Master Of The Game #SynchroMysticism Part 3: Herman Hess
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
-Herman Hess
I still remember reading “Siddhartha” in 11th grade AP English at Eagle Rock High. The story of a guy who leaves his home. He goes on a spiritual quest to find meaning. He meets many people on his journey who help him find inner peace.
It’s basically the story of the Buddha. The story of Luke Skywalker and so many other “HERO’s.”
I can still see my AP English teacher pacing around the classroom reading prose from his tattered paperback copy of Siddhartha to a bunch of half asleep high school kids.
All I really remember from the book is this guy Siddhartha sitting in a tree meditating trying to figure out his shit. Pretty deep stuff for a high school AP English class. But so was Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye.
It’s interesting how we are assigned to read these books about protagonists saying “fuck it” and pursuing the “crooked path,” while society expects you to follow the straight and narrow: get a job, get married, buy a home start a family.
That’s all consumerist bull shit. It’s all to keep you stuck on the hamster wheel. No wonder everyone is “depressed, drunk or high” these days. Who can keep up with all of that nonsense. It’s literally insanity.
What is the “glass bead game” and who is the “MASTER?”
I totally forgot who wrote Siddhartha. And as I was doing a bit of research to write this post, I was baffled to see that Herman Hess was the author.
Hess also wrote “The Glass Bead Game,” a story that takes place somewhere in the future in a fictional European province called “Castalia,” home to an austere order of intellectuals with a twofold mission: to run a boarding school and to play “The Glass Bead Game.”
It’s a tough read. Maybe like my theory on John Updike ( Rabbit Run), Herman Hess was drunk, high or just full of himself when he was writing “The Glass Bead Game.”
Kinda sounds like Harry Potter.
The rules to the glass bead game per “Wikipedia” are “sophisticated,” not sure what that means. Perhaps there are no rules. Kinda like “Fight Club,” don’t talk about?
Playing the game well requires years of hard study of music, mathematics, and cultural history. I would also have to add: art, myth, science, astrology and of course psychology… and a fine knowledge base of the occult.
If you live a hamster wheel kinda life, you’ll probably slip into a hypnotic trance and never really learn how to play the game. You’ll be too busy to study. Too busy to see the signs. Until your life starts to fall apart or you are threatened with death. But that’s only if your EGO will let you discover The Game.
In Hess’s novel, the game proceeds by players making deep connections between seemingly unrelated topics. It’s what I like to call “synchromysticism.”
The main key components of the game:
Introversion
Extroversion
You have to be an introvert in order to undergo intense study and be able to attune your the downloads from the universal intelligence. And of course a extrovert in order to be out in the world, collect synchs and mingle with other people .
I guess you can think of it kinda like playing tennis. You train. Then you play with your opponent. You level up.
Hess states there are four basic psychic functions of analytical psychology needed in order to be an active player of the “game” which include:
Sensation
Intuition
Feeling
Thinking
From my experience in the “dating” world, the men I have encountered on my own Heroes Journey, tend to shut down “Sensation, intuition and of course feeling.” And I guess I can also add THINKING!
Lots of the guys I’ve dated are under some hypnotic trance. It’s as if they are being puppeteered by some unknown “force.” they start to walk, talk, and act like… ROBOTS! They are stuck in a life that they really hate and are being run by an “EGO” program. They are not conscious. There’s a disconnect with their higher self. Their true persona.
I’ve also seen this happen with female colleagues of mine who have tried to take over my persona… ie they literally started to copy how I dressed, talked and even walked. It was downright creepy at times… especially when they TRIED to steal my creative stuff and make it there’s… that’s where my inner HERO stepped in, woke them up and sometimes I had to go to battle with them. But it’s easy to dismantle a robot. You just have to tip them over and they get scared. They get scared of losing their corporate jobs. They get scared of divorce. They are scared of truly living LIFE!
Touché.
To be continued
For more info please listen to What is the EGO on The Nurses and Hypochondriacs Podcast:
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