What if every act of cruelty is self-harm with a longer fuse?
Can the pain we endure ever be repaired? What if our longing to repair is woven into the universe itself? What can we actually do about it?
The Infinite Garden Cycle explores these ideas in a modular, branching narrative of philosophical nonfiction. It moves between vivid stories, trauma research, neuroscience, and ethics, to ask: what kinds of repair are possible within a life, between people, and across the systems we build?
Forthcoming from Collective Ink | 2027
— Jack Hopkins, author
EARLY PRAISE
“Jack Hopkins offers a rich, imaginative, and deeply ethical exploration of unified consciousness. By translating the cosmic mind into a concrete practice of actionable repair, Hopkins bridges metaphysics and moral responsibility in a way that feels both vital and accessible.“
— Dr. Bernardo Kastrup
Executive Director of the Essentia Foundation
“The Infinite Garden Cycle offers an accessible model of consciousness that raises weighty questions in neuroscience and ethics. Hopkins 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, MD
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine; author of After.
“Looking at Jack Hopkins’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,
Ph.D. Executive Director Boulder Crest Institute for Posttraumatic Growth
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