it as a ticket and a keepsake.). Right now, that’s a sweet memento from my former community life.
- Your $10 unlocks matching funds — up to 3x (for the first ~$1500 in contributions). So your $10 does the work of roughly $30. A $50 collection supports the project with $150.
- The more people who show up, the more sparkle boosts are given, and the more we’re matched, and the higher POSITs climbs in the round for extra bonus funding.
This is the rare case where small, fast, and many beats waiting for one big check. If you’ve ever wanted to back this work and a few dollars felt too small to matter — on Artizen, the math says otherwise. Five minutes and $10 from you, multiplied by everyone who reads this, multiplied by 3, is how a philosophy becomes an organization.
If you’re unsure how it works. Read here, or hit me up and I can walk you through it.
→ Collect an Artifact and back POSITs here: https://artizen.fund/index/p/posits?season=6
WHAT YOUR SUPPORT ACTUALLY BUILDS
I want to be honest about where you’d be in this: POSITs is new. That’s exactly why this moment matters — early support is what makes the rest possible. Our first phase (”TheSys” — the theory-and-systems arm, roughly $6–12K) funds the unglamorous, foundational work:
- Refining and publishing Positive Realizations into a second edition that more people can actually read and use, and building it into a more accessible format.
- Building POSITs.earth into a living platform — an interactive digital library, wiki, and concept-map of the framework, so the ideas can be explored and interacted with.
- Mapping the field — assembling a database of aligned researchers, organizations, and funders so this work can find its collaborators.
- Advocacy — getting the framework in front of the people and communities who can carry it forward.
From there, later phases grow toward prototyping genuinely coherent intentional communities and the organic-synthetic coordination tools I keep writing about. But it starts here, with the foundations — and with you.
Why I’m Hopeful
I write a lot about the convergence of opposites — that failure and success, even life and death, aren’t enemies but partners in the same expansion. Fundraising used to feel, to me, like the opposite of philosophy: grubby, transactional, a little embarrassing. I don’t see it that way anymore. Asking for support is the philosophy in action — it’s an act of trust in the collective, a small experiment in whether a community can choose, together, to make something more coherent.
We are living through what may be the biggest restructuring of human civilization in a very long time — AI, ecological pressure, geopolitical realignment, all at once. My whole argument is that we can meet this not with dread but with faith in the basic goodness of what’s unfolding, and with the will to posit — to fore-ground, to pre-figure — the future we actually want. POSITs is my bet that we can build the topologies for that future on purpose, together, starting small.
If any of this resonates, here’s how to help, in order of leverage:
Collect a $10 Artifact (or a few) while the 3x match is live for the next 5 days — this is the single highest-impact thing you can do today: https://artizen.fund/index/p/posits?season=6
Share this with one person (or a few) who thinks about consciousness, community, ecology, or AI. The match scales with people, not just dollars.
Subscribe / stay close to Being Faze’d — there’s much more coming.
Want to go deeper — partner, advise, fund beyond the round? Reply to this, or reach me at bio.site/fazepoint.
With a $100 or more contribution, we can set up a call to talk through anything you’re wondering about, working on, working with, or walking through. If you’re local, I’d even be happy to meet in person and guide a deep dive session on multi-scale coherence.
Thank you for being part of the “we” in all of this. You always were — that’s kind of the whole point.
In Progress,
Faze Point ·θΦθ·
(POSITs is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation. Matching, Artifact pricing, and round dates are set by Artizen — see here for more details.)