mary magdalene

Twisted Mary Magdalene you kiss on the lips to transfer your wisdom and knowledge.
She braids her hair.
The story is her idea, and I write it.
She is the twisted one, not me.
I am sane and she is crazy.
She makes you crazy.
You are the only one who can handle her level of crazy.
I do tell myself that as well as her.

Do you think the prophets of antiquity were drug users?
That seems obvious though I doubt there was a stigma attached to the use of substances.
It was an accepted rite of passage for all humans.
The attempts to control who had access to them would be found in prohibitions against further prophecies and divination.
This led to the conflation of women, witches, and drugs.
Women would practice what was called pharmakeia in the Bible and were singled out as witches.
Men would use drugs for their fantastical tales of dragons and gods while women would use drugs to practice magic and ensnare.
Circe not only ensnared men, but also animals.
Yes, Homer wrote of the connection between women and drugs.
Odysseus was their main prize, and they took him away from family and civilization.
He had quite the adventure.
I am currently thinking Homer was warning men that a woman is a drug.
Do you think he was the world's first misogynist?
He is a contender.

There is a purported Mary Magdalene line of witches who escaped to France.
I could write that tale.
Everything will line up, and I will be the one who wakes Mary up to the realization of who she is.
She feels it when she sees pictures of Mary.
There's something about Mary.
Her hair is curly, she braids it, and likes to be witchy.
No one can tolerate her except for you.
You came along and fulfilled the prophecy.
I am special.
It's a Neo from the Matrix tie in as I always thought I was special.
Aren't I deluded?
In a sense you are.
If you maintain connection to your mundane life and society then these tales you tell are fantasies that exist in another world.
They are fairy tales.
However, you have been shown you can make them real; real as in believable and act out the drama.
You weave all the stories together and that is the craft of Tantra or in biblical parlance, a hairdresser who braids.
You can make the delusion come alive.
I guess in a way that would be vindication that I'm not crazy.
To traverse planes of consciousness is inviting in craziness as the lack of a concrete reality becomes too much for a human mind to handle.
So, how do I do it?
Return to this reality after you play out the story.
That's what happens to people - they lose touch with this reality.
For some, this requires a full stop, therapy, and rest.
They are then pronounced healed.
It sounds like a modern day exorcism.
Well, yes, Jesus cast the 7 demons out of Mary Magdalene.
Those 7 demons were the 7 stories in her head.
There are 7 levels of consciousness.
Well, there's an infinite amount but I understand you concentrate on 7 in order to get to a divine level of understanding.
Any more than 7 is unmanageable.
There are enough stories to craft within the 7.
Wouldn't I trigger stories in others?
You mean make them crazy?
Yes.
That's what you do, and they think you are fucking with their mind.
In a sense that's what I'm doing.
I'm not doing it maliciously, rather I'm showing them possibilities.
I'm of service.
That's your path of service.
You wake people up and show them stories.
Why did Jesus cast the 7 stories out of Mary Magdalene?
She was suffering from the knowledge.
He pushed her reset button and then took it slow.
Do you think he ever made a move on her?
He was a man.
He did but kept it quiet.
If anyone found out that would ruin his reputation.
Jesus' game was to get all of humanity to recognize him as the King after his death.
Once remembered by all, he could return.
That's his deal.
His story.
The Mary Magdalene affair sullies his reputation.
Why?
Because he banged a witch and a whore.
What's wrong with that?
It's not acceptable in society.
It still isn't.
You can't go around having affairs with witches.
But they are the best.
Yes, but they are off-limits to a holy man.
So, that's Jesus' secret?
Yes, if people knew they wouldn't remember and worship him anymore.
That's a good story.
The moral of the story is if you want to become ultra-holy like Jesus you will be attracted to whores.
Yes, you will hang out with them.
Then it becomes a mystery if you give in to temptation.
What's the temptation?
Women.
They are the greatest temptation known to man.
So, you are suggesting Mary Magdalene was the first femme fatale.
A power so great she felled the son of God.
Yeah, of course she would set her sights on the biggest catch and succeed.
I don't know, he's kept it quiet for this long and all we have are salacious rumours.
I don't think you give Jesus enough credit.
He was a player.
It makes for a great story.

Mary Magdalene gives you wisdom and knowledge.
Yes.
The understanding is a byproduct.
The path towards what it is you seek goes through a woman.
This woman is a witch.
When you see and understand this, you see the Goddess.
The Goddess is the other side of the witch.
You look up at the heavens and you see the Queen of Heaven.
It's Mary Magdalene.
Well, that's a fantastical tale.
Yes, it redeems me from my misogyny.
You just have to trust and stick with this writer until the end of the story.

head games

A dialectic with the self seems to be the best method for instruction.

Talking to yourself?

Yes.

Doesn't that mean you are crazy?

You are crazy not to.

It's how you are taught.

An external teacher can only do so much.

The internal teacher is available 24/7 and doesn't tire of you.

They like the attention.

Dialectic means making reasonable arguments in a give and take with each other in order to resolve differences.

We did that already.

That was the first step towards reconciliation with self.

I'm not sure the process was always reasonable by any standard.

I was scared shitless at first.

There's no way around that in our culture.

Hearing voices or having a voice within your head is denounced as crazy.

Talking to yourself is pointed out in a humiliating way.

We are all aware of a presence in our heads.

Yes, but they are mostly denied.

Many will busy themselves to avoid it.

Activities, friends, media.

Anything to avoid any kind of reckoning.

What's your excuse?

I always wanted to be alone so I could think.

The recognition of the other wasn't there.

I assumed it was all me.

It is all you.

In duality, you have the ability to separate it out.

That's what I did with shamanic tools.

I wasn't prepared.

That was impossible to prepare for.

Your preparation was as good as expected.

I was thinking along the lines of I could have had some experience with mind altering drugs before drinking Ayahuasca.

Maybe, but then expectations would have been different.

This way you came at it like a virgin.

You went for the most difficult experience initially.

The amazement factor was increased and the fear as well.

It allows you to take your time processing the experience.

It took almost two years.

Yes, and then you went back to face your demon.

Everything has worked out.

You went with the flow, and all was revealed in time.

You didn't force things.

The people who hang around and do ceremony after ceremony without integrating the experience are forcing things.

Going with the flow takes work and discipline.

Doing nothing is hard work.

That is a tough lesson to understand.

You would think that you drop out of society, do nothing, and you will be in the flow.

There's truth to that, however the other extreme will sink you as well.

We live in a human society which is beneficial to your well-being if you approach it with balance.

If you give yourself over to community and culture, you will never understand self.

If you escape to the mountain's top to become enlightened, you will become incomprehensible.

I suppose that's where the muttering comes in.

That's the trigger.

Spend too much time in la la land and you will mutter to yourself incomprehensible nonsense.

Working with discipline and taking part in society allows you to retain a semblance of balance and the ability to function among other people.

It's a fool.

Basically.

You know it's a game and it's high art to be able to play the human game.

You exercise your acting skills to remain sharp at the game.

You know it's a game and have a laugh at those who take it seriously.

The advice would be don't go about living in the forest.

Find a house on the edge of the woods so a connection remains.

Electricity is tough to procure in the woods.

That's a big connection for humans.

It enables the World Wide Web.

It is a web you get caught up in.

They keep an eye on everyone through this web because they can.

The name is perfect.

The ladder up the knowledge of self has 7 steps.

The 4th step into my head and you can see what I'm hiding.

You see God and you see his other face.

If that doesn't scare you, then you feel my power.

On the 2nd step you can get a brief glimpse.

The 3rd step is a warning.

I let everyone in to the landing.

The 1st step gets them in the door.

That's where it stops.

If I think you are interesting, I'll let you climb up a step.

The 2nd step is enough for you.

It's dangerous to go to the 3rd step.

The 4th step is too much, and it comes crashing down.

You let friends up to the 2nd level.

That's where I give them dog characteristics.

I prepare to take them with me into the next world.

The 3rd step is intimate.

Yeah, I let them see my essence.

Some get a glimpse, and I leave it on the mental spectrum.

I don't cross over into the physical.

You can see how people try to do it.

They will use spiritual or sexual tactics to get further into your head.

Every time.

Is there another way?

There's friendship.

I've only experienced that with dogs.

You think it's all about you.

In my world, it is.

Others create their own world and story.

I can play a part in someone else's story.

I'm versatile and a good actor.

I know my story is the story which connects directly to the main story.

That's how deluded I am.

That's how I understand the path I'm on is the path.

Through delusion?

Yes, it must be this way.

You are taught the exact opposite.

You are a nobody, and you need help to be saved or conversely when you die you return to the nothingness of dust.

To believe you are the be all and end all is a sign of madness because you go against everything you were taught by society.

So, you are a narcissist.

I tend to elevate who I am.

I maintain balance by recognizing my faults.

My degeneracy, lack of empathy, and frustrating nature keeps me grounded.

You don't want to get too high.

When you get too close to the sun like Icarus, you burn up and come crashing down.

I've said it before - the Greeks figured out all this stuff, encoded it in myth, and then forgot about it.

When you get to God, you must meet Medusa.

She is tasked with turning you to stone.

That's the part she plays.

Are you going to write a blog post called, "beyond Medusa."

That's tempting.

She was supposed to turn you to stone.

In the myth, Perseus outsmarts her.

You would need to become him to get past her.

He got help from Athena and Hermes.

Wisdom and knowledge.

I got to God and had all the necessary receipts to show I was legitimate.

I was not some wandering sadhu who stumbled on to a form of enlightenment through austerity.

I was neither a pretender nor a poser.

Lost dog alert as I begin my walk.

It's preposterous that there was a woman who drove up to me in a Tesla.

Then she told me about a lost dog.

The dog is a Rhodesian Ridgeback.

It's part of my first dog Brindle's mix and nobody has those dogs.

This absurdity is validating the dream state.

Are you playing on the edge of sanity where you can see this reality is a dream?

I think I'm just advancing along the knowledge trail.

The Tesla situation is something that fits into my dreams.

I recognized the sound of the Tesla.

It was crazy.

You could spin the story so that it is a witch enticing you into her car and trying to capture you.

The witch said to her coven she could do it and tried it out.

There is no dog, it's just a ruse.

They are watching you today.

So, with 7.5mg of Mary Jayne I can get to the lucid dreaming stage which means I can see this is a dream.

Don Howard would ask about lucid dreaming.

He knew.

He'd know the game players and sorcerers who showed up at the sanctuary.

It explains last night where I would put that movie about contract killers in the dream and then the others wouldn't know and think it is a coincidence.

For you, it would be affirmation you know they are trying to get rid of me.

It's your dream and your story, so you put that in the dream.

Do you see how it works?

I think so.

You insert your story into your dream and see what happens.

You can't help but do it.

Sometimes, it can be strange and absurd.

I think most of the time the dream makes sense.

Most of the time.

The dream I'm living in does make sense.

There are some absurd parts.

This is what you're dreaming now in this consciousness.

When you shift consciousness and go to sleep, you continue on in another dream.

This dream stops when you're sleeping.

It's still going on, but you don't know what's going on.

You must wake up to see what's going on.

That's what it means to be awake.

You awaken twice from the dream world, and you see you are creating your reality.

It's still the same reality, you just know you are creating it.

Then you wonder how you do that.

I just write it.

I know that.

If you write it, there's no getting out of having to write it.

It's the lesson the past two days where you had to find a way where you could meditate to nothing.

You realize most can't do it.

The trick is to realize you know nothing because you're everything and you can't see yourself in order to understand yourself.

You need duality to understand the self.

So, you are nothing.

It's semantics, but please continue.

I'm asking you the riddle of how do you not write something when you know you have to write it?

I think you write it beforehand.

The story is already written.

You follow the trail.

I do nothing because it will play out.

That's the answer.

Do nothing, I'm sure.

I think you witness it and laugh at the absurdity of your dreams.

That Tesla thing happened though.

Yes, and you wrote it.

A dream isn't make believe; it's what is reality.

Whatever reality is.

I think it's duality.

It's a story.

You know how in a dream when you remember it, you get obsessed with psychoanalyzing and trying to figure out what it means.

Imagine now that you see these elements in your waking life and you're going to over analyze them.

Yeah, before this I would think the Tesla story was random.

Now, it has lots of meaning and I'm trying to figure out what the dog's name is telling me.

What does that mean?

If you take too much MJ at once and are involved in the game of stories, then the pieces of the story are going to come flying at you in rapid succession and you won't be able to figure it all out.

This will lead to horrible anxiety.

Everything is being revealed to you, but it's too much at a time.

That's why you have discipline with the dosage of the mind expander called MJ.

You know a relatively small amount will get you to that far-out place because you're mimicking the leap within a container.

Most of this dream seems like I've balanced it out.

Most everything fits into the story, so it looks balanced.

It's the events that don't fit in which look like dream elements as you know them to be.

The elements have been on your mind at some point.

Yeah, the sound of a Tesla.

So, be on the lookout for things that don't line up and don't make sense.

It's the writer inserting conflict and absurdity into the story to keep it going.

You can see where you are in the story contingent on how many things look out of place.

That will give you a rough idea of where you are in the story.

If there's no story left, that weird shit will go away, and you'll live happily ever after.

Nothing will happen.

Isn't that happiness?

Linguistically, it seems like it's related.

It's dubious.

I think you just want to keep the game going.

When the story ends, nothing's happening.

The story is the in and out.

It's another cosmic cycle.

The initial cycle is part of the story.

It's a sex story, so it's God going in and out of the Goddess.

You mean the writer.

Just one in and out in that original cycle and then bam, a new universe begins.

Maybe he went into her slowly this time and he's going to take it out fast?

That's his new technique to try and impress her.

Slow build up and sudden ending.

That's usually the way of intercourse.

The good lovers know about foreplay.

This may have been excessive.

Well, however long it took this farce to get going, which was a long fucking time, the inverse will be how long it takes for it to go away.

The key to the technique is balance.

You already know that.

Your story took forever to get good.

It's really good now.

Yeah, but you took us through all of creation.

Couldn't you have condensed that?

No, I was honouring the Great Goddess.

This story is her portrait.

Is that why you had me fucking around with pictures today?

Yeah, I was going to teach you that you're a painter and you're painting the Goddess.

When you get through to the writer you see he's also a painter.

Yes.

He just wants to be called an artist.

His writing is good, but his painting skills are terrible.

We are going to stick with writer.

You are the writer.

I'm also a painter.

There are some rough patches in this painting.

I don't know if you know that, but dude, you gotta take a look at that shit.

This whole nonsense, wasting time, and masturbation -  do you know what a picture of that looks like?

It's pornographic.

You're not supposed to see that until you look closely.

From up far it's a pretty decent image of the universe and solar system and then into our lives.

You don't want to go too deep into the image.

Didn't you find that the world is a sexual metaphor?

Yeah, that's obvious.

Nobody wants to say porno.

All the stuff happening to me is my story?

Your dream.

Isn't that true of everybody?

No, remember they traded their story back to the writer to get a new story.

This is your story.

Why is my life ridiculous then?

Well, we had to keep it that way because who else would believe this nonsense?

Only your mind has the ability to comprehend this nonsense.

The nonsense makes total sense.

Nobody else would believe this.

Yeah, and you have the choice to believe it or not.

I also know that to get someone to go against their own beliefs involves coercion.

I would feel coerced if someone wanted me to believe this nonsense.

That is correct.

There's no obligation for you to believe this nonsense.

Your beliefs say it's true.

You should end the lesson there because beliefs aren't true but they are all we have.

It's a crazy idea.

I see how if you don't accept it then it would confirm that you are crazy so you have to accept it.

You don't have to.

You can decide you're on a path towards craziness and you would put the brakes on it.

It's because you work within a container and you can stop at any time.

I don't feel pressured into believing this nonsense and I don't feel pressured into continuing on with this nonsense.

You can debate the reason why you're feeling this, but I would go with your gut instinct.

It's nonsense and it's my story.

When you go fully to the writer then you start muttering nonsense.

That's how they figure out when to lock you up.

You're uttering nonsense all the time.

You don't make sense.

Something will happen with the Goddess and the witches in your story.

You can start to see that.

The 7 stories are the big parts of your dream.

The dream pulls mostly from those 7 stories.

Your life story will be based on those 7 stories.

You can rotate through the 7 and figure out what's to come in your story.

The Tesla story is surveillance, paranoia, dogs, and witches plus my own experience with Tesla.

becoming power

I’m the even-steven guy. Everything always works out for me in the end. Of course, I completed my latest journey in 2020 and got back home from Peru just before the world went to shit. Am I deluded? My maestro shut down international travel a week after I arrived home from Peru in March of 2020. And he has kept travel difficult until I’m ready to return to Peru. He has that power and control. He’s told me this. Either I believe it or I’m deluded and insane. I’d drop this path in a second if I didn’t believe it.

I am crazy by definition. How would I know I’m crazy? Seriously, does someone who presents as being a little outside the mainstream know that they externally come off to others as being nuts? The psychiatric consensus would most likely diagnose me as being delusional. Maybe put me on a pill. You see, the thing is, I read through the literature and the medical community’s diagnoses of various conditions is spot on. In my opinion, the consensus reason for the pathology manifesting as delusion is a prime example of such blatant narrow mindedness with an appalling lack of curious non-consensual professionals questioning dogma. How about that sentence I just constructed? Pretty good, eh? What I mean is the alteration of consciousness exposes the subject to fields of awareness normally off-limits. The response by doctor and patient, aided and abetted by cultural indoctrination, is that you are crazy, i.e. psychotic. Take for instance a tumour on the brain causing hallucinations. The typical and programmed sensible response would figure the hallucinations are not real because of an abnormality in the brain. I would say the tumour is perturbing the perception of consciousness thus allowing you to experience different frequencies of consciousness. You will be told the hallucination is pathology, not normal, and thus the novelty will frighten you. However, it’s a grand opportunity to explore if you can repeat the conditions and procedures to get to that place, which in this instance is a gold mine. I, for one, know how to do this very thing with select natural substances, I’m confident, I have traversed fear and cultural prohibitions, and I’m intent on exploring. This paragraph was meant to inform you I’m not crazy. Instead of dismissing my delusions, the intention was to open your mind to another possibility.

Why does the belief of delusion exist within the medical community?

Patient paranoia is a big reason. I’ve experienced that condition and I concluded psychedelics unlock the paranoia within which you have been bequeathed by ancestral patterns or acquired throughout your lifetime. The condition or substances causing the non-ordinary will take a thought or belief and amplify it logarithmically, therefore this is a major impediment to a novice consciousness explorer while to the regular Joe on the street he just wants it to go away. I don’t think the medical response is a conspiracy or a way to maintain cultural control over society. I do understand the 1960’s and the LSD craze did open the establishment's eyes towards the truth that the alteration of consciousness will lead to a breakdown of society as it frees the archetype of the liberator, thus there is a vested interest in banning these substances and developing treatments, such as depression pills and anti-psychotics that numb the patient and universally declare that non-standard deviations from the accepted consciousness frequency are pathology and not to be tolerated in our society. That being said, a scientist is more comfortable in being able to measure, thus the diagnosis is the measurement. From this position can be crafted solutions. The solutions are to numb consciousness and create a sub-class of zombified human beings. To accept alterations of consciousness as a real thing would mean there would have to be a way to measure this condition and have a degree of success measuring the result. The condition presents itself in infinitesimal ways, therefore it's pretty much impossible to measure with the corollary that it is an explorer's delight.

Well, back to my story! The teacher knows I would have gone back to Peru before fully integrating all the lessons and discovering his identity and my destiny. And then involved the scenario where I either committed to the path or continued to vacillate between being a steadfast wannabe and a fuck up. So, anyways I’ve made the commitment so the plague can now dissipate and the signal to return to Peru will be presented to me soon enough.

My intentions are to methodically extricate myself from the life I identify with before old age slams the door shut. This will enable my freedom. My actual identity I will retain and minimize to allow access to necessities in this world. Without a fixed identity I would not be able to freely travel or access my finances so I will compartmentalize that aspect of self. In other words, not treat it as the be all and end all but just one of those nuisances you need in order to navigate life on earth. Identity will be a user name and password that unlocks the digital world. Identity will be treated like clothing where for example as I head to the airport I’m this guy today. Am I just deluding myself? Good question. I think the delusion is you think you have a real identity. Remember when you were born? No? Well, let me give you a clue. You were free for a couple hours once they cut the cord. You were then assigned an identity and a certificate. So, to discard it now or treat it as flimsy or not set in stone is perfectly logical. In fact, it’s the sane position of the two. Ha ha, got you didn’t I!

Okay, so that’s the freedom path. The steel path as a corollary to this gambit is to embrace the shadow into the light of everyday consciousness. Why do I want to do this? Well, first off, I recognize that I am a two-man operation and I have a consciousness that has come forth in this lifetime and I recognize a second buried one. I also recognize a third consciousness that is with me, it’s the feminine Goddess to whom I refer, however that one is whole and seems external to me. I've mentioned this before in that I don’t know how a woman intuits these different consciousnesses or how they manifest within their form. I have asked a few women and they have described their shadow as possibly being masculine. It involves further study. At any rate, my whole self is the combination of self and shadow and when I say I’m discarding identity it’s because as far as I can tell any semblance of a true identity has to start with this recognition. It’s the steel path because my shadow is fearless and all powerful with the ability to transform at will. He contains the power to control events, to change outcomes, and to grant any desire you wish. He is great of magic. He’s offered all that to me in order to suss out my intentions. My original intention was to recover the love of the long-lost Goddess; so, the offers of power I brushed aside. He offers power to everyone who gets this far. Look at your hand and count your fingers. That’s a good approximation of how many in the billions of conscious beings who will not grab this power. Imagine being born in a poor country and being given a way out? Would I take it then? I guess I had a lucky roll of the dice upon conception. Additionally, he loves a good fight and a good opponent. He could have rubbed me out at will and destroyed me in a wink of an eye, I know that, but he played along and was intrigued by my fortitude and moxie. So, here we are!

My next steps are to cultivate this relationship and invite the master teacher into my life to become my driving force. To enable the strength and resolve that lies within; the potential to not only enable my freedom but the strength to keep my freedom by stomping out all impediments to liberation. I’m not a blank slate; I do offer a worthy partnership in this deal. I can play the overt game of life and navigate human society. I’m a worthy foil to the shadow; the shadow being the outcast. I can play the straight man on the path towards freedom. What is the outcome of all this deluded bluster I present to you? The fully realized human being. A being of strength and mystery. A fount of wisdom and knowledge. It’s the final step in our evolution. Ultimately, a path revealed to others that I can offer up as an example of the possibilities. I will be that strength and power. Instead of using it for gain, I will become power. See how it works? An occult path for the worthy. The mystery school once again accepting students.

I will keep to my agreement to prove I’m actually ready to go forward on this path instead of the usual two steps forward, one back nonsense. I can do it; I just need the requisite challenge and so here it is. What if I fail? I’m not. Okay, so what lies ahead? That’s up to maestro. When he's ready to receive me, I’ll head back to Peru. I’ll know when it’s time by the signs on the path. I’ve seen the owl and I know it’s coming. The owl was loud last night. I see the death welcomed by the presence of the owl, headless rodents and carcasses ripped asunder, signaling to me change is coming. The world works in mysterious ways once you understand the path of the maestro. It’s all for you whether you realize it or not. This is your universe. There are as many different universes as there are conscious beings. Each and every one of us brings the universe to life. Because we agree on core principles of each manifestation, to wit consensus reality, we can then inhabit someone else’s world.

Power has consequences. Power is the antithesis of freedom. To not seek power is to become power. To grasp at an external source of power leads to being enslaved by power. To think you need to seek power is the fatal flaw. Once you realize you are power everything falls away and you become free. There’s no need to seek for power anymore. Your shadow is all powerful and if you ask he will grant you all the power you want. It’s then up to you to grab the ring and fulfill your destiny. Am I recommending this path? Hell, no. This path has consequences and you are making a bargain with your shadow and he will require recompense. If you don’t live up to your end of the deal then it will be an unpleasant outcome. Having clarity allows me to see this. I see gobs of power available to me. My shadow controls past, present, and future and can grant the realization of all your wishes and desires. I know what I could do with power. However, I turned it down because I sought knowledge and that included the nature of power. Granted, I wasn’t faced with biological death and begged for a second chance. We don’t know how we would react to that situation. Knowing what I now know, I’d die with dignity. It’s remarkable that he gave me these answers the third time I drank Ayahuasca but I later wrote that he was mad. He told me of the beggar's bargain many make with him. Ok, whatever, you nut-bag and I got the fuck out of there.

As I study culture and myth, I now see clearly that every culture can create their own god through the collective consciousness and access to the shadow. The shadow is the great actor, is the god common to all, and will play the part asked of him. Because the shadow is archetypical to all, all will receive the same ideas if they conform to cultural behaviours much like how I mentioned we enter into other’s conscious reality through shared agreements upon reality. I would think if any culture wanted to be successful long-term they need a god to rally around. If you ask the shadow for power he will grant it to you but it is a reciprocal arrangement. In exchange for the power, something will be asked of you or your culture. Failure to live up to your end of the bargain invites consequences. A great example of this idea is found in the entirety of the Old Testament and the trials and tribulations of the Israelites.

This path is honourable and I got the answer I was seeking. It’s fascinating and a pretty good game now. Instead of grabbing the ring, I became his student. I’m a student of omnipotent power, to wit God, and on the road to becoming power.