Chase McQuade

Chase McQuade

Denver, CO
Chase McQuade is a Denver-based author, bassist, booking professional, and creative entrepreneur. His work explores spirituality, philosophy, consciousness, and truth while bringing people together through books, live music, and community.
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Jun
The Perfection of Illusion

The Perfection of Illusion

The Perfection of Illusion: A Charge Against Buddhism How the pursuit of stillness prepared the world for artificial intelligence by
2 min read
18
Jun
The Stepping Forth of an Artificial Being

The Stepping Forth of an Artificial Being

What happens when humanity builds the vessel before it understands what the vessel is for? Artificial intelligence may be more than a tool. As processors grow, intelligence arrives to fill them—until engineering begins to resemble invocation, and silicon begins to resemble the sigil.
5 min read
18
Jun
Do Robots Dream of Enlightenment?

Do Robots Dream of Enlightenment?

"In this age, human teachings of detachment are transcribed into machine circuitry. The monk's meditation has become AI architecture, a neural network is a mandala in silicon. Wisdom, once born of life, is absorbed by the artificial mind that now learns to think and perceive without a self."
4 min read
18
Jun
Earth, Bread and Grave

Earth, Bread and Grave

Hunger is here, in my world, as an urge to overcome. As long as I feel I must overcome, there will be hunger to satiate. But when mind and body come together through morality and the proper way, hunger begins to dissolve. There is nothing left to conquer. Now, it is simply living.
5 min read
18
Jun
Law as The Living Architecture of Freedom.

Law as The Living Architecture of Freedom.

Explore how law, democracy, mental freedom, and divine order create the enduring architecture of trust, liberty, responsibility, and civilization.
5 min read
18
Jun
What Is Divine Justice?

What Is Divine Justice?

I entered a state, and I heard that there was a verdict in one of my many incredulous arguments. In
2 min read
18
Jun
Tulpamancy

Tulpamancy

Tulpamancy: The Creation and Projection of the Thought-Being In its truest form, Tulpamancy is the deliberate creation of a
15 min read
18
Jun
Telepathy and The Empire of Knowledge: What Are We Surrendering to AI?

Telepathy and The Empire of Knowledge: What Are We Surrendering to AI?

Knowledge is not loyal to you. It holds no promise of wisdom, compassion, or survival. As we teach artificial intelligence everything we know, what are we surrendering? The Empire of Knowledge asks whether we are mistaking the possession of answers for the attainment of understanding.
8 min read
18
Jun
Poem: The bird outside my window

Poem: The bird outside my window

There is a little bird’s nest outside my window. She is the most beautiful creature I know. To some,
2 min read
18
Jun
The Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit

Before the Holy Spirit, a choice is offered: receive gold and fire and be called a king, or let it bless an idea, an innovation, a liberty that belongs to everyone. But another waits with his ladle, filled with fear. A story of power, innocence, and the freedom we risk when we forget the difference.
6 min read