What is Harmogenics?
Think of harmogenics as finally noticing what you’ve been doing all along. Your scattered habits, skills, talents, even quirks—they add up to something whether you see it or not. Without this awareness, you drift. With harmogenics, you begin to see how those scattered things can strengthen each other instead of being isolated or pulling in different directions. It’s like realizing your whole life has been a practice session, and now you can actually play the song.
Do I need to read the books in order?
Not at all. Essentials is like the quick conversation you have over coffee that sticks with you all day. A Practical Guide to Constant Becoming is the long walk where every step opens another idea. You can start with either. Together they give you both clarity and depth, but you don’t need both to get the point.
Is this philosophy, psychology, or self-help?
It borrows from all of them but doesn’t sit neatly in any. You don’t have to sign up for a belief system or chant affirmations into your mirror. It’s more like learning to pay attention to how you live and adjust appropriately. Sounds cliché, but most people have forgotten this. Imagine if common sense had a fresh coat of paint—that’s closer to it.
How do I start practicing Harmogenics?
You don’t begin by downloading an app or buying new gear. Take inventory of what’s already in your life. Maybe you have a great conversation with a friend, or you put your hands in the dirt of your garden, or you find yourself out walking because you needed to clear your head. None of that looks like a “practice,” yet each of those things is already part of your life practice. It’s the stuff you tend to do.
The shift is in calling it what it is and seeing how those practices connect in your life. Once you see it, you start to treat them less like isolated things and more like threads of the same fabric. That recognition is the beginning, and it alone can change how you live in a way that’s truly unique to you.
How easy is it to integrate into my life?
Easier than you think, because you’re not adding something foreign, you’re re-seeing what’s already there. It’s like discovering a hidden room in your own house. You’ve been living next to it for years, and once you step in, the whole place feels bigger. From the beginning, harmogenics is a way to change without changing much at all.
Why do you say we all already have a life practice?
Because every single choice you make is doing something to you. When you scroll, when you read, when you cook for friends, when you procrastinate—all of it shapes you, for better or not. You don’t escape having a life practice. You just escape noticing it. Once you notice, you get to decide what kind of practice it’s going to be. Suddenly, you’re in charge.
Is literally anything a possible self-cultivation practice?
Almost. Take cooking, for example. Done mindlessly, it’s just calories on a plate. Done attentively, it becomes patience, creativity, generosity, even art. The same is true for dozens of other things. The real measure is whether the activity builds your capacity or drains it. There’s no self-cultivation in being a couch potato…or doing meth, for that matter. Some things, like binge-scrolling until 2 a.m., don’t leave much behind except brain rot. Most things can become cultivation, but clearly not everything.
Why do you say we’re still carrying old ways of thinking?
Because for all our tech and data, we still carry habits that feel ancient—tribalism, rigid thinking, clinging to authority. We scroll on glowing rectangles while sometimes behaving like villagers in a feud. Civil War! It’s a strange mix—contemporary tools, old instincts. Seeing that helps us understand why progress feels uneven and why cultivating ourselves matters so much.
What is Prescient Readiness and why is it important today?
It’s a manifestation of what I call “prequel thinking.” Imagine standing on the beach, watching a storm gather far offshore. You can wait until it’s on top of you, or you can start shoring things up now. Prescient Readiness is that choice—to prepare before the storm hits.
In a world that keeps throwing disruptions—climate shocks, tech leaps, cultural whiplash—waiting until the last minute is a losing bet. Readiness is about building resilience and adaptability now, so the future doesn’t always knock you flat.
What kind of results should I expect?
No fireworks on day one. More like a slow turning of the soil, where suddenly new shoots appear. Your well-being starts to shift. You may find resilience where before you only felt flat. You catch yourself improvising solutions instead of panicking. It sneaks up on you, this feeling that you’re not just surviving but actually steering.
Do I need to believe anything?
Well, there are some basic things.
There is a belief in what physicists call “emergence,” and it works in your life.
There is the belief that it’s better to cultivate your life than to let it drift and decultivate.
There is the belief that combining multiple self-cultivation practices creates additional benefits you probably wouldn’t get from any of them alone. The combination aspect is what’s “harmogenic” about it.
But these beliefs are irrelevant to whether or not you’ll receive the additional benefits. Just combine your skills and interests. You’ll see.
No ceremonies, no pledges, no mystical symbols. You don’t have to believe in gravity for it to keep you grounded, and you don’t have to believe in harmogenics for it to work. So belief isn’t required—just the motivation to give combination a try.
Harmogenics is already working everywhere; most people just don’t realize it. Maybe they call it “chemistry” or “synergy” or something else too vague for something that deserves its own word.
Just notice what you’re doing. Pay closer attention. You’ll see several things already there in your life—connections you simply didn’t notice before. Now you will. That’s enough.
Why did you write these books?
Because for years I fumbled around doing various things without seeing them as connected. Once I connected them in my own life, I noticed most people didn’t connect theirs. We were all missing out on the obvious power of combining self-cultivation practices.
That simple shift—from unconscious drift to conscious life practice—can make the difference between feeling genuinely stuck and feeling fully alive. I wanted to hand people a small jolt, a psychological chiropractic adjustment. I don’t claim to have discovered anything.
Isn’t this just common sense?
Yes, and that’s exactly why it’s so often ignored. Common sense gets buried under convenience and distraction. Everyone nods at it, but few live it. Harmogenics is a way of pulling common sense out of the attic, dusting it off, and making it part of your daily life again.
Try it and see.
