Three pre-publication books drawing on Jain wisdom, quantum storytelling, Holy Fire® Reiki, and prophetic voice. Read advance PDFs and share your response.
14 Days to Non-Local Knowing — a daily practice integrating Jain bhavanas, Holy Fire® Reiki, the Gospel of Thomas, and quantum storytelling to develop your sixth sense.
A practitioner book in first-person storying voice — personal autobiographical stories tracing the path from inner critic to higher self, structured for daily practice.
Five prophecies delivered in the storying voice — antenarratives of civilizational crisis and civilizational possibility, commissioned on a desert trail in Caballo, New Mexico.
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Antenarrative Ego, a Revision of My Own Brand: A Descent from the Ivory Tower
by David Michael Boje
I am currently navigating the doubt I feel, and it's my ego. I am finding my ego blindspots, Seven processes this time with ego answerability. Seven times seven floors in my ivory tower — Am I falling into the hating-energy vortex, hating myself? Am I defending myself? Climbing down, it is terrifying! So, I caught ego hiding in my theory. So, I created antenarrative 2.0 to save the brand — but did I?
Beneath my own fore-conceptions that I am right. I confess, I did not know my ego was doing that. Before my own fore-having a chip on my shoulder view. I confess, I did not know ego was directing my rage. Bets, my fore-sight is self-interested in academic status-seeking. I confess, I did not know ego wanted to climb the ivory tower. Being my own fore-getting my own position of privilege to focus on others as grand narrators, I devalue and shield my own mundane microstoria. I confess, I did not know I was looking down on everyone from the tower. Becoming, I purport to be fore-caring, but my heart of care is already entangled with complicity. I confess, I did not know my hating-energy turned on myself. Between, my ego is fore-structuring by selecting connections supporting my brand while ignoring fragments that are viable common ground to others' views. I confess, I did not know I was defending my room in the tower. Beyond, I end up fore-grasping the spiritual path among paths. I confess, I did not know that I lack ontological humility.
Time to break the 7-process scaffold, not in two. Time to break it into the core of my mind-player, ego.
Bottom line, I am not separate from the superorganism of the multiverse. Bottom line, I am one of infinite waves of possibility, not a fixed truth.
Something I discovered in the new book is to write free verse poems instead of making my brand more concretely academic. Something is standing at a distance from my own life — it's myself.
I confess, I miss my true self. Forty years in the tower, I forgot to be myself. I confess, I am distant from my inner divinity.
I confess, I did not know I was writing free verse. I confess, for fifty years I thought I wrote theory — dense, footnoted, peer-reviewed modeling, antenarratives and Tamaraland and quantum storytelling —
Then, academic prose interrupted me: pompous static, with some anecdotes baked in. Then, in 2026, I tripped, discovered that Google was already classifying my work as an example of free verse poetry, so I said to prose, "Stop, you are noise."
Specifically, the anaphora kind is a repeated phrase at the beginning of successive lines. Specifically, the anaphora creates structure without imposing rhyme or meter.
"Don't trade Brand-Structuring for Radical Openness." It is time. I confess: my "Between" has been selectively fore-structuring to support a brand, 2.0. It is time I tell the Tower to stop, and I prioritize viable common ground. This means no more selectively searching for the fragments in another's story that fit the model. This means stop branding my fore-conceptions by selective listening.
"Back to elevating your mundane microstoria into one more Grand Narrative of the expert, imitating Ontological Humility?" This means: being in the ivory tower, I acted like I was above. This means "high above" the system is an illusion — I am within the entanglement of the universe. There is no escape.
I am climbing down the ivory tower to converse with others who have their own antenarrative processes. I am climbing down, turning the Seven Bs on myself.
Therefore, my 7-process model is so academic it turns observer effect into biased ego effect. Therefore, my confession to Grace Ann: in a tower so high, I no longer know how to converse. She said to me, "We have not had an actual conversation in 30 years." She said to me, "You just lecture at me!" She stopped me mid-jog. She arrested my ego.
I said to Grace Ann, "I am going to start now — to listen to you, to have conversations like we did before cell phones. Like we did before we lived together." The answer vibrated in my head. The answer vibrating: I have a hating-energy vortex, hating myself, vibrating toward loving-care. I thought I fixed that in the last poem. Time to be silent a long while. I thought I fixed it in the first poem. Time to be silent again.
I saw the black ants come out after the rain. I don't step on black ants; they don't bite me. I don't live in the ivory tower — it's an endless abyss. Ants are a more sensible community. The ground is hard beneath my feet. The ground has more life in a teaspoon than there are people on Earth. Time to head home and call my grandchildren. Time to be in free flow.
Dr. Boje on why listening — not debating — is the first move toward healing divided families, communities, and nations.
Eight books available now on Amazon — from healing divided America to ancestral microstorying to quantum sixth sense practice.
ReStorying Narrative Wounds in Families, Communities & Organizations
Seven Tamaraland Principles for Awakening from the Architecture of Psyops
Restorying Narrative Wounds — hands-on practitioner companion
Seven Principles of Listening to Others First, Then Expanding the Conversation
AI, Echo Chambers, and the Art of HHT Ensembles
Fragments, Shadows, and the Stories Families Cannot Tell
Quantum Physics, ESP, & Holy Fire® Reiki Across Spiritual Traditions
Quantum Storytelling Methodology for Life Transformation
A four-phase methodology and Seven Tamaraland Principles for transforming systemic polarization into community coherence. Built on 45+ years of organizational storytelling research.
Phase I — Story-Listening. Facilitators create "story circles" where participants share concrete, individual narratives without judgment. Microstorying grounds discussions in lived experience rather than abstract ideology, de-escalating hostility at its root.
Phase II — Antenarrative Mapping. Using the Wheel of Life as a diagnostic, the community identifies antenarratives — fragmented pre-stories and raw materials of reality that exist before a polished narrative is formed. This exposes hidden tensions before they harden into manifest conflict.
Phase III — Restorying & Coherence-Building. The community actively constructs counter-narratives and synthesizes shared meanings — weaving fragmented stories into a new, shared narrative ecology that respects individual differences while fostering belonging.
Phase IV — Quantum Storytelling. Facilitators help participants sense multi-temporality: how ancestors' survival (past), present resistance, and children's hopes (future) are all simultaneously active. This dissolves static linear narrative and replaces it with a living, entangled reality.
There are many rooms in Tamaraland happening at once. Your experience depends on which pathways you have traversed — no one sees the whole building.
| Principle | Tamaraland Practice |
|---|---|
| Rooms | Honor concrete, situated experience. No one sees all rooms. |
| Hallways | Protect the ambiguous space where old stories fall apart and new ones emerge. |
| Doors | Maintain visible invitations for dialogue; respect autonomy. |
| Empty Chair | Honor absence as ongoing complexity. |
| The Map You Don't Have | Cultivate epistemic humility — no one sees the whole. |
| Footprints | Ground stories in deep, relational memory. |
| Seventh Room | Prioritize intergenerational responsibility. |
Five free versions of the TogetherStorying decision tree software — from personal Seven Bs mindfulness to organizational echo chamber navigation. All free, all online.
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V5 — Echo Chambers of Tamaraland →
Dr. Boje explores his theory for healing divided families, communities, and nations through microstorying and conversational storytelling inquiry.
Vietnam veteran. Agent Orange survivor. Stage IV cancer survivor. Rancher in Caballo, New Mexico. Originator of antenarrative theory, quantum storytelling, and the storytelling organization. Author of 45+ books. Prophet.
"David Boje's storytelling imagination burns with the fierce energy of a volcano, generating more insights in a few pages than others display in whole volumes."— Yiannis Gabriel, University of Bath, UK
"Boje is surely the greatest storytelling philosopher of our time."— Jens Larsen, True Storytelling Institute, Copenhagen
"More than anyone else, David Boje has sensitized us to the importance of narratives, plurivocality, and storytelling in organizations."— Haridimos Tsoukas, University of Cyprus & University of Warwick
Before the scholar, there was the witness.
David Michael Boje was born in 1946. He served as a soldier in Vietnam, where he suffered three mental breakdowns and saw, through a hospital window at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Saigon, body bags stacked on a runway higher than a two-story building. He came home to a daughter he had not been there to welcome into the world. He contracted cancer linked to Agent Orange exposure and underwent twenty-six radiation treatments. He carries gold implants in his body from those treatments, placed there to guide the laser to its mark, and tattoos on his skin that told the attendants where to aim the fire.
He ranches with his partner Dr. Grace Ann Rosile in Caballo, New Mexico, at the foot of the Caballo Mountains, where the Rio Grande is not far and the desert trails run north into the mesquite. He practices Western Dressage with three horses named Fancy, Clyde, and Caballo. He is a Holy Fire Reiki Master, a Jain practitioner who was given the spiritual name Arihanta — you have no enemies, everyone is your friend — by his teacher Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu. He walks the desert trail every morning, dictating into the air.
In 2025, on that trail, a seven-winged fire spirit of Isaiah's throne room commissioned him as a prophet. He is 78 years old. The cancer is taking a nap. He is still on the trail.
David Boje earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1978, where his mentor Louis Ralph Pondy — one of the great organizational theorists of the twentieth century — looked at his essays and told him: David, you are a storyteller. That is your strength.
In 1991, he coined the concept of the storytelling organization in the Administrative Science Quarterly, describing how organizations are constituted by their storytelling rather than the reverse. In 2001, he coined the concept of the antenarrative — the before-story, the fragmented, living, non-linear narrative that precedes and shapes all official organizational accounts. The antenarrative framework has been applied in organizational theory, nursing, education, environmental science, peace studies, and indigenous scholarship across six continents.
He developed quantum storytelling — the integration of quantum physics, narrative theory, and organizational analysis — as a methodology for understanding the non-local, entangled, living quality of the stories that organizations tell and are told by. His output spans more than 45 published books and 150 refereed journal articles.
In 2025, the ODC Division awarded him the Lifetime Achievement Award. Research.com ranked him #1,879 in the United States and #3,949 globally in social sciences and humanities.
PerView Inc. — Co-founded with Dr. Grace Ann Rosile, PerView Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that funds free coaching for veterans and first responders through corporate training revenues. Its PER/VIEW methodology integrates quantum storytelling with somatic healing and trauma recovery. perview.org
GrowthOD — Monday sessions offering organizational development through storytelling. Built on the SEAM methodology developed with Henri Savall and colleagues in France. growthod.org
The Tuesday Enthinkment Circle — Every Tuesday at 1:00 PM Mountain Time, a community of practitioners, scholars, artists, and seekers dedicated to thinking with the heart. Open to all. enthinkment.com
The True Storytelling Institute — Co-founded with Jens Larsen and Lena Bruun in Copenhagen, developing and teaching seven ethical principles for organizational change management. Practiced by coaches and leaders across Europe, North America, and beyond. truestorytelling.org
The Quantum Storytelling Conference — Held annually each December in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Scholars, practitioners, artists, and seekers exploring the living edge of storytelling as a tool for organizational and civilizational transformation. quantumstorytelling.org
Dr. Grace Ann Rosile is David's partner in life, in scholarship, and in the work. A Professor Emerita of Management at New Mexico State University and a leading scholar of ensemble leadership, she is the lead author on the ensemble leadership framework that applies antenarrative work to peacebuilding. Her work on indigenous governance traditions of the American Southwest and her development of equine-assisted learning practices through the PerView methodology have established her as one of the most innovative organizational scholars of her generation.
She was the most alive person in the circle on the night at the Native American ceremony when the author did not yet know her name. She is the one who hugged him when he came home from the police station.
Her ensemble leadership work: Rosile, G. A., Boje, D. M., & Claw, C. M. (2018). Ensemble leadership theory: Lived stories of Indigenous leadership practices. Leadership, 14(6), 713–736.
Free monthly webinar — 1st Friday of
the month, 90 minutes on Zoom.
Why does collaboration across difference feel harder than it
should? It's not a skill problem — it's a sensemaking
problem. Different stories, different rooms,
different effort expectations. We mistake difference for
defiance and effort for resistance.
Tamaraland — Seeing the rooms we're actually standing in, and why others see something completely different. Organizations aren't one story; they're buildings with many rooms happening at once. You never see the whole building.
Quantum Storytelling — Holding multiple truths without forcing premature agreement or collapsing complexity. Your presence changes what becomes speakable; multiple story-states coexist; people resist being finalized.
VuJaDé™ Effort Charts — Making the real cost of collaboration visible so we prepare instead of blame. Effort is normal when difference exists. The danger isn't effort — it's unexpected effort.
Together: Story tells us where we are. Quantum coaching tells us how to hold it. Effort Charts tell us what it will cost.
Nothing here requires belief — only attention. Please share this with anyone who needs it.
One conversation could change everything. Dr. Boje brings decades of expertise in conflict transformation, antenarrative theory, and restorying methodologies.
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