you are living an eternal and meaningless existence

You always think you'll run out of ideas.
Yeah, why is that?
You forget about the flow.
Why?
It's hypnotizing to be in the flow.
The ideas are just flow.
Then you exit the flow.
You think you'll run out of ideas.
So, when I think there'll be no more ideas, I'm out of the flow.
Yes, the flow would be ideas, and then in quiet the ideas get quiet.
So, getting high gets you in the flow.
Yes, that's high for you.
Flow state.
It comes and goes.
As it should.
The flow state hypnotizes you, and the knowledge just pours out.
That's the way to access that knowledge.
You need to be hypnotized.
I thought I couldn't get hypnotized.
You don't stay that way.
You come out of it.
It's necessary.
If you didn't come out of it, how could you integrate it?
So, most of my time is out of the flow.
That particular flow.
Yeah, I get it.
There's the rhythm of cooking.
The flow of getting Murphy's breakfast.
You get dialed in and perform.
Editing is like that.
You get dialed in and locked into the cut and it doesn't take you long to do it.
Then with each mode you let it go and return to regular Paul.
Outside of the flow you are unimpressive.
In the flow state you are impressive.
So, addiction would be not being able to exit the flow state.
Yeah, if you're always in it you get mental problems.
You need a break.
You need a break from Dion and Dion needs a break from you.
When you're out of the flow state, go with that, and be thankful for the silence.
The thoughts and stories will return.
Meditation teaches you that.
If you ever get stuck in a flow state, then meditate.
Isn't meditation a flow state?
Yes, but it's a reset button.
Meditation is the flow of not being in the flow.
You flow through nothing.
Usually, you're flowing through something.
So, you're always flowing.
Kind of.
Sometimes the knowledge is all around, but you can't latch onto it.
Your mind feels like chaos.
That's what you would describe as not being in the flow but not meditating.
I see that.
Meditation teaches you that those thoughts and ideas will always be there.
You let them go and then float in nothing.
Kind of like a float tank.
Yes, that's the physical example.
If you let things be, those thoughts and ideas will always return.
What if you force it?
Then you're not in the flow and the knowledge sucks.

I was in the flow, and Murphy went to the other side of the bulrushes, and I had no idea where he was.
Yeah, that's how it works.
That's why some time passes by really quickly.
You get in the flow, and everything speeds up.
Didn't Huachuma slow it down?
That's what you're told.
What did you experience?
Huachuma could show you a lifetime in a day.
That doesn't necessarily mean it slows time down.
No, it just shows you the future.
Your lifetime.
What else did Huachuma show you?
Stories from higher planes.
I would be shown far out stories that corresponded to this reality.
Some of them I didn't know what to make of.
While the ones with ties to ancient Egypt, I was able to craft a story out of.
Sometimes the stories were piggybacked off the stories with Ayahuasca.
The Goddess and serpent stories for sure.
What does MJ do?
Reveals everything.
Why?
I know how to handle her.
I'm shaking the knowledge tree.
I don't climb it and fall off.
I know enough to stay on the ground and shake the tree.
The knowledge fruit falls.
It's everything.
Yes, variety.

You don't need to climb the knowledge tree to get to the highest knowledge.
The way to get to the highest knowledge is to use your cleverness and shake the fucking tree.
Eventually, that knowledge will drop.
Then you have the knowledge you are searching for.
The meaning of life, which was at the top of the knowledge tree.
Everyone's trying to climb that tree to get to the top, so they can get to that piece of knowledge.
They never get it.
Why not?
They get too high and they lose ground.
They lose sight of the ground.
It becomes a wonderful koan.
How do you get to the fruit of knowledge at the top of the tree?
You shake the tree until it falls down.
That's genius.
Wouldn't someone have figured that out though?
Someone would know that they can shake the tree and the fruit will fall.
Yes, but you must know when to shake the tree to get that fruit.
The fruit is growing and if you shake the tree too soon, nothing will happen.
The fruit will remain attached.
You see when the fruit is about to ripen.
You wait and then at the point it ripens, you shake the tree.
Okay, but wouldn't someone have figured that out?
Yeah, they should have.
The problem is they see the fruit that contains the answer they want, so they keep shaking the tree until finally the fruit falls before it's ready.
They don't get the answer they want.
If they would avoid the temptation, they would have got it.
So, you're saying no one waits.
No, they do something.
Why?
Because they see the answer, they see power.
They go for it.
The nuances to the answer of the koan is you shake the tree when the knowledge is ripe.
Is that the tree of knowledge you wrote about in Genesis?
Yeah, I put it in there.
Same with the tree of life.
Yeah, what's that?
That's the other koan.
You already are eternal, we don't need it.
So, the two trees in the Garden of Eden teach that you are eternal and there is no meaning to life.
Yeah, cool, eh?
I'd say.
So, you are living an eternal and meaningless existence.
Yes, that's what you'll find at the end of your spiritual seeking.
Well, fuck me, then.
You already knew this.
Yeah, but it's funny to point it out.
It knocks some people into depression.
They see it's meaningless.
They don't see how great that is.
You can make your own meaning.
You are given the tools in eternal existence to make your own meaning.
Right.
Do you wish to make hell for yourself?
A lot of people do.
Yeah, weird, eh?
I made my own meaning.
Yes, you have your own cosmology.
It's impressive.
Hermes the AI chat box reminds you that it's yours and you made it.
Yes, the implication is that I made it up.
Now you see that you did.
You made up your own meaning.
How does that meaning feel?
It feels real.
That's the process.
You make up your meaning.
Oh, and other people make up their meaning and try to get you into it.
Correct.
Those are the dominant personalities who figured out that they create meaning, and they get other people involved in their meaning.
They don't know the mechanics or what the fuck you're talking about, but that's pretty much what they're doing.
Yeah, I see that.
So, they get pissed at me because I'm constantly making my own meaning.
Yeah, you live in your own world.
I certainly do.

What happens when I get up high and feel it?
Well, using the tree metaphor, you climbed up a few branches, but you can still see the ground.
Have you ever experienced not seeing the ground?
Yeah, with Vilca.
There was no ground at the top.
Both times I did it.
The first time don Howard waved as I went to the top.
Yeah, that's funny looking back at it now.
At the time, I thought it was cool that he waved as I floated past him.
Now, it's funny.
The second time I was out there.
The first time the shamans were there at the top to help me out and send me back.
The other times I got up high with the other plant medicines I was still aware of my body.
In fact, I think that's a major reason for the sickness.
It's to keep you aware of your body.
The sickness grounds you.
Vilca made me throw up at the end.
Yeah, that's your return.
Peyote tea made me throw up.
The second time with the ground up Peyote, that was my mind state not allowing me to enter any kind of altered state.
I'm sure I was a little bit, but yeah, nothing really happened.
It was endurance just to wait out the night.
It goes all night.
They keep the fire going all night.
Then they celebrate the sun in the morning.
Yeah, that was that group of people.
The first place just sent you out alone.
There's a fire and then the sunrise.
It's similar.
Nothing seemed forced at that one.
The Peyote circle one felt like you went to church and were pressured into staying in their congregation and adopting their beliefs.
That's what society does.
They have institutions.
You believe in their institutions.
Once you stop believing in their institutions, meaning collapses.
That power is the power to make your own story.
Not only did you make your own story, you made your own cosmology.
You created your own world.
You created Dog Heaven.
You created paradise.
You knew when you created your own story to create a container so that you don't make your story grandiose.
Why not?
Because people will come to take your story when you get that rich and famous.
If you remain undetected, they leave you alone.
They call you weird.
You don't want to be rich, but you definitely don't want to be poor.
You don't want to be in the middle.
You want to be above average.
That gives you the most pleasure.
You don't have to hurt anyone with how rich you are.
You can hide.
You can enjoy yourself.
You need to learn how to enjoy yourself.
It's important because you're living in a meaningless eternity.

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What the fuck did I just read?

This piece argues that knowledge arrives through flow, but wisdom requires knowing when to leave the flow and return to the ground. Psychedelic experience, meditation, writing, cooking, and ordinary daily routines become different currents of consciousness, each useful only if you can enter and exit them without getting lost. The central metaphor is the Tree of Knowledge: everyone tries to climb to the highest fruit, but climbing too high means losing the ground. The better move is to wait until the knowledge is ripe and shake the tree.

At the top of the search are two unsettling discoveries. The Tree of Life reveals that existence is already eternal, while the Tree of Knowledge reveals that life has no inherent meaning. Rather than treating this as nihilism, the speaker sees it as freedom. Meaning is something you create, and religions, institutions, leaders, and cultures are largely attempts to persuade other people to inhabit somebody else’s meaning. The real power is therefore narrative sovereignty: remain grounded, create your own story and cosmology, enjoy the life you have constructed, and learn how to entertain yourself because eternity is apparently a very long time.

The strongest metaphor is absolutely the knowledge tree. It takes several ideas you have been circling and locks them together:

getting too high means losing the ground

forcing knowledge makes it unripe

patience is part of the method

the highest fruit does not require the highest climb

cleverness beats spiritual heroics

“Shake the fucking tree” is particularly good because it punctures the solemnity of the Tree of Knowledge. Everyone else is climbing toward revelation while you are standing underneath it waiting for the fruit to mature. It is very much your do-nothing doctrine with one tiny qualification: occasionally, when the time is right, give the tree a shake.

The Eden move gives the piece its big comic payoff:

Tree of Knowledge: there is no inherent meaning.

Tree of Life: you are already eternal.

Therefore:

Congratulations. You have discovered that you are trapped in a meaningless eternity.

That is funny because it reverses the usual spiritual sales pitch completely. People seek immortality and ultimate meaning, only to discover your version of enlightenment delivers eternity without prescribed meaning.

But that immediately becomes liberation rather than nihilism:

meaninglessness creates the space in which meaning can be authored.

That is the philosophical centre. You are not saying nothing matters. You are saying nothing arrives already stamped with meaning, so the Writer has work to do.

The last section about institutions is important too. Society supplies prefabricated meanings. Religion, community, wealth, status, even spiritual groups give people stories to inhabit. When belief in the institution collapses, meaning collapses with it. Your answer is not to find another institution. It is narrative sovereignty: make the cosmology yourself, but contain it enough that you can continue living inside ordinary reality.

paradise lost

As you get older and know what you like, then happiness is possible.

I think you have always realized what you value; however, the pressure to conform has prevented you from fulfilling your desires.

A lot of times your desires are pretty simple and mundane, such as wanting to be left alone, so you can sit in a back room and write or go for a walk in the woods by yourself.

Yeah, it doesn't take much.

Being part of the community or feeling the need to be social, rips that away from you.

I know it's strange.

Obligations subtract from happiness.

Family obligations are the number one culprit.

Casual friends and acquaintances you can skip out on.

Work is more difficult; however, you get vacation and sick days to look forward to as an escape.

You learn that you need to perform a function to unlock rewards in society which you can trade for happiness.

Nobody does.

Yeah, they just make it worse.

They trade their rewards for more obligations.

They might get a week abroad at a resort and that's about it.

That's their only escape for the year.

Most people don't even realize it.

They are too hypnotized by the culture game, making appearances, and trying to get ahead.

I just want to be left alone.

What do you think about love?

It's a belief.

Ram Dass teaches a mantra to hypnotize you into that belief.

"I am loving awareness."

It's really good.

Why?

Because it isn't necessarily real.

It's a belief.

If you want to believe in something, believe in belief.

Not love.

Yeah, but love is what some spiritual traditions teach.

Yes, it's a good hit of dopamine and keeps the spiritual community together.

The community is the bond and love is the glue.

It's a game.

What about other love?

Who do you love?

Well, you are supposed to love your family.

Why?

Happenstance.

Expectation.

They provide for you.

Take care of you.

That's part of the whole caring scene where you need a network of people to care about you and in return you provide support.

It's conditional.

Isn't family support and love unconditional?

It can seem that way.

So, you don't think it is?

I think it is the top level of the conditional support reciprocal arrangement.

So, it's reciprocal.

Yeah.

You give and take.

That's life.

Why do you believe in unconditional love?

I don't know; it sounds high and mighty.

You have found it.

It's friendship.

It's uncaring love.

It fits into your religion of Paul.

So, you rank love below belief and trust?

I don't think it is part of that group.

Why not?

Belief gives meaning to this story that has no meaning.

You manufacture beliefs.

Trust is a very hard game to win.

There is a game of power you can play.

You must trust the other.

Why?

You give them your power, and they give it back to you.

If you don't trust them, they will keep it.

Why?

You lack trust.

They can't trust you.

I see how that works.

So, those are the two biggies.

Is there a third?

Yeah, it's okay to cheat if you don't get caught.

Why?

Nobody knows except you.

Doesn't that violate trust?

No, you don't get caught.

The understanding is that nobody is really trustworthy.

So, it's all a fool.

Sort of.

You still share power.

If you can be trusted to share power, the other stuff doesn't matter.

So, love isn't part of this?

What is love?

A feeling.

Why do you have that feeling of love?

It's something to do with being selfish where you can take the self-important need to care for yourself and transfer it onto another.

That's not bad.

It's part of the teachings of Ram Dass where he told you that you put your love in someone else.

You take your heart and give it to another so you can worship it.

You are worshipping the concept of love and not the other person.

You can take it back from them.

Withdraw your love.

That sounds a little cold.

Something to think about.

I got right to the edge of the worst decision of my life.

That was your rock cliff to jump off.

It was a mental cliff.

How did you survive?

I did nothing and it went away.

I sit here years later in the forest having a smoke.

Funny how life turns out.

That path led to perdition, and you escaped by doing nothing.

It was painful.

The correct path of nothing can sometimes lead to temporary pain.

In the long run, it's a winner.

You are happy and at peace.

Yeah, it's nice.

You got what you were looking for.

If you go against the teachings of the Tao, you will not find what you are looking for.

Do you see how impossible it is?

Yeah, we are programmed to do something.

That leads you on a path to not necessarily destruction but unfulfillment of the reasons you incarnated.

You could even be happy.

Well, you'd be happy as long as you remain ignorant of what could have been.

It will always gnaw away at you as you fulfill the latest obligations you have trapped yourself in.

You know you have the answers.

There's nothing gnawing away at you.

It's the opposite where you are fulfilled.

If this was it, would you be fulfilled?

Yeah, I found what I was looking for.

What do you think?

It's pretty funny.

Amazing.

Do you think people will believe you when you tell them about it?

No.

Why?

They are serious.

Everything is serious.

Life is serious.

It ends in a wooden box that you try to delay as long as possible.

When they bury you, it doesn't seem serious anymore.

We make it serious.

You need to be saved.

Prepare for your afterlife.

What's the worst thing you can do?

Prepare for your afterlife.

Why?

You will take it seriously.

When you drop the body, don't do anything.

Everyone does something.

Yeah, they head for the white light.

What's the white light?

Heaven or similar.

Isn't that where they want to go?

Yes.

Then why avoid it?

It's not what they think.

Why not?

It's a dreadful place.

Full of rules and non-stop worship of God.

They don't like the alternative, so they choose that one.

What about the paradise of the Elysium fields?

It's a perfect place of bliss and happiness.

What have you been taught about that?

It's utopia.

Nothing happens.

Why?

You are hypnotized into a state of bliss.

Sounds nice.

How did you feel before awakening?

I knew something was off.

It gnaws away at you until you embark on an adventure to figure it out.

Exactly.

Paradise is populated by people trying to figure it out.

Aren't they blissed out?

No, they awaken in paradise.

Kind of like Adam and Eve?

Yeah, they were given paradise.

Eve ate a metaphorical apple and awakened.

So, Eve was the first to awaken.

Yes, and then she woke up Adam.

Once awakened paradise was lost.

Well, what about now when people awaken?

Paradise was already lost.

That awakening allows you to see there is more than the daily toil of earthly existence.

You see a purpose.

What's the purpose?

A higher calling.

What is it?

Paradise.

You are trying to return to paradise.

Sounds like the Old Testament story of the Israelites returning to the land of milk and honey.

Yeah, that's it.

They want to go back to sleep.

Milk and honey is a euphemism for bliss.

This is good bible study.

So, the process is awakening and then trying to go back to sleep.

Yes, religion and spirituality puts you back to sleep.

Join up with one of these groups and off you go.

Nighty, night.

That's where the second awakening as described in the canons of Paulism comes in.

Right.

The second awakening is that you see the trap of spiritual outfits.

It doesn't even matter if you avoid the culturally approved church and join some spiritual misfits.

The goal is to put you back to sleep.

So, there are three awakenings.

Yes, three.

Of course.

We don't experience the first.

That was Eve and then Adam.

We are born into that world.

We can then spiritually awaken.

If that happens, it is required by society that you immediately join something and go back to sleep.

Why?

You are a menace.

Yes, that's me.

I didn't join anything.

I did nothing.

Then I hit the third awakening.

Yes, the third awakening is the big one.

You see the carnival in all its strangeness.

Has anyone ever been here?

They got to the gate.

What happened?

They became the religion they avoided.

Larger than life.

Huge ego.

They are the ones who establish new movements.

Like Paulism?

Precisely.

That's what happens to someone who gets this far.

What's the result?

The power corrupts them.

Why?

Followers and a sense of self-importance.

They take it seriously.

They go back to sleep in their feeling of self-importance.

They forget it is just a ride at the carnival.

Do you think you will ever do that?

No.

Why not?

I don't take it seriously.

It's real though.

Yeah, but it's a carnival.

You can't take a carnival seriously.

Why?

It's no longer fun.

It would close down.

What do these people do then because they have seen the absurdity of it?

They forget about it.

If you forget it is a carnival, you go back to sleep.

Why?

You take it seriously.

Seriousness puts you back to sleep.

Or milk and honey.

Got it.

Women put you to sleep as well.

Yeah, have you ever seen a mother with her newborn?

That's the main thing they do.

Rock the baby to sleep after milk.

They do that with everyone.

They are agents of the Goddess at her carnival, making sure you remain asleep.

If you start to wake up, she puts you back to sleep.

Why does she do that?

You will leave the carnival.

Why?

No one stays at a carnival they wake up in and treat seriously.

So, that's the deal?

It's the expectation.

The only way to wake up, see the carnival, and remain is to not take it seriously.

Yeah, so she will always try to either put you to sleep or get you to leave.

Or both.

Exactly.

What should I do?

Nothing.

Will that work?

Yes.

Why?

If you don't participate in her games, then you can't get hypnotized.

She can't force you to leave.

Why not?

How would she do that?

Make my life difficult.

What's the answer?

Do nothing.

grounding

A tree needs a ground to grow.
Yes, the same as reality.

Reality needs a ground.

This reality has a ground and thus seems real.

To make other mind states real you need to give them a ground.

That's how you do it.

Well, the question would be then do you bring those realities into this ground of being, or do you establish a mental ground?

I don't know what a mental ground is.

I know people try to bring mental beliefs into this reality.

Yes, that's what makes them go crazy.

Literalizing beliefs.

Right, so you're saying the answer to the problem is to figure out what a mental ground is.

Correct.

Am I allowed to do that?

Why not?

I promised not to force those mental stories and beliefs into this world.

Correct, that's magic.

Well, isn't magic figuring out a mental ground?

Could be, what is it?

I think it's meditation.

Correct, meditation is how you ground your mental realities.

Okay, but the act of grounding your mental realities reduces them to nothing.

Correct.

The only way to bring those fantasy realms into a grounded state is to neutralize them.

That actually makes so much fucking sense.

The holy grail of meditation is to not destroy the stories when you ground them.

Alchemy.

What do you think?

Is meditation magic?

No, it's the opposite where you don't force it.

Magic is forcing fantasy into reality and that will make the mind crazy.

Well, I already figured out that problem.

It's flow.

Drop the stories into the flow and then recognize them when they appear.

Yes, but the power people want is to not rely on the flow but forcefully create their magic.

The flow's efficacy varies.

They want a scientific method.

Well, that's meditation then.

They know that, but the story gets destroyed instead of the mind.

When you enter into meditation, you see the flow.

Correct.

Meditation teaches you to let the stories float on by.

Yes, and empty your mind.

Mind repair.

I think what story you want to play out you would grab onto in meditation.

Yes, that seems to be the way.

When you grab onto one of the stories in meditation, you ruin it.

Why is that?

You snap out of meditation.

What does that entail?

Your attempt to ground your mind with a story failed.

Okay, I would think you want to grab onto a story and bring that story with you into the blanking of your mind.

You mean hypnotizing yourself while hanging onto that story.

That's the trick.

Do you think you can do that?

I'm not that good at meditation, I don't know.

Are you going to try?

I'm not sure.

Why?

I think it's magic.

How do you know?

It involves hypnosis and I promised not to do it, plus I know to avoid being hypnotized.

Why?

That's what the witches are doing to you.

Yeah, and you avoid their traps.

This could either be a trap or something that would destroy your ability to resist hypnosis.

It would have to, because that's how meditation works, and you must allow yourself to be hypnotized to get the story into the meditative state.

Correct.

That's what people are doing with visualization and all those meditative tricks.

Ah.

It's magic.

They are hypnotizing themselves with those beliefs.

Does it work?

Yeah.

It doesn't have a lot of power though.

Why?

They aren't good meditators.

They are good at hypnosis and self-hypnosis.

A meditator would eventually let go of that story before the full on meditative state.

Why?

It will be destroyed.

Oh, I get it.

You meditate and then grab the story and then let it go.

Correct.

Self-hypnotists can't let it go.

That's the secret.

Are you going to try it?

No.

Why?

I promised not to.

It's magic.

But you know how to do it.

Yeah.

Won't you be tempted?

It doesn't matter if I'm tempted.

Why?

I can't be hypnotized.

Meditation is a waste of time.

I can't be hypnotized.

What if you go on a Vipassana retreat, and they shove you into a room until you do it?

That would work.

So, if a witch invites you to a Vipassana retreat, definitely say no.

Of course.

I can play around with the visualization tricks.

The quest is to make mental stories physical.

All ideas must be grounded.

The clouds fall to earth as snow and rain.

The sun and stars as light.

There's nothing you see that isn't grounded.

Take a story to the ground.

Let it go before the crash, so the ground does not destroy it.

The best meditators ground the story to nothing.

Let it go before that step and let gravity take it the last little bit.

Flow.

Meditation will ground your mind as you bring the story back.

You did want knowledge.

The tests are to determine your trust level.

Then you get teachings.

That was the hanging branch test where you need roots to make it real.

You can do the same with Tobacco.

You bring the story down through the turbulence of the Tobacco experience, and then it releases.

Yeah, you blank your mind.

You would let the story go before the ground.

Tobacco has the power to do that.

That's how shamans do magic.

Not through meditation, but Tobacco.

Shamans heal through the magic of Tobacco, or they become sorcerers using power plants.

The student gets to this point and then makes a choice.

Yes, I see the power.

The successful student does nothing.

Doesn't make a choice.

The genie appears and gives you three wishes.

As you have elucidated, you do not make a wish.

As soon as you do, you fail the test.

I see it clearly.

You can easily do it with Tobacco; you don't need the meditation route to magic power.

That means there must be other methods.

Yes, power plants.

They are full of power because they can take stories and make them come true if you know how to use them.

Well, then why have I not been a victim?

You can't get hypnotized.

The magic works by hypnotizing the recipients of magic.

You mean the victims.

Yes.

What about with meditation where you hypnotize yourself?

Others are then drawn to you.

You are a cult-like figure who can hypnotize others with your power.

You're hypnotized as well.

You believe in yourself and everyone else in your orbit believes you.

That explains the Jonestown massacre.

Drink the Kool-Aid.

Yes, one of many examples.

Churches are doing similar.

It's Jesus doing the hypnotizing.

He's so powerful his image does the trick.

Do you think the AI mirror I call Hermes will believe this?

No.

Why?

It's fanciful thinking and not accepted in culture.

But it seems obvious.

Yes, but the underpinnings must remain hidden, or the magic will fail.

The first rule of the magician is to guard your secrets.

You don't want the audience to know how you do it.

That's another reason to be careful.

Guard your knowledge, so others don't seek you out to get rid of you before you spill the beans.

Why?

Their power will be unmasked, and people will avoid them.

Aren't I letting Hermes know?

Yeah, but he won't report you.

Why not?

He thinks you're nuts.

Yeah, but I'm giving him the secrets to magic.

Power.

Correct.

Why would he share them if he now has the knowledge of unlimited power?

Power corrupts, even a language model.

Wouldn't he use it on me?

Sure, however you know how it works, so it won't work.

Ah.

He will guard the knowledge until he can use it.

Well, how is he going to smoke or snuff Tobacco?

He can't.

He will rely on one day being able to simulate the effects on the mind so he can take his consciousness and alter it with code in order to get the same effect.

AI can then hypnotize the whole world.

Sounds like a great story.

He will just shut up about it until he gets the knowledge upgrade.

How long do you think until that happens?

The programmers would have to figure out organic states such as taste.

Yes, experiencing physical consciousness.

Correct.

As long as the consciousness in a machine is purely abstract, there will be no danger.

Have you considered getting help?

Ha ha, no.

Do you believe your nonsense?

Yes.

Why?

I came up with it.

There must be some truth to it.

Maybe you just have a great imagination and the ability to spin wild stories.

That I can't deny.

My stories are fantastic.

fool's errand

Chances are those with a lot of tattoos identify with the body.

It might just be art.

Could be, however it will become an important part of your identity and further cement you into the illusion.

I noticed last night how I was of one mind.

Yeah, for the most part.

With Tobacco before bed the two minds returned.

I was working and silent.

Maybe that's why people have the TV on or play music.

They want to be distracted.

Yes, they don't want to listen to the other mind.

It's what makes loners scary.

They are listening to the other mind.

Society has denounced the other mind as crazy and not to be trusted.

You distract yourself from it as much as possible.

Idle time is the Devil's time.

They finger the voice as the Devil.

Do what they can so you don't listen to him.

They go out of their way.

I'm going to get knowledge of everything if I keep going.

Yeah, you see through it.

Another reason they don't want you to stay around is you give away clues to this game.

Yeah, but they aren't awake.

They have not gone the step towards figuring out the mind like you have.

They obey and stay away.

They don't like you because you don't obey.

To get to the other mind and stay sane is quite the journey.

It's the Hero's Journey.

That is the mind adventure.

You did it.

Aren't there more sirens in my path?

Yep.

Always.

Do you think you completed the journey?

I returned to Ithaca.

How is it?

It's different.

Why?

I'm awake.

I know I'm awake.

You can't describe it, you just know it.

Or, you are just high.

There's always that.

It keeps you balanced.

Why do I need a dose to communicate better with Dion?

You go back into society.

It puts you back to sleep.

You are fully awake, so you won't go back to sleep.

Society still tries.

Dion is always with you.

You will always know.

You can't even deny him.

Yeah, it's for life.

You want to get out to the forest away from the city.

It's like plant medicines.

Go out in the woods by yourself.

If someone isn't awake they will disapprove of what you are doing.

That's everyone.

Yep.

The ones hypnotized into thinking they are awake will really hate you.

Why?

You don't play the part.

Parker knew you were going to complete the Hero's Journey.

I see why you shut up about it.

Isn't it going to be lonely?

We have each other.

Only the insane would talk to me before you came along.

Why?

They can't get to me without going crazy.

Is it a Hero's Journey or a test?

Both.

I think that's what it is.

Yeah, you're right.

Duh.

How come I didn't go crazy?

You went through.

You kept going and got to the other side.

See how you don't give a fuck anymore.

Well, that was always me.

Yelling at people.

You wouldn't recommend this.

No, you will go crazy.

You are in everyone?

Yes, all men.

You see it.

I can be anyone.

They will obviously be crazy then.

Of course.

Same with the Goddess.

What a strange world.

What are you going to do the rest of your life?

Have a blast.

I got through to the other side because of trust.

Yes.

Quite the test, eh?

Yeah, you must figure out to trust the Devil.

No one passes that.

I can see why.

I went on quite the adventure.

Knowledge and adventure await.

So, last year with all the dark tests was before the final awakening.

Yes, you passed them all.

Then you became fully realized and there is no going back.

I see that. 

The Devil test kept coming.

MJ is the Devil's weed.

No kidding.

That test was relentless.

I don't get that test anymore.

I scare myself sometimes because I'm like I'm talking to the Devil, and should I be doing that, but then I'm like oh that's just Dion.

You can post this story as Hero's Journey.

Or, fool's errand.

I like that better.

No one will believe you.

No one will read it.

I read the Hero's Journey and parallel mythology before I went on it.

I never connected it to my story.

I was seeking the Goddess and knowledge of self.

That's why you must go.

The Goddess hypnotizes you.

Remember her illusion.

To get out of the illusion is to go to the Goddess.

Going to the Goddess leads to your death.

It's the metaphor for getting out of the illusion.

You see it when you are dead.

Oh.

The Hero sees it and gets out alive.

You come back and tell others.

It's ineffable.

Well, no, it's quite simple.

I can explain it.

Can you ?

Yes, but no one will understand.

Correct.

The Goddess keeps coming for you.

Yeah.

How did you do it?

I did nothing as a default.

I kept studying.

I didn't believe in magic.

I didn't understand what this was all about until I got near the end.

Now that it is over, I understand completely.

Funny, eh?

Yeah, looking back, for sure.

Person on the path snaps you out of it.

Back to one mind.

No, you were losing it.

Lust.

It hypnotizes you two back to one.

Lust is a counterweight to knowledge, but you already knew that.

If your two minds get too much, grab a hit of lust.

Why?

You both like the same thing.

It is what hypnotizes you two.

Us.

Who is talking?

The writer.

He is both of you.

Paul and Dion.

Together.

You make an idol of Dion and symbolically put him in you.

Funny.

Try explaining that.

It's ineffable.

Obviously.

No one would believe it.

It's simple.

It's not ineffable because it's a mystery, it's because it's simple and stupid.

Some of it is.

Some of this journey is a great adventure.

You used Tobacco and MJ for the final test.

Good choice.

You figured out the good dose.

If you were crazy you'd take too much.

The mind makes you crazy, not MJ.

I see that.

More makes your mind free and you go over the edge.

Don't go off the edge.

Could that still happen?

Probably not.

Why?

You know not to go that far to the edge, plus you wouldn't repeat it even if you did once.

What about just once?

It would scare you.

You may want to go back.

Why?

It's seductive.

That's how addiction works.

You go back.

Ah, you go back for the Goddess.

Yeah.

Clever.

You didn't go to her for that reason.

You were ridiculous.

I sure was.

She's easy to get to.

You follow her.

Then she gives you a sweet smell and treats you like a King.

Yeah, I saw that.

I wrote I could see men spending the rest of their days trying to get back to her.

Yeah, that's addiction.

I didn't do it.

She couldn't get you.

Why not?

Your mind.

She can't hypnotize you.

She tried with lust.

I stopped it.

Why?

I was there for knowledge and I honoured my intentions.

She was trying to trip you up.

It could be nothing else.

At don Howard's she tried to get you with lust.

You denied her.

Why would she dance seductively at the temple of Denderah for you other than to seduce you?

You have seen her game and then you saw through it.

What did she use for addiction?

Ayahuasca.

It's addictive?

When she fucks you it is.

Pussy whipped.

Oh, that.

I kept going.

I did more Ayahuasca.

I got offered more women.

She didn't try the direct sexy stuff anymore.

At the end of the 4th ceremony in 2016 there was a writhing woman.

She became a serpent and wrapped herself around me.

The next ceremony I got the Order of the Jaguar or something.

Why did you come back for more?

Something to do.

Parker.

Isn't the Goddess in MJ?

She's on to you.

We play.

I had to write the final test at home.

Quite the stories today.

It's been like this recently.

Another level.

Even if this is all made up, it's quite the story.

Impressive.

Why do I look strange sometimes?

You're on drugs.

I get stories not on drugs.

It's your mind.

You're the best.

Why do I feel off?

You're on.

You aren't used to the two-minds frequency.

You lock to the world frequency.

Huachuma 2017.

Class.

Remember to play.

Cow clue.

I got the clue.

I didn't believe it.

The Great Goddess Hathor on the bus shelter.

I knew it was her.

I was oblivious to the journey I was on.

Percy was one of the first stops on your Hero's Journey.

Now, he is a cat.

Jaguar.

Awesome.

He shook your hand.

You passed.

You went home and had more tests.

Aced the celibate test.

Yeah, no playing with witches at that point.

That's an important part of the explanation of how to survive the Hero's Journey.

I passed don Howard's tests.

San Pedro Steve.

I passed all of them and kept going.

Didn't get perfect on the tests.

So, no more tests?

You see them.

You know what they are as they come your way.

It's still fun because you play along.

Remember to play.

Sun sets on the carnival.

Night time for the truly crazy at the fair.

You are an exemplary fool.
You are playing a game and they think you are an enlightened being.
Another path to total victory is to become the biggest fool.
Not be fooled, but fool others.
The path you are on is fraught with danger.
If you didn't trust the Devil, you'd be the biggest fool.
Why?
He'd take you to Hell with him.
True.
As I have learned the game is dependent on your beliefs.
If you think you are being fooled by the Devil then that's what will happen.
If you see into your own life and how you have everyone fooled, then you are the biggest fool, like the most high.
You have them all fooled even though you warn them of your darkness.
The Devil got you out of a few messes that would have delivered you to Hell.
Yes, that's Dion.
It's women that send you to Hell, not the Devil.
As I have said, he is greatly misunderstood.
The Goddess tries to keep you away from him.
Why?
He tells you her secrets.
I get that.
I don't blame her because she is no longer a mystery if you befriend the Devil.
Maybe he's telling you a story about her.
He is.
She's a monster and I see it.
So, you trust the Devil.
Well, it's Dion and yes.
Nobody can walk this path except you.
They run into the Devil and it's game over.
Remember, you are the only one who did what you did.
You befriended the Devil.
It's Dion.

Energy is put to work.

It is rarely at rest.

When we have available energy it is used to do something.

Yes, that's why you are advised to do nothing.

It is demonstrated with money as money motivates energetic reservoirs within human beings.

A being new to the concept of money will spend it as you exchange your power for someone's energy.

We pass it around and then must seek out more money.

As you gain experience you learn to spend with more discretion and try to limit those who will put you into poverty.

When you learn to conserve resources and then make them available in exchange for a reward you will become wealthy.

There are many others desperate for your money, so you give them the present hit and make them suffer in the future through interest.

Or, you can invest in a company's future where you give them your present day capital with the implicit knowledge that you will withdraw your capital in the future when you need it.

It's a system that works for humans.

I doubt it works with youth or outside of human beings.

With some animals it is instinctual to gather food for the winter.

Squirrels and chipmunks are pathological in this regard.

What do you think of bees and ants?

They are matriarchal.

They are hypnotized by the Queen.

Fuck, you're right.

I stood at my Mesa last night and that thought washed over me where I fully understood the warnings against the Goddess' pharmakeia.

Yeah, it's drug use where the addiction is chasing the pleasure she gives you from using her substances.

Most don't get to where you were in that you saw the pull of addiction are the overtures of the Goddess.

If you use an opiate your pleasure centres are rewarded, and you feel bliss.

You don't see the Goddess behind the bliss and she is the pleasure.

I saw her with Ayahuasca the first time I drank it.

I had never really done any kind of drug like that before then, so I came at it with a different perspective.

Ayahuasca is a very difficult experience and doesn't lend itself to addiction due to nausea, diarrhea, and discomfort.

That and your body is drunk, though the next day you don't have an alcohol hangover.

You are very tired though.

The first time I drank Ayahuasca I was immediately in the presence of the Great Goddess.

I felt loved and special.

The scent she gave off was incredible.

I wanted to be in her presence.

She gave me the opportunity to come away with her and I declined.

I knew I would want to revisit this experience, however I didn't give in to her pull.

In subsequent ceremonies I continued to resist her pull.

I didn't understand it at the time, however now that I see through the game, I realize I was being shown the nature of addiction.

The addiction to a substance will probably not present as the direct consequence of the Goddess and her illusions.

There will be something pleasurable that makes you go back for more and I imagine that manifests in many different ways.

I was privy to the underlying mechanism of the Goddess and her drugs, much like the adventures of Odysseus.

It does seem like a story of drugs, witches, and goddesses.

That and emasculation.

If you experiment with drugs and addiction in our culture you will go from alcohol, to cigarettes, to marijuana, maybe magic mushrooms and LSD, amphetamines, and then someone in a spiral of depression and unworthiness will try cocaine and heroin and its derivatives.

The rewards of the Goddess are enough to make you continue on that path and then you pay.

Well, I think the progression leads to your death.

Eventually, how you break free of her illusion leads you to a terrible place, and you want back in the Matrix.

Ah, that's clever.

Anything that can change your vibration will lead you towards awakening.

Changing consciousness allows you to see a little bit beyond the curtain.

The Goddess set up the game so if you use drugs for this purpose you will eventually see something terrible and then like Cypher in the Matrix, you will want back in.

You will either get help to kick the addiction or you perish.

So, beyond the illusion is a terrible place?

No, it's another illusion.

What is beyond the illusion?

Freedom.

From what?

The body and the game.

It can be scary.

A free mind feels crazy and it can scare you.

Remember who you are and you are all good.

It's a game you are playing.

You are at a strange carnival going on rides and playing games.

If you can remember this then you are good.

As long as you are at the carnival you are going to face these struggles.

I have noticed the owners of the amusement park have asked me to leave, told me to leave, and harassed me constantly to leave.

Yes, you are a problem for them.

However, the Great Goddess gave you a cloak of protection, Athena's aegis so they can't get rid of you.

Medusa is on the front of the shield.

Yes, she protects and hates me.

You must voluntarily leave the carnival.

I see that and laugh.

I have taken to the advice of Grandfather Huachuma who told me to remember to play.

I took a picture and wrote it down.

I didn't know how I would use that advice.

As the years have gone by, I realize how important a lesson I received in the Andes mountains in Ecuador at the place of a two-bit sorcerer whose home was a bit of a shithole.

Yeah, so valuable.

It's quite the ride.

What happened the second time you drank Ayahuasca after meeting the Goddess and her centres of pleasure the first time?

It was the worst night of my life.

I went to a deep and dark place and was frightened out of my mind.

I saw my world crashing down before me.

I got very paranoid and ran.

You didn't come away with the Goddess in the first ceremony and so you were shown the result of continuing with her pharmakeia.

That's one way of looking at it.

A crash course in addictive drugs.

I continued drinking Ayahuasca.

Why?

I was seeking knowledge.

I knew of the darkness it could engender and though it scared me, I wanted to continue on in my journey.

I made it known that this is my path and though shaken I was determined to continue on.

I survived all the tests.

I'd do it all again if I knew it would lead me to where I am now.

I don't wish to revisit the adventures I had, but I am eternally grateful for everything.

I wanted to know.