Finishing up writing a post that goes with a video I made entitled "Magic is fact here. Magic is real" and opening my email to see and read this, was my own fun bit of synchronicity this morning.
I started on my spiritual journey a year ago when a mushroom trip accidently revealed the Universal Consciousness underpinning reality to me. Formerly was an agnostic. Started collecting books on the subject including Huxleys mentioned here, realized this is the true foundation of all religions and have been changed ever since. Glad to find others who are also waking up and its clear we are on the verge of a massive shift in humanity's understanding of consciousness. Subscribing for more.
Checked this podcast out on your recommendation and, though I consider myself openminded, this story is just not sitting right with me. I have listened about halfway through, to where they are discussing "the hill", and I think I have to stop.
First off, everything presented in the podcast is anecdotal. Fine, we have to start somewhere. But putting the videos of this phenomena behind a paywall raises alarm bells. I have not paid, but from what I've read these video clips are short, and if everything presented was true, why be cagey with the evidence?
There's also a tone to the storytelling that feels manufactured. For example, when they were talking about the kid guessing people's cards, and Ty uses an Uno deck, but takes out all the non-number cards, my mind immediately went "oh, she's accidentally going to leave one in and the kid will guess it anyway", which is exactly what happened.
I'm open to the idea of "magic" and connectedness you describe. Hopefully Ty and others involved will come forward with more compelling evidence to back up the extraordinary claims in this podcast, but for the time being I'm not convinced.
This is just too beautiful: "We have an imperative to expand and to live fully, to do new things and have new ideas, to bring new people into the world and give them a rich, magical universe to explore."
Call it another synchronicity.. but I'm about 3/4 of the way through Michael Talbot's "The Holographic Universe" and this essay rings VERY true to what Talbot is writing about. Might be one to add to your list if you haven't already checked it out.
This really resonated with me to the point where I got nervous with excitement. I've always been deeply logical and rational—I'm an engineer. But this reminds me of an idea (I've coined it tether theory) that I've been meaning to write about for years as I've gathered examples in my life and friends' lives.
Here goes: Tether theory is the connection between things. It states that there exists an invisible tether between all living things. The more time you spend with that thing, the stronger the tether grows. The tether is impervious to space and time. You can be across the world from someone else connected to you by a strong tether and your lives/experiences are intimately connected. The tether explains situations like why a mom and son, having not talked for 3 weeks will randomly both call each other at the exact same instant in time—so instantaneous that both their phones are busy because they both made the call within fractions of a second.
As we approach a critical threshold—call it the singularity, artificial super intelligence, or whatever term fits—I believe it will unlock our understanding of the true nature of reality.
We will collectively awaken to the realization that consciousness is fundamental. Great sages and modern scientists alike agree: our reality is only a small subset of a much larger system. We are, in fact, living in a simulation, and consciousness is the force that powers it.
I listened to the Tapes with my 10 & 8 yr old kids. It was fun to hear how relatively uninitiated minds took in the info (easily and with delight).
It left me pondering what the bigger implications might be. Two that stand out for me:
1. Advancing consciousness / ego maturity / etc. is one of the highest leverage (and potentially existential) charters of our time. (Borrowing this from Bill Plotkin.) Doing so will shape the technology we’re building with a wider view.
2. Our consciousness journeys have a collective (not individual) shape. What if all this silent meditation and self work were only a small part of the picture, and joint practices (like Aletheia Unfolding) are key enablers.
Thank you for the courage to share this! Much resonates with my own journey.
To support your point on shared consciousness, I keep thinking about Kevin Kelly's book, "What Technology Wants," and its many cases of great innovations coming forth simultaneously from different, vastly separated people.
Super fun and interesting read I think this thinking will materially help to expand your world. I am a huge fan of intuition and a bigger conscientiousness. The one thing I'd caution is you are *also* experiencing the frequency illusion and the general ethnocentrism that causes us to apply what *we* are experiencing to be a bit more universal than it actually is...
Man, I love that you wrote this. So many things about your journey resonated, and I have been on a transformative spiritual/religious experience myself, not in a way that I adhere to some institution's rules, but in a way that I have had experiences where I feel connected to this underlying fundamental connected consciousness. Synchronicities, dreams, imaginations, and precognitive-type feelings.
There's so much here, and it's something I've been excited to explore in my publication as well and have done to some extent. Excited to see you dive into some of these things, and I'm excited to draw some inspiration from it! If you haven't already read it, a book that definitely ignited the mystery and magic within me is Jung's Memories, dreams, and Reflections.
Amazing and impactful write up Packy. Been in the path of exploration and consciousness for a few years now. A mind exploding book you should have is The Cosmic Game by Stanislav Grof.
Thank you Packy. Your article made my bones vibrate and I enjoyed it immensely. I was blessed to find River Kenna recently and think that you might like his mythopoetic ponderings https://substack.com/@riverkenna
I've read many, many books on creativity, and most of them talk about the antenna concept. As we don't actually have ideas, we simply prepare our minds to receive them from a higher consciousness. I've always found that silly to be honest, but maybe they've just seen it backwards? Like we are antennas but we don't receive data, we're just sending it over and over everyday?
Thank you for writing this amazing piece. I listened to The Telepathy Tapes and came back to finish your article and have more excitement to continue my challenging mission of rewriting the operating system of school. Tons of synchronicities have happened during my journey through education over the last decade, leading me to try and being magic back into the classroom. I never knew how to explain exactly what I was doing, but your work and this podcast helped clarify my focus on student engagement/motivation. My hope is to help students at every school feel the magic that you helped unlock in me.
Went through a dark night(years) of the soul & I am getting interconnected.
It comes in waves, as I heal the trauma that kept me stuck in the tar sands of pain.
But that podcast has lit me up again! I believe, because I have learning how to seperate how it feels different when I am wanting or fearing something to be true, from ‘knowing’ when things are true.
I also know this from being an artist, when I am too much in the picture - pushing it, to when I allow the ideas to come through me & then scamper after them, doing my part to bring them into fruition.
& I have my own proof. My mother got a cat from the RSPCA. It was a young cat, only 9 months old, a bit skinny with a big appetite. She was from a different province and supposedly from a cat colony. Her ear was ‘clipped’ which is part of a program called TNR (trap, neuter, release) where people who care for these cat colonies get the cat’s neutered so they can stabilise the colony. The vets clip one of the cat’s ears so that they are not constantly re-caught and other people know that cat has been neutered.
But for some reason I just knew that the cat was pregnant. She could not have gotten pregnant since she was an indoor cat. She did not look pregnant at all & yet I could not shake the feeling. That week we took her to her first vet’s appointment and I said to the vet, ‘look, I know this is weird, because the RSPCA does not usually let you adopt stealth pregnant animals, but I have a feeling she is pregnant, can you just indulge me and check? The vet came back after the cat’s exam and said she was not pregnant.
& I still thought she was. It was such a strong feeling, and kind of weird to trust my intuition so strongly in the face of the lack of evidence.
When we took her back to the vet a short time later, we got a free ultrasound for an obviously pregnant cat.
I am a kitten diviner in the morphic resonance! And after midwifing the kittens on Cat-nada day I now have 3 of them as my k-crew.
Finishing up writing a post that goes with a video I made entitled "Magic is fact here. Magic is real" and opening my email to see and read this, was my own fun bit of synchronicity this morning.
ha! that's amazing, something in the air
I started on my spiritual journey a year ago when a mushroom trip accidently revealed the Universal Consciousness underpinning reality to me. Formerly was an agnostic. Started collecting books on the subject including Huxleys mentioned here, realized this is the true foundation of all religions and have been changed ever since. Glad to find others who are also waking up and its clear we are on the verge of a massive shift in humanity's understanding of consciousness. Subscribing for more.
Checked this podcast out on your recommendation and, though I consider myself openminded, this story is just not sitting right with me. I have listened about halfway through, to where they are discussing "the hill", and I think I have to stop.
First off, everything presented in the podcast is anecdotal. Fine, we have to start somewhere. But putting the videos of this phenomena behind a paywall raises alarm bells. I have not paid, but from what I've read these video clips are short, and if everything presented was true, why be cagey with the evidence?
There's also a tone to the storytelling that feels manufactured. For example, when they were talking about the kid guessing people's cards, and Ty uses an Uno deck, but takes out all the non-number cards, my mind immediately went "oh, she's accidentally going to leave one in and the kid will guess it anyway", which is exactly what happened.
I'm open to the idea of "magic" and connectedness you describe. Hopefully Ty and others involved will come forward with more compelling evidence to back up the extraordinary claims in this podcast, but for the time being I'm not convinced.
This is just too beautiful: "We have an imperative to expand and to live fully, to do new things and have new ideas, to bring new people into the world and give them a rich, magical universe to explore."
Call it another synchronicity.. but I'm about 3/4 of the way through Michael Talbot's "The Holographic Universe" and this essay rings VERY true to what Talbot is writing about. Might be one to add to your list if you haven't already checked it out.
Merry Christmas Packy!
Awesome, I haven't read it -- will add to the list. Merry Christmas!
This really resonated with me to the point where I got nervous with excitement. I've always been deeply logical and rational—I'm an engineer. But this reminds me of an idea (I've coined it tether theory) that I've been meaning to write about for years as I've gathered examples in my life and friends' lives.
Here goes: Tether theory is the connection between things. It states that there exists an invisible tether between all living things. The more time you spend with that thing, the stronger the tether grows. The tether is impervious to space and time. You can be across the world from someone else connected to you by a strong tether and your lives/experiences are intimately connected. The tether explains situations like why a mom and son, having not talked for 3 weeks will randomly both call each other at the exact same instant in time—so instantaneous that both their phones are busy because they both made the call within fractions of a second.
I love this. It intuitively makes sense.
Entanglement.
As we approach a critical threshold—call it the singularity, artificial super intelligence, or whatever term fits—I believe it will unlock our understanding of the true nature of reality.
We will collectively awaken to the realization that consciousness is fundamental. Great sages and modern scientists alike agree: our reality is only a small subset of a much larger system. We are, in fact, living in a simulation, and consciousness is the force that powers it.
I’ve always loved magic and I’m a big believer in spirituality. But you don’t have to potentially exploit vulnerable children in order to believe in God or have a spiritual life. The podcast is a bit of a misleading series. https://open.substack.com/pub/theamericansaga/p/the-telepathy-tapes-is-taking-america?r=7hgon&utm_medium=ios
I listened to the Tapes with my 10 & 8 yr old kids. It was fun to hear how relatively uninitiated minds took in the info (easily and with delight).
It left me pondering what the bigger implications might be. Two that stand out for me:
1. Advancing consciousness / ego maturity / etc. is one of the highest leverage (and potentially existential) charters of our time. (Borrowing this from Bill Plotkin.) Doing so will shape the technology we’re building with a wider view.
2. Our consciousness journeys have a collective (not individual) shape. What if all this silent meditation and self work were only a small part of the picture, and joint practices (like Aletheia Unfolding) are key enablers.
Wild times we live in.
Thank you for the courage to share this! Much resonates with my own journey.
To support your point on shared consciousness, I keep thinking about Kevin Kelly's book, "What Technology Wants," and its many cases of great innovations coming forth simultaneously from different, vastly separated people.
Super fun and interesting read I think this thinking will materially help to expand your world. I am a huge fan of intuition and a bigger conscientiousness. The one thing I'd caution is you are *also* experiencing the frequency illusion and the general ethnocentrism that causes us to apply what *we* are experiencing to be a bit more universal than it actually is...
Man, I love that you wrote this. So many things about your journey resonated, and I have been on a transformative spiritual/religious experience myself, not in a way that I adhere to some institution's rules, but in a way that I have had experiences where I feel connected to this underlying fundamental connected consciousness. Synchronicities, dreams, imaginations, and precognitive-type feelings.
There's so much here, and it's something I've been excited to explore in my publication as well and have done to some extent. Excited to see you dive into some of these things, and I'm excited to draw some inspiration from it! If you haven't already read it, a book that definitely ignited the mystery and magic within me is Jung's Memories, dreams, and Reflections.
Thank you for this piece!
wholly agree! You might appreciate this song by Buffy Sainte-Marie - God is alive magic is afoot
https://open.spotify.com/track/4K3glAui6GSMQfYWxC0qy9
Amazing and impactful write up Packy. Been in the path of exploration and consciousness for a few years now. A mind exploding book you should have is The Cosmic Game by Stanislav Grof.
It will keep on bringing the magic.
Thank you Packy. Your article made my bones vibrate and I enjoyed it immensely. I was blessed to find River Kenna recently and think that you might like his mythopoetic ponderings https://substack.com/@riverkenna
I've read many, many books on creativity, and most of them talk about the antenna concept. As we don't actually have ideas, we simply prepare our minds to receive them from a higher consciousness. I've always found that silly to be honest, but maybe they've just seen it backwards? Like we are antennas but we don't receive data, we're just sending it over and over everyday?
Thank you for writing this amazing piece. I listened to The Telepathy Tapes and came back to finish your article and have more excitement to continue my challenging mission of rewriting the operating system of school. Tons of synchronicities have happened during my journey through education over the last decade, leading me to try and being magic back into the classroom. I never knew how to explain exactly what I was doing, but your work and this podcast helped clarify my focus on student engagement/motivation. My hope is to help students at every school feel the magic that you helped unlock in me.
Just inhaling the podcast right now myself.
Went through a dark night(years) of the soul & I am getting interconnected.
It comes in waves, as I heal the trauma that kept me stuck in the tar sands of pain.
But that podcast has lit me up again! I believe, because I have learning how to seperate how it feels different when I am wanting or fearing something to be true, from ‘knowing’ when things are true.
I also know this from being an artist, when I am too much in the picture - pushing it, to when I allow the ideas to come through me & then scamper after them, doing my part to bring them into fruition.
& I have my own proof. My mother got a cat from the RSPCA. It was a young cat, only 9 months old, a bit skinny with a big appetite. She was from a different province and supposedly from a cat colony. Her ear was ‘clipped’ which is part of a program called TNR (trap, neuter, release) where people who care for these cat colonies get the cat’s neutered so they can stabilise the colony. The vets clip one of the cat’s ears so that they are not constantly re-caught and other people know that cat has been neutered.
But for some reason I just knew that the cat was pregnant. She could not have gotten pregnant since she was an indoor cat. She did not look pregnant at all & yet I could not shake the feeling. That week we took her to her first vet’s appointment and I said to the vet, ‘look, I know this is weird, because the RSPCA does not usually let you adopt stealth pregnant animals, but I have a feeling she is pregnant, can you just indulge me and check? The vet came back after the cat’s exam and said she was not pregnant.
& I still thought she was. It was such a strong feeling, and kind of weird to trust my intuition so strongly in the face of the lack of evidence.
When we took her back to the vet a short time later, we got a free ultrasound for an obviously pregnant cat.
I am a kitten diviner in the morphic resonance! And after midwifing the kittens on Cat-nada day I now have 3 of them as my k-crew.