About

My Name Is Chase McQuade

I am a writer and musician in Colorado, and the author behind The Telepathic Counter Revolution.

Much of my writing begins with a question I have had to live through. What is happening when a voice is heard? What makes an experience convincing? How do we recognize ourselves amid the stories, fears, and expectations that gather around us?

For more than a decade, hearing voices has been part of my life. The experience has brought distress, uncertainty, companionship, and questions that have followed me into my writing. Through Awakening Through Schizophrenia, I began giving language to that territory.

I wanted to examine the experience from within, while leaving room to question what I believed it meant.

Experience and the Search for Meaning

My work moves among personal accounts, essays, dialogues, and parables. Sometimes an idea needs careful examination. Sometimes a bee, a flower, or a familiar character can bring a difficult question within reach.

Meredith appears throughout these writings as a voice and a recurring literary presence. Through those dialogues and stories, I explore affection, identity, imagination, and the possibility of finding meaning within experiences that can be difficult to explain.

Telepathy is one of the interpretations I investigate. I distinguish that interpretation from the experience itself: feeling a connection with another mind does not, by itself, establish how that feeling arose.

The questions remain open to examination. So must I.

Faith, Illusion, and Compassion

Christ holds a central place in my life and writing. I return to compassion, mercy, truth, and the responsibility to care for the person before us.

Buddhist thought also has a substantial place in my work. Its questions concerning suffering, attachment, impermanence, and illusion invite both engagement and disagreement. I examine these ideas through my experience and sometimes challenge the conclusions drawn from them.

What do we mean when we say we have awakened? What has changed in how we live? Have we become more capable of love, more patient with uncertainty, more responsible toward one another?

These questions matter to me because an understanding must eventually meet a life. There is food to prepare, work to do, someone to listen to. Whatever we discover must find its way into that world.

From the Inner Life to the World We Share

The Telepathic Counter Revolution grew from this continuing inquiry.

Artificial intelligence gives these questions another setting. We express ourselves through language, choices, and the traces we leave online. Systems interpret those expressions and return predictions, recommendations, and answers. I explore what that exchange means for attention, identity, and freedom of judgment.

My writing on America: The Philosophy of a Nation carries the inquiry toward liberty, democracy, and moral responsibility. The individual and the nation meet in the conditions we create for one another.

What kind of world allows a person to question freely, live with dignity, and contribute something of their own?

A Life in Music

Music is another part of this inquiry and of my everyday life. I play electric bass and lead Super Premium Ultra Deluxe, a band rooted in jazz, rock, and funk.

Playing together requires attention. You bring your own voice, listen to the others, and discover what becomes possible between you. That relationship between individuality and participation also runs through my writing.

Read and Connect

My books include Awakening Through Schizophrenia, Glamour and Truth, The Sapphire, and The Mind’s Double. Together with the essays and stories published here, they form an evolving body of work.

These writings offer personal experience, spiritual reflection, and philosophical inquiry. They are not a substitute for mental-health care.

Begin with Start Here, explore the Essays, or visit Books for longer readings.

For correspondence and inquiries:
chase.montague.mcquade@gmail.com

You can also follow my writing on Facebook.

Bring your curiosity. There is room here for thoughtful disagreement, and there is still much to examine.

—Chase McQuade