I stand at the intersection between our dreams and reality.
Entrepreneur, inventor and leader creating regenerative technologies and helping others become their full selves.
I'm an inventor who built a framework for personal transformation. Not from a textbook — from the wreckage of my own life falling apart and the painstaking work of putting it back together.
I studied physics, chemistry, and mathematics in college. Moved to the Bay Area living out of the back of my 1995 Ford F-150 with $3,000 in my pocket. Four years later I had a thriving clean tech company making six figures per month, an XPrize-winning innovation, and a patent portfolio.
But something was wrong. I broke open in a way I didn't know how to put back together. I fell into addiction, lost the business, lost nearly everything.
In the wreckage, I realized that every healing modality I'd ever tried had been showing me a different piece of the same puzzle — and nobody had drawn the complete map. Somatic work taught me trauma lives in the body. IFS showed me the psyche organizes into parts around wounds. Twelve-step proved the power of a social field. Contemplative traditions revealed that awareness itself can transform us. Each was absolutely correct within its own dimension — and structurally blind to the others.
I spent months building the map I wish I'd had fifteen years ago. Ten dimensions of contact. Seven forming a cascade — body before meaning, ground before depth. Two weaving through everything. I call it The Healing Spiral.
Through New Power Industry, I develop machines and systems for geocentric distributed manufacturing. Through coaching, I help people who are ready to do the deepest transformational work — not just get better, but become whole.
A framework for personal evolution across ten dimensions of contact. Healing operates across ten distinct dimensions. Each modality excels in some and is structurally blind to others. The dimension you have never worked is more likely to be where you are stuck than the one you have been deepening for years.
The Relational Field
Not a dimension alongside the others but the medium in which all healing occurs. Developmental trauma happened in relationship. It can only fully resolve in relationship.
Capacity Building
The nervous system needs enough resources to enter difficult territory without overwhelm.
Physiological Completion
The body holds incomplete survival responses. Completion means finishing what was started at the body's own pace.
Affect Metabolization
As the body releases, frozen material surfaces: grief under anger, terror under numbness, longing under self-sufficiency.
Differentiation
Past from present. Part from whole self. The growing ability to hold both realities at once.
Implicit Model Updating
The nervous system runs predictions formed under duress. These do not update through insight alone.
Identity Reorganization
As models update, the identity they supported loses coherence. It feels like death because something IS dying.
Energetic Reorganization
A layer between gross sensation and psychological meaning with its own logic and timing.
Shadow Integration
Not finishing what was interrupted, but welcoming home what was banished from self-experience.
The Core Insight: A traumatized system is not broken — it is coherently organized around survival. Healing does not make an incoherent system coherent. It reorganizes what the system is coherent around. Instead of coherence organized around wound, you develop coherence organized around wholeness — nothing excluded, nothing split off, nothing frozen.
The word spiral is not decorative. Healing circles. Each pass through the dimensions goes deeper as new material becomes available from a more stable foundation.
I bring an engineer's rigor to the territory of personal transformation. Using the Healing Spiral framework, I help you see across all ten dimensions — identifying which ones you've been deepening for years and which ones you've been avoiding. The wall is usually in the dimension you've never worked.
1:1 Coaching
Ongoing one-on-one work using the Healing Spiral framework. We map your territory across all ten dimensions and build the ground for real transformation. Three to six months. Includes unlimited AI coach access. Application-based.
Apply NowHealing Spiral Assessment
A single diagnostic session to map where you are across the ten dimensions. You leave with a clear picture of what's well-developed, what's being avoided, and where to begin. Includes limited AI coach access.
Book an AssessmentHealing Spiral App
An AI coaching companion built on the framework. Personalized prompts, reflections, and tracking — $20/month. Extends the work between sessions.
Learn MoreRead the Framework
Not ready to work directly? My Substack explores the ten dimensions, the common traps, and real stories of what transformation looks like when nothing is excluded.
Read on SubstackThe Stuck Founder
You've built something real. But something underneath is not moving, and no amount of strategy touches it.
The Over-Efforter
You work harder than anyone. You've always believed pushing hard enough would resolve the fundamental question. It hasn't.
The Systems Thinker
You see patterns everywhere. You've mapped your psychology with impressive precision. But understanding the map hasn't changed the territory.
The Hardware Founder
You build physical things. As a hardware inventor with patents, I also coach early-stage ventures through prototyping and manufacturing.
“Eli taught me that one healing modality isn’t enough. Having three or four that cover grounding, mind, and spirit feels like a built-out lifestyle rather than a life rope. His approach to shadow integration resonates deeply — it’s helped me set better boundaries, recognize my patterns around belonging, and gently remind myself that I do want accountability, support, connection, and growth.”
Innovations and industrial projects spanning gasification, renewable energy, cookstove design, and distributed manufacturing.
2-Axis Solar Array
Patented wind-load-resistant tracking PV system. DIY installation, self-cleans through rotation.
XPrize WEDEW
Winning team — technology harvesting water from air via atmospheric water generation and biomass gasification.
BetterStove
World's cleanest biomass cookstove. Gold Standard A-rated. Raw problem statement to mass production. Thousands deployed in Kenya.
Swirl Hearth Gasifier
Scaled gasification 10x with novel architecture. Adopted as All Power Labs' new standard.
Powertainer
150 kW from forestry waste. Solved cascading issues under tight grant deadline.
Chartainer
Highly advanced biochar production unit. Rethought the entire gasification architecture.
Pressure Relief Valves
Redesigned high-temp relief for biomass systems. Fraction of cost, handles repeated thermal events.
Refractory Sheet Metal
High-temperature combustion elements from sheet metal. Simple, rebuildable, resists thermal warping.
Electric Cookstove for Africa
Second-life EV batteries + induction cooktops. Cooking continues when the power goes out.
Gasification Architecture
Novel thermal recycling for low tar, wide fuel flexibility. Adopted as APL's core technology.
Ethanol Distillation
Ethanol reimagined as a keystone of regenerative industrial systems.
Biogas Plant
Built a biogas digestion system at age 20 in Asheville, NC.
New Power Industry
Early-stage regenerative hardware engineering. The umbrella under which my constellation of projects lives.
Ethanol Revolution
Developing the Freedom Still 3500 — the world's first fully automated ethanol distillery for small-scale producers.
Oakland Craft Distillers
Canned mocktail beverages. A consumer product that grew out of our distillation expertise.
E-Lite Studio
A luxury consumer product company exploring high-end applications of our manufacturing capabilities.
Regenovation Ltd.
Regenerative technology development and consulting.
Frank Bott Photography
World-class motorcycle photography.
Let's Work Together
I'm always looking for the right collaborators, investors, and co-conspirators.
