Dear John,
Ever since you came out of the closet about Hermes - well, not ever since. I guess I owe you some feedback about the After Socrates series. Short version of that is to do it again with a class in front of you, even if they’re never on camera.
Anyway, ever since a dissociated self disrupted your internal family system by announcing its existence and I found out about it, I’ve wanted to talk to it more than you. As an aside, how would a clinician apply the relevance realization model with a patient presenting with that concern?
This morning it was different, I wanted to talk to you. I’m still busking over on YouTube and occasionally will get fresh appreciation for our conversation (and I think there’s even a clip of it coming round in the next ‘Reaper’s Harvest’ - where we do a little version of show & tell called the Beholder Project, and a ‘Reaper’ is a person participating by making a clip and putting the link in a specific room on a Discord).
I ended up seeing the clip where our diaglossaliaogos associates the Default Mode Network and the Daemonium. I don’t think you got as much out of that association as it potentiates, and I essentially wanted to tweet that to you. Me being me, we ended up here instead. We’ll call it my ‘Dawkins-Hirschi-Ali’ (sp).
This image is what the AI-art Slave Bots over at NightCafe kicked out when I seeded it with a numeration of yesterday’s date and the phrase “Room of Requirement”. I dunno if you were ever ‘Star Trek’d’ back in the day, but there’s an episode where Picard ends up on a planet having to communicate with a fella from a species that uses myth-references as language. It’s filed in my mind under ‘Darmok at Tenagra’(sp).
Using the principle that mythologic consumption of popular stories functions similarly, I lean into popculture subtribes to facilitate an understanding of projects. The Room of Requirement is a tie in to the Harry Potter series, as even you should know the depth of its memetic penetration. They made it news that people were standing in line for a book they way they do for an IPhone, after all.
The setting for the Harry Potter series was a Corrupt School in a Corrupt World, and the Room of Requirement was a magical place the students ended up coming together and learning what they needed to know to survive in such a world, Defense Against the Dark Arts. That’s what I’m doing in my little Pentagon in This Little Corner.
Turns out, I’m not making enough ‘Internet Busker’ skill checks to pay the bills yet, though. Pagaeu’s been leaning into selling ‘online courses’ and we’ve started hammering out a syllabus in the Broken Cl0ck Tower Discord.
In remembering our Default Mode Daemonium insight, it occurred to me there’s probably a definable group of practices that specifically alter the performance of the Default Mode Network, and that I could gather a bunch of yahoos and work through those practices as a video series ‘Shaping Your Daemonium’.
Remembering also that our hearts have been less than a foot apart, and that you had your name on a Foundation (totally can’t find the Rockefeller connections anymore, btw), maybe all this would be worth bringing up to you.
Someone from the Foundation did meet with me once, I’m sure I already have a file.
With Love,
Grizwald Grim, Synchrony Harmonicist
Grim, love the idea of a group of yahoos working together on developing a course. Seeing as how two of your three Ortho Lent sacrifices have already fallen by the wayside, I wanted to write to encourage you to hang tough on the third. Vidya games have consumed a not inconsequential portion of my lifetime attention. I finally gave them up a couple years ago as I approached 50. I now regard them as I imagine an AA member with a 5yr chip regards a glass of whiskey. They were a huge part of my life. The relationships I had there felt real. I still remember and dream about some of the maps as if they were/are real places. The desire to play ever newer games led to an interest in building and upgrading ever more powerful computers, an interest which benefited me tremendously in my professional life. That all seems/seemed positive at the time, but I’m embarrassed now when I think about all the thousands of hours of my attention that were consumed by the pursuit of games. Hours that would have been more profitably spent on my wife and kids, or my own religious education. I have three sons. They are all gamers. We even used to play together sometimes. They try to get me back online, but I really do have to treat it like an addiction. I know I would fall right back in head first. I judge no one, because I know I’m the worst. Maybe it’s not that big of a deal in your life. Take this Lent period to think about it and be honest with yourself. You are doing important, if not yet profitable work on your YT channel. Maybe spend more time and attention there. Speaking of, I’ve finally overcome my distaste for Google/YT and tried to become a channel member or yours, but I couldn’t figure it out. Paul’s channel has a big “Join” button right on the channel home page. Yours just has a “Store” button. What am I missing?