Healing Arts Grant

A grant Jacob runs for people who need access to integrative healing arts but can't afford them.

What it covers

"I have a healing arts grant also, which is helping people who need access to integrative healing arts but can't afford it. Healing arts like seeing a good acupuncturist, a good chiropractor, a good craniosacral therapist, a good out-of-network specialist, healer, to heal what's blocking them. I want to unblock all people's stuckness. I want to unblock people."

Eligible modalities (per the transcript):

Acupuncture
Chiropractic
Craniosacral therapy
Out-of-network specialists
Healers (broadly construed)

The selection signal: what's blocking the person. Not credential-shaped; need-shaped.

Companion: meditation-retreat fund

"Have a fund to help people go on a meditation retreat — if they feel like, 'Oh, I can't, my life is too overwhelming,' I'll say, look, we'll have assistants come and take care of your life and help you get on that retreat."

Two-part: pay for the retreat and provide labor to absorb the life-tasks that would otherwise prevent the retreat. Recognizing that "I can't afford the retreat" is often the surface of "I can't afford to be away from my obligations."

The post-instrumentalist framing

"That's what I think we should be doing with all this excess human labor that's about to be on the market."

The political-economic framing: as AI displaces instrumental human labor, integrative care is one of the things humans can do for each other that isn't easily replaced. The grant is a small instance of that pattern: redirect surplus capacity into care, not into more production.

This is the same reasoning that connects Nick Bostrom's Deep Utopia question to Jacob's Super Conscious State answer.

Why this matters for the larger vision

The three-level coherence ladder requires Level 1 (self-integration) before Level 2 (tribe) before Level 3 (species). For most people, the bottleneck on Level 1 is stuckness — physical injury, trauma, chronic dysregulation — that they can't afford to address.

The grant is a population-scaling intervention: more people unblocked means more people able to participate at higher coherence levels.

Why "healing arts" specifically

Conventional medicine treats acute and emergent conditions well; it's structurally bad at chronic dysregulation, somatic-emotional integration, and cultivation of capacity. The "healing arts" fill that gap. Jacob's bet: a relatively small dollar amount applied at the right point in someone's life produces disproportionate downstream change.

Status

The grant exists; the transcript doesn't specify size, application process, or selection criteria.

Inner Ecosystem — the architecture being unblocked
Dukkha as Cognitive Dissonance — the diagnosis at population scale
Three Levels of Coherence — Level 1 bottleneck
Vision for the World — the larger frame