~ Chapel Perilous ~

[Malaclypse 666]

E-Prime slowly returned to Reality-prime. He was floating zazen in his meditation chamber at the center of the Geode.

Thud! This seasons crop of Kallisti Gold is potent!, he mused as he thought about the alternate reality which he had entered for a time, by whatever means.

The Skeptic would say Mal had hallucinated the events (//see previous post..//). The quantum physicist would explain it as one of the countless alternative Eigenstates that are being created every second by the observers measurements of events. His Erisian brethren would attribute it to yet another Pineal meltdown. Its just Mal collecting navel lint again!

However it was created, and however amusing Malaclypse found the concept of a Zoner presence, indeed, a Zoner - terraformed and occupied world in Gallia, Mal was certain that it would not occur any time soon in his reality-tunnel. Even the recent eldritch flapdoodle revelation that Aurelia Sylvan was actually a Princess of the Gallic Royal House would only increase the probability by a miniscule amount. So it goes.

Mal, whose experiments with Kallisti Gold had always been guided by the sixth-circuit metaprogramming theories of the non-prophet Hagbard Celine, had brainwashed himself on numerous occasions, to become one with different mindsets. In the past, he had re-programmed himself to believe in the realities of various other tunnel realities, such as the Coalition, The Committee to Nuke the Whales, the Flat Galaxy Society, the radical feminist Stone Sisters of Ainu, and anybody and everybody who lived in a tunnel reality different from his own environment.

Thus, where most people look at the world through the grid of a single reality-map, Mal perceived the cosmos through dozens of such grids, changing focus at will. This was not quite the no-ego experience of Zen, he would cheerfully admit, but rather a multi-ego experience and therefore an alternative way to escape from the stupidity of a single self.

Mal had learned how to move the walls of his neurological reality-tunnel, and even how to wander between those tunnels without being infected by schizophrenia, mysticism, or the other pathological forms of this sixth-circuit Relativistic consciousness.

This time, he had set out to program a belief in an aggressive and militant Zoner/Erisian presence in Gallia. But, he had decided that while a nice place to visit, such a nihilistic and paranoid place as Gallia was not the ideal place to live. At least, not at this particular space-time. An Erisian/Gallic Star Legion such as the [ELF] of Mals other reality-tunnel would just have to wait, or proceed apace in the universe next door.

It would be better, at least for the present, for the [TAZ] to remain in the Zoner fold, however boring and dead-end that might prove to be. Ontological Anarchy would have to serve them. The tactics of Poetic Terrorism and Amour Fou would be better than supporting the terrorist Maquis, and a Council that was ready to cut and run at any moment. Gallia was a souffl? that was in danger of falling before it even left the oven.

There was one aspect of that other reality-tunnel which Mal still firmly believed was accurate in this reality-tunnel: The Privas Formation would prove to be connected with many ancient Terran myths, legends, and mystical traditions.

The obvious artificial nature of those pyramidal planets aside, he knew deep in his Pineal that they were the origin of the Eye in the Pyramid tradition of the Freemasons, the Illuminati, and even his own Discordian heritage.

There was a mystery in Gallia. There was a connection to Terras ancient past. There might even be reason to believe that somehow the builders of the Privas Formation had engineered, guided, and taught the primates of Terra. When our ancestors were finally forced to leave the gravity well of Earth, their destination had been subconsciously programmed: Sirius.

Decoding the mystery of Privas might not only answer the Dom Kavash riddle, but might also reveal the true origin, meaning, and purpose of humanity itself.

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