The Wayseer Manifesto

Attention, all you rule breakers, misfits, and troublemakers. All you free spirits and pioneers, all you visionaries and nonconformists. Everything the establishment told you was wrong with you is exactly what is right with you. You see things other people don't. You're wired to change the world. Unlike nine out of ten people, your mind can't be repressed, and that threatens authority. You were born to be a revolutionary. You can't stand rules because, in your heart, you know there is a better way. You have strengths the establishment considers dangerous, and it wants them eliminated. So, your entire life, you've been told that your strengths were weaknesses.

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I'm telling you the opposite.

Your impulsiveness is a gift. Impulses are your key to the miraculous. Your distractibility is evidence of your inspired creativity. Your mood swings follow the natural pulse of life, giving you unstoppable energy when you're high, then deep and moving insight when you're low. Labeling you with a disorder is society's newest way of denying its own sickness by pointing a finger at you. Your addictive personality is a symptom of your vast, underused capacity for heroic creative expression and spiritual connection.

Your complete lack of inhibition. Your wide-eyed idealism. Your utterly open mind.

Has no one ever told you? These are the strengths shared by the greatest pioneers and visionaries. Innovators, revolutionaries, procrastinators, drama queens, social activists, daydreamers, nonconformists, philosophers, outcasts, people in suits and ties, football stars and sex addicts, celebrities with ADD, novelty-seeking alcoholics, first responders, prophets and saints, mystics and agents of change.

We're all the same, you know. Because we're all touched by the wave.

We're all the same, you know. Because we're all drawn to the flame.

You know in your heart that there is a natural order. Something more sovereign than any rule or law made by human beings could ever express.

That natural order is called the Way.

The Way is the eternal substrate of the cosmos. It guides the joyful currents of time and space. Some know it as the will of God, divine providence, the Holy Spirit, the implicate order, the Tao, reverse entropy, the life force. For now, let's simply call it the Way.

The Way is reflected in you as the source of your inspiration, your passions, your wisdom, your enthusiasm, your intuition, your spiritual fire, your love. The Way takes the chaos of the universe and breathes life into it, giving it divine order. When expressed through the mind, the Way is genius. When perceived by the eyes, it is beauty. When felt through the senses, it is grace. When allowed into the heart, it is love.

Most people can't perceive the Way directly.

But then there are the wayseers, the keepers of the flame.

Wayseers have an inexplicable gift for simply knowing the Way. They feel it in their own being. They can't tell you why or how they arrived at the right answer. They just know it at their core. They can't show you how they got there, so don't ask. Their minds simply resonate with the Way. When the Way is present, so are they. While others are blind to it, and society begs you to ignore it, the Way stirs inside you.

Neurological repression blocks most people's awareness of the Way. Your prefrontal cortex, the Gestapo of the brain, censors every thought and impulse rising from the unconscious. Nothing that violates its social programming is allowed through.

But your mind is different.

Your mind was thrown wide open to the Way. Through some miraculous genetic trait, some psychotropic chemical, or perhaps even the will of your own soul, your brain's reward pathways were hijacked. Dopamine was recruited to overthrow the fascist dictatorship of your prefrontal cortex. Now your brain is free from repression. Your mind is free from censorship. Your consciousness is exposed to the turbulent seas of the unconscious. Through that open door, divine light shines into your awareness and shows you the Way.

That is what makes you a wayseer.

Ninety percent of human civilization is populated by people whose brains are closed to the Way. Their minds are programmed to enforce the social doctrine installed in them from birth. Unlike you, they can't break through that programming because they haven't yet experienced the necessary revolution of the mind.

Programmed people take social institutions and rules very seriously. Society is packed with games designed to keep people's minds occupied so they won't revolt. These games often create unhealthy fixations on peculiar protocols, power structures, taboos, and domination. They are all subtle forms of human slavery.

This particular kind of madness is tolerated by the masses.

It is demanded.

The programmed believe in the rules so fiercely that they become willing to destroy anyone who breaks them. Wayseers are the ones who expose them.

Because their minds are free to reject social programming, wayseers can see these institutions for what they are: imaginary games. Wayseers comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. Helping those who are lost inside these games, even when they refuse to help themselves, is the calling of many wayseers.

Wayseers remain in contact with the original source of reality. That is why they can disrupt social conventions and even governments, forcing humanity back into alignment with the Way. They are an ancient lineage, a kind of priesthood, bearers of the flame, the ones who know.

There must always be wayseers to reform the dizzying, psychotic machinery of society, those gigantic and mindless hamster wheels that blot out the clear blue sky while keeping humanity chained inside a darkened cage.

And so wayseers are called to shine a light on society's madness, continually bringing the timeless, transcendent spirit of truth back to life.

Wayseers reveal that divine truth by giving themselves to the birth of something creative or disruptive: art and philosophy, innovations that shake industries, revolutions for democracy, blows against hypocrisy, solidarity movements, changes that leave a legacy, rebellions against policy, technology filled with spirit, moments of clarity, things that challenge barbarism, milestones of sincerity, monumental acts of charity.

We're all the same, you know, because we're all touched by the Way.

We're all the same, you know, because we're all drawn to the Way.

This is your calling, wayseer.

You've found your tribe.

Welcome home.