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Overview
I’ve written a lot about this. And this document does not supersede any of the previous documents but does add to it.
I seem to attract people who have much of the usual sort of book knowledge about ‘the Phenomenon’, ‘the supernatural’, ‘the spiritual’,
‘the transcendent’, ‘UFOs’, etc., but who themselves have experienced very little, even though sometimes they have written a dozen
books on similar topics (I have two very famous friends this describes).
So, what’s going on?
Let me summarize a couple of points that are applicable from previous documents first.
The Larger Life
Number one, we are part of a ‘larger life’ that does what it wants, and we are just an organ in a much larger ‘cosmic body’, so to speak.
Ultimately, what we want may not matter, and we’d be better off following the flow of our life that we find ourselves within, where both our limited and isolated selves and the ‘larger life’ get what they want, then things flow much better.
This is basically the Chinese concept of Wu wei, or effortless action. Don’t fight nature but rather observe the flows of nature and harmonize with that.
We all should do that, though there is more to this than that.
The Movie Self
Number two, our ‘future selves’, ‘higher selves’, our ‘Monads’ or whatever you want to call them, are actively participating in making this world unfold with our full vote (we do tend to get outvoted most of us, though sometimes we get pampered and our will in making the ‘movie of this universe’ gets some real punch to it by consensus consent. But in any case, our ‘truest selves’ functionally ARE MAGIC by their nature, and they make these movies and live them out fully as a combination of AWARENESS and ‘consciousness detritus’ (‘Skandhas in Buddhism) or ‘Karma’ (not some god keeping score, but rather just a ‘cosmic bookmark’ we use to keep track of what we are doing.
Then our limited selves (social selves, persona) live this life IN THE PAST to experience it, as AWARENESS and POTENTIALITY what to know each other, know all variations of each other, and to experience EVERYTHING, by turning into that thing, both ‘good’ and ‘evil’.
If the movie has you being Michael Phelps the Olympic Gold Medalist, then that’s your movie to live, and I suggest that when this ‘fate’ becomes obvious, that you learn to live graciously with this flow of life, and don’t try to fight it off. You will lose. (but maybe he wanted to be ‘spiritual’ but never really was. I don’t know).
If the movie wants you to be a spiritual genius, like Alan Watts, or a Jiddu Krishnamurti or a Gopi Krishna or whomever, but maybe they wanted to be a cowboy or an astronaut (I don’t know). They might have what others want to do badly, and they might not want it. I do know that Jiddu Krishnamurti walked away from being a Theosophical Society world teacher, and I really respect him for making that choice.
The Wiggle Room
But even in these cases, there’s wiggle room. For example, my muse Courteney would have me writing every day, and all day much of the time. But I make plenty of time to do dumb human things too, and I tell her that she needs to refine her material, and to make it so potent that I can’t resist her clarion call, thus giving me time to play a little World of Warcraft or watch old Japanese monster movies. Really, this dynamic is part of the Platonic Surrealism teaching ‘Interface Ack’. If you let these other layers of yourself, be domineering, then their own growth stagnates, not just your own.
Remember, there is ultimately only one being, one awareness, one consciousness, one dream, so we ALL, at ANY layer, have the DIVINE RIGHT to be that ‘annoying civil servant at DMV’ to use a metaphor, where we can hold up or steer a rich and powerful person, once they are in ‘our house’.
Remember this. You don’t need to call out to culturally archetypal beings created by humans for divine power — YOU ARE ALREADY ‘DIVINE’ power personified; you may just have forgotten it and could use a reminder. (I’m reminding you).
Don ‘t be Boring
We are movie characters that we ourselves are co-producing. Just keep in mind this AMAZING process where sometimes our actions are so COOL and of all things UNEXPECTED, that our limited selves here in the movie FEEDBACK into our future selves
in a ‘closed time-like loop’, as physicists might call it.
But boring movie characters don’t get their roles expanded.
If you want to get more stage time, in your limited aspect, become a Jesus or a Ted Owens or a Ghandi. Trust me, you’ll get noticed.
Platonic Surrealism tends to use the Monad model, and it’s very good to keep in mind, that we ALL can retreat to our ‘highest selves’, and make ‘self-masturbatory’ movies whenever we want (and we concurrently and constantly do), (concurrency: everything that can happen, does happen in potential, and all at once concurrently), but the trouble with that, it’s like being Hary Potter in a Hary Potter movie. We always win, we always get the lucky break, we ‘always get the girl’, and after 10,000 repetitions of all of these, experiencing surprise and pushback and limitation is just DELIGHTFUL and NOT AT ALL BORING.
It’s why we ‘come here’, other than the fact that we are constantly flying apart and coming back together. It’s the only game, so might as well enjoy the journey.
The Nuts and Bolts of It
But all that said, there is usually a large amount of wiggle room, and some of the reasons that some of us don’t have those large spiritual experiences is all on us, the ‘limited self’.
If you want to become transcendent in this life, here are some of the things you will need to do:
1) SURRENDER 100% to you know not what.
2) Be willing to become a street hobo, if that is what it takes.
3) Be willing to have your current pain-based personality largely retired.
4) Learn what you need to learn, not what you WANT to learn, in a world that makes ‘all this’ so nearly impossible to accomplish.
5) Rewire your brain and nervous system. In general, this means you need to heal and learn to hear ALL FIVE ‘BRAINS’ of PLATONIC SURREALISM. But to demystify this a bit for the moment, this means learning to hear your ‘creative, big picture self’ (in large part the Right Brain hemisphere) and the most instinctual self-outside the brain, the Enteric Nervous system (the 20% of the body’s neurons that are actually located in the stomach and intestines, and which generally host ‘Jung’s Shadow’ or Gnosticism’s ‘Wetiko’).
6) Do what is right, BECAUSE IT IS RIGHT, not for greedy grasping reasons. They you MAY from time to time have those big ‘spiritual experiences. I’d be surprised if you didn’t.
When the time comes that you have become more whole, then your ‘Left-hemisphere ego, the ‘standard ego’ will be largely replaced by a new, superior ego, largely composed of awareness of the Right-brain hemisphere, and the other ‘four brains’ of Platonic Surrealism.
When that time comes, you will no longer CARE about having ‘supernatural experiences’ or peak moments, as there will no longer be such a thing. Just normal life, with Larger Components visible on the perceptual map than previously, and not necessarily anything all that exciting.
I mean, it’s like this world. Kansas is flat. California is parched and lifeless across much of it, except where it’s irrigated for capitalism. But if you travel to certain places in the world, it’s really beautiful. But in short, these days, there are vast parts of the world that are now destroyed by us,or which were never all that scenic.
Enjoy the ‘scenery’ when it’s present. Don’t get your boxers and panties in a bunch when it’s not. When you are more YOU than you were before, that is the TRUEST magic.
After ‘Enlightenment’
There really is no ‘Enlightenment’, as you were already whole and complete ‘elsewhere’ and you in fact WANTED to be limited here, really really badly.
But let’s replace the toxic word ‘enlightenment’ with wholeness.
Wholeness is being healthy and full of life, creativity and vigor to experience what there is to experience, from the menu options of the movie, and to live in a state of Aplomb (amor fati Nietzsche and others called it).
When you are a wave in an infinite ocean, there will always be ups and downs; either generated by your local selves, or as a gift to more distant regions of yourself.
Sometimes we are the hunter. Sometimes we are the venison.
The more whole you become, the more you live like a puppy… happy to do whatever there is to do that is fun, or to sleep, or just hang out with your pack.
It’s no longer ALL ABOUT you, it has become about being You (your larger self and associated selves you meet here in this or another world).
By mastering non-verbal Socratic dialogue or another similar practice, you float in a pool of radiant beauty and meaning, and you do what you want to, for the fun of it, or because you have little or not choice to follow the flow of the movie.
You might have frequent transcendent experiences for years, but eventually, once you are integrated more gracefully into the whole, that sort of thing tends to stop.
And it should.
A healthy heart doesn’t do dramatic beats, when all is well, you should hardly know that it is there, and in these worlds of self-imposed limitation, we are an organ in a much larger life.
Don’t do the Spirituality Game
The spirituality game is what’s created by, and played by the limited, pain-based social ego.
It has you reading endless spiritual books, and doing endless ‘spiritual practices’, and constantly overflowing that teacup (an old parable), but you are in fact being permanently frozen in place like the Red Queen in Through the Looking Glass by Louis Carroll.
The game the ego plays is to convince you that you are already wise and ‘spiritual’ and making all this ‘progress’, but in fact the limited, isolated, pain-based social ego is AFRAID to let go, and to enter the paradise that’s where it belongs.
In general, SPIRITUALITY DOES NOT WORK.
It takes a deep and thorough understanding to escape the pitfalls of ‘spirituality’ and to find a ‘way to freedom and WHOLENESS’.
Don’t Throw an Existential Tantrum, Unless you REALLY MUST
If you just throw a tantrum and induce self-induced, stubborn, near-death causing tantrums, either consciously or unconsciously, you may well attract ‘the Phenomenon’,
large parts of which are wounded archetypes, wounded ‘fourth wall phantoms’, fragments of ‘Buddhist Skandhas’ or some other being from another Earth in our Earth cluster of POTENTIALITY. Congratulations! You have induced a ‘spiritual experience’ by throwing an uneducated toddler fit, and tearing down the barriers, in a way that ONLY COULD attract another being in distress, such as the Skinwalker Ranch Hitchhiker effect, or a toxic variety of UFO or being. Please don’t do this… these ‘freeloaders can hang on for MANY ‘lifetimes.
If any of them try to con job you, with stories of sin and redemption, heaven and hell, alien space armadas, or any other human-created horror film, run, don’t walk, and find a competent and possibly credentialed Historian of Religion to dispel this nonsense, or a practitioner of a framework or system that doesn’t promote such toxic thinking.
Any being that wants to control your life with a narrative is in it for themselves, not for your welfare.
Concluding Remarks
This document is written for a university ‘100’ level class in Platonic Surrealism. There’s more to say.
But really, if you wish to become ‘advanced’, then do what few ever do:
Master the Basics.
A master of the basics is also a master.
Appendix 1 – Platonic Surrealism Definitions
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.
- 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: 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: In PS, ‘soul’ refers to Dream Substance, a temporary, created informational construct generated by living beings and used in various ‘movies’ or experiences, including after-death states. It’s a work product of AWARENESS interacting with POTENTIALITY, not a permanent, individual entity.
- Group Soul: In PS, ‘group soul’ (or ‘Cosmic Octopus’) refers to the Anima Mundi, the vast ocean of Being, an expansive collective ‘soul’ or living ‘planes of existence’ formed by the aggregated Dream Substance of complex living things.
- 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/REALITY: In PS, these terms are synonymous and refer to the comprehensive sum total of all the primary definitions within the framework: POTENTIALITY, AWARENESS, PRIMORDIAL CONSCIOUSNESS, FRACTURED CONSCIOUSNESS, DECEPTION, THE LAWS OF PHYSICS, MONADS, and THE MOVIES. It signifies the complete system of existence as described within the Platonic Surrealism framework, where all elements are interconnected and ontologically equivalent, rather than a singular, external entity. It is important to note that ‘God’ is largely passive, and that it’s the subset of temporary beings as they evolve into more complex forms that are ‘active’.
- Divine Elusiveness: This concept explains why ‘God’, ‘Higher entities’, 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.
~ Finis ~
Best Regards on your Journey,
‘To the Journey’ as Star Trek Voyager said.
Kevin Cann
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7/15/2025