Thank you for writing this Stephen, it is revolutionary in the way the most ancient and foundational ideas are. It goes straight to the heart of that nagging feeling that our understanding of the fundamental structures of reality is also fundamentally wrong. Why should we accept a Standard Model of particle physics that can account for only 5% of the mass-energy of the Universe? That's insanity, and yet we delude ourselves that we understand the basic principles governing our reality.
"the experiential engine of spacetime operates non-locally, beyond the confines of spacetime itself" Did somebody need an explanation for quantum entanglement?
Really looking forward to reading the next article.
robert - thank you for reading and responding. i honestly have no idea how people are going to access these ideas from a place of utility, which is the ultimate goal, or even if they will believe in the possibilities we have open to us if we just ‘push’ into the responsive intelligent thing that we are inhabiting. so getting even one read on substack is a big win and a comment like this made it all worth it. so thank you and more coming soon….
I was working on something with an AI engineer friend of mine a few years ago called Narrative Calculus, which is now what he calls The Hyperobject, trying to put a shape around all this, very rhymey
Also one of the highest leverage points in systems theory is belief (this is my route for catalysing change), as those who tell the stories rule society
If you were to write a Saving the World Strategy Guide, what would you put in it?
yes! we are made of... but also made by... stories
and so true J - "those who tell the stories rule society" - as Harari crystallized so well in Sapiens, things like currency and nation states exist because of collective human imagination, which of course loves to traffic in myths
“We can weave common myths such as the biblical creation story, the Dreamtime myths of Aboriginal Australians, and the nationalist myths of modern states.”
and in this sense, those who govern those creationary and foundational mythos, run the worlds that are generated from them. but all is not well in the empire of the MInd. i think of this time as one in which the dominant stories of the Modern Society are collapsing from the disintegration of the fundamental agreements humans made to believe in them. so we are in a kind of gold rush between competing system architects to see which new stories can take hold within the collective. i have always thought of it from the perspective of the film Inception, in which agents of those competing narrative systems are pulling every lever imaginable to incept the new systems in our minds. at the very mundane level, these are veering toward old-timey authoritarianism (for the 'left') and fascism (for the 'right') as elites try to salvage what they can from the wreckage of their duopoly...
while us witches are going for broke with the big gambit, which is to flip the whole board and return people to the magical queendom we came here to play in. at least that is my game. cause a single mom with three kids working two jobs in a shit zip code is not getting saved by the Market. nor by voting or protesting. but the State will offer her a monthly stipend soon to just keep calm and carry on. and don't get any ideas...
to your question: "If you were to write a Saving the World Strategy Guide, what would you put in it?" - i am kind of doing that with speedrunning spacetime but in a round-a-bout way. the first thing i would say is that there is no world to save... at least not in the cosmic terrestrial context. the planet, as i know you know, she'll be fine. but us... yes us, the World, well how can we be saved? i think that starts in our gut biome and moves outward from there in fractal thresholds. as one slightly annoying Canadian theorist likes to say, if you can't make your bed in the morning, please don't try to save the world... i agree agnostically. we are generating this 'polycrisis' and it is a good thing. as Toynbee taught us in his theory of challenge and response, civilizational evolutionary thrusts depend on 'resistance' - adversarial challenges from the land or other humans - as tension points that drive them to new dimensions of being. i think we're in one right now but many here are really hardwired for the apocalypse because, as you said at the top, we are made of stories - so what happens when all of the Abrahamic religions and Hinduism... and even Buddhism has the Kalki Prophecy (foretelling the arrival of the Buddha Maitreya (the future Buddha) after societal decline, who will restore Dharma - cosmic order) - have these stories in their books?
as my GPT just said: "the prevalence of apocalyptic myths in major religions arguably programs societies to anticipate—or even unconsciously create—collapse. the notion of inevitable destruction may contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies, especially as environmental and societal pressures escalate. alternative cosmologies, like those in Taoism or animist traditions, offer more sustainable paradigms centered on balance, interconnection, and cyclical renewal"
so in terms of saving the World, we need to decipher the stories that we are generating our experiential reality from and either deprogram ourselves and our actions from the vibrational frequency that is manifesting our experience, or... and... come up with new ones... and get into the Inception game cause it's on baby.
for me this is a multi-pronged thing and comes from a few careers in media, activism, and then tech. the simple short answer is that i am working with my team at ora.systems (and with some new amazing people who have gravitated towards this on substack!) on a parallel reality tech ecosystem (aka simulation) that (re-)establishes a prime directive for people - because at the fundamental level what we have lost in the fracturing of 'reality' is any sense of a shared Authority.
some will say we never had it, but after the last major civilizational shift of this magnitude (the Axial, not the Copernican), we got experiential algorithms like the golden rule that were highly effective generators of experience. we can list a lot of these... but that one tells a really easy and accessible story about how these work...
anyway, so the idea is to develop an agnostic platform like slack or nationbuilder which gives groups and leaders the power to publish/transmit their prime and sub-prime directives and then gives their communities a toolkit of apps and instruments to receive those directives and respond to them materially, with forms of verification, which then powers a currency which is signaled in generative objects like the HALO - which is one of the objects our company designed and uses to signal the health, security, or resonance of an entity or system. this becomes the 'embodiment' of the prime directive, and a 1:1 feedback signal for personal and collective alignment with... said directive.
and here we are redefining currency, like this:
1. Traditional Definitions of Currency
• Market Currency: State-controlled instruments of financial exchange reflecting material standing within a competitive system.
• Social Currency: Intangible assets like reputation, influence, and access, tied to established social networks.
2. A New Dimension of Currency
• Energetic Frequency: Generative currency measures contributions made at both a material and vibrational level, including personal intentionality, ecological balance, and societal well-being.
• Non-Material Contributions: Acts of humility, environmental stewardship, personal transformation, and community service generate ORA.
• Universal Accessibility: Individuals with limited financial means can accrue portable and transactional currency through resilience, authenticity, and clarity.
its a whole thing! i am building one for quantum insurrectionists who want to speedrun spacetime (reality hack the revolution), but it will also be there on a subscription model for other communities who have directives and want to capture the 'value' of their people's contributions in a new identity system.
i see you are working with the re-imagination of community wealth. this may be an interesting conversation to pick up on a call.
I would love a call! Yes x 1000 everything you are building is needed infrastructure — all of that tracks so hard. What stage is it at? Are you funding ready? I perhaps have a contact for this type of project
cool! i will book. we’re gonna bootstrap the mvp to try with a couple of communities who need exactly this kind of 5D swiss army knife - i will relay soon!
As an initial response to this, I would like to suggest that the 1.0 interface is exteroceptive and linear analytical, verbal, while a 2.0 interface might be interoceptive and come from a very differently anchored cognitive system. In order to be coherent that alternate cognitive system cannot be only metaphoric or “spiritul” ie “woo”. For this reason I argue we need to consider the animal intelligence as a kind of foundation for deeper insight…. Sorry if that’s very vague!
Thank you for bringing this investigation out of the underground and into the world. There is a popular post on my Threads feed that encourages everyone to "Heal out loud." While your journey doesn't subscribe to the popular, contemporary concepts of healing that we see everywhere, I feel the connection. To me it feels like re-membering a human capacity that is essential but from which the dominant culture and commune-obsessed brains have severed us. Looking forward to the next post and to hearing more about how non-scientific, non-intellectual ways of knowing will advance your perspective.
ha! the fact that I picked up the holographic universe this morning to reread bits about implicate and explicate order... and then you appeared in my reality... says a lot. thrilled to keep reading your stories!
thank you faye boam! but what actually happened was i was writing about channeling orgasm energy internally and thinking about how its all from the male side and wondering what that meant for women and then i saw your 5rythms mushroom spirit cooking video
Thank you for writing this Stephen, it is revolutionary in the way the most ancient and foundational ideas are. It goes straight to the heart of that nagging feeling that our understanding of the fundamental structures of reality is also fundamentally wrong. Why should we accept a Standard Model of particle physics that can account for only 5% of the mass-energy of the Universe? That's insanity, and yet we delude ourselves that we understand the basic principles governing our reality.
"the experiential engine of spacetime operates non-locally, beyond the confines of spacetime itself" Did somebody need an explanation for quantum entanglement?
Really looking forward to reading the next article.
robert - thank you for reading and responding. i honestly have no idea how people are going to access these ideas from a place of utility, which is the ultimate goal, or even if they will believe in the possibilities we have open to us if we just ‘push’ into the responsive intelligent thing that we are inhabiting. so getting even one read on substack is a big win and a comment like this made it all worth it. so thank you and more coming soon….
Oh! It’s me. I’m the utility / application girl with a bias toward action :)
Mate, this is it. We are made of stories.
I was working on something with an AI engineer friend of mine a few years ago called Narrative Calculus, which is now what he calls The Hyperobject, trying to put a shape around all this, very rhymey
Also one of the highest leverage points in systems theory is belief (this is my route for catalysing change), as those who tell the stories rule society
If you were to write a Saving the World Strategy Guide, what would you put in it?
yes! we are made of... but also made by... stories
and so true J - "those who tell the stories rule society" - as Harari crystallized so well in Sapiens, things like currency and nation states exist because of collective human imagination, which of course loves to traffic in myths
“We can weave common myths such as the biblical creation story, the Dreamtime myths of Aboriginal Australians, and the nationalist myths of modern states.”
and in this sense, those who govern those creationary and foundational mythos, run the worlds that are generated from them. but all is not well in the empire of the MInd. i think of this time as one in which the dominant stories of the Modern Society are collapsing from the disintegration of the fundamental agreements humans made to believe in them. so we are in a kind of gold rush between competing system architects to see which new stories can take hold within the collective. i have always thought of it from the perspective of the film Inception, in which agents of those competing narrative systems are pulling every lever imaginable to incept the new systems in our minds. at the very mundane level, these are veering toward old-timey authoritarianism (for the 'left') and fascism (for the 'right') as elites try to salvage what they can from the wreckage of their duopoly...
while us witches are going for broke with the big gambit, which is to flip the whole board and return people to the magical queendom we came here to play in. at least that is my game. cause a single mom with three kids working two jobs in a shit zip code is not getting saved by the Market. nor by voting or protesting. but the State will offer her a monthly stipend soon to just keep calm and carry on. and don't get any ideas...
to your question: "If you were to write a Saving the World Strategy Guide, what would you put in it?" - i am kind of doing that with speedrunning spacetime but in a round-a-bout way. the first thing i would say is that there is no world to save... at least not in the cosmic terrestrial context. the planet, as i know you know, she'll be fine. but us... yes us, the World, well how can we be saved? i think that starts in our gut biome and moves outward from there in fractal thresholds. as one slightly annoying Canadian theorist likes to say, if you can't make your bed in the morning, please don't try to save the world... i agree agnostically. we are generating this 'polycrisis' and it is a good thing. as Toynbee taught us in his theory of challenge and response, civilizational evolutionary thrusts depend on 'resistance' - adversarial challenges from the land or other humans - as tension points that drive them to new dimensions of being. i think we're in one right now but many here are really hardwired for the apocalypse because, as you said at the top, we are made of stories - so what happens when all of the Abrahamic religions and Hinduism... and even Buddhism has the Kalki Prophecy (foretelling the arrival of the Buddha Maitreya (the future Buddha) after societal decline, who will restore Dharma - cosmic order) - have these stories in their books?
as my GPT just said: "the prevalence of apocalyptic myths in major religions arguably programs societies to anticipate—or even unconsciously create—collapse. the notion of inevitable destruction may contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies, especially as environmental and societal pressures escalate. alternative cosmologies, like those in Taoism or animist traditions, offer more sustainable paradigms centered on balance, interconnection, and cyclical renewal"
so in terms of saving the World, we need to decipher the stories that we are generating our experiential reality from and either deprogram ourselves and our actions from the vibrational frequency that is manifesting our experience, or... and... come up with new ones... and get into the Inception game cause it's on baby.
It’s deffo on!
What are you doing and who are you working with to this end?
hi J - oooh big question. so...
for me this is a multi-pronged thing and comes from a few careers in media, activism, and then tech. the simple short answer is that i am working with my team at ora.systems (and with some new amazing people who have gravitated towards this on substack!) on a parallel reality tech ecosystem (aka simulation) that (re-)establishes a prime directive for people - because at the fundamental level what we have lost in the fracturing of 'reality' is any sense of a shared Authority.
some will say we never had it, but after the last major civilizational shift of this magnitude (the Axial, not the Copernican), we got experiential algorithms like the golden rule that were highly effective generators of experience. we can list a lot of these... but that one tells a really easy and accessible story about how these work...
anyway, so the idea is to develop an agnostic platform like slack or nationbuilder which gives groups and leaders the power to publish/transmit their prime and sub-prime directives and then gives their communities a toolkit of apps and instruments to receive those directives and respond to them materially, with forms of verification, which then powers a currency which is signaled in generative objects like the HALO - which is one of the objects our company designed and uses to signal the health, security, or resonance of an entity or system. this becomes the 'embodiment' of the prime directive, and a 1:1 feedback signal for personal and collective alignment with... said directive.
and here we are redefining currency, like this:
1. Traditional Definitions of Currency
• Market Currency: State-controlled instruments of financial exchange reflecting material standing within a competitive system.
• Social Currency: Intangible assets like reputation, influence, and access, tied to established social networks.
2. A New Dimension of Currency
• Energetic Frequency: Generative currency measures contributions made at both a material and vibrational level, including personal intentionality, ecological balance, and societal well-being.
• Non-Material Contributions: Acts of humility, environmental stewardship, personal transformation, and community service generate ORA.
• Universal Accessibility: Individuals with limited financial means can accrue portable and transactional currency through resilience, authenticity, and clarity.
its a whole thing! i am building one for quantum insurrectionists who want to speedrun spacetime (reality hack the revolution), but it will also be there on a subscription model for other communities who have directives and want to capture the 'value' of their people's contributions in a new identity system.
i see you are working with the re-imagination of community wealth. this may be an interesting conversation to pick up on a call.
I would love a call! Yes x 1000 everything you are building is needed infrastructure — all of that tracks so hard. What stage is it at? Are you funding ready? I perhaps have a contact for this type of project
You can schedule a call with me here: https://zcal.co/jfriday/chat
cool! i will book. we’re gonna bootstrap the mvp to try with a couple of communities who need exactly this kind of 5D swiss army knife - i will relay soon!
As an initial response to this, I would like to suggest that the 1.0 interface is exteroceptive and linear analytical, verbal, while a 2.0 interface might be interoceptive and come from a very differently anchored cognitive system. In order to be coherent that alternate cognitive system cannot be only metaphoric or “spiritul” ie “woo”. For this reason I argue we need to consider the animal intelligence as a kind of foundation for deeper insight…. Sorry if that’s very vague!
i would love to hear more on that! DMing you finally, ive been busy getting the new segment out
Let’s talk! 971-678-2795
Thank you for bringing this investigation out of the underground and into the world. There is a popular post on my Threads feed that encourages everyone to "Heal out loud." While your journey doesn't subscribe to the popular, contemporary concepts of healing that we see everywhere, I feel the connection. To me it feels like re-membering a human capacity that is essential but from which the dominant culture and commune-obsessed brains have severed us. Looking forward to the next post and to hearing more about how non-scientific, non-intellectual ways of knowing will advance your perspective.
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ha! the fact that I picked up the holographic universe this morning to reread bits about implicate and explicate order... and then you appeared in my reality... says a lot. thrilled to keep reading your stories!
thank you faye boam! but what actually happened was i was writing about channeling orgasm energy internally and thinking about how its all from the male side and wondering what that meant for women and then i saw your 5rythms mushroom spirit cooking video
well stephen marshall, it just so happens I, a woman, have a whole lot to share about channeling orgasm energy internally!
this is currently wayy over-written but i think says it all - i would love to hear your alchemicalz however or wherever
https://open.substack.com/pub/shimmerkid/p/internal-ejaculation?r=arwlu&utm_medium=ios
I shall read/gather my thoughts & experiences into something cohesive to share with you