https://project-nikolaos.org/ An independent research initiative investigating whether long-lived resonant objects, documented provenance and source-critical historical reports can supply any reproducible physical correlate. en-GB Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:53:19 GMT 1440 https://project-nikolaos.org/essays/the-logos-and-the-ingressing-mind https://project-nikolaos.org/essays/the-logos-and-the-ingressing-mind Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT Essay Responses Five essays, each correcting the one before. This piece sets out what I withdraw, the argument in seven steps, what I neglected to say about the Father, my debts to Levin and my disagreements with him, and the questions I have not settled. https://project-nikolaos.org/essays/the-life-of-a-power https://project-nikolaos.org/essays/the-life-of-a-power Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT Essay Responses Levin has described how cells form a collective self by sharing stress and pooling their memories. The builders of Babel did something similar, and Paul called the result a Power. I wonder whether nature has any other way of making a whole, and I write about what a Power does to its members' concerns, their coincidences and their names. https://project-nikolaos.org/essays/receptive-without-being-a-container https://project-nikolaos.org/essays/receptive-without-being-a-container Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT Essay Responses If nothing crosses a boundary, a person might seem to be only an interface. Levin suggests that his space of forms may be pressing outward in search of bodies, and Christianity tells of a body that was asked first. I consider what it means that persons can be questioned and can refuse, and that the Word took flesh as his own. https://project-nikolaos.org/essays/the-voice-in-the-garden https://project-nikolaos.org/essays/the-voice-in-the-garden Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:00:00 GMT Essay Proposals Animals in South Africa's Greater Kruger National Park flee the sound of calm human speech more readily than the sound of lions, dogs or gunshots. This essay argues that the result is explained by learned or inherited association and by how reliable and how near each cue is, and that it shows nothing about the voice itself. It then states a separate hypothesis, the planning-agent hypothesis: that prey can detect an agent that plans, through behaviour that depends on their own, over and above signs of danger, novelty and complexity. It outlines a simulation with evolved prey and a field experiment with playbacks, a responsive source and an exact replay as control, gives the predicted outcome for every stimulus under each account, and says what would refute the hypothesis. https://project-nikolaos.org/essays/does-anything-cross-the-boundary https://project-nikolaos.org/essays/does-anything-cross-the-boundary Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT Essay Responses Received, given, arrives, enters: every word I have used so far assumes an inside, an outside, and something passing between them. Jung and Pauli's one world does without the door. I try to work out what that picture would cost me, where it suits my faith better than my own habits of speech, and where I part company with it. https://project-nikolaos.org/essays/the-futures-we-can-reach https://project-nikolaos.org/essays/the-futures-we-can-reach Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Essay Responses We know how to accumulate a civilization's equipment. Whether it comes alive may depend on forms of cooperation that preserve the agency of the people in it, a question I approach through Eden, Ezekiel's valley of bones, and a body that keeps its members persons. https://project-nikolaos.org/essays/the-readable-world https://project-nikolaos.org/essays/the-readable-world Sat, 12 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Essay Responses Novel arrangements of living cells can do things no one designed them to do. That surprise sent me back through the Logos to the Spirit, to Pentecost as an image of communion that keeps its members many, and to a provisional idea I call a communion attractor. https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/paul-2-corinthians-12 https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/paul-2-corinthians-12 Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Report Paul's account of a man caught up to the third heaven, and his twice-repeated refusal to say whether the body went with him. https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/athanasius-life-of-antony https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/athanasius-life-of-antony Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Report The 4th-century Egyptian ascetic besieged by demons that change shape, predict and lie, and the rules Athanasius gives for testing what they say. https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/bede-fursey https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/bede-fursey Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Report The Irish monk Fursey, taken out of the body during illness, burned by something thrown at him, and carrying the mark for life. Bede's account and its sources. https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/bede-dryhthelm https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/bede-dryhthelm Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Report The Northumbrian thought dead who revived at dawn, described where he had been, and afterwards prayed standing in a freezing river. Bede's account. https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/paradise-of-the-holy-fathers https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/paradise-of-the-holy-fathers Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Report Hundreds of short sayings from the 4th- and 5th-century Egyptian desert, carried through Syriac and flattened into one English voice by a 1907 editor. https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/nicholas-dowry-tradition https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/nicholas-dowry-tradition Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Report Gold arrives through a window at night, three times, before anyone thinks to watch who is throwing it: the dowry narrative in the Nicholas tradition. https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/faxian-record-of-buddhistic-kingdoms https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/faxian-record-of-buddhistic-kingdoms Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Report The Chinese monk who walked to India and back between 399 and 414, and marked in his own account which wonders he saw and which he was only told. https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/attar-tadhkirat-al-awliya https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/attar-tadhkirat-al-awliya Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Report Persian lives of the friends of God: ecstatic speech, dreams and ascetic discipline, held here without an English text, and with the reason given. https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/visio-tnugdali https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/visio-tnugdali Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Report An Irish knight collapsed at dinner in 1148, was taken for dead for three days, and returned describing a country with a geography to it. https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/st-patricks-purgatory https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/st-patricks-purgatory Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Report The cave on an island in Donegal where, for four centuries, pilgrims were locked in overnight, and the accounts some of them wrote afterwards. https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/ezekiel-vision https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/ezekiel-vision Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Report By a canal in Babylon a deported priest describes wheels, four faces and a moving structure, and keeps saying it only looked like something. https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/miraj-night-journey https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/miraj-night-journey Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Report The journey by night and the ascent through the heavens, and the long argument within the tradition over whether the body went too. https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/jinn-book-of-wonders https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/jinn-book-of-wonders Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Report Illustrated catalogues of the world's contents, in which jinn are listed between the animals and the stars, in the same register and the same hand. https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/hokusai-yurei https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/hokusai-yurei Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Report A commercial Japanese print series of ghost stories, c. 1831, in which the returning dead have a fixed and recognisable iconography, sold by the sheet. https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/nuremberg-broadsheet-1561 https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/nuremberg-broadsheet-1561 Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Report At dawn on 14 April 1561 a frightful sight was seen at the sun over Nuremberg. Hanns Glaser had a broadsheet of it on sale within days. https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/spirit-photography https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/spirit-photography Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Report Portraits sold with a second figure standing behind the sitter, and the two fraud trials that showed how the second figure got onto the plate. https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/helene-smith-mars https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/helene-smith-mars Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Report The Geneva medium who described Mars, drew its landscapes and wrote its language, which turned out to have French grammar. Published 1900. https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/montserrat-880 https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/montserrat-880 Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Report A light from the sky, music heard among the rocks, a cave found: the tradition dated 880, first written in 1239, and a statue younger than its own story. https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/fatima-1917 https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/fatima-1917 Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Report Three children reported repeated apparitions; a crowd gathered on 13 October 1917 expecting a sign. The surviving photographs record the witnesses. https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/fort-book-of-the-damned https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/fort-book-of-the-damned Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Report The New York writer who spent years copying anomalies out of scientific journals, and published them in 1919 as a procession of the excluded. https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/project-blue-book https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/project-blue-book Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Report From 1952 to 1969 a US Air Force project printed a form for the reports it could not explain, with its degree of confidence built into the checkboxes. https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/caesar-portents-44-bce https://project-nikolaos.org/reports/caesar-portents-44-bce Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Report Dreams, failed sacrifices, a darkened sun, three suns in the sky, and months later a comet. What the Roman sources each actually say. https://project-nikolaos.org/updates#2026-09-01-initial-site-published https://project-nikolaos.org/updates#2026-09-01-initial-site-published Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Project log This site exists so that the project has a public record that predates its results. Its thesis is set out in full on the project page and can be put briefly here.