The Work in the World
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— Political Scientist, early reader
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- 2,500+ weekly readers
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- 12-minute average read time
- 6 countries represented
Speaking & Interviews
Available for podcasts, interviews, and discussions about:
- Civilizational diagnosis and shadow work
- The Gender War analysis
- Integration beyond political binaries
- The framework for consciousness evolution
Featured Essays
The Gender War Is Not About Gender
Our most shared diagnosis - revealing why the West uniquely transforms human variation into crisis
The Cancer of Integration
The foundational framework piece - why we can't hold paradox
The Book of Korm
Coming Winter 2026
A mythological framework for consciousness beyond good and evil
- Limited first edition: 1000 copies
- Pre-orders opening November 2025
Work With Daniel
For Podcasters & Interviewers
I offer a diagnostic perspective on:
- Current events through the framework lens
- Collective shadow projections in cultural conflicts
- The mechanism beneath surface politics
- Practical integration work
Booking: [email protected]
For Organizations
Limited consulting on:
- Recognizing organizational shadow
- Transcending binary thinking in leadership
- Building integration practices
- Moving beyond the Hollow Senex pattern
About Daniel Curtis
Former Chief Digital and Technology Officer turned cultural diagnostician. After 22 years of optimizing systems, I experienced direct gnosis at 33 that revealed the splitting beneath all our conflicts. Now I diagnose civilizational diseases and offer integration paths beyond the binary.
Background:
- 22 years in technology and leadership
- Deep study of Jung, Depth Psychology, World Mythology, Eastern and Western philosophy, and mysticism
- Direct mystical experiences informing the framework (gnosis)
- Creator of The (all) Unknowing diagnostic system
Press Materials
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Short (50 words)
Daniel Curtis is a cultural diagnostician and creator of The (all) Unknowing. After 22 years as a Chief Digital Officer, a direct mystical experience revealed the splitting beneath civilizational conflicts. He now diagnoses collective shadow projections and offers frameworks for integration beyond binary consciousness through essays, podcasts, and his forthcoming Book of Korm.
Medium (150 words)
Daniel Curtis is a cultural diagnostician who reveals the metaphysical diseases destroying Western civilization from within. After 22 years of optimizing corporate systems as a Chief Digital and Technology Officer, a profound mystical experience at 33 exposed the mechanism beneath all cultural conflicts: our inability to hold paradox (the Cancer of Integration) and severing ourselves from embodied wisdom (the Cancer of Eros).
Drawing from depth psychology, Eastern philosophy, and direct gnosis, Curtis created The (all) Unknowing—a diagnostic framework that transcends political binaries to reveal how both "sides" serve the same splitting. His work examines collective shadow projections, hollow authority structures, and the systematic murder of the feminine principle in Western consciousness.
Through essays, podcasts, and his forthcoming Book of Korm, Curtis offers integration paths beyond the exhausting culture wars, showing readers how to recognize the mechanism rather than perform in it.
Long (300 words)
Daniel Curtis spent 22 years as a Chief Digital and Technology Officer, building systems of remarkable efficiency that were, he later recognized, "prisons of perpetual underperformance." At 33, a direct mystical experience—what mystics call gnosis—shattered his ability to maintain the performance. This catalyzed six years of intensive shadow work, dream analysis, and systematic observation of consciousness mechanics both individually and collectively.
Curtis's diagnostic framework, The (all) Unknowing, emerged from integrating Jungian depth psychology, Eastern concepts of Atman and Maya, gnosis, and phenomenological observation of how consciousness operates. His work reveals two fundamental diseases: the Cancer of Integration (our pathological inability to hold paradox) and the Cancer of Eros (our severing from embodied wisdom and direct knowing). These twin pathologies transform every human difference into an existential crisis, creating the exhausting culture wars that dominate Western discourse.
Unlike typical cultural commentary that takes sides, Curtis diagnoses the mechanism beneath all splitting. His essays reveal how progressives and conservatives serve the same disease through different symptoms, how institutions maintain power through manufactured separation, and how the "Hollow Senex"—empty authority requiring constant external validation—appears across all ideological structures.
His forthcoming book, The Book of Korm, presents a mythological framework for consciousness beyond good and evil, offering not another ideology but a diagnostic cure for ideological thinking itself. Curtis shows how the murder of the feminine principle (Shakti/Sophia) has left Western civilization with consciousness without creative power—literally "shava" (a corpse) in Sanskrit.
Through precise diagnosis of collective shadow projections, Curtis offers readers a path beyond the binary: not through spiritual bypassing or political positioning, but through the difficult work of integration. His work speaks to those exhausted by performing in theaters they know are fake, offering recognition of the mechanisms and practices for stepping off the stage entirely.
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