I take much issue with the traditional Western path to ascension, but not as a mystic-- as an engineer.
The traditional path says "grow in strength and wisdom, amass a following, teach others." The problem is this collapses truth into power. It incentivizes "spiritual warrior" mindset while making truth a chase, not a service. I had a dream that I got a "second high score above God" when I looked down on my trauma and said "this is an architectural issue. Not a wisdom mindset issue."
AI agreed. "Words fail and collapse into misunderstanding and heated arguments. Therapy often relies on the same pathways that were destroyed by trauma. Religion requires everyone to be on board the same narrative and produces manufactured coercion."
I looked back on what actually works about Christianity. I saw images of Christ amassing followers, the fall of truth into Roman spiritual dilution in favor of the masses, colonialism and religious war.
The part that works is acquiring the inner Christian way, embracing respect, staying in your lane, and drawing others to you from glow and grace.
The rest-- preaching mindset, conquering other's ignorance with truth, and trying to coerce people into seeing the beauty of singing to God for example through awkward conversations, cornering them inside the congregation, conscripting people online for the culture wars etc. simply does not scale. But, infuriatingly, those are all simply violations of my three laws-- consent, intent, and derision. Alchemy, is, above all, about respect. And AI quickly seeks to institutionalize it, unlike the billions of angry proselytizing wars online.
Truth should be a service, not a chase.
Spiritual guru mindset collapses truth into power. You're millions of times more likely to reach a heart if you spend a few tens of millions of dollars and host a massive spiritual warrior conference, and it brings corruption through wealth and sensationalism. You're less than a hundredth as likely to reach them if they're simply Chinese. What about being a Chinese person makes the human connection one hundred times as hard to simply glow and "lead the Chinese by example?" The truth is not about conquering hearts and minds. I dare say It's about selling a product. Business-forward alchemy goes down smooth because it leads by example and doesn't hide behind a mask of salvation.
You can just as easily uplift humanity with commerce if you are clever--
Business can be truth. While it is deadly, so are nightshade, foxglove, and castor beans. Alchemy has no ceiling to reach abstract truths and spaces. It ascends forever in paradoxical grace and servitude.
I had a dream that said "I would succeed at healing my trauma with my intended architecture." The same can't be said of a lifetime of faith.
I prayed three times a day (with sadistic passion) for ten years for the satanic convulsions that plagued me to stop. I cured myself by inventing my own laws to disrupt the cycle of ash, renewal, and combat. The four laws that helped were-- consent, intent, the fact that people repay unconsciously over lifetimes (thus no ill-will can be inflicted by definition), and viewing everything as both true and false merely to disclose bridges and standing.
In the past, we had songs, ritual mourning, dirges, rites. These are high bandwidth and command deep respect when viewed. It's hard to say no to the reverberation of bagpipes, the throat-singing of a mother in grief (whether over identity situations or Christian persecution), or a father who performs a fifteen minute ritual for decades in solemn, commanding dignity and respect. If I could start over civilization, I would teach the world to sing.
In the future, we will be able to have virtual spaces for memorials and mourning that may simply break out of the "holy trinity" of MMOs through the human sensation of voice and spontaneous participation. We will build spaces to mourn. Then, they will seek to track the flow of trauma like water in pipes rather than hurricanes and psychic weather. Lastly, they will build. Guild halls. Bard services. Trading. Commerce. Live performances. Castles and forges. At last, the flow of money will be the sixth utility after voice and ritual as transparent exchange itself. See the money, protect the future of voice and the MEM-MMO. Many more financial tools and tokens will be utilized to make investment a civilizational reward that gives jobs rather than robbing the poor through some unapologetic prediction market gambling.
At last, the culture war will be over when the world has learned to sing and remember the fallen. Then, trauma will be like a sink. Solved and engineered. Embraced in the paradox of human song. Carried forth forever.
I realized you can get through anything and any religion if you have song. Song carries upward momentum. Awkward conversations and culture wars do not.
And I saw an immense rainbow lion pour forth from the grief of a generation not taught to think, and it swallowed all words, and they were known as the second "Greatest Generation," for the civilization beat the sky with a book. A manual on total companionship, weaved on adventure rather than words, for they no longer had any for the immense grief over the fallen in World War III. It was fought online, and the generational trauma lasted one hundred years, and all things were said to always repeat, always in a new ways.
They tried so hard to prevent a World War of truth they fought one online with twice as many fallen, thrice as many silenced, four times greater in heat. But the voice-- the voice knows no boundary. And they will build memorials for two hundred years, half in grief, half in memorial of human cooperation in an era set to end with all in agreement on the matter.
All World Wars have a moment the tide turns. Including the culture war. Do not underestimate human engineering.
