The journal
Field notes
The Explore page holds the files: where each question stands and what would move it. This page is the looking itself. Short notes from the field land here as they happen, longer essays and investigations follow when they are ready, and every entry answers to the same four labels as the rest of the site.
Where the boots have been
Five notes open the journal: three from Egypt, one from an expo floor, one from a river. The numbers are the order of filing, nothing more.
Note 01 Giza Plateau · Egypt
A measurement shortens an argument
The day job flew to Egypt in a backpack. Between stops I walked the Giza plateau with a handheld LiDAR scanner, and the Sphinx, which has held that hollow for thousands of years, now also exists as a point cloud: millions of measured positions anyone can turn over, rotate, and interrogate long after the plane ride home.
Here is why I bother. Arguments about ancient stone tend to run on photographs, memory, and conviction. A measurement ignores all three. It states what is there and in what condition, and lets every claim adjust itself around that. The capture write‑up lives on the Anatum blog.
Render · 16:10
Note 02 Dendera · Egypt
The carving people call a light bulb
In a crypt under the temple of Hathor there is a relief the internet knows by heart: a long oval, a serpent inside it, a stem running down to a lotus. The popular claim says the Egyptians carved a picture of electric light. Standing in that narrow room, I understood the appeal. The shape really does look like a bulb.
What is on the wall is evidence. What the wall means is interpretation, and the two readings are not equally supported. The temple’s own inscriptions describe a creation scene, a serpent born from a lotus. The lamp reading requires wiring, fixtures, and a power source that excavation has never produced anywhere in Egypt. I left more impressed by the room than by the claim, and I can say plainly what would move me: dig up the device.
Note 03 Saqqara & Giza · Egypt
Two practitioners worth knowing
Egypt also came with company. At the Step Pyramid of Saqqara I photographed Sarah Breskman Cosme, and at Giza, Suzanne Spooner: two prominent practitioners of QHHT, the deep‑trance regression method developed by Dolores Cannon, on the road with their Ancient Lifetimes tour.
A QHHT session produces something genuinely strange: a detailed, first‑person account delivered from a state the speaker does not fully steer. I file that territory the way I file my own story. Experience, real as experience, with what it establishes held open and held separately. That is not a dismissal. It is the standard everything here answers to, and their work sits close to half the files in the drawer.
Photograph · 3:4
Photograph · 3:4
Note 04 The expo floor
What people tell you at a booth
A booth rearranges you. On a stage you talk. Behind a table you listen, and at this year’s expos the same scene kept repeating: a stranger checks who is in earshot, leans in, and hands over a story carried quietly for years, often opened with the same six words. I have never told anyone this.
Almost nobody wanted me to tell them what their experience meant. They wanted to know the question was allowed, and that someone with a science background would take it seriously without laughing. That demand is exactly what Dragon Clan TV is being built to answer, and it is larger than I guessed.
Photograph · 16:10
Note 05 A river · New Jersey
The control group
Between trips there is a river. The river is where all of this gets tested against something that cannot be argued with: a trout takes the fly or it refuses, and no interpretation survives contact with a refusal.
Fishing and birding built the habit every page here runs on. A lifetime of bird lists and stream logs teaches you the exact width of the gap between I saw and I think I saw, and that gap is where this whole site lives. Also, some days you land a brown trout, and that is reason enough to keep a journal.
Photograph · 16:10
On the desk
Three longer entries in preparation. The titles are settled. The work is not.
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Essay
In preparation
The I Don’t Know File
A running record of the questions I cannot close, and why keeping them open matters.
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Investigation
In preparation
What Would Change My Mind About Atlantis
Setting an evidence bar for the most famous lost civilization before arguing about it.
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Essay
In preparation
What Building With AI Taught Me About Consciousness
Intelligence and awareness may not be the same thing. Making tools forces the question.