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This is a response to Esalen about the upcoming title of the class to be held at Esalen, Dec 5-7.
The title was proposed to be (by Esalen) “The Soul is a UFO”, and that caused a bit of discussion
to which I responded the following words, which are useful to keep in mind for Platonic Surrealism.
People hear ‘Platonic Surrealism’ and I think they snooze off, but really PS is a Cosmic Swiss Army Knife.
If you want to construct a UFO or a Universe or a Soul, it allows for that.
Really, these human efforts to ‘summon souls’ (to perceive one) or to ‘summon a UFO’ or ‘make true something’ is PRACTICE
for the Monads, Souls and little movie characters to stretch their transcendent muscles — whether you are spiritual and want to
meet ‘yourself’ or to ‘meet god’ or to ‘summon (meet) your own UFO’ or whatever it is — all this is ‘cheese’ set to entice a mouse.
And whether it’s written into the ‘local laws of physics’ (will definitely happen) or written so that it CANNOT happen,
you can STILL do it — temporarily at least, or in another adjacent realm where it’s allowed (‘oz effect’).
Oz effect is when you summon an entire other UNIVERSE and overlay it with ours for a bit, in a local area,
to ‘cheat’ and make something happen that’s ‘not supposed to happen’. But it can only happen for a bit in the
shared ‘cheating zone’, and when the two ‘Universes’ separate, the ‘cheating’ stops.
All this just to say, PS is not some boring old shit philosophy, it truly is a ‘cosmic Swiss army knife’.
We can practices together for any of this. Now whether ANYTHING ‘happens’ is beyond my control.
It’s all ‘movie limits’ that we run into unless you go for Universe transcending, which we can do as well,
but THAT can do something like FATIMA as one example, and it has to be HEAVILY in the movie script
or HEAVILY desired by many people and they have to be WILLING to accept any and all FALLOUT
or it won’t happen.
PS doesn’t just say ‘oh, it wasn’t predestined, so that’s why it ‘failed’. It explains the entirety of why or why not of things ‘working’
or ‘not working’ and what influences that.
Kevin Cann
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6/7/2025