Author: David

The other day in a text exchange with a “real life” friend who made the mistake of probing my Sane Coin beliefs and my journey to “know thyself”, I wrote the following:

Each of us represents not only a thought form to another but actually a thought form of another. This is to say that a part of you represents a reflection of some subconscious need or bias of mine, and a part of me represents a reflection of some subconscious need or bias of you. We are each a knot made of thousands of strings, and those strings lead to the people with whom we interact. But each of those people is also their own knot of strings to the people with whom they interact. The material world just fills in the space, but the superstructure is these ethereal connections between souls.

As you start to be able to raise the subconscious to the conscious, you start to understand how your relationship with each person defines a part of yourself that you don’t really fully control. Then you see how the world is nothing but our connections, and the importance of your role in those connections comes into critical focus.

Over the next few days, this idea keeps coming back to me as, perhaps, the perfect encapsulation of all the many esoteric mysteries I have delved into, and what I believe now as opposed to what I believed then. This “network of strings and knots” is “the mind of the Dreamer,” as I understand it. In Esoteric theory, this is how we each “are God” but are each individuals as well. It explains why belief changes the network of material reality, but individual belief alone doesn’t change a thing.

If you consider, for a moment, the example of Donald Trump or any fascist wanna-be despot, I would argue that that individual is fulfilling a need in millions of people. They are becoming the embodiment of the hate and fear each person feels. They are literally bringing into material reality the emotional tumult held by those individuals. They are helping each person form themselves – but in a way that is not at all good for the rest of us.

At the other end of those strings right now is the Will of Donald Trump (or choose your despot), who is now able to ‘tug’ on all those strings and influence the minds that have come to understand themselves as an extension of him. Just like I look to my parents, my spouse, certain teachers, and others in my life when I try to understand who I am, these people are now being made real by sharing anger, fear and discomfort with their golden god.

Our despot here does not exist alone – and, indeed, is powerless without the beliefs of others. By filling the unmet needs in the minds of so many people, the despot gathers immense power to themselves. Probably more power than any single Will should ever exert – which is why it was so nice back when we had a system of “checks and balances” for our President here in the US. The fear and hate start to vibrate within the network of relationships with such strength that it seeps into everything all of us do, every day.

On the other end of this is the individual you run across in a shared elevator car for a thirty second elevator ride. I will argue, against your general intuitive sense, that this person also represents some underlying archetypical need or belief of yours, and you, of theirs. This gets to the more “woo woo” end of Esoterica. This is where Jung and the Magix of Crowley and the Golden Dawn start to form up. Because the esotericists are saying, at the extreme, that all of material reality (Maya) is the form of shared dream. So even our seemingly random interactions are momentary sparks of that dream. They teach us to control and focus our intent and belief in a way that it will manifest (through “ceremonial magic” shared in by others) in reality.

Two minutes after that elevator ride, you’ve forgotten the woman in the blue dress – probably. She was a very minor thought form for you, and you for her. I’m not saying that person was there to change your life (unless she did). But as I’ve delved into this area and its “synchronicities,” I’ve found so much absolutely inexplicable meaning that, yes, I have accepted the semi-rational belief that behind all of this there is some greater meaning … some greater destiny if you will. I’ve gone from thinking The Secret was ultimate lunacy, to understanding that it is actually derived from ideas of “manifestation” that were practiced in ancient religions three thousand years ago.

This gets to the issue of “Free Will” which I argued (and still argue) was the central point of the mystery that Destiny (the video game now) was exploring. Because with this skein of tangled threads, you can now see how any individual Will is both free to move however it sees fit and, at the same time, bound by every other Will to which it is attached. The formation of the material world is ruled by invisible bonds that constrain what is possible. But, I now argue, these bonds are developed by shared belief (which science is uniquely suited for creating) as much as by some extraneous set of inalienable natural rules.

On a fractal level, this model now makes humanity look a bit like a brain, with each of us as neurons, and the neurotransmitters taking the form of the relationships we share with one another. I, as a person, am not my brain. My brain will be rotting in my coffin at my funeral and people will say “Sane Coin is gone (thank God).” I am the wave motion of the neurotransmitters moving electrical charges through a magnetic field. When that wave motion ceases, so do “I.”

So, in this way, God is the motion of the emotion we transmit to one another in our relationships. The sleeping God is the way we decide to treat one another. If we all love one another, then God is a God of Love. If we all hate one another, then we have birthed a wrathful God of Hate and pain. God creates us and we create God. This is the true ouroboros.

None of us can control the network of all relationships. All we can ever control is the relationships we have with those to whom we are directly connected (including those that may view us from afar as do my readers who I do not know personally). So my request of you is to focus, in all of your connections, even those you may have with candidates or public figures whom you “hate,” on always settling back to a mindset of love and hope. Let’s fill our network of threads with kindness and compassion, forgiveness and helpfulness. No matter what comes back down at us from the other ends of those strings, let’s always remind ourselves to let the “negative vibrations” die with us. Let our “good vibes” overwhelm them.

That is the only way that things get better.

I recognize that this post gets into areas of faith and metaphysics that may seem a bit silly. When I started on this journey almost a decade ago, I would have laughed at the naivete of the fool who would post what I just did. It’s OK if you do too. But think about it in the shower or before you go to sleep, and even if everything I say is absolute horse [doodoo], wouldn’t the world be a far better place if people embraced it?

I’m going to ask you an unusual favor now. If this post has some resonance for you, share it or share a link. Give me credit or don’t. I don’t care. I’m not making money on this. I just want to start to quiet the flames of fear and anger that are spreading out of control. I believe that the very first step of that is for each of us to recenter ourselves, realize we are part of a greater web of humanity, and vow to be the best that we can be in our little node.

p.p.s As an example of how to “love” a despot – I sincerely hope that Donald Trump and Joe Biden will each face accountability for their ego and their crimes – whatever they may be in reality. I acknowledge that each of them is a flawed person just like me. I want them to face justice and to be humbled so that before they die, they will be the best person they can be. I can truthfully embrace that viewpoint regarding every politician and potential internet villain – even if you and I have vastly different understandings of what crimes are likely real and what punishments would be necessary to free them from the burden of their inflated egos.