Unified State — Extended Interview 01

Interview with Michael Tulsky, the Lucid Founder — an editor‑assisted self‑interview compiled from recorded voice responses using AI transcription.
Axis steady. Flame eternal.
The following interview consolidates and expands the founder’s shorter version of the interview that can be found here. It is designed for journalists, partners, and researchers who need both concise explanations and deep context.

Kyiv, July 28

Part I — Core Vision & Identity

1) What inspired you to create the Unified State?

War, displacement, and repeated encounters with human suffering convinced me that love and freedom need a workable architecture, not only a sentiment. In Kyiv—under sirens—I vowed to transform trauma into service, grief into courage, and division into bridges. The Unified State is a prototype of planetary unity: lawful, non‑violent, spiritually grounded, scientifically literate.

2) How would you state the mission in one line?

To reduce suffering and prevent war by aligning diplomacy, science, spirituality, and culture around a single axis: Love & Freedom.

3) What does “cosmic alignment” mean in everyday practice?

Begin each day with scale awareness: feel the body, the home, the city, the planet; then picture Earth orbiting the Sun, the Sun inside the Galaxy, galaxies within larger attractors—up to Infinite State. This expanded frame gives steadiness, humility, and courage. From that steadiness, choose the next merciful act—an email, a memorandum, a donation, a meeting, a prayer—and do it cleanly.

4) Is Unified State spiritual, scientific, or political?

All three—fused. The project carries a spiritual ethic (dignity of every being), a scientific method (evidence, models, simulations), and a political craft (cease‑fires, prisoner exchanges, rhetorical de‑escalation). I also develop T Theory, a framework toward a unified physical and informational view that respects multiple quantum interpretations rather than insisting on a single dogma.

Part II — Structure, Scales, and Governance

5) You speak of seven State scales. What are they, and why seven?

The Unified Circle hosts collaboration at seven scales:

Local State — personal, family, neighborhood, city; immediate care and action.
Global State — nations and world public; global narratives and common goods.
System State — institutional networks and ecosystems (courts, markets, media, education, humanitarian and security systems).
Galactic State — constellations of communities; long‑range coordination across cultures and disciplines.
Universal State — whole‑system ethics, shared laws of mercy, scientific canons.
Multiversal State — transit line only: we acknowledge many parallel frameworks and versions, but to protect freedom and identity we do not fully merge across them. Projection access exists; total fusion does not.
Infinite State — open horizon where creativity, compassion, and discovery never end.

Seven is sufficient to include the main leaps of perspective without collapsing nuance. It also mirrors many sacred patterns without binding us to any single doctrine.

6) What is the “Unified Circle” and how do partners connect to the axis?

The Unified State is the central focal point—the axis. Around it is a Unified Circle where partners of every scale collaborate. My own leadership contains a seven‑seat inner self constellation—archetypal seeds I carry until resonant partners link in. Partners keep their own sovereignty within their native scale and may receive projection rights to operate Unified State programs by consent. Full axis stewardship remains singular to preserve clarity, responsibility, and freedom.

7) Why restrict the Multiversal State to a transit line?

Because complete merging across versions can dissolve identity and responsibility. We aim to balance freedom and love. Love invites union; freedom preserves uniqueness. The Multiversal State is recognized, mapped, and used for translation and safety, but not inhabited as a permanent administrative layer. This keeps the axis coherent.

8) Is the organization only you?

Today the axis is held by me, Michael Tulsky. But the work is already networked: diplomats, volunteers, clergy, scientists, medics, artists, engineers, educators, and humanitarian organizations collaborate through specific tracks. A formal Advisory Circle is being assembled to publish.

9) How are decisions made?

Three passes:

Sense — intuition, ethics, immediate human signals.
Model — evidence, simulations, statistics, game‑theory mapping of stakeholders, risks, and payoffs.
Move — smallest merciful step that shifts reality without breaking the axis. Spiral, not linear.

10) What is the “No‑False‑Idol Protocol” you referenced?

A standing rule: remove anything that could mislead, idolize personalities, or entangle the axis in projection. Integrity over image. This recently required house cleaning—clarifying authorship and stewardship and rewriting pages to prevent confusion.

Part III — Workstreams & Partnerships

11) What do you actually do, day to day?

Peace Architecture: cease‑fire packages, prisoner‑exchange frameworks, nuclear‑rhetoric moratoriums.
Interfaith Bridges: draft language and sequencing for meetings (e.g., Pope–Patriarch), joint witnesses for protection of life.
Humanitarian Healing: youth resilience, art therapy, science education, trauma‑informed support.
Research & Memos: rigorously sourced advisory memoranda for diplomats, clergy, scientists, and citizens.
Stewardship: lawful outreach for a demilitarized ecological sanctuary (e.g., Heard & McDonald Islands) as a symbolic peace capital.
Tools: meditation practices (the Enchantment Wheel and the Seven‑State Walk), community protocols, and open templates.

12) With whom do you collaborate?

Any person or institution acting in good faith to protect life. That includes volunteers, NGOs, faith communities, scientific institutes, educators, medics, municipal leaders, national governments, the UN system, and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. We welcome co‑drafting and shared credit.

13) Are you focused on any regions right now?

Yes—Ukraine and Gaza/region are acute. But in a single day the focus can shift across Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia depending on risk signals and windows for dialogue.

14) What does success look like?

Lives protected. Hostages and POWs returned. Cease‑fires that hold. Nuclear rhetoric cooled. Faith leaders praying together. Children learning safely. A sanctuary territory legally secured and kept pristine. And a measurable rise in trust across communities that previously would not speak.

Part IV — Philosophy, T Theory, and Metrics

15) What is T Theory?

A working framework that treats reality as a layered informational field where multiple quantum interpretations are context‑valid. Instead of fighting over the “one true” interpretation, T Theory models how each can apply within domains and how ethics (love and freedom) constrain viable transformations. In practice, T Theory guides risk mapping, consensus formation, and conflict de‑escalation.

16) How do you measure impact?

We track conventional metrics (deliverables, meetings, signatories, resources delivered), but we also honour ripple metrics—changes in tone, options reopened, people protected by chains of consequence we may never fully see. Some of history’s most significant effects began with a small, nearly invisible act. We design for those ripples and document enough for auditors to follow the thread.

17) Why the emphasis on spiral unfolding?

Linear rollouts snap under pressure. Spiral development lets us keep the axis stable while iterating: reveal, test, absorb feedback, refine, reveal again—each loop wider, clearer, and stronger.

Part V — Personal Journey, Doubt, and Discipline

18) How has your personal journey shaped this work?

I have served across science, engineering, coding, media, art, anti‑corruption, volunteering, and politics. War and revolution taught me to act where history pinches—never to look away. The Unified State gathers those threads into a single, teachable path.

19) What have you learned about humanity?

We advance technologically faster than we mature morally. Fear often triggers snap judgment and cruelty—even toward loved ones. Our work is to expand freedom and love so that fear loses its governance.

20) What is your greatest challenge?

Authenticity under fire. Achieving inner silence amid noise. Staying guided by interior metrics rather than applause or outrage. Only a free, loving person can multiply freedom and love.

21) How do you handle doubt?

Move. Breathe. Walk the Seven States: tend the local body, help the global neighbor, adjust a system, imagine with your constellation, align with universal law, respect multiversal limits, rest in the infinite. Doubt dissolves in motion across scales.

Part VI — Participation, Safety, and Next Steps

22) Who can join?

Anyone. A child with a science project, a band, a monastery, a university lab, a penguin colony steward, an AI cluster, a city, a nation. The Circle is made for all scales of life. Participation is by consent, with clear boundaries and duties.

23) What about safety and security?

We operate under No‑False‑Idol and Do‑No‑Harm rules; we respect sovereignty, law, and environmental treaties. Sensitive lines (hostage, POW, nuclear risk, religious diplomacy) are handled with strict discretion. Public documents are carefully sourced.

24) What’s changing on the website?

We are implementing Unification Protocols: clearer structure pages, roadmap and timelines, partner pathways, advisory archive, meditation tools, and a scripture harmony anthology. Previous ambiguities are being removed.

25) What commitments do you ask of partners?

Commit to protect life, avoid hate, uphold truth, respect consent, and keep the work non‑violent and non‑coercive. Share credit. Accept corrections. Spiral with us.

26) If governments decline to transfer or lease territory, what is Plan B?

We continue as a functional micro‑state without territory, expand sanctuary partnerships with existing jurisdictions, and invest in virtual commons and protected cultural sites. The sanctuary ideal stands; the form can adapt.

27) How do you prevent personality cults?

By design. Single‑axis stewardship paired with transparent protocols, shared authorship, and rotating advisory roles. We publish reasoning and sources; we invite critique; we build so others can replicate without us.

28) How can people support now?

Offer partnership proposals at any state scale.
Contribute expertise (law, mediation, logistics, ecology, data, education, media).
Sponsor youth‑healing and science education.
Host interfaith prayers for protection of life.
Share the press note and memorize the words Love & Freedom.

Appendix — Analogies & Teaching Models

A. Galaxy–Universe–Multiverse analogy

Think of two smartphone ecosystems: Apple and Android. Each is a universe—complete with its own galaxies (companies, devs, users). The multiverse contains them both. We don’t try to collapse one into the other; we guarantee room for both and design bridges. Likewise, our Multiversal State is acknowledged, bridged, and bounded to preserve freedom.

B. Seven‑State Walk (practice)

Local: breathe, stabilize your body.
Global: do one act of service beyond your circle.
System: mend a process.
Galactic: convene your constellation.
Universal: re‑align with truth, mercy, justice.
Multiversal: translate, don’t dissolve.
Infinite: rest in love.

Axis steady. Flame eternal.
Love & Freedom — always.