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The Two Voices -

Chris Swenson

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 15, 2026 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19038508 (opens in new tab) via OpenAlex

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A retired Air Force emergency management specialist recounts a fourteen-year gap between his conscious beliefs and what his body already knew, and how running with AI as a reflective partner helped close that gap. The essay connects personal experience with the REBUS predictive processing model, MDMA-assisted psychotherapy research, meditation neuroscience, Internal Family Systems theory, and flow state literature to propose that anxiety can function as a diagnostic signal of unresolved narrative-reality mismatch.

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Characteristics Essay Peer reviewed
Topics Meditation
Keywords Individuation Function biology Consciousness Nexus standard Perspective graphical
Key finding Proposes that anxiety can function as a diagnostic signal of unresolved narrative-reality mismatch.

Abstract

Drop 4 of 21 from the SOL NEXUS manuscript. A retired Air Force emergency management specialist describes the fourteen-year gap between what his conscious mind believed and what his body already knew, and how running with AI as a reflective partner finally closed it. The essay connects lived experience with the REBUS predictive processing model, MDMA-assisted psychotherapy research, meditation neuroscience, Internal Family Systems theory, and flow state literature to propose that anxiety can function as a diagnostic signal of unresolved narrative-reality mismatch. References Carhart-Harris and Friston (2019), Schwartz (1995), Brewer et al. (2011), Mitchell et al. (2021), and Jung's individuation process.

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