It has been said that when you are enlightened, or realized, you have ‘nowhere to stand’. This doesn’t sound like a very solid ground for truth, or perhaps even a worthy goal or aim. It sounds like you are aiming for nothing…

What you are beginning to sense is that you are on a point in the truth journey where the Ouroboric serpent is beginning to double back on itself and truth is beginning to reveal its true name, its true colors. Hearing something like this may initially be frustrating, but wait. It means that you are on the cusp of grasping the biggest catch of your life: the philosopher’s stone. But what you are about to realize is that there is nothing to grasp because there is no stone, or, to put it more precisely, you already have the stone.

You are on a point in your quest where you see the chest and it is open, and there is nothing inside. You feel as though you are grasping at thin air and this is enormously frustrating if you are not yet willing to accept subtlety and give up what you once thought to be true. If this is you, you will naturally give up at this point, call it all horse shit, and move on with your life.

If not, then read on. You discover the chest. It is empty. Furthermore, you recognize the chest and realize that it is the very box of lies and illusion which you crawled out of in the first place to begin your journey. You’ve gone in one big, giant circle and reached the beginning. At this point you may lie down on the flat earth and cry at the wide sky. Alas, your long trek was totally pointless.

The meaning of the saying ‘no ground to stand on’ is that, as you lie sprawled upon the ground, you are looking for something to stand on because you feel that you need it when where you are is so solidly on the ground, you couldn’t be more grounded. You don’t need to find anything to stand on because you are already standing on solid earth. Any kind of whirligig, elevated platform, or contraption which you may find upon which to climb, sit, swing, or stand-upon, while it is itself resting on the earth, is artifice that is actually separating you from your goal the ground.

Any kind of political identities/ideologies, national identities, regional identities, religious beliefs, power, fame, success, etc. are all elevated platforms separating the genuine God-seeker form the one thing they are trying to find. Now, if you are genuinely seeking elevation above the ground-level then, by all means, please climb on. One thing to note is that the ideal motivation for doing this is really one thing: play.

Seeking elevation because you really take it seriously and actually think that that is a serious goal is only going to land you right at the top of a whirligig. The truth is that flat earth for hundreds of miles all around is actually kind of boring after a while, so build a whirligig and have fun! What is ludicrous is to build one in a serious manner and then proceed to climb it in a serious manner. It will be just as boring as the flat earth. Worse, what are you building towards? The sky? The endless, boundless air? What a quest for nothing. To continue in your quest for air yo may need workers for your giant whirligig tower and proceed to sell more people on the serious mission to touch the sky. If they build, their children can climb, and maybe you’ll share and they can take turns touching it. And what happens then? Sounds like a pretty top-heavy contraption to me.

If sky is what you want, air, you realize that you can also touch that from the ground? You’re breathing it in every second. It is more a part of you than the ground in a certain way.

Perhaps it is not sky, but power over others you are seeking—elevation over the ground. There’s something a bit more legitimate to that quest. But now you are vulnerable. Gravity always does its work eventually. If you don’t sell the people on the bottom completely that you are somehow better than them because you occupy the top of the whirligig which they are building for you, if there is ever a single crack in that narrative, your whirligig is screwed. This game can go on and on, and is the model for most of society today. It will end eventually, one way or another.

To me, a heartfelt quest for the sky is superior to the second option precisely because it does topple so easily. It stands a much greater chance of putting the most people back on the ground and is founded upon good values like putting one’s greed aside and actually seeking something greater, something transcendent. This is, fundamentally, the primed attitude of the legitimate seeker.

Reality is One. You are none other than that, that One. You cannot find the stone because you are the stone! You cannot find the stone anywhere but inside you. It rests in your heart. It does indeed contain the potential for magic powers and if you activate it, you have magic powers. All the strongest ones are yours innately. You probably use them every day and don’t even know it.

I can’t tell you how many people are highly psychic, maybe even telepathic, and they just take it as a matter of course and call themselves “intuitive”—if even that. That is the only truth to mysticism. The exploration of your innate magic powers as such.

When it comes to the Truth.. to finding God. You cannot find Him.

You cannot find him for precisely the reason that you cannot see your own eye without a mirror, or smell your own nose without snorting something smelly.

So, if you didn’t watch the video, what of meditation? What of spiritual practice? These things, like the psychedelics, are medicinal, not dietary. They may help you in your quest to realize this. They may help soothe and relieve your mind of enough racing delusion to see clearly for a moment, and wake up.

Waking up is death to the ego. The void is scar to the ego because, as the grab-bag of false ideas we have about reality, the serious whirligig contraption, the box, it must end. It must be destroyed or we must leave it. When they eyelids open, the dream ends (to our gladness, or dismay, it matters not, it ends).