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2024-11-28 - Back to Basics

1. Functional Enlightenment is a way to feel in love all the time, without exogenous cause.

2. Functional Enlightenment is achieved by training for Entheogenic Fitness.

3. Entheogenic Fitness has three aspects, or Components.

  • Antifragility
  • Executive Function
  • Gnosis

4. These Components are developed by engaging with EFT Elements, which are various forms of physical training, psychological concepts, and imaginal practices based in the mythos of a role-playing game called Phonomancer™.

5. You play Phonomancer™ to develop your unique version of its titular Shamanic Superhero, who demonstrates that a life of purpose and meaning can be based on courage, discipline, compassion, killer karaoke skills, and a profound ability to tear up the dance floor.

6. This development takes place in a paracosm, which is to say, a detailed world of make-believe. You can think of it as a fictional universe where people can gather to have shared experiences.

7. In the Phonomancer™ paracosm, these are shared experiences of the Sacred, in which each individual pursues a relationship with the Divine as they understand it while supporting the efforts of those around them.

8. When its paracosm serves to amplify experiences for all participants, Phonomancer™ functions as a religion, which is to say, a game of make-believe that yields real-world transformation.

9. In Phonomancer™, this transformation does not come cheap. Engaging with the Elements of Entheogenic Fitness Training can be wildly fun, but also occasionally grueling and even terrifying.

10. It's worth it. If you make-believe long and hard enough under challenging conditions, your reality will change. You will develop new abilities and capacities. You will realize your evolving vision of your Highest Self. You will become Phonomancer.

11. Phonomancer is simultaneously the realization of your highest individual potential and an expression of the universal force of Christos.

  • The Christos is the Self-sacrificing aspect of KA, the Divine Child of the Godhead.

12. You act as Phonomancer first in the context of psychedelic rituals designed to test and develop your Antifragility, Executive Function, and Gnosis, and then, over time, and with increasing skill, in the context of every day life.

  • It's a matter of writing yourself a role: the person you want to be. Then rehearsing that role. Then playing that role out in the world.
  • In any given situation, you ask yourself, "How would the best possible version of me respond? Who do I want to be?" Then conduct yourself accordingly. 
  • Afterward, assess what happened, how you could do better. (You can always do better.) Run through your ideal response. The next time such a situation arises--and it's inevitable that you'll see a repeat, because tultimately every situation can be boiled down to an archetype, and there are a large but delimited number of archetypes--you'll be better rehearsed and thus give a better performance. 
  • This is true both in ceremonies and in real life. 
    • It takes awhile before you can ask yourself that question in the group psychedelic ceremonies that are Phonomancer™'s proving ground; initially, all you're doing is trying to stay on-task and survive. 
    • But as your mastery grows, so too does your ability to relax and enjoy. 
13. When Phonomancer is no longer a role you are playing, but the unshakeable foundation of your identity and source of your personal power, you are Functionally Enlightened.

14. Functional Enlightenment is sustained by maintaining a supreme level of Entheogenic Fitness. 

15. You can always get fitter :D

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