Imaginal Work

That it is not a distortion of life, but a deeper fidelity to it.

That it is not a pathology, but a prototype.

The human being, in full bloom, is surfing.

Is stoned.

Is singing with the wave.

the stoned/stoked consciousness is not escapist, but revelatory.

Dr. River Blaine puts it bluntly:

“Modernity declared war on ecstasis. It replaced waves with algorithms, breath with

metrics, awe with optimization. But the body remembers. The psyche remembers. The

ocean waits.”

Dr. Cardona writes:

“We live under the dominion of what I call Cognitive Calvinism: the belief that pleasure

must be earned through suffering, that joy is suspicious, and that altered perception is a

moral threat. The stoked/stoned state is not pathological—it is revolutionary.”

Borrowing from chronos (clock time) and kairos (divine timing), we define chirotic time as the

psychospiritual portal that opens in moments of ecstatic synchrony. These states—triggered by

cannabis, surfing, music, or poetic awareness—shatter temporal regularity and replace it with

lived mythos. You are no longer “in” time. You are in the moment as a ... See more

The point of all this whole game, as far as I can tell, is to use Death as a forcing function to wakeup as quickly as possible to the existence of a deeper path in us, and in Life.

And to get on that path and do whatever necessary to stay on it and follow where it leads.

This is simple to say and very difficult in practice.