Austin, Texas

Dr. Simel E.J. Bey

Scholar of classical East Asian medicine, independent post-quantum cryptography researcher, and novelist — work that runs on a single thread: pattern recognition across systems most people keep separate.

01 About

Dr. Simel E.J. Bey holds a Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM) from the AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine in Austin, Texas — a research doctorate whose core discipline is pattern recognition. His doctoral training centered on Wu Yun Liu Qi, a classical Chinese system of cyclical mathematics that tracks the relationship between consciousness, time, environment, and health, together with predictive modeling.

Over twenty-four years he has studied the traditional East Asian mathematical systems (Wu Yun Liu Qi, Da Liu Ren, Qi Men Dun Jia) from inside the discipline. That work now reaches in two directions: an independent cryptography research program that explores how these pattern frameworks bear on key derivation and post-quantum security, and a finished epic fantasy trilogy built on a magic system in which prophecy and perception are trained human faculties rather than supernatural gifts.

He lives and works in Austin, Texas, where his work centers on research and writing.

02 Research

Dr. Bey leads an independent cryptography research program exploring how patterns drawn from natural cycles can inform key derivation and post-quantum security. The work proposes Natural Key Distribution (NKD) as a line of inquiry alongside Quantum Key Distribution, sourcing entropy from deterministic chaos in natural astronomical cycles rather than quantum-mechanical phenomena.

The Configuration Space Cryptography series — seven DOI-registered papers (2025–2026) — sets out the framework, its adversary models, and its open questions. The papers are an early-stage research program, openly published for review and revision rather than a settled result. All are available with permanent DOIs:

  1. Natural Key Distribution (NKD): A Taxonomy of Information-Theoretic Security Paradigms — Bey, S.E.J. (2025) doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18013432
  2. Configuration Space Cryptography: A Framework for Natural Cycle Key Evolution and Information-Theoretic Security — Bey, S.E.J. (2025) doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18013666
  3. Adversary Models for Configuration Space Cryptography: Formal Security Proofs and Game-Based Definitions — Bey, S.E.J. (2025) doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18014097
  4. Multi-Dimensional Security Architecture (MDSA) — Bey, S.E.J. (2025) doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18014295
  5. Astronomical Systems Survey for Cryptographic Applications — Bey, S.E.J. (2026) doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18057374
  6. Entity-Specific Cryptographic Identity (ESKD) — Bey, S.E.J. (2026) doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18072909
  7. Multi-Epoch Security Architectures — Bey, S.E.J. (2026) doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18072979

ORCID 0009-0009-2064-8078

03 Writing

The Last Oracle

Epic fantasy trilogy · complete · 348,361 words

A three-book epic fantasy set in a wholly invented world, built around a magic system in which prophecy, consciousness, and solar geometry are trained human capacities — disciplines that can be studied and taught — rather than supernatural gifts. Eighteen years in development. The premise draws on real cyclical and pattern-recognition traditions, which is why the worldbuilding reads with density rather than invention.

Book One — The Last Sybil (116,586 words) · Book Two — The Academy Wars (131,771 words) · Book Three — The Galactic Awakening (100,004 words).

Scholarly books

The Wu Shu: Chinese Metaphysical Arts in Clinical Practice (2020). The Weather, Humans and Disease States: An Analysis of the Wu Yun Liu Qi (2019). How I Ching Medical Mathematics Can Change Your Life (forthcoming).

04 Background

Doctorate
Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM), AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine, 2019. Dissertation: Wu Yun Liu Qi Theory in Clinical Practice.
Master's
M.S. in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Texas College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2005.
Bachelor's
B.A. in Mass Communications, Fort Valley State University, 2000.
Teaching
Instructor of Advanced Clinical Theatre, AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine, 2019–2024.
Fields
Classical East Asian medicine · Wu Yun Liu Qi · pattern recognition and predictive modeling · cryptography research · post-quantum security.
Location
Austin, Texas, USA.

05 Contact

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