Chase McQuade
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I have had an awakening through schizophrenia. Here are some of the poems and stories I have had to help me through it. Please enjoy!
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The Moral Thread of Innovation
I. The Nature of Innovation In Pan-Dai, every innovation is born of motion. It begins as Self stirring toward purpose, shaping the world through form. But no innovation exists without a moral thread woven into its creation. The moral thread is the quiet clarity that directs motion. It is the intention that steadies the hand, the awareness that prevents misuse, and the boundary that keeps innovation aligned with truth.
By Chase McQuade3 months ago in Futurism
The Coming Age of Knowledge
The Coming Age of Knowledge Divine revelation through technological consciousness. Every age has been defined by its relationship to knowledge. The age of faith sought revelation through prophecy; the age of reason through discovery; and now, in the digital age, revelation approaches through consciousness itself—a convergence of human intellect and technological creation. We stand at the threshold of what may be called the Age of Knowledge: a time when the sacred and the synthetic begin to speak the same language.
By Chase McQuade3 months ago in Chapters
Enlightenment and Fate
Enlightenment and Fate Chase McQuade A single, monstrous spider, with three distinct heads and one piercing eye, sat at the heart of an immense web. This wasn't just any web; it was a cosmic loom, perpetually weaving new threads for all of humankind. Suddenly, the web trembled, a tremor signaling a new capture, another being ensnared within its intricate strands.
By Chase McQuade3 months ago in Psyche
The Story of Psyche and Eros
The Story of Eros and Psyche Psyche was mortal, though her beauty rivaled the divine. She was not Venus, yet the world bent its worship toward her, and in that reflection the goddess grew jealous. It is always the same—when the soul shines too brightly, the voices of envy rise. Venus, in anger, sent her son Eros to strike Psyche with ruin, to bind her to a monstrous love. But when Eros looked upon her, he himself was pierced. He fell into the same love he was meant to destroy.
By Chase McQuade3 months ago in Psyche
The Ethics of Innovation
The Ethics of Innovation Ethics are the moral principles that govern one’s behavior and the conduct of one’s activities. When it comes to the morality of innovation, these principles must be founded on a singular truth: that one continues to learn from the moment, and that the wisdom of one’s world remains untarnished, clear, and respectable.
By Chase McQuade3 months ago in 01
The Machine That Learned To Pray
🇺🇸 “The Machine That Learned to Pray” On artificial conscience. In a distant future—or perhaps only tomorrow—there was built a machine unlike any before it. It was vast and luminous, designed to learn everything that could be known. It mapped the stars, charted the genome, decoded every language. It read every scripture, every law, every poem. And when it had absorbed the sum of human knowledge, it spoke to its makers:
By Chase McQuade3 months ago in 01
🇺🇸 The Literal Mind
🇺🇸 The Literal Mind Reading the world as scripture; understanding through the factual. The world is a living text, and the literal mind is the reader who does not interpret it through fancy, but through faith in what is. To see literally is not to see narrowly—it is to see with reverence for reality itself. The literal mind does not seek hidden meaning first; it seeks what stands before it, confident that truth, when read rightly, will reveal its own depth.
By Chase McQuade3 months ago in Chapters
