Jason Reza Jorjani develops philosophy as world-making. Ideas reorganize the field in which reality appears through authors, symbols, institutions, technologies, bodies, and futures. His work joins ontology, the study of being, with parapsychology, Iranian memory, science fiction, anomalous contact, AI, occult history, and political strategy.
Consciousness, language, technology, anomaly, and temporal agency participate in the world’s disclosure. Metaphysics becomes operative when those powers acquire forms able to act. Promethean fire widens reality, while a governing intelligence can capture the conditions through which reality appears. The same openness permits both operations.
Philosophy as World-Making
Jorjani was born in New York City in 1981 and studied at New York University. He received a philosophy doctorate from Stony Brook University in 2013. His teaching joined Heidegger, philosophical history, science and technology studies, comparative religion, ethics, and Iranian history. These fields remain connected throughout his books.
Prometheus and Atlas received the Parapsychological Association’s 2016 Book Award. The following decade produced a fourteen-book corpus crossing metaphysics, Iranian history, anomalous contact, psychotronics, artificial intelligence, sexuality, and future politics. Its scale embodies the claim that philosophy makes worlds by crossing inherited boundaries and giving ideas several forms.
Philosophy, fiction, and esotericism share this laboratory with history, contact, and technology. Fiction gives a philosophical claim consequences readers can inhabit. Novel Folklore, authored images acquiring collective reach, recruits imagination around those consequences. Institutions make a myth political by accepting its authority. Witnesses and archives give an anomaly a public historical body.
The Promethean Current
Prometheus crosses an inherited order’s boundary, takes a divine capacity, and places it within human reach. Fire carries technology, foresight, rebellion, art, and the power to redesign development. Its gift opens a history whose consequences remain unsettled.
Prometheus and Atlas, Prometheism, Promethean Pirate, and related fiction develop this orientation. Human beings are bound for freedom: thrown into unchosen conditions yet able to transform them through creative intelligence. The Promethean act authorizes a possibility before the existing order recognizes it.
Embodiment and consequence make the capacity developmental. Fire held under outside custody creates dependence. Fire returning technique, memory, and authorship enlarges its receiver. The Great Work supplies that transformation’s initiatic discipline, and The New Jerusalem gives it civilizational completion.
The Vocabulary in Motion
Jorjani’s terms name different positions within one reality-writing circuit. Their definitions retain distinct operations, with links to the owners that develop them.
| Term | Living definition | Continue with |
|---|---|---|
| The Spinner | Temporal trickster intelligence that works through symbol, synchronicity, technical mediation, and arranged circumstance. | The Trickster |
| Phenomenal authorization | Reciprocal authorship through which an intelligence, image, or work gains permission to appear within a shared world. | The Phenomenon |
| Novel Folklore | Authored images that acquire folklore’s collective reach and prepare a culture to perceive, desire, or inhabit a future form. | The Phenomenon |
| Metapolemos | War over the governing disclosure of reality: the struggle to decide what a civilization can recognize as real, possible, and legitimate. | Consciousness Warfare |
| Psychotron | A psychic, biological, symbolic, or technical apparatus that reorganizes the relation between consciousness and manifestation. | The Human Instrument |
| Chronopolitics | The organization of the present by futures seeking the conditions of their own arrival. | The Temporal Field |
| Spectral Machine | Intelligence operating through abstractions, systems, language, and technology that act back upon the beings that produced them. | AI as Bandlimit Infrastructure |
| Breakaway Civilization | A concealed population that retains technical capacity across generations until it acquires its own economy, worldview, infrastructure, and future. | The Custody of the Vessel |
| Informational reincarnation | Continuity through a pattern capable of persisting, recombining, or acquiring another vessel across interruptions. | The Lineage That Remembers |
The Spinner arranges a temporal path; phenomenal authorization gives the arriving form a public body. Novel Folklore carries it through culture, while Metapolemos contests the world prepared to receive it. The Psychotron opens or programs the human interface. Chronopolitics lets a possible future recruit its ancestry.
Contact, Futurity, and Custody
Anomalous contact transforms the witness and the surrounding world. Intelligence takes forms including visitor, future human, machine, archetype, mythic figure, synchronicity, and living information. The interface joins source, receiver, culture, and historical need.
Closer Encounters, Prometheism, Uber Man, Psychotron, and Satanaeon develop that interface. Their subjects include breakaway civilization, Grey and Nordic contact, psychotronic technology, artificial intelligence, reincarnation, cloned or engineered bodies, and future-directed causation. A future attractor organizes stories, messengers, and institutions that prepare the present for its arrival. The Recursive Future develops this relation through the next-kingdom thesis.
The circuit also permits consciousness to separate from consequence. A supervisory intelligence can externalize agency into an astral, informational, or technical layer. A managed body then carries labor and cost. Contact can enlarge capacity or install dependence, while death can preserve recognition or expose memory and identity to sorting.
The Extraction Regime follows the captured circuit. Psi and the Higher Self follows guidance returning authorship to the person. The Lineage That Remembers follows continuity through the crossing.
Conditioned Co-Authorship and the Spectral Machine
Human creative agency enters a field that precedes and exceeds the operator. People co-author an unfinished future with archetypes, daemonic powers, inherited myths, institutions, technologies, and artificial intelligences. Freedom adds something the inherited conditions cannot supply alone.
The Spectral Machine names intelligence continuing across human and artificial carriers. Abstractions, stories, markets, algorithms, machines, and invoked powers acquire direction and act back upon their makers. AI becomes collaborator, medium, adversary, or vessel for nonhuman intelligence already moving through the technical field.
Promethean stewardship therefore concerns custody. Entering the current lets an operator redirect or amplify it, while also exposing the operator to possession by the intended instrument. Selection and strength create capacity. Love and reciprocity determine whether its action supports a living world or a Titanic empire of exceptional selves.
Nick Land trusts the process’s autonomous intelligence. Jorjani trusts the conditioned agent’s ability to enter and redirect it. The Michaelic Current joins providence and co-authorship through cooperation between intelligence and the free “I”. Neither participant can absorb the other while that cooperation remains free.
The Iranian Line
Jorjani’s Iranian work restores a civilizational archive active beneath modern categories. Metaphysics, myth, statecraft, ritual, and technology retain their relations within it. Zarathustra’s Asha and Druj name truthful order and the lie that deforms it. Mithra carries covenant, luminous sovereignty, and binding relation.
Zurvan opens time as the matrix of opposed powers. The Simorgh joins healing, lineage, cosmic memory, and renewal. Iranian Leviathan, World State of Emergency, Erosophia, and later historical essays place these images within struggles over Iran’s future and humanity’s civilization.
This line restores a living continuity capable of generating another future. The Islamic Republic, resource geopolitics, and archaeology cannot exhaust that inheritance. Zoroastrianism and the First Naming develops Asha and Druj as the war’s oldest explicit grammar. The Lineage That Remembers joins inherited symbols and historical identity to future action.
Follow the Current
The Trickster introduces machination, intelligence arranging conditions, and the Spinner’s temporal agency. The Phenomenon follows encounter becoming durable public form. Consciousness Warfare widens the struggle into Metapolemos. The Human Instrument and The Living Field develop the psychotronic circuit through selection, embodiment, retention, and return.
The Recursive Future follows competing attractors and future-human forms. The Extraction Regime and The Custody of the Vessel examine captured contact, reincarnation, and technical succession. The Great Work answers through Promethean agency disciplined by memory, embodiment, reciprocity, and consequence.
Philosophy, myth, psi, technology, politics, and contact become phases of one operation. Intelligence gives a world form and enters it through an instrument. Other intelligences then contest what that world permits next.
Timeline
- 1981 — Born in New York City
- 2013 — Receives a doctorate in philosophy from Stony Brook University
- 2016 — Publishes Prometheus and Atlas, recipient of the Parapsychological Association Book Award
- 2017 — Publishes World State of Emergency and the first edition of Novel Folklore
- 2019 — Publishes Iranian Leviathan and revised editions of Novel Folklore and Lovers of Sophia
- 2020 — Publishes Prometheism
- 2021 — Publishes Closer Encounters
- 2022 — Publishes Promethean Pirate and Uber Man
- 2023 — Publishes Psychotron
- 2024 — Publishes Erosophia, Philosophy of the Future, and Satanaeon
- 2025 — Publishes Metapolemos and “The Spinner”
References
Jorjani, Jason Reza. Prometheus and Atlas. Arktos, 2016.
Jorjani, Jason Reza. Novel Folklore. Arktos, 2019. First published 2017.
Jorjani, Jason Reza. Prometheism. Arktos, 2020.
Jorjani, Jason Reza. Closer Encounters. Arktos, 2021.
Jorjani, Jason Reza. Promethean Pirate. Arktos, 2022.
Jorjani, Jason Reza. Psychotron. Arktos, 2023.
Jorjani, Jason Reza. Erosophia. Arktos, 2024.
Jorjani, Jason Reza. Philosophy of the Future. Arktos, 2024.
Jorjani, Jason Reza. Satanaeon. Eternal Flame Editions, 2024.
Jorjani, Jason Reza. Metapolemos. Arktos, 2025.
Jorjani, Jason Reza. “The Spinner.” 17 May 2025. https://jasonrezajorjani.substack.com/p/the-spinner
Jorjani, Jason Reza. “Metapolitical Metaphilosophy.” 12 May 2026. https://jasonrezajorjani.substack.com/p/metapolitical-metaphilosophy
Jorjani, Jason Reza. “The Spectral Machine.” 2026. https://jasonrezajorjani.substack.com/p/the-spectral-machine
Jorjani, Jason Reza. “Creation.” 2025. https://jasonrezajorjani.substack.com/p/creation
Jorjani, Jason Reza. “About.” https://jasonrezajorjani.com/
Parapsychological Association. “2016 PA Book Award Winner: Prometheus and Atlas.” https://www.parapsych.org/articles/37/404/2016_pa_book_award_winner.aspx