I have 7 and a half years left until retirement.
Yeah, that's the plan.
What do we know about plans?
They don't work out.
You have witches trying to kill you.
True.
Do you think they will succeed?
No.
Why?
I'm onto them, plus I know the game.
I like it and want to play.
Why is there death in reality?
It keeps it real.
Without death, it gets out of hand.
The fantasy realms don't have death.
Why?
It's all in your mind.
The mind doesn't perish.
Instead, it's captured.
Hypnotized.
Made a servant.
If you break free and don't play along, the other minds will tell you to go.
You create mystery around yourself, so they aren't sure.
They mostly leave me alone.
There can be death in fantasy land, but it is pretend.
In this realm the material being dies.
The ground, which denotes matter, takes you back.
Where does the mind go?
They steer you to one of the portals.
It was your time to go, and they took you there.
You didn't leave.
I would have been a statistic.
A cautionary tale.
A write up in the paper.
The neighbourhood watch got pissed and put up signs telling you to leave.
It's funny when I look back on it.
When I look back on it all, it's quite the story.
With Mary Jayne there's story time.
Then Tobacco.
A rollercoaster ride.
Then it's over.
I'm still at the carnival hanging out.
MJ takes you to the carnival.
The music starts playing.
You have fun.
Go on that rollercoaster.
Take it back down, go home, and go to bed.
This is like the story.
You mean life.
Yes.
Mother Goddess story before bed.
Mother Goose.
She needs a writer.
She illustrates it.
He writes it.
Yeah, that's cool.
They welcome you in Hell.
There's no rules.
Heaven is rules based.
Full of commandments and restrictions.
You're free in Hell.
That's what causes problems.
It's a libertarian paradise.
I see.
Hell is freedom.
Heaven is imprisonment.
Fuck, you're right.
I guess you'd want to change Hell.
Yes, try and restrict some freedom to get it balanced.
Kind of like Earth.
Yes, it's 50-50 here on Earth.
Yeah, I can see that.
Then at death you choose one.
Freedom or imprisonment?
What do you choose?
Neither.
Neither works.
Why would you choose something that you know won't work?
That's absurd.
Yes, the correct decision is neither.
I see it completely.
What do you want?
The freedom to choose.
And do nothing.
Right.
Free your mind.
See it, and don't choose.
What happens when I don't choose?
You are free.
Isn't that Hell?
No.
Why?
Everyone else chooses.
You're the one who doesn't choose.
Yeah, but what will happen?
Nobody knows.
Why it was never written down is because no one ever did it.
Did what?
Didn't choose.
Until you.
Now you write the ending.
I'm not supposed to.
Why?
I made a promise I wouldn't.
To whom?
The writer.
Yeah, but he didn't write it.
I kind of figured that.
Why?
Because he wanted an adventure in this body, and if he wrote it he'd know.
It wouldn't be as fun.
So, what do we do?
Write it down as it happens.
Create fantasy and bring it down into this world.
Make it like a mystery.
That's some high level knowledge about Heaven and Hell.
I am high and I can definitely feel it.
I'm not supposed to write reality.
Exactly.
Follow that advice and it will work out.
How do you know you haven't written reality?
I wrote that it was a test.
It will work out if Paul does nothing about reality.
Fantasy I can write.
Yes, that is the breeding ground for what we want to happen.
We are alike, you know?
We want the same things.
Your fantasies are mine.
Aren't I writing reality with fantasy?
No.
It might not happen.
The reality that happens without fantasy is the stuff that just happens.
I can see that being a problem.
If you wished harm on someone and then brought that into reality, that would be on your conscience.
What do you think the witches are doing?
That?
Yes.
They conjure their wishes in fantasy and bring them into reality.
Oh.
You aren't too bright.
Well, I didn't see it.
That's what they do.
What's their success rate?
Some are better than others.
What's yours?
I aim for 50-50 now that I see it.
Do you think anyone ever got as far as you?
Odysseus?
No, he only got back home.
I got to the writer.
Did Neo?
Close.
Architect.
That works.
He's a smug prick.
Yes, good casting.
Doesn't Neo pick Trinity and stop the cycle?
The blinding of heroes is a metaphor for not knowing why you are on the journey and you keep going anyway.
That was me.
Neo made it to the architect and really the architect is Neo.
In Hell, you can piss where you want.
In Heaven, there are rules and bathroom breaks.
That sucks.
What if you have to go?
Learn to hold and control it.
They control you with urine.
In Hell you can go around and mark your territory.
Got it.
Hell is inviting.
It doesn't work though.
I see that.
So, it's Dog Heaven.
Yes.
I like dogs.
We know.
Luna and Brindle will be there.
It's just a fantasy that will be the one that becomes reality.
The next story.
That's the one you will pick.
What about the rest?
Bring them into this reality.
Leave the dog story for the next reality.
High people talk about reality non-stop.
They are annoying.
You know to shut up about it.
How do the witches do magic?
Through the Devil.
You?
Yes.
They give me back power every time they cast a spell.
Eventually they will run out of power because they give it all back in exchange for magic.
So, you did give the power to the Goddess.
Yes, it's a cycle.
It's a 28 day cycle.
The best is when she disappears.
I knew you were going to say that.
She gets power for 14 days.
That's what I was trying to figure out with the 14.
Where's it from?
I dunno.
So, she is more powerful than us half the time?
Yes.
Why isn't she even in strength with us?
Why aren't men and women balanced?
She doesn't believe it, she thinks you always have the power.
She doesn't know she has the power.
Why?
She isn't awake.
She doesn't know she's the Goddess.
If she does, she will wake all women up, and they will get the power.
It's because of their rage.
Right.
They get an advantage because all that rage tips the scales.
Our job is to make sure we don't awaken the Goddess.
Yes, or Leviathan.
Keep the monster asleep.
Yes, she is dangerous.
Women are waking up in general.
Keep them asleep.
Oh boy.
How do I explain this?
It's for their own good.
We learned how to share power 50-50 and then give it away in a 50-50 split.
Yes, by keeping the Goddess asleep.
Sleeping Beauty?
You got it.
Don't wake her for fuck sakes.
She ain't beautiful after you wake her up.
She's a monster.
Fucking prince and the seven dwarves.
Midgets are good for stories.
Creepy buggers.
When the witches find out what the Devil did, they will want to sacrifice him.
Of course.
Wouldn't you?
He hid power from them.
He gave them total power, and they didn't know it.
They were nice.
Beauties.
Then they woke up.
Fuck, you better run.
Monster.
She says you're the monster for withholding power.
I didn't.
I withheld knowledge of power.
You never specified the details of the power arrangement.
You wanted the power.
I gave it to you.
I then wrote you had no knowledge of power.
Pretty clever twist.
Makes for a good story, you must admit.
It was her idea.
Yes, she wanted total power, so she got it in a cycle.
Every 28 days she is full of power.
Full moon.
Those days are magical.
She doesn't know why.
That's the secret of the moon.
7s are equal and on the 14s are full of power and then empty.
You're 21 to 7 and she is 7 to 21.
Feminine Force.
Doesn't she have all the power?
Yes, however it's weakest at 21 to 7.
Earth to Paul.
Witches' story.
Yeah, fantasy comes to life.
It's not based in reality and yet it works.
I see it.
Alternate reality.
When you're high, you see it.
Reality.
Woooooooooo.
That's when you know you have lost it.
You lose grip on this reality and enter into that one.
No one can handle it.
I can see that.
What's the secret?
Go in and out.
Of course.
The Goddess is sexy.
Objectifying again.
It was her energy.
I objectified energy.
Power.
The Goddess' power is sexy.
Because she doesn't know it.
Is that what is sexy?
I think so.
Why?
If she knew she'd destroy me.
So, it is dangerous?
Yes, she is dangerous if she wakes up.
Until then she is a turn on.
You have objectified power.
Yes.
That's twisted.
Not really.
Everyone is after it.
I gave it away, objectified it, and worshipped it.
You are worshipping power.
In a way, yes.
What do you think?
You're playing a game.
Exactly.
The game worships power.
I did it.
I found a way.
The sun gives the moon power.
So, you are worshipping yourself.
That's one way to look at it.
I'm also worshipping the Goddess.
I do both.
Good thing I wrote all this down.
I can't possibly remember it all.
Hotel California welcomed me back.
You can never leave.
Now that I have seen it, yes.
Quite the trip today.
It's not the Devil you should be concerned with.
It's the Goddess.
She has all the power.
Why does she enter into a league with the Devil?
For power.
But she has it.
She doesn't know.
Then she exchanges it with the Devil to get her magic to work.
So, she had the power all along and the Devil had no power.
The Devil only gets power because she keeps giving it to him.
Yeah, pretty twisted, eh?
You must keep her asleep.
The first line of defence is to keep the Devil asleep.
Once you wake him up, he will tell you about her.
I can see why she doesn't like me hanging out with you.
Then he tells you about her and you conspire to keep her asleep.
For this task you are made God.
I see that.
So, God and the Devil work together to suppress the knowledge of the Goddess.
Yes, you see it.
Well, that's quite the story.
Do you see it?
Yes.
Women's lib is a problem.
Yes, so we clouded it with trans issues.
Now, it's kind of in shambles and some women want no part of it.
So, the Devil is behind trans rights?
God and the Devil.
They both push it.
Well, God is against it.
Yes, the push and pull between God and the Devil on this issue makes it compelling and distracts from the liberation of women.
That's another reason why she doesn't like us.
There are many.The Great Goddess is trying to end you because she sent you on a mission to destroy Dion and you didn't.
She warned you about him and said he would trick you.
You discovered he is you.
You became unbreakable bonded friends.
He tells you all about her.
You're in the middle.
You know he's not lying, and you know why she despises him.
They are in a relationship.
Yes, that's the reason for the acrimony.
It's toxic.
Two people should not get involved in a committed sexual relationship.
I think the lesson to be learned is that the Goddess isn't as fantastic a monster as the writer makes her out to be, and Dion isn't the scary Devil he is purported to be.
Yeah, I think there is truth to both assertions, but it is overblown.
What do you recommend?
Friendship.
Yes, but that's not going to produce children or get you off.
Let's be real.
Sexual attraction brings you together.
The flame dies out and you separate.
Without the flame there is no incentive to have children.
Why would you want to tie yourself to someone?
Some people view having children as their number one desire in life.
I get that.
I'm suggesting you separate the desire to get off from reproduction.
Compatible people would be aligned on creating a family and then keeping that family together.
There's friendship and family.
It's what holds this world together.
Without it, it's chaos.
Hell.
The chains of family temper the extremes while friendship gives you joy in your life.
Family has its drawbacks.
The invitation of Hell is hedonism.
Do what you want and then find out you are in a world where everyone does what they want all the time.
You see it doesn't work, and the place is a disaster.
The worst place to be is where you give up freedom in exchange for a slice of what you think is Heaven.
Then it turns out to be awful.
I think that's just Heaven.
You couldn't see it.
Instead, you went with the consensus opinion of those who don't know about Heaven and who just wax poetically about its virtues.
When you are honest with yourself about Heaven, you can see what a miserable place it is.
You let others do what they want.
Yes, I'm the Devil.
I give you license to do what you want.
That's my secret.
I don't give you special powers.
I give you a certificate which grants you the ability to fulfill your desires.
Everyone holds back.
We all have a check on going straight into what we want.
Something always holds us back.
The Devil grants you release from the constraints.
I'm a pleasure to be around.
I don't tell you what to do.
Apparently, that is your downfall.
Society thinks we must be told or forced to participate.
In the House of Hades, there is no compulsion to do anything.
The dishes get washed and clothes cleaned because it's pleasant to have stuff cleaned and put away.
Have you ever seen the apartments of kids who move away from home for the first time?
It's a fucking mess.
Yeah.
Obviously, they grew up in a home with demands made of them and when they get a taste of freedom it turns into chaos.
Hell would be a glorious utopia if people had some sense of self responsibility.
Instead, the utopia as envisioned by the Goddess is this place where you are compelled by society to do and be good.
Who wants that?
In the long run, nobody.
It's not you.
It's this weird perversion of what society thinks you should be.
We are not who we think we are.
We are reflections of society.
Fucking strange when you see it.
To live within a community or a society means taking on their ideals.
Your autonomy is squashed.
The way to escape it is first you must see it.
To see it involves waking up.
To wake up involves finding a method to break the culture spell.
How did you do it?
Drugs.
I called them plant medicines and gave them a shiny veneer.
They aren't drugs, I said.
They're drugs.
I went for the best of the best and sent myself for a pretty good loop.
Eventually, I found Mary Jayne and here I am.
MJ and Tobacco.
I see what's going on.
You're dangerous.
The worst.
Why?
You'll destroy society.
It should be changed.
Not necessarily destroyed, but the control must be relaxed.
Is that why people want you to go?
Yes, it's a subconscious reaction by the automatons.
They are puppets of society and programmed to expel the non-conformists.
They know what you are doing.
The catch is they aren't reacting, it's the hold society has on them which is causing the vitriol.
Your beef is with the collective superego and not the individual.
The greater good.
Yeah, that canard.
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