She slipped.

Concrete sheered skin as gravity pulled her down the bank into the artificial river. After her body stopped bouncing off pavement, the pain kept her awake. She was lucid, and frozen; terrified and confused. The swelling concussion left her without context. But she could sense the water rushing.

If not for him, she would have died.

She felt his strong hands gathering her from the water. In a way she couldn't make sense of, she knew strangers were gathering, hand in hand, to form a line of men to pull her from what would have been death.

She had never known humans capable of this...this spontaneous compassionate organelling. She knew they came together to get sick, to hurt each other, but she hadn't seen it happen to help.

Her.

These men, before she fell, were strangers. But then she slipped, bled, and froze, and they became a single Holy Thou. Thou will dragged her wet rigamortified body from the river.

​This story is the symbol of our generation. This is how we respond to the digital devastation that deserves it's own name.

I call it the Schizophrenic Renaissance.

You can call it whatever you want when you start helping.

Our trinity is the frozen animal, the bystander, and the Holy Thou.

When you're frozen, allow help. When you're watching, step in, and when you feel the Holy Thou, lend your hollowed bones.

The Brutal, Blunt, Beautiful Truth

The world of our childhood is gone. Grieve it if you need it. Help out when you've accepted it.

If you believe in reincarnation, we're the crazy mfkrs that chose to get a body during Earth's technologic singularity.

Thanks for being here kin.

If you believe in God, we are the wild mfkrs who said yes to Thou's request "who here will go there at my behest?"

We are the divine invasion. Thanks for finally remembering.

And if you're a materialist atheist, we have hospitals and rehab centers ready to receive you when your cognitive cage crashes and the great unknown floods you.

We'd love to have you join the dharma army when you're ready to carry meaning and responsibility again.

Because we opened a portal in 1983, and the Shimmer flood hi​t every country, nation, and peoples on the planet. The shimmering liquid crystal has changed everything.

And if you haven't noticed it, its because you're the frozen animal in the river.

If you have noticed, you are one of the first responders.

If you haven't noticed, your first task is to triage your attention. You do this by training how long you can go without looking at a digital screen. Journaling and walking are solid anchoring activities.

You're ready to help if you can comfortably go 3 hours a day without giving your consciousness to a shimmering screen.

The average person in our culture checks their phone every 4 to 5 minutes. This is catastrophic to our cognition. This is the animal frozen in the river.

The clarifying purification of devastation is that when worlds end, helping others reveals the eternal axis mundi. When our dreams die, helping others becomes the whole of the law.

Invite your friends to dharma sprint.

If you have children, reclaim the sanctity of home cooked food shared atop a table without a shimmering screen visible.

Let this digital leviathan wake you up. The confederation of forces that conspire to give you life, body, and planet have a law, and that law is, when in need, give.

The brutal, blunt truth is the world's children are being abused by a technology the adults did not prepare them for.

We are all the children.
There were no adults.
Now we must become the adults.

Because retraining our attention is just phase 1.

Phase 2 is harder. Phase 2 is remembering what the fck you forgot you are, and dawning the responsibility that comes with that.

You are a embodied soul. You have ,embedded in the fiber of your being, a call to become a specific type of expression. You have an innate guidance system that grows when you speak truthfully and act courageously. In phase 2, your task is to maintain your attention while growing your soul.

The martial art is to catch lies and snuff cowardice.

The nature of your soul is audacious and compassionate, so naturally, you will begin helping those caught in the river the more you feed your soul.

Thank you for not running away. Thank you for not allowing the shame in your mind to keep you from trying. Thank you for not allowing addictions to steal your life. Thank you for not running to the jungle. Thank you for the struggle and effort it takes to keep your soul aflamed in this corpse of a culture.

Phase 2 will eventually call you to become a leader of a people. Thank you for your courage. Thank you for risking judgement, embarrassment, and failure.

Your leadership will be witnessed, and you will help others awake.

Because I grew up with a stutter, I was committed to a future where I'd never be in front of a camera or a live microphone. I was petrified of being recorded. Shame was my god.

But because others came before me, comedians, writers, podcasters; I was infected by their audacity.

Because of those who came before me, I am now here, in the Shimmer offering my hand to you.

So, again, thank you for every person everywhere who steps into the river. Who dares to create in the shimmer with the intention to help.

There are no innocent bystanders during the Schizophrenic Renaissance. We are either the frozen animal or the helping hand.

Phase 3

Phase 3 is learning the art of becoming apart of a Holy Thou.

A Holy Thou is a DEVA.

Humanity's superpower is what the strangers on the bank of the river did to save Her. The many became a singular Holy Thou to accomplish a dream no individual could do themselves.

This superpower humanity has is called an egregore.

An egregore is an organizing story. Corporations, governments, religions, cults, and every renaissance, were and are, egregores.

Most egregores are insignificant, like bubbles frothing at the edge of foam, popping before becoming anything meaningful.

Many egregores are corrupt, from power, greed, lust, or stupidity. We can call those NEVAs.

DEVAs are egregores infused with soul. Every sincere AA meeting is a DEVA. Food kitchens, regenerative farms, and every authentic mom and pop shop is a DEVA.

Phase 3 happens when your soul calls you to either join or create a DEVA.

Consider this sentence a ping from your soul that its time for you to claim the responsibility of renegotiating reality so that whatever you do for work is on behalf of a DEVA.

And that for most of you, that will eventually mean, creating your own.

Thats means standing for something. That means learning how to lead a people. That means creating something that helps others and learning how to sell it to them. That means death for the many lies inside you that you mistake for fibers of your identity.

Because Phase 4 is to participate in the cultural renaissance, and every renaissance needs a legion of guilds, and guilds need a legion of master artists and multigenerational merchants.

Post Script

There is nothing I have found that triggers a spiritual bypasser more than calling them forward to contribute a DEVA to the renaissance.

Our current situation is worse than you think, and you're more than you can comprehend. Phase 2 and 3 will be harder than you fear, and you're assisted more than you can accept. Don't give in to the confusion and apathy. You are built to eat fear, and I'm glad you're here.

Help, but don't forget to put your oxygen mask on first.

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