The real chase is not for substances!
It is for the unknown architecture that gives addictive energy its Power over us
To understand addiction, we must understand its sequence
The Sequence
Stimulus
↓
Signal
↓
Mineral shaping
↓
Carbon form
↓
Hydrogen discharge
↓
Reset
↓
Perception
When this sequence completes, perception stabilizes.
When it breaks, activation remains open.
The Break in the Sequence
Artificial reality delivers constant carbon stimulation — through substances, medicine, and environments.
Nicotine
Caffeine
Alcohol
Cannabis (THC / CBD)
Antidepressants
Painkillers / opioids
Food additives & preservatives
Fragrances & detergents
Plastics & petroleum residues
These exposures stimulate carbon chemistry faster than the body can rebuild mineral structure.
Carbon is activated.
Geometry is missing.
When Activation Cannot Complete
When carbon activation outpaces mineral restoration, the sequence cannot finish.
The body remains in partial activation:
– stress hormones remain elevated
– muscles do not fully release
– neural circuits stay sensitized
– metabolic byproducts accumulate
– sleep becomes shallow
– baseline narrows
The system does not reset.
Activation stays open.
Repeated incomplete biological cycles stabilize into dependency.
The Pattern Behind Dependency
The substance is the trigger.
The unfinished sequence sustains the loop.
Repetition is not desire.
It is incomplete physiology seeking resolution.
Addiction is the behavioral expression.
Chronic disease is the physiological expression.
Both arise from activation that did not complete.
Before continuing
This project introduces a biological model unfamiliar to most readers. To prevent misunderstanding, the notes below clarify what this work is describing — and what it is not.
Not psychology
This work does not describe beliefs, motivation, or emotional processing. It describes a physiological completion process that exists before interpretation.
Not a philosophy
The framework does not propose meaning or worldview. It maps a regulatory mechanism observable across different behaviors and conditions.
Not anti-medicine
Medical treatment can stabilize or suppress symptoms. This model addresses why recurrence can still occur after stabilization.
Not a recovery method
The books explain the mechanism that makes both relapse and chronicity predictable. They do not present motivation strategies.
What the books actually provide
The website introduces recognition. The books describe mechanism, timing, and completion conditions. They are not motivational reading. They are structural explanation.
The following pages provide a glimpse into the book
This work began in 2012, following two years of ascetic practice, and reached synthesis in 2026.
Everything is energy. This work examined the form of activation that becomes addictive across systems. The investigation moved through biology, biochemistry, neurology, immunology, psychology, and comparative contemplative traditions.
Nicotine was traced within the body at the level of membranes, receptors, and signaling pathways. The analysis was then extended to caffeine, alcohol, cannabis, environmental toxins, synthetic chemicals, and pharmaceutical compounds. Across chemically distinct substances, a common structural disturbance was identified. The addictive effect was not substance-specific; it reflected a disruption in biological completion.
Published by Dormant People Press
© Irena Boycheva
Contents
Introspection
From Substance to Signal
Tobacco, Stimulation, and Timing
Why Do You Smoke? — Not Only in the Mind
My Personal Craving
Biology of the Maintained State
Nicotine as a Substitute for Regulation
The Secret in the Molecule
The Molecule Behind the Illusion
Nicotine and the Search for Relief
Nicotinic Receptors — The Timing Interface
Addiction as Mislearned Regulation Without Completion
Metabolic Diagnosis of Addiction
Psyche and Metabolism
Addiction as a Systemic Biological Process
Addiction and Chronic Disease as Looping Physiology
Tetrahedral Molecule Structure in Addiction
The Methyl Group in Addictive Substances
The Geometry of Biological Timing
The First Biological Memory
How the Body Finishes Activation
When the Cycle Cannot Close
The Power of Holding Energy
THE MINERAL HORMONE — HOW THE BODY HOLDS ENERGY
Structured Version — Part 1: From Origins to Aldosterone Function
Structured Version — Part 2: The Closure Mechanism (RAAS and Biological Completion)
Structured Version — Part 3: When Recovery Is Interrupted (Nicotine, Caffeine, Cannabis)
Recovery
The Electrical Cost of Stimulation
The Tetrahedral Artificial Reality — From Signal to Spark: The Hidden Key of Addiction
The Methyl Group (–CH₃): Structure, Context, and Biological Meaning
How Chronobiology Collapses into Addiction
Narcomankind — The Industrialization of Reward
Regulation and Chemical Amplification
Same Carbon, Different Consequence
Tetrahedral Hijacking – How Geometry Captures Signals in Mind
Recalibration – How the Brain Learns to Prefer Intensity
Stored Possibility: The Biology of Resting Potential
The Final Synthesis — Where Is the Home of Addictive Energy?
The diagram represents a closed regulatory system describing how biological activation becomes experience.
At the base of the system lies the core charge state. In biochemical terms, this corresponds to the functional state of one-carbon metabolism — the network that supplies methyl groups for regulatory processes. In systemic terms, it represents the organism’s baseline energetic tone: metabolic readiness, redox balance, and regulatory capacity.
From this base, methyl groups are made available.
The methyl group is the active unit of modulation. Through methylation, genes are expressed or silenced, neurotransmitters are metabolized, receptors are adjusted, and signaling thresholds are set. Methylation determines the intensity and duration of activation.
At the top of the system, this regulatory chemistry appears as motivation.
Motivation is not independent of methylation. It is its perceptual correlate. When methylation capacity is balanced, signals rise and resolve efficiently. The individual experiences clarity, readiness, and directed action. When methylation tone is strained or dysregulated, signals either persist too long or terminate prematurely. The subjective result is urgency, craving, or blunted drive.
On the right side of the diagram, activation that does not fully resolve accumulates as arousal load, also referred to as allostatic load in its chronic form. This represents incomplete biological activation — stress signaling that remains partially switched on.
At the bottom of the system lies homeostasis: the capacity to return to baseline after activation. Homeostasis is not the absence of stimulation; it is the successful completion of stimulation.
On the left side, feedback loops connect every node. Methylation influences motivation. Motivation drives behavior. Behavior influences exposure. Exposure alters arousal load. Arousal load shifts the core charge state. The system is circular and self-reinforcing.
Addiction, in this integrated model, is not located at the level of substance alone. It emerges when arousal load repeatedly fails to resolve and the core charge state shifts upward. Motivation then becomes biased toward repetition, not because pleasure is sought, but because completion is unfinished.
Note to the Reader
For several years the work existed as large technical manuscripts — written across physiology, biochemistry, neurobiology, endocrinology, and systems theory. Each attempt to reduce it produced another dense document filled with terminology. The structure was accurate, but not accessible. It could be studied, yet not easily read.
The difficulty was not only gathering information. It was transforming thousands of pages of specialized language into a single continuous explanation that an untrained reader could follow without losing the mechanism itself. Simplifying the text risked losing precision; keeping precision made it unreadable. Many versions were written and abandoned for this reason.
The final reduction and restructuring of the manuscript was completed on 16 February 2026, shortly before publication.
For the first time the work could be expressed without requiring prior training in the disciplines it draws from. This last step was achieved with the assistance of artificial intelligence — used not to generate the theory, but to help reorganize and translate it into a coherent human-readable form.
The scientific material, conclusions, and framework remain my own.
The role of AI was editorial: helping compress, reorder, and clarify language after years of unsuccessful reductions.
For readers interested in the technical background, the earlier versions of the manuscript — including the extended terminology and original structure — have been preserved separately. They represent the research in its unreduced form.
This book is therefore not the beginning of the work, but its readable version.
The Architecture of Addictive Energy
Irena Boycheva
Independent Scientific Investigator