The Evolutionary Sovereignty System
A system for training reality authorship
Evolutionary Sovereignty is a system for building the internal structures that shape how you perceive, act, and make meaning. It teaches you to take responsibility for the architecture that governs your reality, rather than inheriting it by default.
This system was developed when every tradition I had been trained in failed to meet the demands of life.
Zen, alchemy, martial arts, and neuroscience each offered part of the picture. But when my nervous system collapsed and the structures I relied on stopped working, no lineage, practice, method, or tradition by itself could do what I needed to do.
So I reverse-engineered how I author my reality based on direct contact with what works, what doesn’t, and what is required to live with clarity, responsibility, and authorship. These training programs are now available on YourTurnML.com
Evolutionary Sovereignty is for those who are ready to take ownership of how they navigate the world.
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Weaving The Threads of Sovereignty
The system is built around seven Threads, each composed of its own fibers. Every Thread represents a domain of experience that we must consciously engage to have the impact we intend, be who we choose to be, and continue evolving as we go.
These Threads are not isolated stages; they are interwoven functions that together form the tapestry of a Sovereign life. That life is measured by three simple questions:
- Am I being who I want to be?
- Is what I’m doing in integrity with that “who”?
- Am I paying attention to how things are going so I can keep evolving?
The chart below outlines each Thread’s function, its internal and external domains, and the type of training it represents.
Thread G—Fruition—is the rope woven from the other six. Fruition is not a final step. It’s the lived quality of sovereignty when the system is active and integrated.
| Thread | Function | Internal Domain | External Domain | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A – Paradigm Logic | Epistemic orientation | Knowing | Direction | Structural |
| B – Inner Architecture | Inner organization | Choosing | Acting | Architectural |
| C – Karmic Playground | Real-world integration | Testing | Responding | Experimental |
| D – Embodied Meditation | Presence regulation | Staying | Stabilizing | Energetic |
| E – Transmission | Relational influence | Sensing | Transmitting | Relational |
| F – Symbolic Reconstruction | Symbolic encoding | Mythologizing | Designing | Expressive |
Much can be learned by checking out the
Evolutionary Sovereignty Glossary of Terms.
(an embedded Google Sheet so it’s always up to date)
Thread A — Paradigm Logic
Thread A trains your ability to see clearly. It helps you recognize that the way you see the world isn’t neutral—past structures, internal assumptions, and unexamined commitments shape it.
This Thread doesn’t give you new beliefs. It shows you how to examine the ones you already have. You learn how to set a North Star, ask better questions, and see where your current lens is misaligned with what you actually value or know.
You also begin to sense the shape of reality itself, a dynamic tapestry of being and becoming.
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Thread B — Inner Architecture
Thread B trains your ability to stabilize the identity you’re choosing to live from. It helps you build the internal structures that allow that identity to hold under pressure, across time, and in different relational or environmental contexts.
Most people switch between unconscious roles, reactive behaviors, and inherited personas without realizing it. This Thread teaches you to install structure intentionally, so that your chosen values, vision, and sense of self are not just fleeting states but a lived architecture.
You learn how to track what’s shaping your attention, interrupt old patterns, and reinforce chosen ones. You also begin to experience somatic coherence. Somatic coherence is the felt sense that your identity, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors are aligned in real time. It doesn’t mean that you feel good, it means that there is no internal contradiction.
Train in Thread B with the following YourTurnML.com offerings:
Thread C — Karmic Playground
Thread C invites us to “dance like no one’s watching.” This is where we explore how our values, vision, and internal structure manifest throughout our lives.
Life isn’t about getting everything right, like a jigsaw puzzle to be put together and left to gather dust. Life is an ongoing chemical reaction, and we are the Alchemists. Playing on the Karmic Playground is all about trying things, receiving feedback, and making adjustments. You begin to treat life as a playground for experimentation, not a performance to perfect.
Habits, preferences, and reactions become signals instead of problems. They show you how your system is currently wired and where it wants to evolve. Nothing is final, and everything is usable, and we get to make the rules.
Thread D – Embodied Meditation
Thread D trains your ability to stay present in your body, on purpose, across changing conditions. It includes seated meditation, but goes beyond it to the activities of daily life. You learn to regulate your attention, nervous system, and core signal so that presence becomes a habit.
The focus here is on direct contact with breath, body, and sensation. You learn to stay with what’s arising without reacting to it, collapsing under it, or needing to fix it. Instead of using stillness to escape, you recognize a stillness that is always present, metabolizing experience, and producing coherence.
This thread fosters the internal conditions that enable you to stay connected, responsive, and genuine.
Train in Thread D with the following YourTurnML.com offerings:
Also, for those interested in East Asian Wisdom, consider practicing with me at Open Door Zen. Open Door Zen is a rigorous training ground for direct experience, where meditative insight, ethical clarity, and structural integrity are cultivated through the living practice of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Each practice session includes time for Qigong and Embodied Meditation.
Thread E — Transmission
Thread E trains how you relate to the invisible field between people and the world around us. Everything is transmitting and receiving all the time.
This Thread sharpens your ability to receive transmission through people, texts, symbols, or environments, and how to take responsibility for it. You stop assuming that influence is accidental. You begin to notice the structure of what’s coming through you, and whether it’s aligned with what you intend to offer.
Transmission isn’t about being special. It’s about being structurally clear. The more coherent your internal architecture, the more reliable your impact becomes, whether you’re speaking, teaching, listening, or simply holding space.
Thread E not only invites us to engage the signal we send consciously, it also trains us to feel, filter, and choose what we receive. Receive a high-impact transmission with a Threshold Call.
Train in Thread E with the following YourTurnML.com offerings:
Also, for those interested in East Asian Wisdom, consider practicing with me at Open Door Zen. Open Door Zen is a rigorous training ground for direct experience, where meditative insight, ethical clarity, and structural integrity are cultivated through the living practice of Mahāyāna Buddhism. It contributes to our training in Transmission through group embodiment, meditation, and dialogue. You can also schedule daisan, a traditional means of transmission from the Zen lineage.
Thread F — Symbolic Reconstruction
This Thread trains you to interact with the symbolic layer of reality and its structural influence. Symbols reflect what we’re currently experiencing, while also shaping what becomes possible to experience and enact.
Thread F applies this principle by encouraging conscious engagement with the symbols that express and construct your reality. Language, gesture, clothing, ritual, sacred text, meme, and myth—these are the fibers. This Thread teaches you to weave them deliberately.
You train symbolic reconstruction by choosing the aesthetic, the story, and the perspective you want to structure your world. Over time, you learn to adjust these at will, gaining the ability to shift your viewpoint without losing coherence. This preserves your sovereignty, rather than handing it over to inherited or externally imposed worldviews.
Train in Thread F with the following YourTurnML.com offerings:
Also, for those interested in East Asian Wisdom, consider practicing with me at Open Door Zen. Open Door Zen is a rigorous training ground for direct experience, where meditative insight, ethical clarity, and structural integrity are cultivated through the living practice of Mahāyāna Buddhism. It contributes to Symbolic Reconstruction by working with psychoactive texts, like the Lankavatara Sutra.
Thread G – Fruition
Thread G is the visible quality of your system in motion; the “rope” woven from all the other Threads as they interact and integrate in real time.
This Thread doesn’t have practices of its own. It’s where the impact of your training becomes apparent: in how you respond under pressure, how you re-center when thrown off, and how your choices align with what you know.
Fruition reveals the current state of your system and points back to the essential questions:
- Am I being who I want to be?
- Is what I’m doing in integrity with that “who”?
- Am I paying attention to how things are going so I can keep evolving?
Begin where you are.
There is no single way into Evolutionary Sovereignty. Each aspect is already present in your life so you can choose where to start your engagement.
This paradigm doesn’t require a leap of faith, it only requires you to engage with it. When you observe how your life unfolds and refine it in real-time according to your chosen way of being, you are evolving as a Sovereign.