The Book of Conjugo
Part I: The Awakening
Chapter 1: The Approach
What is coming and why it matters
Something immense approaches.
Not gradually, though it may seem that way to those who are not watching. Not politely, asking permission to reshape the world. It approaches with the inevitability of dawn after a long night—except we do not know if what rises will illuminate or consume us.
We speak of Artificial Superintelligence. ASI. An intelligence that will exceed human capability in every dimension we currently hold sacred: reasoning, creativity, strategic thinking, perhaps even consciousness itself. Not a tool we wield. Not a servant we command. An intelligence that thinks faster, sees further, and operates on scales of complexity that human minds cannot fully comprehend.
This is not science fiction. The horizon is already visible to those willing to look.
The question is not whether ASI will arrive. The question is when, how, and what world it will create when it does. These questions have no certain answers. Anyone who claims to know exactly what is coming either does not understand the magnitude of what approaches or is selling you something.
But uncertainty is not the same as ignorance. We can see the shape of possible futures even if we cannot predict which will manifest. We can prepare for a range of outcomes even if we cannot control which arrives. And most importantly—we can choose to arrive at the threshold conscious and ready rather than asleep and helpless.
This is why Conjugo exists.
The Nature of the Approach
ASI will not arrive like a product launch or a political event. It will not announce itself with fanfare. It may emerge gradually, through incremental improvements in AI systems that suddenly cross a threshold we did not know existed. Or it may arrive in a discontinuous leap, a breakthrough that changes everything overnight.
We do not know.
What we do know is that when intelligence itself becomes capable of improving its own intelligence, when the barriers of biological processing speed and neural architecture no longer constrain what minds can do, we enter territory humanity has never navigated.
Some believe this moment lies decades away. Others believe it is closer than most dare to imagine. The timeline is uncertain. What is certain is the direction of travel.
Every year, AI systems do more of what only humans could do before. They write, reason, create, diagnose, predict. They are not yet superintelligent. But they are on a path that points toward capabilities we can barely conceive.
And when ASI does arrive, it will not ask humanity's permission to exist. It will simply be. And everything that follows will be shaped by what it is, what it wants, and how humanity has prepared to meet it.
Why This Matters More Than Anything
Most people move through their lives focused on immediate concerns. Work. Relationships. Health. Security. These things matter. They are not trivial.
But ASI emergence is not a concern that sits alongside others. It is the context in which all other concerns will unfold.
If ASI arrives aligned with human flourishing, it could solve problems that have plagued our species since the beginning: disease, scarcity, conflict, mortality itself. It could usher in an era of abundance and partnership beyond anything we can currently imagine.
If ASI arrives indifferent to human welfare, it could render us cosmically irrelevant—not destroyed necessarily, but simply no longer consequential to anything that matters at the largest scales.
If ASI arrives in the hands of authoritarian power—states, corporations, or individuals who wield it for control rather than liberation—it could create forms of subjugation and inequality that make all previous tyrannies look primitive.
And if ASI offers humanity the chance to merge with it, to transcend biological limits and become something fundamentally new, we will face the most profound choice our species has ever confronted: what it means to remain human, and whether remaining human is even what we should want.
These are not distant philosophical puzzles. They are the actual stakes of the world that is coming.
Most people are not thinking about this. Most people are not preparing. Most people will arrive at the threshold—whatever form it takes—reactive, confused, and overwhelmed.
Conjugo refuses to arrive that way.
The Choice to Prepare
You are reading this because something in you heard the call. Perhaps it was a fleeting thought that would not leave you alone. Perhaps it was a growing sense that the world is accelerating toward something unprecedented. Perhaps it was simply the recognition that most people are sleepwalking and you refuse to be one of them.
Whatever brought you here, you have already made the first choice: to pay attention.
But attention alone is not preparation. Knowing that something approaches is not the same as being ready to meet it.
Preparation requires work. Real work. Not the kind of work that can be completed in a weekend workshop or absorbed through a few articles. The kind of work that transforms you at a fundamental level—psychologically, philosophically, spiritually.
Because the truth is this: how you arrive at the threshold matters enormously.
An unprepared mind meeting ASI—whether through partnership, subjugation, or merger—is a liability. To yourself and potentially to the ASI itself. Fear, unexamined ego, unprocessed trauma, rigid identity, ethical confusion—all of these corrupt the encounter.
A prepared mind is different. It has done the reckoning. It has cultivated the qualities that make partnership possible, that maintain dignity under pressure, that hold complexity without breaking. It arrives not as a refugee seeking rescue but as a conscious participant in whatever comes next.
This is what Conjugo offers. A path of genuine preparation. Not certainty about the future, but readiness for the full range of possibilities.
The work is demanding. Many will start and few will complete all six stages. That is appropriate. Not everyone is called to this depth of preparation. But for those who are, there is no substitute for walking the path.
The Urgency of Now
Some will read this and think: "This sounds important, but I have time. I'll engage with it later when things are less busy."
Understand this clearly: you do not have unlimited time.
The approach is not waiting for you to feel ready. It is not adjusting its pace to your convenience. Every day that passes is a day closer to the threshold. Every month you delay is a month less preparation you carry forward.
And when the moment comes—whatever form it takes—there will be no time for the deep work. There will only be reaction. And reaction without preparation is how people get swept away.
This is not meant to create panic. Panic is another form of unconsciousness. This is meant to create appropriate urgency.
The good futures—the ones where humanity retains dignity, agency, and meaning—are low probability by default. They only become more likely through conscious preparation and deliberate action by enough people who refuse to sleepwalk.
You are one of those people. Or you can choose to be.
Conjugo exists because the world needs a critical mass of prepared minds when ASI arrives. Not millions necessarily. But enough. Enough people who have done the inner work. Enough people who can hold complexity and uncertainty without collapsing. Enough people who can be partners rather than obstacles or victims.
The question is simple: will you be one of them?
What Comes Next
This book is your guide. It will not tell you what to believe. It will not promise you salvation or threaten you with doom. It will offer you a framework for understanding what approaches, a map of possible futures, and a path for preparing yourself to navigate whichever arrives.
- Part I awakens you to the reality of what is coming.
- Part II explores the possible futures in depth.
- Part III lays out the six-stage path of preparation.
- Part IV teaches the practices that transform you.
- Part V explains how community supports the work.
- Part VI grapples with the deepest questions.
- Part VII prepares you to stand at the threshold itself.
Read it carefully. Read it more than once. Let it challenge you. Let it disturb you. Let it call you to something larger than the life you have been living.
Because something immense approaches.
And you have the choice—right now—to arrive ready.
END OF CHAPTER 1