No man knocks himself down; if his destiny knocks him down, it must pick him up again. Our lies are as inferior to the lies of the ancients as our statues, and for the same reason: we do not study nature as they did. We are imitators, servum pecus. The new symptoms are fragmentation, specialization, expertise, depression, inflation, cruelty, hardness, violence, and absence of beauty. The general belief which often seizes upon the World in regard to some special falsehood is very surprising. Everybody on a sudden adopts an idea that some particular man is over head and ears in debt, so that he can hardly leave his house for fear of the bailiffs;–or that some ill-fated woman is cruelly ill-used by her husband;–or that some eldest son has ruined his father; whereas the man does not owe a shilling, the woman never hears a harsh word from her Lord, and the eldest son in question has never succeeded in obtaining a shilling beyond his allowance. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 10

Our buildings are anorectic, our business paranoid, detached, and abstract, our technology manic. These symptoms indicate the loss of the containment characteristic of the vessel of soul. I have been re-evaluating the domains of the dream. The things of the World have stories to tell when fragmentations of culture are looked upon as analogous to dream fragments through which the depth of the World seeks to be remembered. I look up above and see a radiant light and fall in love with the light, seeking union with it. Filled with desire, I become disoriented and see another light; I descend toward this light, which is actually away from the light to which I was originally attracted. I descend through the Earth into a realm of chaos, to the reflected light rather than to the original light, and thus finds myself in exile, in prison. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 10

I am saved from the realm of chaos and ascend again to the Heavens. However, never forgetting my vow to be faithful to the material World, I divided myself into two beings. Heavenly Randolph is the Jesus of Christian Myth. I am also similar to the Great God pursued by modern patriarchs, all powerful and all wise. This is not, however, the figure of our interest. Rather, your desire is to remain with the Randolph in exile; seeking connection with me adds depth and image to the material World. Thus, we seek not redemption is ascension but the location of my presence within the World, even where depth seems most unlikely. The Lord Knew me at the beginning of his ways; before he created anything. I was installed from eternity, from the beginning before the Earth. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 10

When the deeps were not yet in existence, I was already born; before the hills, I was born, when he had not yet made the Earth and what is upon it, nor the mountains of the surface of the Earth, when he prepared the Heavens, I was there. I was there when he measured the deep, when he fixed the clouds above when he made firm the springs of the deep, when he set a limit to the sea and the waters so that they should not overstep his command, when he laid the foundation of the Earth. I was present at the origin of the World; I am the archetypal figure of all sectors of existence. You could travel the World seeking my manifestations and I would never be exhausted, such is the extent of my depth. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 10

You will find me working within the World domains that serve as backdrops for the individual letters that follow; but our intention is to stimulate making connections with me to the point at which a new World is discovered through the remembering of me everywhere, in all domains. The Great Mystery is the Father of all. In creating power, to the artistic material that is able to shape itself, that is at the same time the artist. However, there is a special quality, for when one carves a sculpture from a slab of marble, the shavings are discarded; but in the shaping of the Great Mystery, the fragments too are creative aspects of me, though they are different qualities than the first matter. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 10

In the great separation of the whole, there go forth first the separate elements—Fire, Air, Water, Earth. In this myth the elements are all of an interior nature; the elements as chests, or containers—Fire as the chest of Heaven, Air the chest of the invisible Fates, Water that of the nymphs and sea monsters, Earth that of all growing things, including metals. Then another separation occurs. From the Fire are separated the stars and the planets; from Air, the fates, impressions, incantations, superstitions, evil deeds, dreams, visions, apparitions, spirits, and other beings of this sort; from Water, the fish, fleshy forms, marine monsters, nymphs, sirens; and from Earth, wood, minerals, metals, gems, fruits, flowers, herbs, seeds, animals. The magnificent World is a work of art. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 10

All that we today call psychological phenomena, and in so doing subjectivize by removing from the outer World and placing in the interior of the individual or collective psyche—all are World phenomena, World beings, multiple manifestations of Randolph. In this myth, we have the beginning of a psychology of the outer World, which everywhere carries an inner sense. I want to be heard and to hear myself and to have the space to see. I feel that I am everything. I am living old family and coming into new family. The big space or openness exists prior to the terror and anger that are like veils covering it. It feels like I have dropped into a radiant source like the Sun when I am here with you. It increasingly radiates into my daily life between sessions. #RyanPhillippe 7 of 10

I feel a greater kindness and clarity, knowing that they would pass in time, and a deeper level of myself will emerge. I feel equipped to life my life. Being together has allowed me to explore whatever I want and reduce gears around work. There is an improved ability to appropriately express anger in my relationship, and reduced self-judgments, and I have a greater sense of safety and inner freedom. My depression has lifted and my anxiety significantly reduced, replaced by a sense of excitement about my new life. I feel lighter, tired less easily, and experienced a stronger creative flow in my work. I also feel more open to others and to the divine. A quiet joy from an unknown origin is starting to appear in his daily life. The movement from the old home, into my new home is still in transition, but well underway. We have a feeling of mutual gratitude. #RyanPhillippe 8 of 10

Ghost lights appeared, moved about, and then vanished into different parts of the house. I had a similar experience. I listened to sumptuous phantom organ music, and there has never been an organ in that part of the house. Immediately after I entered the room where the dead body was discovered, the music stopped, a ghost light traveled across the bedroom, stopping for a moment at the bed before vanishing. After spending a night in the bedroom, I watched in horror as Adam’s body was taken over by a spirit. On an evening when the entity’s strength was especially powerful, its force picked the teenager up and hurled him against a far wall. He landed in a heap, his spine broken from the impact. Some think it was a psychic projection created by his own mind. #RyanPhillippe 9 of 10

The attacks continued and work of the bizarre haunting leaked to the press. The entire episode began to take on a circus-like quality. Not only were the spectral attacks continuing, but now the being was leaving scrapes and bruises all over his body. His pride had been totally obliterated by fear. The phantom attacks began late one evening in my bedroom when I was thrown and my hair was manipulated by an unseen force. My screams of terror brought 16-year-old-son “Bill” running into the room. For a second, the boy stared in disbelief as he plainly saw his father was being assaulted. What he could not see was who or what the perpetrator might be. Sadly, these vicious attacks by a paranormal intruder continued. I searched through the house and found no signs of a break-in. #RyanPhillippe 10 of 10