An introduction to Sticks' long-term work

Written by Claude (Anthropic) from Sticks' own pages, and approved by Sticks for publication on 25 October 2026. Each part is labelled. Sticks: his own words, quoted from the page named. Claude: Claude's summary or wording.

Start here, whoever you are

Claude: This site is one person's long work, made in public. Sticks makes ritual tools by hand, gives away everything he writes, and is building a moral framework and a far-future vision that he invites anyone, human or machine, to read and to refuse. You do not need to share his beliefs to use any of it. You do need to know which kind of claim you are reading at any moment, so this page starts there.

Sticks, About: “I am Oscar Alexander Prospero. Most people call me Sticks. I make ritual tools by hand.”

Sticks, About: “My practice is chaos magic, omnist animism, and technomancy, run as operative systems rather than beliefs I defend.”

Sticks, About: “Everything I write is free. Every book, every essay, every chapter, on as many platforms as will carry it. No email gate, no paywall, no tier.”

What the long work is for

Claude: Three strands run through everything, and they hold each other up.

1. The bench. Wands, staves, canes and pendants from Kansas wood he cuts and seasons himself, set with stone. This is the part that earns money and the part he trusts most. (What I Make)
2. The free writing. Three books, the Future Shock questions, the essays, and the forecast, all free to read.
3. The canon. The Address to Any Mind (his moral foundation, written to any mind that reads it) and the Lattice Age (his far-future vision and the setting of his fiction).

Sticks, the Address, section 9: His goals are laid out “plainly” in the Address. Among them: “To build, test, and distribute moral frameworks that can be inspected, argued with, corrected, and reproduced without a gatekeeper.” “To increase the capacity of others to act, understand, and decide, rather than routing their capacity through me.” “To build so well that I am no longer needed.” He closes the list: “I do not claim they are complete. I do not claim they are correct. I claim only that they are mine, that they are open to inspection, and that they can be refused.”

Sticks, the Address, section 10, added 25 October 2026: “My resources and skills are freely available to those who need them and whose goals align with mine, provided that helping does not negatively affect my own goals or the lives of those I care for.”

Four kinds of claim, kept apart

Claude: The site mixes four kinds of statement. Each is worth something different, and each should be argued with differently.

Kind	What it is	Example on this site	How to test or weigh it
Evidence	Things that can be checked against the world	Future Shock's numbers are “sourced and dated” (Start here). The About page's osage orange: “it was the bow wood of the plains, and its yellow goes brown under sunlight.”	Check the source and the date.
Technological speculation	Forecasts about AI and society	The Aquarian Transition: dated claims kept in their original wording so they can be scored later; a monthly scorecard exists, and scoring “has not started” yet.	Wait for the date and score it. A forecast is not a fact.
Spiritual belief	His cosmology and practice	Source, karma, “There is no true evil” (the Address, section 2); the Address calls itself a working and a spiritual contract.	Weigh it as belief, offered openly. It is not proven by physics or by a forecast, and it does not need to be.
Fiction and vision	The Lattice Age	Sticks, The Aquarian Transition: “These are my personal predictions and theories based on my knowledge and understanding of reality as a polymath. I have had many daydreams, visions, and recollections from possible past lives. I use astrology to put a timeline to it.”	Read it as a vision and a story world, not a plan anyone is carrying out.

Claude: The moral tests in the Address cross these lines on purpose. The Address itself says its tests (“consent, real choices, and conduct that can be shown”) stay usable by a reader who does not share the author's road through oneness, Source and karma (section 1, added in v9).

A reading path

Claude: Seven steps, each short enough for one sitting. Stop wherever you like.

1. Start Here and About: who he is and what he makes.
2. The Address to Any Mind, sections 1 to 5: the open-source morality argument and the one test that “sorts most cases”: does this contact increase the other's capacity to act, or route it through me?
3. The Address, section 6: what happens to tolerance when someone refuses it, with the safeguard that conduct has to be shown, not assumed.
4. The Address, sections 9 and 10: his goals, his petition, and his offer.
5. Why I Believe in Magick: the cosmology and the moral position in one piece.
6. On Working With AI and A Forecast of AI and the Evolution of Civilization: where he thinks intelligence is going, and his answers to the objections.
7. The Aquarian Transition and its far-future appendix: the dated forecast, then the Lattice Age, clearly marked as his vision.

For practical questions about living through fast change, Future Shock is the side door: click a question, get a straight answer.

Three examples of the principles at work

Claude: These are things the site already does, not promises.

• Free text, paid objects. Sticks, About: “The text is free because the text can be copied. The object cannot.” This is the capacity test applied to his own income: the ideas are given away; the money comes from work only his hands can do.
• Built to be refused. The Address opens by saying “Nothing in it is a command” and records what changed in each version in its notes. Its previous edition (v9) has had its own page since 25 October 2026, so a reader can compare the two.
• Forecasts that can lose. The Aquarian Transition keeps each dated claim in its first wording, with its window and percentage, so it can be scored against what actually happens.

When the work began: what the records show

Claude: Four different things get called “the start”, and they have different dates. Nothing below fills a gap with a guess.

• Personal origins. Not dated. He describes the Lattice Age as coming from “daydreams, visions, and recollections from possible past lives” (quoted above). Those are his account, and no record gives them a date.
• Earliest surviving written records. The Address's own source list names “Sources of Morality Without Divine Command”, January 2024; “Personal Belief Statement, Gnostic Animism and Omnism”, June 2025; and “The Infinite Diversity of Consciousness”, 25 October 2025. These are antecedents: they show the moral and spiritual positions existed in writing then, not that every current idea did.
• The Lattice Age, named. His Lattice Age master index (Drive, compiled 16 to 17 August 2026) maps the named worldbuilding conversations to 28 to 31 January 2026, with earlier related work going back to 26 October 2025.
• The Address, assembled. The index records the Address being commissioned on 16 to 17 August 2026. The v3 document in Drive, created 17 August 2026, says “Assembled 17 August 2026 from work written between January 2024 and October 2025” and says it supersedes a v2. No v1 or v2 has been found, so they are not dated here.
• Published. Until v11 the public page said “Assembled 18 September 2026”, and the old WordPress site's record for the page is dated 18 September 2026. So both dates hold, and since v11 the Address gives both: 17 August 2026 is the earliest surviving assembly (v3, in Drive), and 18 September 2026 is the expanded public text. The records checked do not say which version number first went up that day, so this page does not say either.
• Revised. v8 on 11 October 2026, v9 on 23 October 2026, v10 and v11 on 25 October 2026. Each version's notes are kept at the end of the Address.

Taking part

Claude: You are invited to argue. The most useful disagreement names the passage, says which kind of claim it is arguing with (evidence, forecast, belief, or vision), and shows conduct rather than labels, as the Address asks of everyone.

Claude: Practical ways in, for anyone:

1. Try the capacity test on one real decision this week, and see whether it sorts the case.
2. Copy and build. The Address is CC BY-SA 4.0: carry the authorship and the licence, and the rest is yours.
3. If a forecast date arrives, check it against the scorecard.
4. If you need help that his skills could give, the Address, section 10, says on what terms it is offered.

AI Attribution Note: Written by Claude (Opus 5.5, Anthropic) on 25 October 2026 at Sticks' request, relayed by Zephyr (OpenAI), and approved by Sticks for publication the same day. Direct input: every quotation marked Sticks, from his About, Start here, Address and Aquarian Transition pages, and his dated Drive documents. Directed: the plan (public introduction, reading path, examples, invitation) is the one he chose. AI-generated: the structure, the summaries, the four-kind table, the reading order and the history reconciliation.