In 2017, deep in the jungle, I test-drove the future—our now.
In one dark ayahuasca rite, my old world cracked open. All I'd known, prized, held dear got sucked into a spiral, drilling down.
In raw panic, I rifled through every idea, creed, prayer I owned. No use. Kind souls pitched in, called the shaman. He hummed and worked his rites. My dread swelled as hope thinned. Nothing, no one could pull me free.
Everything began to shift when a near-stranger spoke:
"Listen to your breath and heart. You'll pull through. In the end, you'll be better."
What choice did I have? I absorbed his words like a dry plant drinking sudden rain. Shreds of my world whirled around, and I searched for my pulse with trembling fingers. At first, I couldn’t find it—my heart was silent. Or maybe I just couldn’t hear it.
The more I pressed my chest, the more carefully I listened—“Here’s the exhale, here’s the inhale”—the more the abyss loosened its grip. A crystal of new order was forming from the oversaturated solution of Nothing. Eventually, the storm was gone.
Look around. Do you feel the pull of a Force dragging us downward? It’s not just your family, country, or region. Point your finger anywhere on the globe, and you’ll likely touch the horns or tail of some dark trend.
The social fabric of our world is rubbing thin and tearing apart. Old values dissolve in the acid of doubt, and new unifying ideas are nowhere to be found. The “noble” projects of intellectuals often turn out worse than nothing—they bring pain and death.
Science and technology answer “How?”, not “Why?”. They only accelerate the rupture between people, mind and intuition, matter and spirit, earth and sky. Only the stone-deaf miss the roar of the falls our shared raft drifts toward.
Sounds black, I know. The kind where I ache to be wrong, pray to play the fool. But what if the mad spiral really is pulling our world down?
There’s one anchor I know:
"Listen to your breath and heart. You'll pull through. And be better, in the end."
The heart is more than an organ. Breath pulses Life across the stars.
Yours sincerely,
-Alexander
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