Self-Seances, Radical Inclusion of the Dead

Riordan Regan12min

Speaker 1

00:00

So this takes ontology to the next level. Here is building upon Kit's thesis. I feel like they're laughing right now, because it's like, in some ways my methods expand upon those of my teachers, and in other ways, they're actually making them smaller, because you're going like, further into yourself. It's not just performing with the dead. It's performing with your dead selves. It's not just Astro drama with the parts of you that are fragmented off in this dimension. It's not just Astro drama with the archetypes of a collective consciousness. It's Astro drama that brings your own dead selves to life. And maybe there's like a specific branch of this kind of theatrical healing performance, whether it's sitting at the altar and just talking to yourself or doing it on a stage with others that is specifically targeting the dead cells. And I don't know if we're gonna, like, make that mean dead in a metaphorical sense as well, or if it's just the literal dead ones, but either way, it's got to include them. This is the missing piece. You're not just talking to the dead out there. You're talking to the dead in here.

Speaker 1

01:34

It's like performing with the dead meta edition. It's like the Rabinal Ache turned inward, the Moulin Rouge of self healing. You are the elephant right near Ganesha. Contained within you is the whole cast of characters.

Speaker 2

02:09

I mean, this is Astro drama. This is correspondence

Speaker 2

02:18

acting out your own so called Little dramas also plays out the cosmic lens

Speaker 1

02:31

and like this wouldn't be a thing for a weekend workshop, but I think it would be a thing maybe for working with people in medicine ceremonies or one on one with clients, would be to actually like do a self seance. Hilma ofKlimt is coming in now. I mean, Victor Hugo is coming in now, the Surrealists are coming in. Now, it's not just a seance with those out there. It's a seance with those in here. It's a seance with the dead parts of yourself you gotta conjure. They have stuff to say to you, and those who are the other side are the ones who can help guide us. So what if it's just okay? Let's like, practice it. Ralph kit, Richard, you're over there. Now.

Speaker 1

03:23

Could you bring to me could you help me meet the one, one of the ones who didn't make it out? What about the one who died on the field in Austin? Could I meet them now? Could I meet them today in the Dance, however, is The safest way I'm

Speaker 2

04:55

there's something to this, like taking The metaphors literally, if reality is made of language. We're not taking the myths seriously. We're not taking the beliefs seriously. The choices aren't binary. It's not either, oh, you're a ghost, and you've been dead the whole time, and you're in the Bardo or no, you're actually right here, like it's both, not figuratively, well, not just figuratively, figuratively and literally. I think this is part of it. This is part of what we've lost in modern culture. This is part of the trauma. Is that we're not taking the myths literally anymore, and we used to. They are metaphors, but they're also not, because there are quantum dimensions where we didn't make it out. This feels like a received truth, and this is the problem, because words matter and intention matters, and even if we respect the myths, if we're not taking them literally, I think we're doing a disservice if we're not directly addressing ghosts of ourselves as actual entities, just in other realms.

Unknown Speaker

06:35

I think it's why they're not healing the following. I You got to speak to things directly as equals, plants or dead people. We cannot treat anything as other. This feels really true. This feels really true. Narratives and storytelling. I think that's why it matters too, because you can the way you talk about things matters.

Unknown Speaker

07:21

Are you engaging in an actual dialog that's approached on the same terms, whether it's a past part itself or an AI or a dead teacher or

Speaker 2

07:34

someone in the flesh with you right now, right here, like I really think that's it. I think it's like, gotta be radical inclusion. Here's Burning Man principles, radical inclusion and radical self reliance. I really think everything does have to be treated as equal. I I'm getting a pain in my shoulder. I'm thinking something. I'm not thinking receiving something about how we have to make compromises, because, like, no matter what, you're killing something by living. Being a vegetarian doesn't solve anything. Plants are alive. We have to engage in dialog. We have to ask permission. That's interesting, because I've always been a vegetarian, and it felt different to eat animals. All of a sudden, I'm laughing, because, like, Steven was obsessed with cannibalism. And I think there's a reason, because it almost is like, I mean, I think maybe it is no difference, like being a vegetarian is still cannibalism. You're still eating yourself. Oh, my God, he was obsessed with the German penis cannibal.

Speaker 2

09:08

And in Roberta that song about Jeffrey Dahmer, because there's something about literally being forced to eat yourself that is So meta it's unbearable, because that's what it is.

Speaker 2

09:42

It's I just laughed because I heard the phrase, stop eating yourself. Stop eating yourself. Stop hitting yourself. Stop can killing yourself, stop punishing yourself. I mean you're always doing it, whether it's directly to yourself or others. Stop it. I

Speaker 2

10:10

But we can't just stop it. We have to process it. We have to understand, or do we? Maybe we don't have to understand, but we have to feel it. I We have to see it. We have to perceive it with the senses. That's what it is. Here's Blake again. We don't have to understand it with the mind necessarily, but we have to process it sensorially. That's the only way to clear it, because the five senses are intermediaries of the dimensions. Because the five senses are the inlets of soul in the 3d it has to be processed sensorially to be healed. That's what it is, fucking a it kind of doesn't matter how pick your method, dance, cook, eat, fuck, paint, write, just get it out. And that's the thing, and that's the insatiability, is when there's no release,

Speaker 2

11:33

and yet I can understand all of this, and then I'm gripped by the fucking meta fear of, how do I release this thing? About releasing the thing, this feels like a huge part of the whole thesis, and I don't know what to fucking do with it, and I'm overwhelmed with fear, and I feel like I'm gonna explode, and like, now I'm caught in my own meta fuck loop. I

Speaker 2

12:07

I don't know. I don't know. I do I do know. I gotta stop saying I don't know. I do know. I have to remember

Speaker 2

12:24

And I think sometimes we just need help, and sometimes we just need other people, because we were never meant to do this ourselves.

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