One week after its February 17, 2026 release, Metaphysical Sherpa: Karmic Poker is unfolding as more than a five-track EP. It stands as the newest musical chapter in the expanding Metaphysical Sherpa universe, a transmedia ecosystem spanning literature, music, research, and film.
Importantly, this universe did not originate from a single book, album, or recent release. The series now encompasses four books, four companion music albums, and two music video concept albums. Within that framework, each book and its companion album together form a self-contained microverse, a complete thematic and philosophical world embedded within the larger interconnected universe.
Metaphysical Sherpa: Karmic Poker is the fourth companion music album and the newest book-and-album microverse in this evolving structure. Long before this fourth musical installment expanded the universe further, three fully developed book-and-album microverses were already in place. The universe was established. This chapter advances it.
The EP from Meditative Animal, the musical avatar of Nicholas David Mirisola, PhD, also known as Dr. Duddha, arrives framed by its cover art’s striking imagery: a neon green wolf seated at a poker table, gripping the Ace of Hearts.
The symbolism is direct but layered.
The universe deals the hand.
How you play it determines the outcome.
Listen to Metaphysical Sherpa: Karmic Poker:
https://open.spotify.com/album/2ciZsNw2S2G6aWJbzf8WTG
A Royal Flush in Hearts
The five-track EP unfolds like a deliberate hand. Each song functions as a card within a carefully sequenced Royal Flush in Hearts, building momentum through tone, pacing, and metaphor:
“Karmic Poker”
The single “Karmic Poker” establishes the project’s central metaphor. Built around the idea that the universe deals the cards through karma and the player’s engagement determines the outcome, the song frames life as a strategic spiritual card game.
The official music video for “Karmic Poker” premiered alongside the EP release:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZgi2tNnSrs
“Rise Up in Love (Mr.Goodbarz Remix)” featuring Mr.Goodbarz and JBH
Released on Valentine’s Day, this collaboration positions love as the stabilizing frequency within the hand.
Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMsT7WK2_1g
Featuring Mr.Goodbarz and Jeremiah Hollenbeck, the track operates as the emotional stabilizer of the hand. Love as frequency, not sentiment.
“Karma as a Natural Law”
Serving as a sonic bridge to Mirisola’s academic direction, the track treats karma as structured cause and effect while maintaining groove and flow.
“Holy Ghost Theory”
Blending theology and quantum language into immersive rhythm, the track expands the EP’s conceptual reach without drifting into exposition. Mood carries the meaning.
“Day to Day” featuring Liam Kahos
The closer grounds the metaphysical framework in lived experience. Featuring Liam Kahos, the track brings the conceptual arc back to everyday reality.
The sequencing is intentional. Emotional frequency escalates, stabilizes, expands, and ultimately resolves.
Rather than operating as a one-day drop, the rollout spans 26 days, shaping the release into a serialized audiovisual experience.
A 26-Day Cinematic Rollout
Rather than arriving as a single-day drop, Metaphysical Sherpa: Karmic Poker was designed as a staged 26-day audiovisual release cycle. Each date functions as a deliberate checkpoint, gradually revealing the project’s music, research, and cinematic components in sequence.
The rollout unfolds as follows:
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- Feb 14: “Rise Up in Love (Mr.Goodbarz Remix)” video premiere
- Feb 17: Official release of the EP Metaphysical Sherpa: Karmic Poker, alongside the “Karmic Poker” music video
- Feb 22: “Karma as a Natural Law” music video release
- Feb 26:Metaphysical Sherpa: The Science of Consciousness 4K presentation premiere, including the exclusive debut of “Holy Ghost Theory”
- Mar 3: Full-Length Metaphysical Sherpa: Karmic Poker Music Video Album
- Mar 11: Seven-video science-only compilation release
Metaphysical Sherpa: The Science of Consciousness is a full hour-long presentation that stands as a unique hybrid of data and art. Structured as an interlaced narrative, it weaves together seven forensic parapsychology science videos detailing Mirisola’s AI-driven research and methodologies with four Meditative Animal music videos. This format allows audiences to process complex material on incarnation fingerprints and computational metaphysics while using musical interludes to facilitate emotional integration.
As one key installment within the broader 26-day rollout, this hybrid structure reinforces the project’s serialized design. Rather than existing as a standalone EP, Metaphysical Sherpa: Karmic Poker unfolds across music videos, research presentation, and a full-length visual album released in phases, creating sustained narrative momentum instead of a single impact moment.
The Conference Pivot Clarified
The project was originally approved for presentation at the 2026 Science of Consciousness Conference before the physical event was canceled. The rollout pivoted online without altering the internal structure.
Crucially, only three music videos were originally intended to premiere at the conference:
- “Karmic Poker”
- “Karma as a Natural Law”
- “Holy Ghost Theory”
The remaining visuals were always part of the broader digital rollout.
A Universe Built in Microverses
The Metaphysical Sherpa universe is deliberately constructed through book-and-album pairings. Each book and its companion music album together form a self-contained microverse within the larger interconnected universe. The literary volume establishes the philosophical framework. The companion album translates that framework into sonic form. Together, they operate as unified thematic ecosystems that both stand alone and interlock.
The Metaphysical Sherpa book series begins with Metaphysical Sherpa: Misunderstood Mystic (Karmic Poker Chronicles), which introduces the Forensic Metaphysical Audit, an AI-verified examination of the Individual Holy Ghost hypothesis. It establishes foundational concepts including the Alpha-Omega Inversion, Democratic Divinity, the strategic metaphor of Karmic Poker, and the dissertation Karma as a Natural Law, bridging Eastern philosophy with modern scientific theory.
The series continues with Metaphysical Sherpa: Misunderstood Mystic (Evidence Edition), strengthening the empirical and peer-reviewed foundation, and Metaphysical Sherpa: Misunderstood Mystic (Forensic Files), a twelve-discipline AI-driven meta-analysis examining incarnation claims, biometrics, neurotheology, and statistical probability with full transparency.
Each of these books anchors a corresponding companion music album, forming distinct but interconnected microverses within the larger universe.
Earlier companion albums include:
Metaphysical Sherpa: Dirty Fractal Sacrament
https://open.spotify.com/album/4WsgdqzeITV6mzROVtQDpl
Metaphysical Sherpa: ComproWise
https://open.spotify.com/album/5LmO1MQ9Vy9Ha73n9OOvFo
Metaphysical Sherpa: Spiritual Alchemy
https://open.spotify.com/album/6yhgMeJtyBmDnSHHfbyQgQ
Each pairing established its own philosophical tone and sonic identity while expanding the cumulative mythology.
Now, that evolution advances through Metaphysical Sherpa: Karmic Poker, the fourth companion album and the project’s current creative axis. This newest microverse extends the architecture into a serialized audiovisual format, refining the fusion of metaphysics, hip-hop, research, and cinematic storytelling that defines the trajectory of the series.
The Expanding Video Universe
At the center of the project’s current evolution is the Full-Length Metaphysical Sherpa: Karmic Poker Music Video Album: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spd6RxH0nGw
This newest installment translates the EP’s themes of karma, agency, and spiritual strategy into a cohesive cinematic experience. It pushes the project further into the fusion of hip-hop, metaphysics, and structured visual storytelling.
While the Metaphysical Sherpa universe includes earlier concept-driven video chapters, including the feature-length Metaphysical Sherpa: Spiritual Alchemy, those releases represent prior phases of visual expansion.
The present evolution, serialized rollout, and creative focus belong squarely to Metaphysical Sherpa: Karmic Poker and its unfolding video architecture.
Music First. Structure Second. Emotion Always.
At its core, this is still music.
The science informs the architecture.
The symbolism shapes the aesthetic.
But rhythm, cadence, collaboration, and delivery drive the experience.
Four microverses in, the universe continues to expand, not from a single origin but through deliberate chapters that stand alone and connect.
And if the neon wolf is right, the Royal Flush in Hearts has already been dealt.