Kelly Driftmier
Independent Systems Researcher & Theorist
Founder, The SACCADE Project
Kelly Driftmier is an independent systems researcher focused on identifying structural patterns that repeat across biology, Earth systems, and the large-scale structure of the universe. Her work asks a single question: do complex systems of every kind follow the same developmental architecture?
Kelly approaches theory from lived experience rather than institutional training. She has a lifelong autonomic and vestibular disorder that regularly forces her body toward collapse while her consciousness remains fully online. What most people glimpse for seconds in a medical crisis—awareness without reliable physical function—has been a recurring condition of her everyday life.
That experience gives her a direct vantage point on:
- how consciousness behaves when the body fails
- how systems stabilize, destabilize, and recover
- how energy is conducted through biological pathways
- how the same structural pattern appears across scales
Kelly does not write as a traditional academic.
She writes as a pattern-driven thinker who sees structure everywhere: in physics and weather systems, in evolutionary biology and lichen, in human behavior and institutional collapse, in the networked logic of homeostasis.
Her goal with The SACCADE Project is simple: make big structural ideas clear, readable, and testable, not cryptic or gatekept. Insight should be accessible, not locked behind institutional walls.
Kelly’s work invites scientists, philosophers, artists, clinicians, and curious readers into open conversation. She is not defending dogma. She is mapping patterns, putting forward hypotheses, and building a space where ideas can evolve in public.
About SACCADE
The SACCADE Project is a living library of theories, observations, and system-level models developed outside of institutional science. It explores one central premise:
The same structural pattern appears everywhere—
in the universe, in Earth’s systems, and in the human body.
The project examines how energy moves, how systems stabilize, and how consciousness anchors itself inside a biological body. Nothing here is mystical or metaphorical. Every idea starts from physically observable patterns that recur across different scales, such as:
- the flow of dark matter and large-scale cosmic structure
- the movement of weather and planetary homeostasis
- the regulation and failure modes of the human body
- the behavior of consciousness during autonomic breakdown
Rather than choosing a single lane (physics, biology, or philosophy), SACCADE studies the structure shared between them. The aim is not to announce a final answer. The aim is to map the repeating logic that complex systems seem to follow and make that logic available for critique, testing, and extension.
This project is intentionally independent.
It exists to keep the work readable, exploratory, and open to anyone—regardless of credentials.
Mission
To understand and map the universal structural pattern shared by biology, Earth systems, and the structure of the universe—and to explain it in language anyone motivated can follow.
The SACCADE Project is built for people who:
- think in patterns rather than narrow categories
- want clarity instead of jargon and gatekeeping
- are curious about consciousness, energy, and systems
- enjoy theories that connect science, history, and lived experience
- are willing to engage seriously with ideas developed outside of traditional academic pathways
This work is not abstraction for its own sake.
It is grounded, logical, and directly shaped by the lived reality of navigating a body that collapses, reboots, and reintegrates while consciousness stays fully online.
Contact
For questions, discussion, feedback, or academic correspondence, email:
saccadeproject.org 