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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)

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Characteristics Essay Peer reviewed
Topics Meditation
Keywords Individuation Function biology Consciousness Nexus standard Perspective graphical Psychoanalysis Epistemology State computer science Subconscious Cognitive psychology Conceptualization Aesthetics Narrative
Key points 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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