# Research Outline for The Magic and Mysteries of Hyperstition and Human Layer Resonance Tayken commentary: > I am absolutely allergic to religious zealotry and anyone who discounts alternative perspective and honest moral imagination. I met Pedro at a time when discounting organized religion and moral grounding in the face of exponential AI and social collapse was growing untenable. In light of the [[Integrity Vacuum + Digital Self]], humans were (and are) desperate for moral anchors and community and he (for me) represented a critically important human layer that clearly understood and had lived both sides. > > I'm deeply grateful to Pedro for his kindness, courage, and willingness to let go. This episode was also inspired by the ideas and research being pioneered by Donald Hoffman. Learn more by watching, [The Greatest Discovery About Reality & the Consciousness Behind It ](https://youtu.be/xaeafKPfs1M?si=1bXx4sDUU0xuYdn9) --- # Pre-Pod Research Outline > The following research outline was created using ChatGPT prior to recording [[Episode 6 - Pedro Senhorinha Silva]]. We invite you to run the concepts and questions that resonate through your own research processes or models. ## **I. Identity, Calling, and Contradiction** 1. You’ve lived as pastor, poet, producer, and now project director — which of those “Silva selves” feels most _true_, and which feels most _constructed_? 2. Do you trust your intuition in leadership, or do you rely more on process and consensus? What happens when the two conflict? 3. You work to unify people at scale, yet intuition is deeply personal — almost unshareable. How do you balance the collective and the intuitive? 4. In your view, is faith an act of surrendering to something _given_, or an act of _creating_ something into being — a kind of spiritual hyperstition? --- ## **II. Faith, Systems, and the Digital World** 5. When systems become algorithmic, intuition becomes subversive. How do you nurture intuition inside the logic of technology and institutions? 6. What would it look like to build technology that listens to intuition — not just data? 7. Do you see modern narratives of “progress” and “unity” as acts of hyperstition — stories we tell until they start to structure reality? 8. YOUnify’s mission is to bring people together. Could it be that the story of unity itself becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy — a collective hyperstition of reconciliation? 9. When you look at the myths we’re writing through social media and AI, do you think we’re building a digital faith — or a digital delusion? --- ## **III. Creation, Art, and Revelation** 10. Poets are intuitive architects of language. How do you listen for what wants to be written, rather than what you _want_ to write? 11. Do you think art operates as a kind of hyperstition — creating futures by imagining them vividly enough? 12. In the creative process, how do you distinguish between divine inspiration and personal intuition? 13. If you could name one poem, song, or project that changed _you_, what would it be? --- ## **IV. Unity, Power, and Transformation** 14. You often speak about bridging divides. Is unity a vision you’re intuitively drawn to, or a narrative you strategically sustain? 15. In a world fueled by competing hyperstitions — political, religious, technological — how can we tell the difference between a redemptive myth and a manipulative one? 16. What happens when a collective intuition becomes so strong it changes policy, behavior, or destiny? Is that still intuition, or does it become something else? 17. Do you think institutions can cultivate intuition, or does it only arise from disruption and vulnerability? --- ## **V. The Human Layer** 18. “The Human Layer” — what if it’s the meeting point between intuition (the inner myth) and hyperstition (the outer manifestation)? Does that resonate with you? 19. How do you see the human layer evolving as our myths become code, and our intuitions become data-driven? 20. If humanity is, in some sense, a story that became real — what story do you hope we’re writing next? --- ## Metacloser: You’ve worked with both prayer and project management. Which is more powerful: to _believe_ in something until it’s real, or to _feel_ something real before believing in it?