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Jeffery Towery

Rise of Atlantis

Jeffery Towery

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English
Jeffery Towery
26 December 2025
Social theory; Social & cultural anthropology; Social, group or collective psychology
Human societies rise, stabilize, and collapse in patterns so consistent they are often mistaken for destiny. Rise of Atlantis offers a different explanation.

Drawing on biology, psychology, and history, Jeffery Towery introduces the Bias-Amplitude Model (BAM): a framework for understanding how human cognition expresses under stress, and how social systems amplify or suppress that expression. Rather than treating collapse as moral failure or cultural decline, the book shows how instability emerges when systems ignore the biological realities of human diversity.

Through comparative historical analysis - from ancient Greece and Rome to Indigenous social architectures - Rise of Atlantis traces recurring failure modes and rare examples of restraint. These are not stories of heroes and villains, but of nervous systems operating under load.

The final chapters turn forward, reframing Atlantis not as myth or prophecy, but as a design target: a way of organizing societies that respects cognitive variation, regulates stress before optimizing performance, and measures progress by reduced biological harm rather than output or dominance.

This is not a prescription for utopia. It is a lens for seeing humanity clearly - and designing systems that stop fighting what we are.
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Imprint:   Jeffery Towery
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 8mm
Weight:   191g
ISBN:   9798233907685
Pages:   134
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Jeffery Towery is a multidisciplinary creator and systems ethicist exploring the intersection of neurodiversity, consciousness, and emerging technology. His work bridges art and foresight, merging mythic narrative with real-world innovation to imagine futures where authenticity becomes a form of resistance. The Echo in the Flame marks the beginning of his Resonance Cycle series.

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