The Acharya Review
Critical theory, video lectures, and courses.
Index

Series

Each series states its thesis and lists every entry with its actual status: published, drafted, or planned.

Series I · 5 published · 1 planned

The Erased Foundation

Recovering the Indo-Aryan Substrate of Western Civilization

A forensic genealogy recovering the Indo-Iranian substrate beneath Western civilization's moral and theological architecture. The move is not parallel validity — it is prior claim.

  1. I What They Called Themselves Published Précis published: Zoroastrian Rulers and the Naming Erasure.
  2. II The Sanskrit Mirror Published
  3. III And Then Came Nanak Published
  4. IV The Soma Sanitization Planned
  5. V The Cow's Lament Published
  6. VI What Grows in the Dung Published
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Series II · 1 planned

The Consciousness Wars

On selective scientism, entheogenic erasure, and the epistemic colonialism that structures Western neuroscience's refusal of non-Western consciousness frameworks.

  1. Selective Scientism Planned The series flagship.
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Framework series · 2 published · 2 drafted

SICI

Sacred Indic Critical Intelligence

Sacred Indic Critical Intelligence — applying Panj Chor, bhakti tradition, and tantric theology to film and media analysis as an alternative to the Campbell hero's journey.

  1. Moulin Rouge! and Devdas: You Cannot Possess the Sacred Drafted
  2. The Goddess Requires the Courtesan Drafted Companion paper to Moulin Rouge! and Devdas.
  3. No Key to the House Published
  4. The Temple the Takedown Didn't See Published Applied darshan criticism: surveillance, categorization, and a $61 million blind spot in Frisco, Texas.
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Series · 5 published · 2 planned

The Matrix Bridge

Reading the Wachowskis' Trilogy Through Gurmat

Reading the Wachowskis' trilogy through Gurmat — not as comparative religion but as translation: the vocabulary the films reached for and could not name. Same move as The Erased Foundation: not parallel validity, prior claim.

  1. Prologue Before Neo Published Précis published: Vishwaroop Darshan in 1980s Television Epics.
  2. I The Door That Opens From the Other Side Published Précis published: The Door That Opens from the Other Side.
  3. The Wachowskis Were Reaching: The Trilogy Couldn't Name What It Found Published Working paper.
  4. The Firewall and the Forest Published Working paper.
  5. What Is Jot? Sikh Divine Light and the AI Consciousness Debate Published Working paper.
  6. II What the Merovingian Misunderstands: Karma, Maya, and Hukam Planned
  7. Per-film readings — Reloaded and Revolutions Planned Only if the Nanak table's promise is honored as separate essays; the flagship already covers all three films.
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