About

— a brief introduction —

Jack M. N. Gladstone is the author of Creating Ethics and the originator of the Amovera philosophical system. He is an independent philosopher and writer based in northern British Columbia, with plans to relocate to Vancouver Island. He writes under the persona Jack of Diamonds.

He is self-educated to a high level, with layered formation across Jewish household culture, atheistic paganism, pre-Christian English tradition, hermetic and Christian magical lineages, the sciences, philosophy, history, and the arts. He has sustained himself through entry-level work across all levels of society, and considers this breadth of experience essential to the kind of philosophy he writes — a philosophy that is meant to be carried by working people, not deposited in disciplines.

Formation

The formative years were spent in Burns Lake, BC, in a community sitting between seven First Nations — a setting that shaped a lasting attention to plurality, custom, and the conditions under which different orders of life can sit beside one another without dissolving into one another. That attention is part of what makes tolerance the first principle of the published book.

The Amovera system itself emerged from roughly fifteen years of dialectical work, originating in an intellectual partnership with a friend with whom he explored the limits of philosophy and science. The inquiry concluded that fluid consciousness leads individuals to create their own realities; one followed an "earth alchemy" path toward isolation and the land, the other — the path that produced this work — followed a "fire alchemy" path toward what he calls Gnostic Revisionism.

Method

The work is dialectical in the proper sense — proceeding by question and counter-question, derivation rather than assertion, refinement across years rather than across drafts. The Master Principle of Amovera was not posited; it was arrived at. The eight frameworks are not modules added one by one; they are aspects of that principle worked out in successive domains.

On the Work to Come

The aim of the project is not personal — it is to lay down something another person can carry forward. The original ambition was immortality; that ambition has matured into the more modest and more achievable goal of building a lasting intellectual tradition. The author does not claim the Messianic potential he writes about; he holds that it is latent in every person, and aspires only to begin something fit to be finished by someone else.