Transmission #001: THE RAPTURE

A strange signal has been detected beyond the edge of civilization.

Part literary criticism, part confession, part warning from the future, this week's transmission follows a woman, a Russian novel, and a growing suspicion that the apocalypse may not be physical at all.

No fire. No flood. No trumpet in the sky.

Only the slow separation between those willing to transform and those who refuse.

Tonight's transmission examines Dostoevsky's The Idiot, the nature of weakness, the teachings of Christ, and the possibility that the true rapture occurs inside the human mind.

Signal integrity: Unstable.

Reality distortion: Moderate.

Coffee consumption: Excessive.

Proceed with caution.

Transmission #001: THE RAPTURE

It's the rapture.

Um, yeah, I think that we are entering an intellectual rapture, you know?

Um, it's conceptual.

You gotta think about it.

But it's something that's not so much tied to geography anymore, right?

Third world countries versus 1st world countries, empires versus non-empires, colonizers versus colonies.

Um, now it's kind of like obviously the same idea, but the idea is, um, more intellectual, you know?

It's, uh, you got to keep reading the books and you got to keep ascending, uh, intellectually in order to be part of the new world order.

It's not like, you know, it's a visible material, you know, seismic transformation like that.

It's not like, you know what?

I mean, it's not like, cracks are gonna open in the soil and we're all gonna be swallowed.

But it's more of a conceptual kind of rupture, you know?

It's like, dude, if you're not.

If you're not pulling yourself upwards, if you're not going towards the future of what the world is offering, you are going to be left behind.

You're gonna be the leftover.

And there's no mercy for the weak, dude.

There's no mercy for the weak in the natural world.

That's what people don't get.

Like, you can fight all you want.

You can march all you want.

That's cool.

But in the reality of the reality, The weaker doomed.

You can put laws in places you can have, you know, language barriers to protect the weaker, you can, you know, even put it in the law, put it in the tax code.

You can do you can march, you can change everything that you want. Can change the president. Anything that you want.

In the actuality, in the matter of fact, in the moment, that the weak are doomed.

I just finished reading The Idiot.

It took me a really long time.

It was like 9 months. 9 months to read a book.

I was reading other books at the same time because I can't just read one book at once.

I gotta read multiple books.

Um, because I get bored.

And so I read multiple books at the same time.

But it took me unusually long.

I'm a pretty fast reader of all things, but this one took me long and it wasn't because I wasn't, I was savoring it and taking my time.

It was legit because it was kicking my ass.

I had moments that I was just like, I have no idea what he's trying to say with this.

Like, I don't know where he's going.

He's just talking, talking, talking, talking, talking. Like, there's no end to this fucking conversation.

Um, But I muscled through, I gave up a couple of times there.

I put a pause in it, you know, for a couple of days, sometimes weeks in which I could not touch the book because I just was not in the mood.

But I went back to it, and I was able to finish it, and it was pretty interesting.

A lot of people love Dostoevsky.

Um, I, you know, I like him.

I like them.

I think that, you know, the idea that the idiot is about how society is so wrong, because people that are, you know, kind and generous and weak and truthful, um, they are, you know, they are considered the idiot, right?

He becomes the idiot because society is cruel and he's the only one that's not idiot.

He's the not girl.

He is the only one that's, um, you know, pure.

And I read the book and I was disappointed at the end, to be honest with you.

Like, it was a little like, oh, this so this is what happens.

Okay.

You ruined 2 women.

And somehow people think that, you know, you're the hero because you tell the truth, but the reality is that, uh, Prince Love is is a coward, and he ruined everybody's lives around him because he believed himself worthy of higher protection for his weakness.

But it's like, no, you're you're weak.

And you're sickly, and you have nothing to offer, you don't have any money, and you just play with people's minds, you play with these women's minds, you play with society's minds.

And you tell yourself that you're better because you were telling the truth, but the truth, Yeah, dude, no.

I was very surprised about that book.

I was surprised about how it made me feel, and I think that at the end of the day, obviously he suffered the consequences of his, you know, uh, uh, idiocy, I want to say.

Um, you do, you know, there is a part in which you're just like, yeah, man, society is cruel.

Society is fucking, you know, cruel, there's really no other word that I can think of.

Like, yeah, they are cruel to him, but at the same time, it's like, You have to know what rooms you're entering, and sometimes you do have to wear a mask, and sometimes you do have to protect the truth.

You have to, even if you know the truth, you got to protect it.

You gotta protect the relationship.

You got to protect the, the, the, I don't know, the the title, the name.

You gotta protect the image that is being formed.

Like, you have to protect the truth sometimes.

And protecting the truth, meaning sometimes just keep it to yourself.

There are rooms you have to pretend, and you have to be nice, and you have to say the right things, or you have to be quiet.

You have to learn to be quiet.

Because that is the right thing to do.

Knowing the truth, doing the right thing, doesn't mean that you're just gonna say whatever comes to your mind.

And he was weak.

He was feeble.

He was feeble.

He liked 2 women, and he decided because that was the truth of what lived in him.

He decided that it was okay to pursue them both.

One killed themselves and the other one was disgraced forever in the eyes of society.

Like, what the hell is wrong with you?

Like, take you no responsibility over what your truth, quote unquote.

Your ability to be in the moment and tell the truth and have no filters.

He was kind of like a Kanye West, and people hailed him as like, oh my god, yeah, Dostoyevsky, he has this character, you know, that just tells the truth in society, hates him for it.

Yeah, dude, like, sometimes I know I get what you're saying, but sometimes you just need to shut up.

And that's, uh, you know, that's a really interesting thing because I have that tendency and I think the book, even though it was hard to read, because it was like several slaps in the face and also a certain like disappointment in human nature.

I don't know, like, I wish we were all heroes and we're not, and then also, I saw myself in it, and I was like, oh, so I'm the idiot too.

You know, I'm, like, freedom fighting over here, like, I have to use my voice to do whatever.

And it's like, bitch, just do your dishes, man.

Like, just shut up and do your dishes, like, go make sure your bed is made.

Go, make sure.

Your trash is taken out, girly, and leave the freedom fighter on fucking.. Yesterday.

Ah, anyway.

Anyway, um, and this is the Rapture, my friends, the ability to read a book or meet a person or, you know, learn something new and completely assent to a new version of yourself, to a new moment of yourself, to a new paradigm.

And once you know and are open to change of paradigms, changing paradigms, their mental shifts, their raptures, literally inside.

And that was ultimately what Jesus was talking about.

Jesus was not talking about some sort of, you know, uh, you know, crazy thing on the outside.

He was talking about seismic change on the inside by changing your mind.

He was a strong believer or knower.

He didn't believe he knew.

Um, that what's on the outside cannot corrupt you or defile you, and so everything that is going wrong with your life needs to come from internally 1st and it was all in your thoughts.

It was the way you thought about things.

And so, uh, you know, in his teachings throughout his life and mostly throughout his death.

He, um, He was very, like, consistent in that.

It's just like there is going to be a rapture.

And those who come with me will ascend, and the rapture is mental.

It is a series of mental shifts in your life that, you know, if you don't have them, you're gonna go in one direction.

If you have them, your life will change into a completely new direction.

It is the science of transformation, of transcendence, and ultimately that is what we are created for, right?

Is to change, to change or to die.

Those are the only 2, um, Things that happen to human life.

And if you really boil them down, they reduce themselves to just one, right?

Death is in itself transformation.

And so Jesus is the ultimate teacher, a teacher of transformation.

I don't particularly have anything new to teach.

But that book, The Idiot, was a moment of mental transformation, mental change for me.

Even though I didn't like the book, I don't get it and I don't, it's like, no, you know, like, what the hell?

It took me forever to read it.

I was bored.

For like 80% of it.

But, um, it felt very much like a real, like it felt like looking in a mirror, you know, I don't feel sorry for the character of the idiot.

I don't feel sorry for any character there.

But, you know, I don't think he's a hero.

I think he's a fucking clown, you know, and...

You know, you can't...

I don't know, man, you can't, like, you gotta be responsible for yourself.

You gotta be under yourself, like, at all times, you know?

You are a little mini umbrella, and you gotta keep yourself under that umbrella at all times.

You can't be going out. Out stepping your bounds, and that's all I have.

I'm gonna make coffee.

I'm gonna make coffee.

Anybody wants coffee?

Who wants coffee?

Anybody wants coffee?

All right, I'm gonna make some coffee.