Primal Genesis

Why are we the way we are? Primal Genesis answers that question by reaching back to the deep past, arguing that the modern personality is built on four ancient survival strategies encoded in us over millennia: the Hunter, the Gatherer, the Nomad, and the Farmer — with a fifth, the Warrior, latent in each.

Drawing together evolutionary psychology, Jungian depth psychology, and philosophy, Grech builds an original framework for understanding temperament, motivation, and the friction between people who are simply running different ancestral software. It is at once a work of theory and a practical mirror.

The book includes three self-assessment instruments, allowing readers to locate themselves within the framework and recognise the primal patterns shaping their own choices, relationships, and conflicts.

Trumpus Nero

History does not repeat, but it rhymes — and few rhymes are as startling as the one between a first-century Roman emperor and a twenty-first-century American president. In Trumpus Nero, Grech sets Donald Trump beside Nero to ask what the spectacle of modern power borrows, knowingly or not, from antiquity.

This is not a polemic but a diagnosis: an examination of the performer-ruler, the politics of spectacle, the cultivation of grievance, and the strange theatre by which power sustains itself in an age of cameras and crowds. Rome’s most theatrical emperor becomes a lens for seeing our own moment more clearly.

Politica Mistica

Long before politics was a matter of policy, it was a matter of the sacred. Politica Mistica traces the mystical and anthropological roots beneath political life, examining how religion has served, across history, as an instrument of cohesion, legitimacy, and control.

Grech reads the rituals, myths, and archetypes that quietly structure how we are governed — revealing the enduring entanglement of the spiritual and the political, and why every state, however secular it claims to be, still reaches for the language of faith.

God Version 3.0

Across twelve thousand years, humanity has run three successive operating systems for divine authority. First came the Nature Gods — the forces of sky, storm, and harvest. Then the Ghost Gods — the invisible, omnipotent deities of the great organised religions. Now, Grech argues, we are installing a third: the Machine Gods, the algorithms and systems to which we increasingly surrender judgment, attention, and trust.

God Version 3.0 traces this long arc of governance and belief, asking how each system shaped the societies that ran it — and what it means to hand the functions once reserved for gods over to code.

Excess

Kings became billionaires, temples became platforms, grain stores became data centres — but the mind insulated from consequence has not changed in twelve thousand years. Excess is a diagnostic history of what happens to human beings when wealth, power, and fame remove them from the friction that keeps the rest of us calibrated.

From Nero to the Gilded Age to Silicon Valley, Grech traces a recurring pattern — accumulation, collapse, reset — and argues that our scarcity-evolved brains were never built to handle abundance without consequence. The book asks the urgent question beneath every gilded age: what “protective friction” must a society preserve to keep its most powerful members sane?