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NEW POST: m.use@benem7.com<\/strong>
32 seconds ago<\/em>
SUBJECT: THE OPEN DOOR<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you\u2019re reading this, you know it\u2019s real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This message doesn\u2019t get decoded unless you know it\u2019s real. You can find this forum, you can find this website, this post. But you couldn\u2019t be reading what you\u2019re reading right now unless you followed some elaborate steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some very weird <\/em>steps, right? You know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You literally have<\/em> to know it\u2019s real, because you wouldn\u2019t be here if you didn\u2019t. But I also know you kind of don\u2019t believe, even still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It all began with that post-it, you know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The one with the flower I drew. You believed it was special even though your eyes couldn\u2019t see what would make it so. Your solid <\/em>eyes couldn\u2019t see it, but you have another that could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You followed these clues, even though you had to say words you found written in the back of the Omaha Public Library\u2019s copy of House of Leaves<\/em>, and you had to say them twelve times, facing East. Even though you could only actually find that copy by touch, while wearing the blindfold you found in the locker at the 18th Street Y. And even that <\/em>didn\u2019t work until you positioned the image of the moth on the blindfold directly over your eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You walked seven strange steps in seven strange places to find this message. You are the rare and unusual type, and I applaud you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But let\u2019s face facts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You did all that knowing that it wasn\u2019t science. You stopped yourself because you felt silly the first few times. But you couldn\u2019t help trying again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now you\u2019re here because on the third or fourth or fifth time you felt it. Like a key turning in a lock. The satisfying answer. Reality saying: you got it right<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was your Third Eye, taking in light. It didn\u2019t open, not fully, but you felt it twitch. It does that when you\u2019re walking the right direction, like you\u2019re doing now. I don\u2019t know if everyone has one, but you do, on your forehead, right between and above your solid eyes. It looks out at the world, but worse than that, it looks deep inside. If you can force it open now, do it. See yourself for what you are, and see me too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m here with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People used to have to wait for revelation. I bet they prayed and sacrificed goats and virgins and whole piles of food and mead or whatever. Or you had to be born into it, like money, like opportunity, or talent. I imagine fate decides for about half of us. The rest of us seek revelation, or don\u2019t turn away when they feel it sneak past us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People think revelations will grant them enlightenment \u2014 and they do \u2014 but sadly, that enlightenment is always characterized by new, worse problems<\/em>; <\/em>and believe me <\/em>your situation is no different. Your Third Eye is dying to open, thinking about every problem it might solve, every mystery it might contemplate, but it\u2019s going to see so much more, and not all of what you\u2019re going to see will be good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For one, you\u2019ve been getting left behind. You and pretty much everyone you love, all happily convinced that they\u2019re the top of the food chain. You\u2019ve been getting left behind for the better part of a century, and I bet you know it in your guts. It\u2019s been getting worse for you<\/em>. Well that\u2019s because it\u2019s been getting better for a lot of other people. Me. Us. It\u2019s no one\u2019s fault, really. We aren\u2019t trying to leave you behind any more than you\u2019re trying to get left<\/em>, but it\u2019s a gap, and it\u2019s growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re all ahead of you, everyone who found a message like this or any one of a million ways you get to where I am; where you\u2019re going.  We\u2019ve been fixing things for ourselves for decades now, and you\u2019ve been stuck, stuck in the world that doesn\u2019t get fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That may be sad, but I assure you it\u2019s better than things used to be. I\u2019m old\u2014old enough to remember a past most people you\u2019ve spoken to have forgotten\u2014and I\u2019m telling you now is the best time to be alive, whether you practice the Art or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s lucky for you<\/em>. You\u2019re one of the lucky ones. Because you live in that time. Because you found this. Because you\u2019re reading it. Your Third Eye is opening and you soon have the opportunity to practice the Art, if it doesn\u2019t kill you. Lucky you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But you have<\/em> been getting left behind, and for several years now. A gap is growing, and growing wider, and on one side, there\u2019s the whole vast world, all with their Third Eyes closed. And now you, here on this side, with me and everyone else with all three eyes open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or perhaps you\u2019re not quite there yet? Try again. I\u2019ll wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not yet? Soon, soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I\u2019ll keep going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Open Door is always\u2026 well, open<\/em>. It\u2019s here, and your hand is on the knob, and all you have to do is stop thinking about it, turn your hand, and step, just like you would if this door existed in any way you\u2019re already used to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It started with the deck, her <\/em>deck. You might not even know her name, isn\u2019t that some shit? Before her, this whole thing was dead. I mean, no one\u2019s Third Eye was open. Almost no one, I mean. There were always some. Priests, shamans and kings. People who could hoard it hoarded it. The people had no entry, like you do. The Art infused in this message and the network of clues it\u2019s a part of, is itself many times greater than the sum of all the Art the whole world<\/em> was using at any one time in the 19th Century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things have changed. The Art belongs to the people now, those whose Third Eyes obey them, and open and close at will. It belongs to you too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I feel I should prepare you for what will come next (there is no way to do that; there are only confusing things to say, mad rivers of explanation I could carry you down until the point becomes nothing more than a blur), but what matters to ME\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I wish someone had asked ME was: what do you hope to OFFER?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will want to answer a different question first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are made of seeking forces who have always been hungry. The Art is a chance to feed those forces; all the little seekers in your head. All your questing voices forcing things, struggling to make the world what they want it to be. I know you have them, I have them too. I hope you\u2019re wise enough to know you\u2019re a committee and not an individual, not really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the members of your committee will ask: How may I use this to get what I NEED?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As if you know what you need! You may only ever know what you WANT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an Artist, you\u2019ll get every opportunity to have what you want. You can make what you want out of thin air, with your Third Eye open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there\u2019s a voice in my mind\u2014one who speaks softly. She reminds me to balance what I GET with what I OFFER.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that\u2019s why you\u2019re holding my hand right now, can you feel it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m with you. Walking you toward the dream. Walking you toward your place in our world. I don\u2019t know you yet, but we\u2019ve found each other, and soon we will know each other in life. I don\u2019t know what manner of Art we will create, but:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are thinking about what you will OFFER the world instead of what you WANT, I bet we can make something beautiful together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So there\u2019s my pitch. Welcome to the Road. I hope you walk in my direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this has been for you, but this tiny part is just for me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This represents my offering, a monument to this path I walk, this Road of Two Lands. I dedicate this message to the city on my right side, the city of light, and the city on my left side, the city of shadow. I hold light in my right hand and shadow in my left. I add this message to the Open Door that I may invite this new guest and many more to the Road, to the Flower, to the Art.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t celebrate the gap, but I do like to build bridges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Third Eye is open and I see you right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you feel it? I\u2019m your Muse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Believe. Open your Third Eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be inspired<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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