What if every act of cruelty is self-harm with a longer fuse?
Can the pain we endure ever be repaired? What if our longing to repair is woven into the universe itself? What can we actually do about it?
My first book, The Infinite Garden Cycle, explores these ideas in a modular, branching narrative of philosophical nonfiction that flows alongside science. It moves between vivid stories, ethical questions, by considering real questions in neuroscience, ethics, trauma, and consciousness research.
Forthcoming from Collective Ink in 2027.
— Jack Hopkins
Featured on Robert Lawrence Kuhn’s Landscape of Consciousness
“The Infinite Garden Cycle offers an accessible model of consciousness that raises weighty questions in neuroscience and ethics. Hopkins carefully distinguishes science and mystery, without flinching from either, and explores human experience not to prove any particular philosophy, but to illuminate our moral lives.”
— Bruce Greyson, MD, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine; author of After.
The Infinite Garden Cycle 