What a time to be alive! Truly, what a time to be alive!

In each era, some humans seem to journey their way to this felt sense of a realization of what a time it is to be alive.

It is an inner state of joy, wonder and hope, filled with the clarity that opportunities abound in spite of hurdles.

The future, by definition, is not yet here. Thereby, it is filled with great opportunity!

Of course, depending upon the specificity of the karmic load that you carry, which determines to some extent what is fated in your future, some opportunistic pathways may be closed to you.

And yet, in spite of such fated closures, many, many, many opportunistic pathways remain open. Most significantly, when facing a fated closure, how you respond internally is always open to you!

As nails are metaphorically driven into your wrists and you are hung up to slowly bleed out in the heat, the wondrously marvelous opportunity to pray for those driving nails into your wrists, out of their sheer ignorance, always remains open to you, even as the nails are fated to enter the flesh of your wrists.

How could you not be placed in a state of wonder by the sheer magnitude of ignorance that might cause such an action, often done righteously, often done by a human who believes they are doing good? Truly wondrous, no?

Every era is truly a wondrous time to be alive.

Is that not so?

I can’t think of a single historical era where some human has not tapped into this inner state of joy, wonder, and curiosity.

And yet, this particular era is just something else. Perhaps I’m biased on account of being present now, both literally and spiritually, but wow, what a time to be alive!

Opportunities are abundant, and once you figure out how to meet fated closures with Grace, ease, and love. Once you work past your resistance to letting your heart break and weep tears of grief, and notice that it was never your heart that broke but the protective surface that held you from the soft nourishment of your own heart, you’ll notice that the opportunities themselves abound.

And not just that, but these abundant opportunities are also fated.

Every time you emerge from solitude, these karmically fated opportunities are patiently waiting to meet you.

Just like agony used to at some point of your healing journey.

It is the same, really.

What could be agonizing is also filled with wondrous opportunity, beginning with the opportunity to orient towards it with an open, Gracious heart.

There is delicious, nourishing flesh inside the thorny exterior of a jackfruit. When met with steady, open, gracious love, a woman who might be swiping at you turns into the most gooey puddle of affection.

Of course, this is not a call, brother, to chase swiping women. Don’t make that mistake. But instead, a call to not run away from a moment of fated swiping from the woman you are exploring romance with.

A reminder that agony can be alchemized into ecstatic opportunity. Now, when you meet such an opportunity in the ecstasy of it, you may have a proclivity towards rushing. But my friend, truly, there is no rush.

The nature of a fated opportunity is such that it will patiently throb and pulse for you. It may take a variety of physical manifestations, and some of those physical manifestations might need to be let go of, but the karmic opportunity will continue to pulse for you.

With each pulse, it will further bloom, making itself even more visible. Clearer. Alive.

Till you see no other path but to meet that opportunity with joyous, wondrous curiosity.

As you do so, to an observer, you may appear brave. To you, that might not make sense, because you saw no alternative.

Every moment, you see a clearer path forward, the next step. Because you’ve practiced stillness and being with the agony that stillness can bring sometimes.

You have tasted how, when stuck in agony, when filled with annoyance, resentment and hatreds towards other humans, taking a moment to reorient internally, and thanking out loud—which is prayer—can do magic!

Utter alchemical magic that you could not even imagine if you haven’t tasted it. But the kind of magic that, if you taste it once, there’s no going back to the familiar swiney indulgence in the feces of your resentment.

Oh, the short-lived joy of smelling your own farts!

Pendulating between “I’m good, the other is bad” and “I’m bad, oh no!”, not noticing the same voice feeding these two lies.

All your life you’ve tolerated this false pendulation.
Inflating on one side, collapsing on the other.

Till at a point of resentful, perhaps rageful inflation, you decide to elevate the other back to where you see yourself, with a verbalized act of prayer.

And poof! The see-saw itself disappears!

Now there are no enemies. Not even the demons! Only fated opportunities for alchemy.

Having experienced this shortcut from resentment to full release, how could you not be curious to see it emerge in another?

You begin to see how every human as a gooey puddle of affection, underneath the blasé, ossified, sometimes resentful exterior.

The question now remains: how do you snake yourself to that relational space of gooey heartfelt affection with each human you’re fated to meet?

And where you are fated to pause such attempts.

What wonderful opportunities!

To carve out these gentle pathways in the collective neural network for love to circulate and bring life, joy and wondrous opportunities.

Here are some of the fated opportunities that are presently ripe for my exploration

1. The Impact of the Dattatreya on Possessive Entities

   I saw this video of a temple of the Dattatreya, showing a full-fledged Aarti (worship) where a bunch of humans start to act in ways that would fit very well in a movie on exorcisms. Is is that the aarti just leads to the demons manifesting in their beings? Or does it also lead to the release of those demons in a manner that causes a discernible shift in the behavior patterns of the human before and after? If it does not lead to a release, what is needed for the release? Is it just a matter of some of the worshippers laying hands on the humans while the worship is ongoing? Can this be done entirely in the name of Dattatreya? Or does the name of Jesus Christ need to be brought in? What is the missing ingredient?

2. Blackouts, Memory Repression, and Entity Takeover

   There are two phenomena that seem related in a way that I don’t full understand. One is the phenomena of a blackout, which I have experienced with alcohol, and I’m sure many of you have heard of people blacking out when they drink enough. And it somehow seems linked to memory repression during childhood sexual abuse. In both cases, the human body is doing things that the human mind doesn’t remember very well afterwards and yet, the body remembers somehow.

   It seems likely that sufficient alcohol—a spirit—creates space in the human body for complete entity takeover. Making a human do things that they forget or regret. Perhaps they forget because the mind that has agency over their body is temporarily not occupied by their own spirit?

   A common theme in addressing repressed childhood sexual abuse is when survivors confront their abusers and are met with denial. The most vivid physical world manifestation of this theme was in the foundation of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. Now the response of the supposed perpetrators is classified as “denial” by a survivor. But what if it is not denial? But repression that happens in the perpetrator themselves?
   The cultural phenomenon of alcohol blackouts seems closest to this possibility and is worth diving deeper into!

3. Formulation of a Better Logical Framework

   One that better respects the nature of truth. Presently, all of the foundation of Western science and mathematics is on the idea that a statement can be either true or false. Leaving no room for the neither or the both, that is often encountered in eastern spirituality. Because of this binary restriction on the truthiness of a statement, the Western knowledge systems are stumped by paradoxes higher up the stack. Eg. the Wave-Particle paradox, or complications like Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem, which (simply put) claims that classical logic cannot access all truth. Now one could either attempt to resolve these issues higher up in the stack, or ask if logic itself can be better formulated in the foundational layer so that we can develop abstractions to make sense of the physical world that are not paradoxical in nature. I’m interested in the latter. I wonder if there’s a way to formulate a logical framework that actually can access all truths by changing how truthiness is formulated in its foundation.

   There are already attempts being made to develop what is called non-classical logic. To stoke imagination in you, dear reader, the simplest variant could be where a statement can hold 3 values instead of 2: true, false, and unknown. I do wonder if with a well-designed logical framework, one could work past the limitations of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem—in fact that being the litmus test of a well-designed logical framework.

   That’d be quite phenomenal because then the math layered on top of such logic that then leads us to the mathematical basis of the theories of physics, could take us past paradoxes like the Wave/Particle paradox. There is already a very strong attempt being made at developing such a mathematics—called Constructive Mathematics—which invalidates “proof by contradiction” as a technique used in proofs, but requires proofs that actually construct an example. Anyone who has done proofs in high school math might be able to appreciate how different the playing field might be if “proofs by contradiction” were not permitted! What a new world it’d be to live with such math!

4. Learning how to sail a boat and perhaps living on one for a while to see what light it shines on a world beyond nation-states.

   Looking back upon my MAGA era, I realize that what resonated most with me was the emphasis on nationalist capitalism to create pathways for economic competition amongst nations, as a remedy to the international proclivities towards physical escalation. It does seem though that there is tendency in the nationalist capitalist world to create multiple poles that then still have friction where the polar boundaries meet—friction that has been and continues to be played out in the form of proxy wars. Even when two countries have economic interdependence, they can still play out their problems via proxy wars in smaller nations.

   Noticing that helped me move beyond M*GA (which is the umbrella philosophy that MAGA belongs to) and I’ve begun to wonder what lies beyond a world of nation-states with defined boundaries that then leads to frictional escalations at the boundaries. Intriguingly, there is aspects of this wondering that aligns with both Marx and the age-old Sanskrit saying of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam—the world is a family—that is being reiterated by the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.

   It seems a worthy attempt for any political scientist to ideate on a world beyond nation-states, and perhaps build upon Marx’s first and arguably flawed attempt at it. And learning how to sail a boat and spend time living in the ocean—arguably the only place on earth least affected by national boundaries—might shine light on what that global political structure might look like. If it doesn’t, hey, I still manage to have fun on the seas and pick up a new skill!

   This is a pretty solid example of a karmically fated opportunity that has recurred in a variety of manners.

   Previously, I have been fascinated with the concept of the Network State while I was deep in understanding the blockchain world. And then while I was caught up in vengeance fantasization, I imagined creating a micro nation, declaring my perp an enemy of the state and then launching a targeted drone strike to eliminate him. I see both as examples of the karmic calling on me to ideate on a world beyond nation-states.

5. Building a mobile app that helps men become Good Dickers

   Codenamed the Man-Whore Academy, where all graduates are guaranteed placement in the top male brothels around the world.

   A tongue-in-cheek way of claiming that anyone who goes through this program will be so good at making love that if he wanted to, he could call in top dollar for his skills.

   I’m imagining the app itself to be a piece of art. It is such a piece of art that just the act of exploring the app calls forth in the user, a state of artistic wonder. The kind of state that a man best embody when he explores a woman’s body. Treating it like it is a piece of art. Treating her like a Muse. While also transmitting the insights and practical tips needed to develop capacity to be a Good Dicker.

6. Taking my own personal computing interfaces to the next level

   What a wild time to be alive! With LLMs going mainstream, we are truly seeing a revolution in personal computing.

   No more clickety-clackety. No more tippity-tappity.

   I imagine a world where I only give minimal relevant guidance to an AI that handles most of my tasks, especially tasks that require clicking around and filling forms on different websites.

   I envision this as AI empowering the individual to fight the dragons of corporate and government bureaucracy.

   These big corporates and big governments hire humans to make the lives of the individual miserable, as they wade through forms and bureaucratic messes. How can an AI assistant empower an individual to fight this and thereby also incentivize the systems themselves to improve?

7. General progress on physical health

   For now, this continues my focus on improving gait through structural reintegration work, improving muscle definition, and then layering skills on top of that. A particular paradigm I’m eager for my body to start developing is explosive athleticism, that is the next domain after developing basic muscular strength and mobility.

   Once cultivated, that can then be applied for a variety of fun skills—say wrestling or horse riding or surfing or even better lovemaking.

   This could entail a deeper dive into some flavor of yoga—Iyengar seems top with some healthy wariness towards unnecessary reliance on props—coupled with learning a variety of kriyas—ways to master breath.

   I’m also keen on applying this further training to some of the sexual expertise pathways that I’ve discovered. I’m curious to see how what I have discovered via FAFO are reflected in classical scripture. And then on that journey, it’d be great to find a wife to go deeper into sexual yoga with. Someone who shares a similar curiosity towards physical intimacy—both the physicality of it and the heart intimacy of it.

8. Establishing a residential base that ensures access to a gym, a physical fitness community; enterprising, artistic friends who are beyond the concept of wage labor; and nature & solitude to further explore this abundance of uniquely fated opportunities.

I present this list to give you, dear reader, a taste of what a platter of uniquely fated opportunities might look like.

And in closing, I pray, in the mighty mighty name of Jesus Christ, that any and all fears that might be remnant in you be fully dissolved. Any and all moments of agony that meet you be fully magically alchemized to reveal your own uniquely fated platter of opportunities.