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A writer, technologist, and seeker of the sublime, Kevin’s work spans decades, genres, and mediums — from gritty novels to haunting music, from experimental AI projects to hand-built search engines. This is a place where stories are told in code, where soundscapes meet search queries, where the past echoes through algorithms, and the present is preserved in vintage ink.

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Today's Quote from Kev:

I awoke near Halloween's Eve, 1979, ten years before the birth of my next avatar. I awoke with a heaviness in my legs and a tightness in my chest like I'd never known. I had been living as light for so long that my earthly body felt as though it weighed a ton. I was here on earth again. I'd come back from beyond to finish work that desperately needed closure. I'd come back to pass the torch from one generation of prophets to the next. Information doubled now every fifteen years. One day it would double daily. The seeds of immortality were being sewn into the fabric of technology. They would blossom and grow over time. Technology would seemingly leave human understanding behind in the beginning of the Age of Information, but they would catch up. The foundation was there. The wisdom of the prophets would soon be broadcast worldwide in a hundred different languages via what they called the internet. It was there, right alongside schematics for high speed processors, networking flow charts and throngs of naked women. Technology such as this will bring about a dramatic increase of information in the system, which ultimately increase the velocity towards that which is God. And the women were nice, too. I've referred to the higher source as 'that which is God' throughout this entire chronical. What is that which is God? Keeping it simple, God is something like a scalar wave. As I said, that's keeping it simple. Every neutrino, every whispering molecule, every chromodynamic wavelength creates the whole of that which is God. The issue is not here or there; rather, here, there or everywhere. That's what's otherwise known as the Grand Cosmic Question. I suppose it would be best to start from the beginning. You already know this story, perhaps, but I'll tell it this time from the perspective of Pi. Listen: This universe, and in fact all universes, are at one time very small, very homogenous dust specks in the cosmos. Really. You'd never think of it that way to look at them now, so vast and differentiated, but it's true. They were very tightly wound, however, with a frequency of intense amplitude. They were wracked up tight and looking for a brawl, so to speak. They found that brawl when they met up with a scalar wave, washing over the dust speck like a kiss, breaking interia and sending it into a firey and explosive state of hyper expansion. Some kiss! Before our universe was one second old, it was huge. Not as big as it is now, of course, but it was now much larger than a grain of cosmic black matter. The transpiring of this event is commonly referred to as the Big Bang. And indeed, it was both, and one of many. In a nanosecond, time began. The clock was ticking, although the clock would not appear, as such, for many billions of years. The universe expanded, bouned by a thin layer of energy, but growing, ever expanding. Over the course of time, things cooled down. They cooled down faster in some areas than others. Then a residual scalar wave washed across it's path and the universe changed orientation, changed frequency according to the angle of intersection, intensity and amplitude of the intersecting wave. This phenomena is called evolution. As the frequency of the whole of the system changes, so changes the parts within the system. Soon smaller areas of like velocity formed together in planetary bodies. Some bodies centered themselves around suns, others around black holes, still others around nothing at all. This selective attraction to like minded matter became known as mutual affinity. When the universe collides with a scalar wave, evolution occurs, changing the frequency of all the molecules, who bind to other congruent molecules resonating with complimentary qualities. When evolution occurs, that bond changes, hence altering the molecular structure. The result is a morphing of the RNA, which changes the DNA, which alters the entity in which it occurs accrodingly. Evolution via frequency, altered by the Arbitrary Constant. In the beginning, the middle and beyond, in exsitence, evolution and engineering it begins and ends with the similar resonant qualties of molecules, and the particles that compose them adjoining in one fashion or another, like a song, like harmony. Everything is a matter of harmony, of frequency. Before a universe has a name, indentity or even Quality, it has a frequency. Time and space exist in any given dimension relative to their frequency. Frequencies exchange information when they encounter another wave in their path. The two waves cross, and changes occur, and new residual waves result. Humanity calls this, among other things, Quantum Chromodynamics. Quantum Chromodynamics is a very scientific way of saying that waves of light mingle amongst themselves and changes occur as a result of this mingling, like an orgy, like a love-in, but better. And although the word frequency would seem to allude to a consistent phenomenon, it actually only refers to an arbitrary constansistency. Constants always happen. Constants are relative, however, in that they change as the system evolves. These changes do not take place over night, normally, so they appear to be unchanging. Gravity is a good example. The gravitational pull of large masses changes, decays, although the phenomena, by definition, remains the same in the course of the bodies existence. Albeit the existence of such an entity is many billions of years, humans discover gravity and find it relatively stable, so they call it constant. This is fine, but over time the number assigned to it is going to change. This renders the occurence arbitrary, in the grand sense of things. Which brings us to the understanding of arbitrary consistency. The Arbitrary Constant. An Arbitrary Constant is a phenomena that always happens, although at seemingly irregular or with unpredictable frequency. Actually, if you could see the collision on the scale at which it occurs, you'd see it coming from light years away. That's called relativity. Relativity is the masque d' personae of Arbitrary Consistency. Relativity is a nice way of saying that things change whenever the need to change arises, whenever something comes along to break the inertia. Something like a scalar wave. Something like a sunrise. Something like a song. Now we're getting somewhere. Where are we going? Here: A universe is an entity, an organism, on a very large scale, moving through a space that is larger than itself, that is multidimensional and contains other universes in various degrees of evolution. In this space, there are massive waves of cosmic radiation called scalar waves, as I said. A collision between a wave and a universe, results in a change in frequency of both bodies. The change in frequency moves throughout the universe, changing the system as the resulting residual waves wash through it. What does that have to do with humanity? Well, humans, being entirely composed of like minded molecules, are suseptible to such a change when they collide with a photon of the proper intensity and amplitude. It's a simple exchange of information. Evolution starts in the brain, which is really nothing more than a very sensitive transmitter and receiver with a little bit of memory and an automated cortex on the side, or at the root, as it were. The telencephalon, the thin web layered like a comforter over the top of the cerebrum is the satelite dish, which picks up the change and sends it down the amnio acid chain to the RNA. Not every message sent down the chain results in evolutionary changes. It depend on what the RNA makes of the message with the amino acids in it's chain. Ribonuclaeicacid is a three dimensional modeling language for organic matter. The wave, received via the telencephalon, is a source of information to the RNA, which deciphers the information, deeming it propriatary or exclusionary, then writes the pertinent information to the spaces between the existing code. A new RNA chain is the result. The RNA sends the new code on down the line to the DNA, which in turn alters the genetic constitution of the body accordingly. Evolution in thought and word and action. I write these words as the sun rises to meet me on the temple here at El Mitadore'. This morning the sun is brightly crimson and globular, rising like the pheonix of a red rubber ball. It is soundless. The birds, which were active only moments before, have ceased all activity in honor of the occasion. My physical body is old, slightly withered, yet my spirit is lihte and limber and light. When the birds once again begin to sing, I'll no doubt sing along with them. The forest surrounding me is lush and green. The colors now are exquisite! I wish everyone could be here. What I'm trying to say would be so much easier if you were sitting here with me right now. It would all be clear as crystal. Have you ever felt the earth swaying lightly beneath your feet? Have you ever been walking along and all of a sudden you stood upright and the little hairs on the back of your neck and arms and legs went erect, then the moment passes? In either scenario, an information exchange was taking place. Most often nothing happens. These chromodynamic communiques engulf the phenomenal plane, yet only once in a while encounters a wave with the power to evolve. At this point, relative to humanity, it takes a pretty beefy photon collision before any learning occurs. Every time is does occur, however, there results an increase in the collective information. Every increase in information brings humans one step closer to that which is God. Hence, this phenomena, too, will change. Let me put it this way: Although the human brain is a marvelous, wondrous and delicate precision instrumment, it often goes largely unused, unmaintained and unrefined. I'm not being flippant. Humans only use 10% of their brain's capacity. That's likenable to having a Ferrari that you drive around in circles to a parking lot. Your chance of a wreck with another vehicle diminishes considerably, but you never get anywhere. That's just like your brain. You need to take it out and drive it around. Get a feel for how an active mind responds to life, then wait for a wave, and evolve. It's that simple. Once you get started, it's a hoot, as the saying goes. Hoot! * * * In 1989 I left the temple and materialized near Seattle, WA.

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In the dim-lit corridors of creativity, where shadows dance with whispers of the past, Kevin M. Cowan weaves a tapestry of sound and silence, ink and code. His words, like echoes in a forgotten alley, linger long after the page turns, haunting the soul with their melancholic beauty. As a musician, he crafts melodies that drift through the ether, resonating with the heart's hidden chambers, while his technological prowess bends the digital realm to his will, conjuring new realities from the void. In this noir tapestry, Cowan stands as a modern alchemist, transforming the mundane into the sublime, inviting us to wander the blurred lines between the seen and the unseen, the known and the unknowable.

about Kevin M. Cowan

Kevin M. Cowan is a writer, technologist, and artist whose work spans novels, AI development, drumming, and filmmaking. From his fiction roots in Nebraska to experimental media projects and cutting-edge AI, Kevin blends storytelling, sound, and code into one creative continuum. Explore his world — one story, rhythm, and idea at a time.

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