This weekend, I had a life changing experience. At a party on Orchard street, a guy from Madison Area Technical College had accompanied his friends to a party of UW Madison kids. They called him Rainman. While he appeared ragged, his viewpoints were astonishing. He spoke relatively plain, with a slight husky drawl, glowing with a strange hint of something I could not seem to trace. He was arguing that man has the power to change the planet on a personal level.
"What is that in your voice, I'm feeling something in your voice, what is that?" I urged him.
"Have you been enlightened?" He asked, fixing a serious gaze through me.
"No, but I'm on the way," I replied.
"Then you know what it's about." he spoke. It clicked. Rainman was enlightened. He was speaking with unmistakable experience in his voice. I was locked into the resonating grip of his words.
"I can say something, and telling it to one person could change the whole world," he said. 
"No it couldn't," was the reply from his opponent.
"Humans have the ability to change everything."
"He's absolutely right," I said automatically.


Thus far, I've explained that the pineal gland syncs our dreamworld with our physical bodies. Similarly, death is the ultimate stage in perceiving reality. Alex Grey depicts this incredible awareness:

Lebanese poet, artist and prophet, Khalil Ghibran, writes in his famous poem "The Prophet:"
“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honor. For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?”  ...It is life in quest of life in bodies that fears the grave.”

 What is this all about? Reaching enlightenment. Allow the professional to explain:

David Lynch Speaks on Consciousness and Creativity

“This pure Consciousness is called by modern physicists the “Unified Field.” It’s at the base of all mind and all matter. This field has qualities: bliss, intelligence, creativity, universal love, energy, and peace. It’s the experiencing of it that does everything. ...Enlightenment is the full potential of all of us human beings" - David Lynch.


What is he saying? There is far more to this reality than we think. Rainman's enlightenment became a spiritual life vest to me, as his words locked into my being with incredible power and synchronicity. I had never heard of nor experienced this, and immediately became living proof that words could change the world. That night, I felt the shift in me, which became the foundation to the awareness of my own true potential and ability to convey this message to others. Milwaukee artist and MIAD student Ben Grauer represents the hypocrisy of adults' misleading words and actions, while true awareness is derived from unifying wavelengths:

 David Lynch's theory of "golf ball" to "basketball-sized consciousness" is best exemplified by his 2008 Movie "Inland Empire." This movie is the ultimate labyrinth, and to wade through its tense and twisted plot is to stretch your experience to the edge. To dissect a David Lynch movie, which are up to 100% individual interpretation, one can categorize characters by their degrees of 'earthly presence:'

Main Characters: Usually in the third dimensional, physical universe climate, accustomed to seeing time from start to finish.
Phantoms: These may be characters bordering the dreamworld, and sometimes materialize in reality by a glitch in the fabric of time-space. (Mulholland drive: The nightmare in the alleyway, Inland Empire: the terrifying face).
Operators: These characters are aware of the full plot in ways the audience and other characters do not grasp, even after seeing the movie. They see time simultaneously. They may operate in any point in time, between realms, or create a glitch in the fabric of time-space. (Erasherhead: Man with levers, Mulholland Drive: Albino Cowboy, Lost Highway: Albino man).
Crones: These women have clairvoyant abilities that allow them to prophesize trouble in the realm of time-space, and warn the main characters ahead of time. (Inland Empire: Polish Gypsy-Neighbor, Mulholland Drive: Woman shouting "Trouble!")
Unraveling these movies can be very similar to unraveling Donnie Darko. Both types of movie have transcendental characteristics. With David Lynch, the level required for probing for the truth is more likely to completely dismantle your previous formation of perceptions.
Khalil Ghibran complements this philosophy that Lynch utilizes:


“Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end. Life, and all that lives, is conceived in the mist and not in the crystal. And who knows but a crystal is mist in decay?”

The power is ours!

-Subtemplum