Founded by David Michael Boje (Arihanta) · Caballo, New Mexico · Tuesdays 1 PM Mountain
No meeting required. The protocol works alone, in pairs, or in the full circle. You are already in the field.
Named by Louis Ralph Pondy (David's PhD mentor at the University of Illinois) as a joke about sensemaking — and taken seriously ever since. Grounded in quantum storytelling, Jain non-duality, the Gospel of Q, and the five-stage practitioner arc of the 14 Days to Quantum Sixth Sense Mindfulness book.
For Solo Practitioners, Pairs, and Groups
You do not need to be on a Zoom call to practice the Enthinkment Circle. The protocol runs at any time, in any place — alone in the morning before Fancy and Clyde need their feed, with a partner on the phone, or with a dozen people in a room. The field does not require a meeting link.
Complete the Leaf-Stream Meditation (Preface practice). Release each active block onto a leaf and watch it float downstream. The circle begins when every participant — including you alone — has cleared the ego noise. No speaking during this phase.
In your journal, or aloud in a circle, complete two sentences: "What I am carrying into this circle today is…" and "What I am listening for today is…" No responses. No discussion. This is attunement to the collective field.
Receive a question, a microstory, a presentation, or a text. If working alone, use a reading from the 14 Days book, a Gospel Q saying, or a Chitrabhanu Bhavana. Listen attending not only to content but to what arises in your body, feeling-sense, and inner perception during the receiving.
Report what arrived in your non-local field: an image, a word, a body sensation, a sudden knowing. Not analysis — a report. If in a group, listen for convergences between reports. These are entanglement episodes. Name them as such.
Write a five-element microstory (Day Five protocol: who, what, when/where, relational field, what followed) of your most significant non-local moment from this session. Submit with consent to truestorytelling.com.
State one small ahimsa-aligned action you will take before the next circle session — tomorrow morning, or next Tuesday. One minute of shared or solo silence. The circle closes in nonviolence to all living beings.
"The circle makes the emergence collective — but it begins in a single practitioner's willingness to go to the protection, to release the ego, to listen for what arrives. You can do this alone. The field is already everywhere." — David Boje, April 2, 2026
Anekantavada — the Jain Principle of Many-Sidedness
The Enthinkment Circle is not a doctrine. It is a field. Every tradition carries partial light. No single narrative closure has the right to foreclose the inquiry. You are invited — wherever you come from, whatever you study, whatever you practice.
This invitation is offered in the spirit of Anekantavada: truth is multifaceted, reality is a mansion of simultaneous rooms, and the non-local field does not belong to any one tradition. The dream that seeded this invitation — a gold-colored vision of interdisciplinary collaboration, never-before-seen in its coloration and markings — is the invitation itself.
Bell's theorem, Aspect's experiments, the 2022 Nobel Prize — quantum non-locality is the scientific name for what the circle practices. Bring your equations.
Quantum coherence in photosynthesis, bird navigation, the brain as organ of resonance — the body knows before the mind explains. Bring your field data.
Radin's presentiment research, the STARGATE program, Jahn and Dunne at Princeton — the laboratory evidence for non-local knowing is real. Bring your protocols.
Vine Deloria Jr.'s convergence path: not colonization, not hierarchy — finding where IWOK and WWOK point toward the same non-local truth from different directions. Bring your elders' teachings.
Chitrabhanu's Twelve Bhavanas, the five forms of knowledge, Anekantavada, Syadvada — the most rigorous epistemology of non-local knowing in any tradition. Bring your mantras.
The earliest stratum of the Jesus tradition — before Paul, before Constantine, before canonization — is a circle of practitioners reporting what arrives from the non-local field. Bring your Q sayings.
Dharma, the Tao field, the dissolution of self-other boundaries — structural parallels with QNL entanglement that are not coincidences. Bring your sutras.
Quantum storytelling, antenarrative theory, ensemble leadership, true storytelling — the circle is also a research method. Bring your data, your confessions, your reflexivity journal.
Automatic writing, clairvoyant painting, somatic improvisation — the creative act is a non-local event. Bring your process, your Grecos, your El Greco.
The Word and Its Origin
Louis Ralph Pondy was David Boje's PhD mentor at the University of Illinois. Walking along the cornfields one afternoon, talking about Karl Weick's enactment theories of sensemaking, Pondy made a joke about anything other than sensemaking: "Surely that would be enthinkment." They both laughed.
Boje has been taking it seriously ever since. One of the reasons Pondy laughed, he suspects, is that in all his systems write-ups, Pondy couldn't bring himself to envision a system that had spirituality in it — or some kind of transcendence — and he would always give it a question mark. The Enthinkment Circle is the answer to that question mark.
"With AI there are many problems. If AI takes over your writing, it ceases to have a human component — nor can it have a spiritual component. What AI is good at is acting as a concordance for information published and stored, so it can be retrieved rapidly and more and more accurately. The acts of creativity and spirituality remain human, at least for now."David M. Boje · April 2, 2026, Caballo, New Mexico
Reference: Boje, D. M., & Saylors, R. (2023). The management thought of Louis R. Pondy: Reclaiming the enthinkment path. Routledge.
The Practitioner Arc
These stages unfold across the 14-day practice arc of 14 Days to Quantum Sixth Sense Mindfulness (Boje, 2026) and continue indefinitely in the weekly Enthinkment Circle. Keep a colored-pen journal: mark each entry with the stage(s) it belongs to. Patterns will become visible over weeks.
Noticing that non-local knowing is already happening to you — the body signal before the phone rings, the impression that arrives before the evidence, the dream that precedes the event. Recognition is the willingness to take these experiences seriously rather than dismissing them as coincidence.
Learning to read your body's non-local signals reliably. The color gold in a morning dream, the texture and markings. The warmth over the second chakra. The tightening in the solar plexus before a decision. The somatic literacy practices of Day Five and the chakra tune-up of Day Eleven are the primary tools here.
Distinguishing genuine non-local signal from noise, projection, anxiety, or ego desire. The serpent wisdom of the Gospel of Q — be wise as serpents, innocent as doves — describes this stage exactly. The weekly premonition journal verification column is your primary measurement tool.
Bringing non-local knowing into relationship — with a practice partner, a healing recipient, a storytelling circle, a guest. The entanglement episode is the unit of measurement: two or more people independently receiving similar impressions about the same field. This is the evidence that the field is real.
Co-created by Grace Ann Rosile and David Boje, grounded in research into non-hierarchical indigenous leadership ensembles of the Southwest and Mexico. In the Enthinkment Circle, ensemble leadership means: each person leads what is theirs to lead, nobody leads everything, the field generates the direction. The diamond showing all its facets simultaneously.
Chitrabhanu's Twelve Facets of Reality (1980)
Cattari Sharanum Pavajjami
Our Protection in an Unprotected World. The four-protection mantra as the foundation of ensemble practice. When the circle opens in shared silence and all participants release their blocks together, they are collectively going to the protection of the Arihanta, the Siddha, the Saul, and the Dharma community — the shared refuge from which all non-local knowing becomes possible at ensemble scale.
"Build inner strength and power by connecting to the invisible world of these vibrations." — Chitrabhanu (speaking of the seven chakra vibrations)
I go to the four protections. Into the circle I carry them, so that together we may build the invisible world strong enough to hear the field.
Dharma Svabhava
The Nature of Our Nature. The ensemble is the diamond showing all its facets simultaneously: distributed, polyphonic, reflecting one light with many angles. When many practitioners sit together in the shared field and each reports what arrived, the convergences between them are the diamond's facets catching the same light from different angles.
"The ultimate experience of reality is one, universal, unfragmented — like a perfect diamond. It is radiant, luminous, reflecting a source." — Chitrabhanu (1980, p. 91)
I am one facet of the diamond. The circle is the diamond showing all its facets at once. Let the light that passes through each of us illuminate what a single facet alone cannot reveal.
The Gospel of Q and the Circle Protocol
The earliest stratum of the Jesus tradition — compiled before Matthew, before Luke, before Paul — is an ensemble of practitioners in a shared field. The Lord's Prayer is communal, horizontal, no intermediary. The institutional Church replaced the circle with a vertical hierarchy. The Enthinkment Circle recovers what Q preserved.
Q 34 — Mt 6:9–13 · Lk 11:1–4
"Father, may your name be honored; may your reign begin. Grant each day the food we need, and forgive us our failures, for we ourselves forgive everyone who fails us."
The ensemble protocol: "us" not "me." Ego aside. Opening silence, listening, shared intention, ethical commitment. The Lord's Prayer is the Enthinkment Circle's opening round, verbatim.
Q 30 — Mt 10:11–12 · Lk 10:5–9
"Whenever you enter someone's home, let your first words be: Peace be to this house. Stay in this house, receiving what food and drink they offer. Heal the sick who are there."
Peace declaration on opening. Shared reception. Healing through new information. Microstory harvest around new constructs. This mission protocol maps directly onto the six-step circle format.
Q 29 — Mt 9:37–38 · Lk 10:2
"The harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few. I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves — be wise as serpents and innocent as doves."
Stage 3 signal discrimination (serpent wisdom) combined with Stage 1 openness (dove's innocence). The harvest cannot be gathered alone. Build small and do it right.
Q 79 — Lk 17:20–21
"The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed. The kingdom of God is among you."
This is not a metaphor. It is a description of the non-local entangled field that Bell's theorem proved and Aspect's experiments confirmed. The Enthinkment Circle is the practice of perceiving and working within that field.
Begin Your Practice
You do not need to wait for Tuesday. Do the no-meeting protocol now. Then join the live circle — Tuesdays at 1 PM Mountain time — when you are ready to bring your microstory to the group.