David E. Martin
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July 19, 2026 · Inverted Alchemy

“Before” There Was Life and Matter

Genesis and modern cosmology both begin without the structures we call the world. Perhaps the first enduring structure was not matter, but relationship.

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2020 · Book

Lizards Eat Butterflies

An antidote to the self-help obsession: the obstacles to our humanity are illusions, removable by a shift in perspective.

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June 4, 2026 · Inverted Alchemy

Leading with No Followers

Xenophon’s Cyrus captivated not because he was powerful but because he seemed worthy of power — example has a force command never achieves.

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June 2, 2026 · Inverted Alchemy

Accountability for Men — Me First

Eleven months into a book on what fuels the conflict between men and women — and a question that arrived unbidden: why didn’t you do it in partnership with me?

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May 20, 2026 · Inverted Alchemy

The Sympathetic Nervous System

Accelerator and brake, sympathetic and parasympathetic — the framing felt clean, mechanical, authoritative. Something in the architecture itself was uneasy.

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April 10, 2026 · Inverted Alchemy

The Sky That Is No Longer There

The sky was not looked at; it was inhabited — a record left in stone, copper, calendar, and governance. We are still inside that record.

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March 19, 2024 · Video

Rejuvenating the World

A studio conversation with Julius Schwarzer on RASA®’s mission to rejuvenate the world — recovering value conventional extraction leaves behind.

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March 5, 2024 · Video · Podcast

Back to the Future

John Petersen of The Arlington Institute sits down with David — what he saw coming, what arrived, and where the next disruptions are visible.

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June 12, 2017 · Video

The Operating System of the Knowledge Economy

An early statement of the M·CAM® thesis: ideas, inventions and intangible assets are the real operating system of the modern economy — and how we account for them determines who builds and who extracts.

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January 19, 2024 · Video · Podcast

On Alchemy

An evening with Cheryl Bryan at the Church of Glad Tidings on alchemy in its oldest sense — transformation.

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October 2, 2013 · Video · Event

A Fulcrum Ninja on Wall Street

The TEDx talk that named the practice: how a fulcrum ninja moves markets and institutions — finding the balance point of a system and applying the smallest force that changes everything.

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July 3, 2024 · Video · Event

An Evening at the Church of Glad Tidings

David returns to the Church of Glad Tidings to answer his accusers directly — with family history, patent records, and an Egyptian symbol that found him twice.

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July 25, 2026 · Video · Podcast

The Wobble Effect

The wobble, stated plainly: one undefended point, one precise nudge, and the system’s own energy does the rest.

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January 12, 2016 · Video

Future Dreaming

The award-winning documentary: David in dialogue about a future worth dreaming of — free from fear, true to nature, at-one-ment with ourselves.

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March 28, 2025 · Video · Podcast

The Arlington Institute

A follow-up conversation with The Arlington Institute: what has changed since they last spoke, what still holds, and what David is watching next.

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2011 · Book

Coup d’Twelve

A global conspiracy thriller: political events, financial power and fiction begin to blur.

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February 10, 2026 · Paper

27-Dimensional Triangulation

The mathematical and epistemological framework: coherence-preserving analysis across twenty-seven dimensions of intent-based communication.

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March 2026 · Essay

A Letter from the Journey

Not a paper — a letter from inside the journey: the single object that kept appearing across four decades and five domains, and what it took to finally see it.

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April 30, 2026 · Naked in the Garden

The Irrelevance That Never Was

Ten months of examining a question so entangled it was imperceptible — the Y-fracture: coherence that was never absent, only unresolvable to the field around it.

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On My Mind

Ideas, papers, and books I think you'll like.

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The Wobble

One precise nudge that reorganizes an entire system.

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