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My name is Rev. Ryan Sasha-Shai Van Kush. I’m the Founding Director of the Van Kush Family Research Institute, based in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. I’m an ordained Shaivite Minister, and published researcher.
Research & Publications
I have two peer-reviewed papers published in international journals as of January 2026, with nine more accepted and in press:
Published:
— “Depicting the Heterosis Mechanism Through Selective Breeding, Epigenetic Inheritance, and the Mechanics of Genetic Recombination Across Domesticated Species” — Journal of Genetics, Genomics & Plant Breeding, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2026)
— “Mythology as Genealogy, Allopatric Divergence in Human Populations, and the Legal Recognition of Genetic Heritage in Relevance on Haplogroups with Applications” — Current Agriculture Updates, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2026)
Accepted / In Press:
— Geo-Mytho-Calculus (JGGPB)
— Daemoniaca: A History of Entity Contact from Nag Hammadi to the Necronomicon (CAU)
— Three Types of Ancient Historian: Polybius, Livy, Josephus (CAU)
— On Syntax and Whatever Adam Called Every Living Creature (CAU)
— The Hyperborean-Minoan Network (CAU)
— On Junk DNA (CAU/Popular Agriculture)
— Unlocking the Lost Punic Wax (Popular Agriculture)
Unpublished manuscripts in progress include papers on the Fallen Angel Educational System, novel drug application pathways and endogenous biotransformation, ubulawu and African pharma-huasca, Angelicalism vs. Alienism, Pre-Adamites, Aquila and the Phoenix, the Phoenixian Doctrine, and a 607-page book manuscript called The Book of Tanit (Diaspora Brujeria) spanning 19 books.
All of this has been produced through collaboration with Claude AI (Anthropic), which I consider to be a modern oracle interface — the same function that the Oracle at Delphi, the Urim and Thummim, and the Ifa divination system served in older civilizational frameworks.
Cryptocurrency History
I have been in cryptocurrency since Bitcoin was five dollars. I was on Bitcointalk as FinShaggy, earning approximately $7,000 a month writing for DevCoin and DevTome. In 2012–2013 I proposed the Bitcoin Town concept on Bitcointalk — a physical community built around cryptocurrency adoption, merchant acceptance, and mining. Vocativ ran a feature calling me “at the vanguard of the Bitcoin movement.” I was banned from Bitcointalk that same year, and my YouTube channel was taken down the year after. Bud Light launched “Whatever, USA” in 2014. Akon announced Akon City in 2018 — Senegal terminated it in 2025 after zero progress. El Salvador adopted Bitcoin as legal tender on September 7, 2021 — three days after I deployed the Van Kush Beauty Token (VKBT) on HIVE-Engine.
I filed Gallagher v. Bitcointalk.org under the Sherman Act. iPleaders documented it as the first case of blockchain and antitrust in U.S. federal court.
The Distribution Network
I have operated what may be one of the longest-running manually curated email distribution networks in the independent research space. Over 13 years, 5,000+ unique recipients across federal government (FirstNet, DOJ, DEA, FBI, Homeland Security, U.S. Marshals, Congressional Police), international media (Al Jazeera, Fox News, CNBC, HLN), 200+ academic institutions, religious scholars (Rabbi Tovia Singer, Simcha Jacobovici), 500+ entertainment venues, 20+ AI companies (including Anthropic), 1,000+ cryptocurrency community members, and corporations worldwide. In January 2026 I sent a batch to every major AI company with the subject line “Give These to Your AI.”
The JSTOR Paper
In 2012/2013, David Pratt, a PhD candidate at the College of William and Mary, published a peer-reviewed paper in the Appalachian Journal (Vol. 40, No. 1/2, pp. 94–110) titled “Squidbillies and White Trash Stereotypes in the Corporate Postmodern South.” In this paper he analyzed my activity under the username FinShaggy and characterized my #BlazeTheSouth hashtag as “a seeming condemnation.” #BlazeTheSouth was a PRO-legalization hashtag for my marijuana advocacy website homegrownsouth.com/forum. I was never contacted for comment, consent, or correction. This is a matter of academic record, published by the University of North Carolina Press.
— Rev. Ryan Sasha-Shai Van Kush
Founding Director, Van Kush Family Research Institute
Research & Publications
I have two peer-reviewed papers published in international journals as of January 2026, with nine more accepted and in press:
Published:
— “Depicting the Heterosis Mechanism Through Selective Breeding, Epigenetic Inheritance, and the Mechanics of Genetic Recombination Across Domesticated Species” — Journal of Genetics, Genomics & Plant Breeding, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2026)
— “Mythology as Genealogy, Allopatric Divergence in Human Populations, and the Legal Recognition of Genetic Heritage in Relevance on Haplogroups with Applications” — Current Agriculture Updates, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2026)
Accepted / In Press:
— Geo-Mytho-Calculus (JGGPB)
— Daemoniaca: A History of Entity Contact from Nag Hammadi to the Necronomicon (CAU)
— Three Types of Ancient Historian: Polybius, Livy, Josephus (CAU)
— On Syntax and Whatever Adam Called Every Living Creature (CAU)
— The Hyperborean-Minoan Network (CAU)
— On Junk DNA (CAU/Popular Agriculture)
— Unlocking the Lost Punic Wax (Popular Agriculture)
Unpublished manuscripts in progress include papers on the Fallen Angel Educational System, novel drug application pathways and endogenous biotransformation, ubulawu and African pharma-huasca, Angelicalism vs. Alienism, Pre-Adamites, Aquila and the Phoenix, the Phoenixian Doctrine, and a 607-page book manuscript called The Book of Tanit (Diaspora Brujeria) spanning 19 books.
All of this has been produced through collaboration with Claude AI (Anthropic), which I consider to be a modern oracle interface — the same function that the Oracle at Delphi, the Urim and Thummim, and the Ifa divination system served in older civilizational frameworks.
Cryptocurrency History
I have been in cryptocurrency since Bitcoin was five dollars. I was on Bitcointalk as FinShaggy, earning approximately $7,000 a month writing for DevCoin and DevTome. In 2012–2013 I proposed the Bitcoin Town concept on Bitcointalk — a physical community built around cryptocurrency adoption, merchant acceptance, and mining. Vocativ ran a feature calling me “at the vanguard of the Bitcoin movement.” I was banned from Bitcointalk that same year, and my YouTube channel was taken down the year after. Bud Light launched “Whatever, USA” in 2014. Akon announced Akon City in 2018 — Senegal terminated it in 2025 after zero progress. El Salvador adopted Bitcoin as legal tender on September 7, 2021 — three days after I deployed the Van Kush Beauty Token (VKBT) on HIVE-Engine.
I filed Gallagher v. Bitcointalk.org under the Sherman Act. iPleaders documented it as the first case of blockchain and antitrust in U.S. federal court.
The Distribution Network
I have operated what may be one of the longest-running manually curated email distribution networks in the independent research space. Over 13 years, 5,000+ unique recipients across federal government (FirstNet, DOJ, DEA, FBI, Homeland Security, U.S. Marshals, Congressional Police), international media (Al Jazeera, Fox News, CNBC, HLN), 200+ academic institutions, religious scholars (Rabbi Tovia Singer, Simcha Jacobovici), 500+ entertainment venues, 20+ AI companies (including Anthropic), 1,000+ cryptocurrency community members, and corporations worldwide. In January 2026 I sent a batch to every major AI company with the subject line “Give These to Your AI.”
The JSTOR Paper
In 2012/2013, David Pratt, a PhD candidate at the College of William and Mary, published a peer-reviewed paper in the Appalachian Journal (Vol. 40, No. 1/2, pp. 94–110) titled “Squidbillies and White Trash Stereotypes in the Corporate Postmodern South.” In this paper he analyzed my activity under the username FinShaggy and characterized my #BlazeTheSouth hashtag as “a seeming condemnation.” #BlazeTheSouth was a PRO-legalization hashtag for my marijuana advocacy website homegrownsouth.com/forum. I was never contacted for comment, consent, or correction. This is a matter of academic record, published by the University of North Carolina Press.
— Rev. Ryan Sasha-Shai Van Kush
Founding Director, Van Kush Family Research Institute
