Life Design: Create Your Life From Consciousness
If your life is being designed anyway — by habit, by history, by everyone but you — what would change if the designer showed up?
“No faith required. One honest assumption, tested in your own experience.”
5 live classes · Starts Saturday, August 1 · taught by Daniel Branco, MD, PhD
A word from Daniel · 2 minutes
Experiences are easy. Discernment is the curriculum.
There is a whole half of reality — the lived, first-person half — that our culture treats as a byproduct. This course treats it as a workshop. Not to believe anything new: to test something old, with a cohort as your instrument and discernment checkpoints in every single session. And the firewall, stated up front: it's not quantum science, it makes no medical claims, and it never replaces clinical care.
The arc
The Map
The identity you find yourself as, seen as a map — and the unexamined assumption the whole thing is drawn on.
The map we were given · Two realities · Science and the monopoly of reality · You're the mapmaker, not the map
The Map Cracking
Where the map fails — crisis, loss, or the quieter arrival of a life that is technically fine and privately unrecognizable.
When life stops making sense · A life spent pursuing other people's goals · Patch the life, or rebuild it? · Who is observing a life that isn't working?
Inner World
The one fact that survives every doubt, met directly — and the discovery that you are always authoring, deliberately or by inheritance.
You exist · You cannot not create · Meeting and loving yourself · Self-knowledge and transformation
Compass — Life Navigation
How to steer: telling will from wants, tending what you rehearse, and letting go of the outcome without letting go of the direction.
Imagination as instrument · The art of thought hygiene · Wanting versus becoming · Happiness is the way, not the goal
A New Life in a New World
The same life, lived from a different place. Nothing escaped; everything re-worn.
You as a creator of realities · Utopia or dystopia — which will you choose? · Creating your personal AI companion · Journeying with friends
Same Earth at the end — newly dressed. The cohort reconvenes at +30 days for the fruits review: the course's real exam.
The cohort is not an audience.
It is the instrument.
The cohort is the instrument
Five 90-minute classes: concepts and questions, a practice, then assessment and discernment. You attend; it doesn't work on you while you fold laundry.
Our live classroom weaves the cohort's offerings into shared artifacts in real time — your Map, the cohort's readings — kept in the gallery, read back at the closing.
Concept segments are recorded for you. Circles and practice reports never are. A first-person school runs on trust, by design.
This is for you if
- — a career that stopped fitting is asking for redesign, not repair
- — you're rebuilding after loss and refuse to rebuild the same thing
- — your days are full and quietly flat, and you've noticed
- — you want your inner life tested, not decorated
It is not
- — therapy, or a substitute for it — when care is needed, care first
- — a belief system with homework
- — quantum anything
- — promising outcomes; it promises a method and honest company
Daniel Branco, MD, PhD
Neuroscientist. Biotech executive. Author of Spiriduality — a book about the half of reality a career in third-person science could never reach. Which is exactly why this course refuses to borrow science's costume: first-person reality, legitimated on its own terms, tested the only way it can be.
“If you can see the map, you are not the map. Someone is looking.”
Take a seat
Founding prices, honored for founders only. Choose the tier that tells the truth about your circumstances.
- Sat, Aug 1The Map
- Wed, Aug 5The Map Cracking
- Sat, Aug 8Inner World
- Wed, Aug 12Compass — Life Navigation
- Sat, Aug 15A New Life in a New World
And the fruits review — the course's real exam — on Sat, Sep 12.
“I'm willing to pay extra and support the school.”
The same seat as everyone else — plus you quietly fund a discounted seat for someone you'll never be introduced to.
“I can pay what the course costs.”
The founding-cohort seat. Five live classes, the Loom, the constellation, the reunion.
“I really need a discount.”
The same seat, smaller ask. If the asked price is what stands between you and the room, this one isn't.
Same course, same cohort, same seat — the tier is yours to choose, and nobody is ever asked why. Full refund until the end of Class 2: one email, no questions.
Every cohort holds three seats at no cost, for people the price would otherwise turn away. There is no form and no proving of hardship — write two honest sentences about why now.
Ask for a scholarship seatAsked, answered
Do I have to believe anything?+
No. You'll be asked for one working assumption — that your first-person experience is real as itself — and then you'll test it in the only lab that can: your own life. Skepticism isn't tolerated here; it's equipment.
Is this therapy? Is it science?+
Neither, and we say so plainly. No quantum decoration, no brain-scan proof of the soul, no medical claims — and never a substitute for clinical care. When care is what's needed, care comes first.
What happens in a class?+
Ninety minutes, live: concepts and questions (60'), a practice (20'), then practice assessment and a discernment checkpoint (10') — because experiences are easy, and telling them apart from mirages is the actual curriculum.
What gets recorded?+
The concept segment, for enrolled students only. Practice reports and what people share are never recorded — what's said in the room stays in the room. That rule is built into the software, not just the etiquette.
What's the Loom?+
Our live classroom instrument. Your phone becomes part of the room: polls, offerings, and woven artifacts the cohort creates together in real time — kept in the cohort's gallery, read back at the closing.
Why three prices for the same seat?+
Because circumstances differ and dignity doesn't. You choose your tier; nobody asks why. Supporter seats directly fund Supported seats — the cohort carries itself.
When does it start?+
Saturday, August 1, 2026, 10:00–11:30 AM Pacific — then Wednesdays and Saturdays through August 15, with the fruits review on September 12. Five classes in two weeks: the founding cohort runs deliberately fast. Your seat is fully refundable until the end of Class 2: one email, no questions.
What's the cancellation and refund policy?+
Change your mind before the course starts and you get everything back — one email, no reason needed. After it begins, the full refund stands until the end of Class 2 (Wednesday, August 5): attend the first two classes, and if it isn't for you, say so and we return the whole amount. After Class 2 we don't refund — but tell us and you keep a seat in a future cohort at no cost, because circumstances change and we'd rather you come back than feel written off. If we ever cancel or reschedule a cohort, everyone is refunded in full, automatically. Gifted and scholarship seats have nothing to refund — just let us know so the seat can go to someone else.
What if I can't make one of the classes?+
Come to the ones you can. The concept segment is recorded for enrolled students, and your constellation catches you up on the rest. Miss more than one of the five and the course stops working — it runs on the room, not the recording.
Still holding a question?
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