Capture Cycle
Definition
The seven-phase sequence through which the Civilizational Extraction Engine operates. The drafts use it at two scales: institutionally ("the seven-phase Capture Cycle the institute documents elsewhere") and on a single life ("the capture cycle operating on a single consciousness").
Provenance
Used, not defined, in No Key to the House (§II) and the Dharmarth Cadastre project memorandum v0.1; both point to a fuller statement "elsewhere" that is not in the inbox.
Permanent address
https://acharya.courses/frameworks/capture-cycle
Essays that deploy it
No Key to the House
Scorsese, Coppola, and the Architecture of the American Guest Condition
The Consciousness Medicine Market
COMPASS, atai, MindMed, Cybin, and the Enclosure of the Psychedelic Commons
Entheogenic Traditions and the Peoples Who Kept Them
Indigenous sacramental practice among the Wishtoyo Chumash, the Tongva, and the traditions the modern state scheduled
The FDA and DEA Regulatory Landscape for Psychedelic Therapy
A readiness analysis of American psychedelic medicine at the approval threshold
GLP-1 Drugs and Their Unstudied Effects on Consciousness
What happens to wanting when a molecule turns its volume down
The Firewall and the Forest
Plant Payloads, Trained Priors, and the Boundary of Ordinary Mind
Homonormativity: Protected for Whom, at Whose Expense
The Critique at Full Strength, and the Question It Refuses to Drop
Parallel Erasures, 1875–1907: Dual Epistemicide in Colonial Punjab
One Mechanism, Two Reformations
From 1DES Media to Datura Media: The AI Transformation of Independent Media
From Scarce Craft to Abundant Generation
Guru Dutt as Depression Cinema: The Melancholic Artist Archetype
The Artist the Market Destroyed, or the Genre That Diagnosed the Market
The Mahabharata as a Technology for Reading Power
What the Epic Makes Visible, and for Whom
Music as API: An Infrastructure Theory for AI-Native Platforms
When the Song Becomes a Response to a Request
The Druski Bargain: Corporate Permission Structures and Viral Content
The Capture Cycle at the Scale of a Single Career
Dhulla Bhatti: What Punjabi Folk Memory Did With a Rebel
A working paper on the rebel the state filed as a bandit and the people kept as a song
Guru Ram Rai and Dehradun: An Exposure Gradient, 1815 to 1947
A Dharmarth Cadastre instrument applied to the Doon valley's oldest continuous darbar
Morcha Guru Ka Bagh: Discipline, Sovereignty, and the Price of Witness
A working paper on the Akali experiment in unarmed sovereignty
Not a Dialect: Punjabi's Independent Line from Proto-Indo-European
A working paper on the comparative method against the colonial label
Punjab and 1984: Structural Preconditions, Not Spontaneous Violence
The Ethnoburb as Diagnostic Barrier
Reading Mabute-Louie's Reinforcement Loop
The Indian-American Academic Double Bind
Excel Without Accommodations
The Treaty of Lahore: Khalsa as Khalisa
How Sovereignty Became Cadastre
Engineered Samsara: The Feed as a Wheel Built on Purpose
Conditioned Repetition as a Business Model