About the Author

Mayone Maha Rajan came of age as one of the first native inhabitants of the attention economy — a teenager putting music and ideas into the early internet, watching some of them take hold in the world while he remained outside the structures that profited from them. From that vantage, on the receiving end of the interface rather than its design, he came to understand how attention is harvested, how behavior is engineered, and how the systems of Attentional Captivity actually work. That understanding, learned in his own nervous system before he had language for it, is the foundation of this book.

What followed was not a career in any shape the world readily recognizes. He studied cognitive science at UC San Diego and then spent several uncertain years gathering — knowledge, frameworks, distance — while working out what to do with a mind that had been broadcasting since boyhood. Eventually he relocated to Colombo, Sri Lanka, a deliberate remove from what he calls the soundstage of Western commerce, and there the long period of gathering finally became building. The Maha Principle is the result.

Mayone is the founder of Maha OS, an early effort to build a community of individuals and households applying the book’s protocols toward biological sovereignty, attentional clarity, and resilient local life. He writes and teaches at the intersection of human health and digital sovereignty.

The Maha Principle is his first book.