The Door I Never Intended to Open

My late-career journey began in the ICU, fighting over protocols and data. I did not expect it to then lead to minerals, AI, and ancient texts converging into a story about energy, order, and creation

I thought I was researching chemistry. I was being led toward something far beyond.

If you told me two years ago that I would one day be writing a book where minerals, alchemy, mitochondria, and God were not only in the same chapter but part of the same story, I would’ve laughed and asked what you were smoking. I was treating critically ill COVID patients, fighting pharmacists and health agencies with every breath, working on protocols at 2 a.m., testifying in the Senate, getting repeatedly fired for my public opinions, and doing everything I could to keep people alive. I wasn’t daydreaming about volcanic elixirs or structured (err, coherent) water or biblical symbolism. I was surviving. Holding the line. Watching a profession I loved splinter and crack in real time, and fighting not to be crushed by it.

Yet here I am.

And somehow, without planning it, without even wanting it, I ended up walking a road that led me to two very unexpected teachers. One made of flesh and blood, with an unpa…