Elysium – Touching the Commonwealth – PRINCIPLES

 

It is here at Elysium that I feel I first touch the earth for the first time, where a sense, a visceral, more grounded sense of the world than I have ever had starts to come into play. In the underlands, it feels like the continuation of the movement that started when I returned from the Quest to Cassandra’s ministrations to the mountains of Tahoe, where I have gradualy come to feel a sense of initiation into the earth element in a way i’d never felt before.

Like all the aspects of the journey it’s a teaching – a revelation that comes at it’s own point on the journey which redefines everything that has gone before it.

 

Touching Earth – Am I supported?

It’s not a small thing to question whether we are supported by a loving Divinity – at whether our efforts and divinations are tied into some larger intelligence, something which recognizes and loves us in our efforts at the core.

 

In God’s Name

Something significant happens then, the underlands of the Mythica pushing their way up through the surface of the world.

I have an encounter with Lucifer at this time. I know how that sounds, but hear me out. The journey through the Mythica is all about these kinds of things. A couple of years ago I met someone who presented themselves as the Devil. They were a businessman, an investor and a friend. I respected them for their knowledge of the mystic arts and they had been honest about their tendencies around “making deals”, and had spoken of the parable of Christ encountering the Devil in the desert and refusing the various accoutermonts of Earth rather than give into the Devil’s charms.

Around this time I was really going through it. Really, deeply feeling the stress and horror-inducing recognition of how ungrounded I was in the earth plane, at how much I was flickering from one state of being to another despite my attempts to ground myself out through witnessing my story. I was coming to see that no matter what I did subconscious patterns and deep impurities in my relationship with the earth element were preventing me from any forward movement.

It didn’t matter what I did. Going to the library, building out videos, no matter what I tried something would prevent me from publishing consistently. I was trapped. Caught in a prison of avoidance that I had only just begun to see during my time with Cassandra between 2022 and 2025.

I was in the parking lot of the library when I had the call with Lucifer. I was despondent, feeling as though the financial pressures of no money and inability to get my work out there were inescapable. I longed for some kind of freedom. Some sense of easement with the earth element of the world that I could not touch.

Lucifer offered that, but at a price. He wanted what he called leverage. A lien on the temple of the Mythica herself. And while he spoke to me honestly about his intent, the true measure of what he was saying was imperceivable, as if veiled, not from deception on his part but from my own ignorance.

Soon after, a seemingly random Uber gig had me taking a gentleman from Encinitas, CA to LAX airport, and I considered it providence, a sign that I should go and visit my sister where she lived in the City of Angels.

I see the underlands as vibrational territories related to occlusion. To the inability to see clearly what is happening in circumstances and act rightly. I see it as a pattern that exists within the substance of the self, constricting and afflicting viewpoint and thus action on a causal level. The journey through the Mythica speaks to the healing of that, to the alchemical process of moving through the patterns that exist within our subconscious – the “wounds of family” and all sorts of other stuff.

From my vantage, all of these things are related. All part of a weave of intersecting patterns that exist within the world and within ourselves, playing out across lives and lineages in a medley of ongoing redemption. Lucifer was tempting me with the promise of monies because I couldn’t wield my earth element and access that aka for myself properly. Yet coming up to see my sister carried with it a redemption, a sense of connecting with my family and having a healing within the same Judaic line that was shared by her, myself and Lucifer himself. The money thing was connected to it. Connected to my family line. To the abundance that i’d had as a childe. To the Judaic school my sister taught in and my own sense of inner revelation into being a prophet. Everything was connected. All part of the skein of stories just as much as my living in Elysium with Niekko and bringing the Mythica to the world. It was all elemental – wrought from the substance the soil made real.

What determined my access to abundance?

To connection with the world?

Was it an ancestral pattern? A subconscious wounding? The impurity and incoherence that dominated my experience of the earth element? All of these things felt to be a part of the thing, part of unravelling the threads of causality that were fragmenting my attention. From that perspective, visiting my sister was a healing – an unraveling of misperceptions that we’d had about each other which had felt like the very aka of family was in defilement, where patterns within my subconscious felt to keep me from connecting with the people, hiding me in misguided protection from the very world I was trying to connect to.

In this context, visiting my sister on the surface of the world in Los Angeles occurred as a movement into the Judaic vibrations of my lineage, where I felt the resonance of our family line come online and where the attempted lien on the teachings by Lucifer came into clarity.

A vision had come to me then, a modern-day Moses coming down from the mountains with tablets speaking into God’s nature, and Lucifer as one of the worshippers of the golden calf, emblematic of the greed and egoic nature of the unwashed masses. In contrast, I came to see the nobility of my sister, to experience her brilliance and talent in a way that I had never recognized before – to see how her efforts had turned her into the efficient and nurturing mother that she now embodied.

Something shifted after the visit to my sister. The clarity that had arrived in her presence — the seeing of the lineage, the recognition of the golden calf for what it was — produced a kind of quiet resolution.

I didn’t call Lucifer back.

There was no dramatic refusal, no mystical confrontation, no moment of high ceremony. There was only the gradual, grinding accumulation of earth element through my own hands. The Uber. The rides. The money coming in, slowly, and going toward the temple. If Lucifer wanted leverage on the Mythica, the only answer was to remove the need for his offer entirely. To pay for the thing myself. To build the temple from the ground up, one shift at a time, until the lien became irrelevant — not defeated, simply made unnecessary by the slow arrival of my own ground.

That is the nature of the underlands and their resolution. Not by force of will. Not by magical intervention. By the patient accumulation of the very element that had been absent — the earth itself, arriving through the most ordinary of means, into the most ordinary of circumstances.

The temple being built. Two inches at a time.

How this relates

I have always envisioned the Mythica as a journey through the vibrational undercurrent of our life. It’s the idea that by doing some kind of alchemical process we clear the sanskaric impressions which make up our circumstance – we gain access to new ideas, to new abundances, clearing the patterns which prevent us from seeing different options in our lives. Before I had connected with my sister in this way, before i’d encountered Lucifer and passed him by, I didn’t have the clarity to express certain things; i couldn’t even hold onto the idea of working with the Judaic lineage that was my birthright to bring forth the Mythica. There was a sense of distortion in the archetype of family which existed within me, and this felt like a clearing of that, at least partially, and with that, more coherence, more access, more ability to remember certain ideas and act upon them – hallmarks of the movement towards greater abundance.

 

 

 

 

All the healing arts are about clearing patterns. About investigating and transforming things which exist within the subtle frameworks of our lives. It’s about finding the subtle-yet-physical substance which exists within the psyche and within the self, which triggers and expresses itself as defensive or offensive patterns in relationship to experience. Navigating this, coming to understand the nature of our own psyche and how it relates to the world is a foundational part of inner work. It is the thing which sits beneath the medley of perceptions and prescriptions across all genres of subtle healing, always relating to primary idea that when we heal something in our inner self it has a corresponding effect on our outer world. Whether this is simply the ability to perceive and thus take action in new possibilities than we previously had or if it actually changes the substance of our outer reality, the premise is always the same – change the inner to change the outer.

In the mystic arts, this is known as the Law of Correspondence. It’s the idea that whatever is happening in the inner and outer experience of lives has a certain correspondence, that certain things correspond to certain things. From this basic premise emerges the entirety of the theoretical and applied movement into the arts of divination and manifestation – each a side of the same coin of correspondence that defines our lives.

 

 

 

Manifestation in this context isn’t willful creation — it’s what becomes visible and accessible as the vrittis settle. The Sanskrit is sphurana — the spontaneous arising of what was always present but previously obscured. Not creating new possibilities but clearing the occlusion that prevented existing possibilities from being perceived.

This is a big deal. Because if you look at it from a certain angle, the very idea of manifestation as well as divination itself is seen in a different light. From this vantage, we aren’t creating anything. We aren’t creating our own reality, we aren’t influencing the substrate of reality itself – we’re clearing our perception, gaining more access to what is already there beneath the ever-shifting occlusions that sit upon our awareness.

 

The marketplace premise — that you create your reality through intention, vibration, and focused thought — is a distortion of the actual yogic principle. It takes the law of correspondence and runs it through the ego’s desire to be the author of outcomes. Which produces the action-result economy dressed in spiritual language. The yogic understanding is more precise and less flattering to the ego. You don’t create. You clear. The reality was already there. The Purusha was always already free. The work is the removal of what obscures that — the vrittis, the samskaras, the elemental impurities — not the construction of something new. Patanjali doesn’t promise manifestation. He promises kaivalya — aloneness, pure perception, the Purusha resting in its own nature uncontaminated by the vrittis of prakriti. The marketplace took that and sold it as a technique for getting what you want. It speaks directly to the idea of personal will, which in turn speaks to the idea of separation – specifically the idea of separate will.

The separate will is the ego’s central fiction — and the marketplace requires it. You can only sell manifestation techniques to someone who believes they are the author of outcomes. The entire industry depends on the premise of a separate self with the power to create its reality.

Yet my experience shows something different. And so does the lore. Patanjali’s actual teaching dismantles that premise at the root. The vrittis create the illusion of a separate experiencer. Kaivalya is the recognition that the Purusha was never the doer. There is no separate will to cultivate or direct — only the clearing of what obscures the recognition that there never was one. Which collapses the marketplace’s foundational premise entirely.

 

 

At the same time, this premise, the idea that there are distorted patterns within the mind that are obscuring our ability to see life clearly and thus act on a more clarified palette of options, is what defines the journey of clearing itself. It ties directly into the idea of abundance, for without access to the inspiration of ideas that precede action, we cannot move forward. We must see the flower before we can paint it into existence. This, at it’s core, is the problem and solution of abundance itself.

 

Let’s say for example you are an entrepeneur. You want to develop a product which serves the marketplace and gives you the money you desire. Perhaps you have a humanitarian gravity to your ideal, you want to help the people. Reduce the suffering in their lives.

But you can’t think of the idea. Try as you might, nothing comes to mind. No strategy, no product, nothing. You cannot act, because you cannot see the action.

This inability to perceive the action isn’t a failure of will or effort or intention. It’s occlusion. The vrittis obscuring what’s already present in the field — the idea, the strategy, the product — that was always there, waiting to become perceptible. The entrepreneur doesn’t need more effort. They need clearing. Which reframes the entire self-help and business coaching industry in the same move. The productivity techniques, the mindset work, the accountability structures — all of them attempting to force action through an occluded instrument. Which produces the grinding, effortful, inconsistent results most people experience. The yogic understanding says: clear the instrument first. The action arises naturally from the clarified perception. You don’t push the river. You remove what’s blocking it. In this context, one’s journey through the landscapes of the Mythica is also the journey through the psyche, through the interconnected weave of experiences that is our passage through the mortal condition. It is the clearing of the patterns of our mind, the patterns of our psyche and how they relate to the frameworks of being human, which brings the discussion of clearing, healing and the movement towards a more heavenly earth into the conversation.

In my efforts along the Quest I discovered a constant – a dream shared by many of living in a more heavenly earth – of living a life of inspiration, of travel, expansive consciousness and abundance, living in the highest version of one’s possible experience.

Yet to get to this reality, to even perceive what that reality could look like was a rarified thing, and in my journey I came to see how the range of ideas of what a more heavenly earth could even look like were vast, nuanced, and often outside the perception of the people. Life was made of patterns, and for the most part, the world was unaware of the patterns which would define our health, wholeness and return to the Garden. Rather than such a high ideal, we lived in a world of pollution, confusion and endless war – far from the Edenic ideal.

 

How the journey through the Mythica relates

Consider for a moment the idea that your perception of the world is fundamentally limited by something that you can’t see, and that same something is afflicting your ability to perceive the patterns which exist in your life, in your relationships and in your endeavors on a root level. That wherever you go, whatever you go, there is an underlying matrix of patterns which exists within your psyche and within the very soma of your body which is determining your access from beneath your conscious mind.

Sound pleasant? Of course not. Because it implies that you’re not free. That your perceptions and thus the actions you have available to you are defined by something outside your control. Something that influences you, that guides you, that prevents you from moving in certain directions based on a premise far beneath your conscious awareness. This idea, that we are ruled from within by unseen forces, is the very malady we seek to heal with the subtle arts.

 

How this relates to occlusion –

Every action we take on the Quest is defined by what we can perceive at that moment. Not by our intentions, not by our desires, not by our will — but by the range of possibility visible to us through the current state of our own psyche. The patterns within us, the vrittis obscuring our awareness, the sanskaric impressions accumulated through lineage and experience — these determine what we can even see as available to us, let alone act upon. As those patterns clear, the range expands. New possibilities become visible — not because they were created, but because the occlusion that prevented their perception has thinned. We move toward the more heavenly earth not by constructing it from scratch but by clearing enough of the interference to finally perceive what was always already there. This is the physics of the Quest. The landscapes of the Mythica are not metaphors — they are the actual territories of those patterns, encountered in the flesh, in the relationships, in the circumstances of the lived life. The Quest moves through them not as adventure but as the necessary passage through the substance of our own occlusion. Every character encountered. Every synchronicity recognized. Every moment of kairos where the veil thins and something more pristine becomes briefly visible. All of it the clearing. All of it the movement toward the Garden that was never truly lost — only obscured.

 

 

 

As a culture we are incoherent

 

Looking at the journey back to the Garden means looking into the idea of sin. Into the concept that there is something out-of-alignment, something that misses the mark, that is out-of-sync with something more pristine, more purified and connected to the highest ideal of human life.

In the context of the Mythica, sin is error. Most specifically, it’s actions which arise from the distorted (sinful) perspective of perceived separation between the self, the soil and the stars that make up the creation itself. It is the illusionary idea of the ego, the idea of separate self which gives rise to the avalanche of confusion and suffering that defines the world as we know it. It is The Problem at the most foundational level – the realization that as a general rule at the time of this writing humanity is not an enlightened species.

I know, big surprise. After all, what enlightened species would act in the way humans do to each other?

Redeeming this distortion lay at the heart of all healing. It is the intrinsic pattern which sits beneath various philosophies of approach in social relationships, the idea of being “unconditionally loving”, or showing kindness or compassion, all of which emerge from the foundational realization that there is no separation between us, only the space of the akash that holds us.