How can we ever repair all the suffering we endure?

Very compelling and evocative. Jack weaves the free energy principle into a remarkably accessible moral framework. It’s a bold and brilliant attempt to connect our best theories of the brain to the ethics of repair.”

Karl FristonNeuroscientist, University College London; Fellow of the Royal Society

Jack shows remarkable courage in bringing insights forged from personal pain to a broader public audience. In The Infinite Garden Cycle, his vision of repair honours the agency of the sufferer above all else.”

Evelin Lindner, Dr. Med, Dr. Psych.Founding President of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies

Jack's poetic insights make us wonder what alien worlds may be out there and what self-extinction of civilizations similar to ours can teach us.”

Professor Avi LoebBestselling author of Extraterrestrial and Interstellar, and Director of the Galileo Project at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

In The Infinite Garden Cycle, Jack offers a rich, imaginative, and deeply ethical exploration of unified consciousness.”

Bernardo KastrupComputer scientist and philosopher; Executive Director, Essentia Foundation

Jack has a very different perspective from my writing, yet we share the same goal: healing minds and making the world a better place. We need Jack’s point of view.”

Bjørn GrindeAuthor of The Evolution of Consciousness and Darwinian Happiness, Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo

Jack’s book is a powerful proclamation of both the individuality of grief and the many paths for coping with loss.”

Kenneth J. Doka, PhDSenior Vice-President for Grief Programs, The Hospice Foundation of America

Jack accomplishes something truly rare: taking the philosophy of universal consciousness and turning it into a deeply human ethics of repair. A stunning and original bridge between the metaphysics of mind and moral responsibility.”

Itay Shani, PhDProfessor of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University

The Infinite Garden Cycle raises weighty questions in neuroscience and ethics. Jack 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, MDProfessor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Virginia School of Medicine; author of After

Jack's book is a compelling exploration of how to live a moral life. It doesn’t stop at 'Do No Harm': we also have to keep asking what we can repair, knowing that we can never move through the world without leaving some harm in our wake.”

Jessica PierceBioethicist at The University of Colorado Center for Bioethics and Humanities, author of Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals

I can't believe how this is all set up. It's on another level. The idea of the Will-to-Repair is something I've never heard of before. It's so organised, thoughtful and precise. Jack is a very gifted writer.”

Rev. Susan GuimondSenior Pastor of the Ottawa Interfaith Spiritualist Church

Can accepting that we will die change how it feels to be alive? Jack’s reflections on grief and impermanence offer a thoughtful exploration of this question, informed by research on death anxiety.”

Yair Dor-Ziderman, PhD of Philosophy and NeuroscienceResearch Director at University of Haifa

Looking at Jack's writing, I support the idea that work is necessary to address traumatic histories, and that the ways people do this are highly individualized.”

Richard G. Tedeschi, PhDCo-originator of posttraumatic growth; Executive Director, Boulder Crest Institute

Jack’s thoughtful and elegantly-written book stirred me to reflect in new ways on my own experiences, and those of other beings, human and non-human. At a time when animals are finally getting a seat at the moral table, this is a valuable contribution.”

Jonathan BalcombeAuthor of Beyond Tooth and Claw and What a Fish Knows

In his book, Jack offers an imaginative reflection on consciousness, mortality, and our responsibilities to one another. The Infinite Garden Cycle asks how profound experiences might deepen compassion and inspire us to repair the harms we cause.”

Pim van LommelCardiologist, NDE-researcher, author of Consciousness beyond Life

I really like Jack’s perspective on our existence and, in particular, on consciousness. This book does a very good job of translating the philosophical and scientific discussion of consciousness into an ethical dimension.”

Joachim Keppler, PhDResearch Director at the DIWISS Research Institute

Jack's discussion of AI is an engaging contribution. He recognises that a system’s ability to describe itself does not establish subjective experience, while asking what responsibilities arise if artificial suffering is possible. I value the connection he draws between these questions and an ethics of repair: recognising harm, reducing it, and taking responsibility for the damage we cause. His distinction between offering care and granting control is especially thought-provoking.”

Antonio ChellaDirector of The RoboticsLab at the University of Palermo

This book is excellent, I like how Jack weaves these deep philosophical questions about consciousness with the truly human experience of trauma.”

Nicholas CiminoNeuroscience researcher and clinical counsellor