is an independent researcher working at the intersection of symbolic systems, consciousness studies, and sacred traditions. His interdisciplinary approach draws from physics, philosophy, psychology, computer science, psychedelic insights and comparative mysticism to develop frameworks for understanding pattern, meaning, and structure.

Cohen's intellectual path was shaped by several formative experiences. Misdiagnosed in his youth with anxiety and ADHD while his autism went unrecognized, he developed early on a recursive, pattern-seeking approach to understanding systems and meaning. This cognitive style—initially seen as a deficit—became the foundation of his later theoretical work.

 Growing up in a rigid religious system that emphasized dogma over inquiry created early religious trauma, instilling both a deep familiarity with sacred frameworks and a critical distance from institutional religiosity. This tension between immersion in religious language and rejection of authoritarian structures shaped his later approach to comparative mysticism—seeking the underlying patterns across traditions while remaining independent of any single orthodoxy. 

His exploration of psychedelics in both adolescence and adulthood have proven therapeutic, addressing chronic depression and anxiety where conventional approaches had not. More significantly, after hundreds of intense experiences, they have revealed what he describes as the recursive, geometric structure underlying consciousness and perception. This insight—that reality operates through symbolic patterns rather than purely mechanistic processes—became the central hypothesis guiding his subsequent research.

Personal losses, including years of incarceration, homelessness, and family estrangement, provided direct experience with trauma, fragmentation, and the psychological mechanics of survival and reconstruction. These experiences informed his later theoretical work on trauma as a recursive process and recovery as pattern recognition.

Cohen's work has been heavily inspired by multiple traditions:

Sacred and Mystical Traditions:

• Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah, gematria, Tree of Life)
• Perennial Philosophy
• Christian mysticism and Gnosticism
• Hindu philosophy (Advaita Vedanta, Upanishads, yantra geometry)
• Tibetan Buddhist philosophy (Vajrayana Buddhism "The Diamond Way")
• Taoism (Dao De Jing)
• Indigenous cosmologies
• Western esotericism and Hermeticism

Cohen has developed what he calls Anima Caerula, a recursive symbolic framework for analyzing language, behavior, trauma, and form. This framework informs several ongoing projects:

• The Tree of Life Engine: A symbolic mapping system that translates meaning across recursive layers
• Symbolic decryption tools: Analytical methods combining recursion theory, entropy analysis, and symbolic coherence
• Sacred geometry research: Visual and mathematical representations of recursive patterns
• Recursive Symbolic Trauma Theory of Autism (ReST-A): A theoretical reframing of autism as multi-temporal consciousness
• The Newly Initiated Gnostic Repository: A cross-traditional archive of sacred texts and symbolic systems

Cohen's approach is not to create new systems but to reveal the underlying structure that makes diverse systems mutually intelligible. His work aims to provide practical frameworks for understanding trauma, consciousness, and meaning-making through pattern recognition rather than narrative interpretation.

His current focus is developing accessible tools and language that make these insights applicable to therapeutic, educational, and personal contexts.