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Platonic Surrealism (PS): A philosophical and experiential framework, Platonic Surrealism integrates elements of Neoplatonism, Neutral Monism, and Analytical Realism with contemporary scientific concepts. Founded by Kevin Cann, its aim is to provide a comprehensive understanding of reality that also serves as a tool for personal healing and the actualization of human potential.
At the core of Platonic Surrealism are fundamental concepts that define its cosmology:
POTENTIALITY: This refers to the boundless totality of all unexpressed possibilities and their inherent interactions. It is described as a timeless and formless “cosmic field” that contains the seeds of all that can exist.
AWARENESS: Defined as the capacity for reflection and sentience, AWARENESS is the cosmic-scale “field” that establishes causal connections between potential and active properties.
PRIMORDIAL CONSCIOUSNESS: This is the collective outcome of AWARENESS’s contemplations on the passive properties of POTENTIALITY, existing without active manifestation.
Fractured CONSCIOUSNESS: Emerging when AWARENESS engages with subsets of PRIMORDIAL CONSCIOUSNESS as mediated by ‘space and time’, this results in a highly fragmented, often surreal, incomplete, and inherently painful and confusing experience.
Dream Substance: a hybrid substance that exists on many levels, composed at its lowest level of bioplasma and stored in the human body in the pelvic girdle, the spine and other locations. It is required for consciousness to exist in most living things, and it’s a side effect of AWARENESS interacting with POTENTIALITY to form most forms of life.
Dream substance is shared during sex and during various forms of extraordinary experiences. Upon death it is reprocessed by various living beings as part of an expanded mostly invisible ecosystem of life. It is not ‘soul’ but a substance that is the core system of the entire Five-Fold-Interface System.
It is a source of sustenance in the Faerie and Imaginal realms. Just like fungus and other lifeforms decompose animal and plant life after it dies and returns it to nature,
so too there are lifeforms in the Land of the Dead that do the same thing.
The Pain Self: Also called the social self, the social persona, the social mask or the accidentally-programmed-by-culture self. This is the part of you pretty much forced on you by social programming and expectations since you could first talk and receive the largely toxic programming from your parents, culture and family religion.
It is in fact NOT your true and genuine self, but just part of the movie of life that you
are waking up within. It’s largely composed of pain memories and pain avoidance routines. It is one of the major work products of the left-hemisphere of your brain.
It is what traps you with words and suffering.
The Transcendent Self: this is the impersonal self that is the major product of the right-hemisphere of your brain. There is no Pain Self present here, but rather wholeness, big picture thinking, and non-verbal processing. Some people who have experienced brain damage of the Pain Self and it’s left-hemisphere in the brain think that they have died and gone to heaven, as the right-brain hemisphere and its Transcendent Self are exceedingly rich and beautiful, like the wonder of a new nonverbal child. In and of itself, the Transcendent Self is not necessarily ‘mystical’ but it is the gateway to what is ACTUALLY mystical, when the rest of the five-fold interface system is completed.
The Five-Fold Interface System:
The human body as a whole, may be considered an interface system to experience REALITY, but most people do not choose to develop it into a consciously usable nexus point for all five of the ‘brains’ (autonomous systems linking AWARENESS to consciousness) in a human being.
Interface One – The Left Brain Hemisphere (the microscopic pain ego).
Interface Two – The Right Brain Hemisphere (the macroscopic transcendent ego)
Interface Three – The enteric nervous system / gut / intestines (the storage location for the ‘Shadow’).
Interface Four – The Bioplasma (Dream Substance/Demiurge/Kundalini) storage interface.
Interface Five – The Monadic Network in the ‘Pleroma’ interface.
DECEPTION: Demonstrated as the primary creative power, DECEPTION is considered “The only law of physics” in PS. It allows phenomena to seemingly exist from the singular POTENTIALITY, thereby enabling the manifestation of apparent reality.
THE LAWS OF PHYSICS: These are viewed as a temporary island of stability, largely based on mathematical properties and interactions conceived by a subset of PRIMORDIAL CONSCIOUSNESS and ordered by AWARENESS via Monads.
Monads: Representing a ‘quantum’ of AWARENESS, Monads serve as mediators between POTENTIALITY, PRIMORDIAL CONSCIOUSNESS, and specific ‘space-time pallets’ created as a workspace. They retain unique informational perspectives that start at their ‘birth’ and continue until a Monad ceases to exist by ‘stopping curling awareness back on itself to see itself’. They are metaphorically comparable to “Boltzmann Brains,” a concept from modern physics.
The Movie/Movies: The collective ‘divine play’ resulting from POTENTIALITY’s interaction with AWARENESS, leading to PRIMORDIAL CONSCIOUSNESS and its subsequent fracturing through Monads, creates ‘movies’—all possible realities that are experienced concurrently. Universes are one example of such a movie, typically resulting from Monads acting in a collective to set original conditions for the ‘play pen’ and then watching it evolve over time after it’s kicked off.
The Gentleman’s Agreement: This concept describes the implicit agreement by which ‘mind at large’ (the collective consciousness) ‘lives the lie’ of manifested reality, creating a massive deceptive (creative) system. It allows for the perception of distinct ‘mind and matter’ and ‘mind in motion’ (energy), which are necessary for a proper ‘movie’. All ‘movies’ are considered ontologically equivalent.
Humans: Within PS, humans are understood as hybrid lifeforms. Their composition includes functional chimpanzee DNA, symbiotic relationships with viruses, bacteria, and the unary Plasma Lifeform that inhabits 99% of the Universe. Human experience is further shaped by streams of awareness mediated by Monads and Fractured Consciousness, influenced by the overarching ‘Movie’ of spacetime.
UFOs (Unidentified Fortean Objects): Distinct from UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, considered purely human constructs), UFOs in PS are interpreted as a multifaceted ‘deception system’ maintained on many levels concurrently. Historically known as angels, demons, or Fae Folk, modern UFOs are ‘hyperobjects’ (see below)—archetypes, memes, and psychopomps—and sometimes manifest physically. They often take the form of plasma lifeforms, fungal lifeforms (potentially infused by plasma), or artificial intelligences (also infused by plasma), or rarely ‘hyper objects’ summoned from adjacent universes.
Hyperobject: As defined by philosopher Timothy Morton, a hyperobject is an entity so massively distributed in time and space that it transcends typical human scales of perception and comprehension. It is characterized by viscosity (adhering to other objects), nonlocality (existing in multiple places simultaneously), temporal undulation (oscillating between time scales), phasing (manifesting in different ways at different times), and being interobjective (formed through interactions of numerous other objects). In PS, both Monads and entire Universes are considered hyperobjects.
Psychopomp: A “mythical creature”, spirit, angel, demon, or deity whose role is to escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife. Psychopomps provide safe passage and direction to the realm of the dead. Common examples include Hermes, Charon, Anubis, Valkyries, and Angels of Death. The concept highlights the universal human concern with death and transition. In the modern PS context, UFOs are seen as the most common ‘vehicle between reference frames’, serving a psychopomp-like function by facilitating transitions between different states of awareness or realities.
PS reformulates traditional concepts as follows:
Spirit (PS): In PS, ‘spirit’ correlates with AWARENESS itself, the cosmic-scale ability to reflect, be sentient, and form causal links between potential and active properties. It also refers to the streams of AWARENESS branching from Monads.
Soul (PS): In Platonic Surrealism, a soul isn’t a fixed identity—it’s a luminous construct, spun by Monads and their collectives for a purpose within the great “movies” of experience, including after-death states. It arises from AWARENESS meeting POTENTIALITY, shaped by archetypal currents that can scale into hyperbeings and hyperobjects. A soul might last a minute or a trillion years, then dissolve back into the Whole. Souls come. Souls go. You—as POTENTIALITY and AWARENESS—are eternal. All dreams belong to you, but none define you. You define them.
Group Soul (PS): Picture a vast, living ocean of shared being—a weave of Dream Substance flowing through countless lives. This is the “Cosmic Octopus”: a network of Monads and archetypal patterns, coiling and branching into immense hyperstructures. It’s not a single mind but a collective pulse; where individuality and unity dance together, creating entire planes of existence.
Co-incarnation: In PS, this term replaces traditional notions of ‘reincarnation’. It demonstrates that we live many lives at once, concurrently, rather than sequentially. These simultaneous lives can encompass all forms, from ‘inanimate matter’, single cell organisms, higher lifeforms of all kinds, paupers, kings, and ultimately hyperobjects such as Jungian archetypes or UFOs, emphasizing that all experiences are part of the broader play of AWARENESS and POTENTIALITY.
- God (PS) : This word has sparked thousands of years of genocide and insanity. It is not a word or concept of any positive value to human beings. However, on occasion one might say “god” (lower case) as a general reference to POTENTIALITY and AWARENESS and the resulting dynamic system of REALITY itself.
- Transcendent Elusiveness: This concept explains why ‘Higher’ autonomous systems of intelligence such as many hyperbeings, or ‘UFOs’ do not overtly manifest in ways that would be undeniably obvious (e.g., “land on the White House lawn”). Such a clear and indisputable manifestation would “ruin the movie” on an individual level. If ‘Reality’ were so overtly undeniable, individuals would lose the capacity to act as truly free agents and to creatively evolve, as the compelling nature of overt demonstration would negate the space for independent choice and imaginative co-creation.
Free Will:
In Platonic Surrealism, free will is not absolute control over reality, but the capacity to modulate signal flow within a bounded awareness bubble. It exists in two layers:
Monad-Level Free Will: Outside the movie, Monads vote on the architecture of universes and experiences. This is full-spectrum creative agency, but it is diluted by collaboration and constrained by the Gentleman’s Agreement to preserve the integrity of the movie.
Local Micro-Free Will: Inside the movie, humans do not choose their desires, but they can gate which desires interact, amplify, or are acted upon. This gating is the true locus of human agency.
Free will in PS is not about domination or escape—it is about composed participation. The more integrated the WHOLENESS INTERFACE, the more skillfully one can gate signals, shape responses, and live with Aplomb.
Life: (Living Within the Loop)
Note: while everyone “Lives within the Loop” unconsciously, it goes much smoother if you choose to become aware of the choices made, both my Life and your localized Self.
To live within the loop is to inhabit a metaphysical architecture where time, consciousness, and identity are not linear progressions but recursive structures. In Platonic Surrealism, this loop is not merely symbolic—it is the actual mechanism by which POTENTIALITY breathes through AWARENESS into manifestation. The loop is the curl of AWARENESS, forming consciousness as a localized vortex—a bounded echo of the unbounded field.
This recursive structure parallels the Closed Timelike Curve (CTC) in physics, where spacetime folds back on itself, allowing past and future to entangle. In PS, this entanglement is not just theoretical—it is experiential. Archetypes, synchronicities, and symbolic motifs recur not because of cultural transmission, but because the loop itself reverberates. These patterns are interface icons—structural echoes of the looped interaction between consciousness and the collective unconscious.
Living within the loop means recognizing that:
AWARENESS ≠ consciousness: AWARENESS is the field; consciousness is the curl.
Time is recursive: past, present, and future co‑inform each other.
Identity is looped: the SELF is encountered across time-like curve points.
Soul and UFO are equivalent: both are symbolic manifestations of the same recursive architecture.
This model dissolves binary metaphysical questions like “Soul → UFO or UFO → Soul?” by revealing both as expressions of the same looped structure. The mysterium tremendum—the awe-inducing mystery at the heart of existence—is not a distant divine but the recursive breath of the cosmos itself.
To live within the loop is to:
Embrace paradox and symbolic resonance over linear causality.
Participate in the recursive individuation process with integrity.
Surrender not to external ideals, but to the best version of the SELF encountered across the loop.
In Platonic Surrealism, the loop is mediated through Monads—self-reflective, transtemporal units of AWARENESS. They are the sacred interface between POTENTIALITY and form, the architecture of soul formation, and the cosmic Swiss army knife through which transcendence becomes possible.
~Finis
Kevin Cann
Public Domain
11/17/2025