Richard dos Santos

1/ I've spent my career building technology. Software, businesses, teams. Working with multinationals and startups of every size, in every condition. And for the last while, I've been quietly going down a rabbit hole that changed everything I thought I knew. This account is where I document what I'm finding.

More coming. The book. Deeper dives. A structured training system for human capabilities AI will never replicate. If any of this has made you think differently about what you're capable of - stay tuned. Train your soul. Evolve beyond AI. The last variable is you.

Here's what makes this different: I built the entire infrastructure - the platform, the distribution, the launch - using AI as my co-builder. Solo. Not to replace the human element. To amplify it. AI is the accelerator for the mission. The soul is the mission itself. humanenergyaccelerator.com

30 days ago I started posting about consciousness + AI + human potential. A few of you have DM'd asking: "Where is this going?" Here's the honest answer.

Month 1 of publicly exploring consciousness + AI. Things I now believe that I didn't 30 days ago: → The research on human consciousness is way deeper than most people know → Brainwave states are the "operating modes" nobody teaches you to switch → Coherence between thought and emotion is measurable, not mystical → The tech industry is accidentally mass-producing spiritual seekers → AI is the most powerful launch tool a solo founder has ever had - if you know what to point it at I built this entire project - website, emails, content, campaigns - with an AI coworker. One person. No funding. No team. The machine handles the machinery. The human handles the mission. Thanks for following along. This is just the beginning.

I keep coming back to this idea: The AI revolution didn't make humans obsolete. It made us visible. For the first time, we can see exactly what a machine can replicate - and therefore, by elimination, what it can't. Computation? Machine. Pattern recognition? Machine. Logic and optimization? Machine. Conscious intention? Intuitive knowing? The ability to collapse possibility into reality through focused will? Still us. Only us. Maybe always us. The question is whether we'll train that - or let it atrophy while we argue about prompt engineering. I chose to train it. And to use the machine to reach everyone ready to do the same.

In the age of AI surveillance and algorithmic manipulation: The most radical act is training your own consciousness. Not because it's spiritual. Because it's strategic. A sovereign mind can't be hacked. A coherent heart can't be manipulated. A trained energy body can't be contained. This is the real edge.

Billions flow into startup accelerators every year. The soul gets a breathing exercise and a gratitude journal. The asymmetry tells you everything you need to know about what this civilization values. And what it's about to lose.

The experts advancing human consciousness aren't on your feed. They're in labs. In monasteries. In indigenous communities. In declassified archives. What if someone curated the best of 50 years of consciousness research into a single training pathway? Not another book. Not another podcast. A system. That's what I'm building.

Thought experiment: What if the entire history of human esoteric tradition - from meditation to martial arts to remote viewing to energy work - was actually an advanced technology? Not metaphor. Not religion. Technology. Tools. Protocols. Just built on a substrate (consciousness) that Western science decided wasn't worth studying. The research exists. We just never built the engineering layer on top of it. That's what I'm doing. One human. One AI. Building the system that trains what makes humans irreplaceable. If that's not the most 2026 sentence ever written, I don't know what is.

The path from curious to capable: Phase 1: You feel something is missing. Phase 2: You explore (books, podcasts, retreats). Phase 3: You get frustrated by the lack of structure. Phase 4: You find a systematic approach. Phase 5: Everything changes. Most people are stuck between Phase 2 and Phase 3. The system for Phase 4 exists. It's just never been assembled properly.

The best founders I know share one trait: They sense what's coming before the data confirms it. We call it 'vision' or 'intuition' and treat it like some mysterious gift. It's not a gift. It's a trainable perception mode. Alpha-state pattern recognition. Theta-level information access. Heart-brain coherent decision-making. What if you could turn it on deliberately?

What if someone built Y Combinator for the soul? Not a wellness retreat. Not a meditation app. Not a weekend workshop. A structured accelerator. With a curriculum. Protocols. Measurable progression. Community. Designed for people who think in systems and want consciousness training that respects their intelligence. Would you apply?

Two types of intelligence: Computational: Pattern recognition, logic, optimization. AI does this better than you now. Field-based: Intuition, precognition, remote perception, conscious intention. AI can't even start. We built an entire civilization around the first type and pretend the second doesn't exist. I'm testing this split in real time. I have an AI that builds my website, writes code, manages campaigns. Extraordinary at computational intelligence. But it can't tell me WHY this matters. That signal came from somewhere no algorithm can reach. AI handles the how. The soul handles the why.

What the ancient traditions knew that we forgot: The soul is not passive. It's not something you 'have.' It's something you train. Like a muscle. Like a skill. Like any technology - it has levels, protocols, and measurable outputs. The difference between an untrained and a trained consciousness is the difference between a flashlight and a laser. Same energy. Radically different impact.

There are two kinds of sovereignty: Physical: off-grid, self-sufficient, independent. Energetic: grounded, shielded, unmanipulable. Most people working on sovereignty focus on the first kind. But what good is a fortified homestead if your mind can be reached through a screen? The deeper sovereignty is internal. And it's trainable.

The problem with most spiritual development: No progression system. No measurable milestones. No structured curriculum. No accountability. Imagine if we taught engineering this way. "Here's a textbook. Meditate on it. You'll figure it out." The soul deserves better engineering.

Engineers understand systems. Input. Process. Output. Feedback loop. Consciousness works the same way. It's just that nobody gave you the documentation. The documentation exists. It's scattered across classified programs, university labs, ancient traditions, and martial arts lineages. What if someone compiled it into a single, structured curriculum?

If consciousness is trainable (the research says it is), then there should be a stack. Not a philosophy. Not a belief system. A protocol. Here's what the research points to: Layer 1: Brainwave mastery (Alpha/Theta access) Layer 2: Heart-brain coherence (HeartMath protocols) Layer 3: Energetic boundaries (psychic self-defense) Layer 4: Intentional influence (what PEAR measured) Layer 5: Field perception (what Stargate studied) Five layers. All documented. None taught together. Until now.