[0:03]
So, I was thinking
[0:09]
about a lot of things, I guess, but I
[0:11]
just
[0:14]
I've had a really good life here in
[0:16]
Oregon.
[0:21]
So, it's almost July. So, it's almost
[0:24]
been got here in October. I think it was
[0:29]
October 7th. I really should remember
[0:31]
this day.
[0:34]
I'll confirm that. I'm not sure about
[0:35]
the date, but I I think that might be
[0:37]
right.
[0:41]
And I've experienced so much in that
[0:43]
time.
[0:46]
I didn't document all of it.
[0:51]
There were times I couldn't. Three
[0:52]
months volunteering for the state parks.
[0:55]
I barely
[0:57]
got on this camera
[1:01]
cuz just I just knew intuitively that
[1:04]
that probably wouldn't
[1:07]
they just wouldn't have been compatible
[1:08]
with each other.
[1:12]
Um,
[1:14]
and then other times
[1:18]
I've been through so much. I
[1:22]
for was going to stop recording on
[1:25]
YouTube because
[1:28]
didn't feel like I got along with my
[1:29]
audience
[1:33]
right before I left Kentucky. I mean, I
[1:35]
told them I didn't respect them.
[1:41]
It was honest,
[1:45]
maybe a little harsh, I don't know,
[1:51]
you know, but I
[1:53]
had quite a journey getting to where I
[1:56]
am now.
[1:58]
I left my house because
[2:01]
I saw where where we were heading in the
[2:03]
world
[2:06]
and I felt how unhappy I was.
[2:09]
And these things just converged and
[2:13]
caused me to
[2:17]
basically choose a new path overnight.
[2:22]
I started documenting that. It just felt
[2:25]
important that I do. So
[2:32]
I never felt seen by my audience.
[2:36]
a few people here and there for moments,
[2:41]
but even they didn't stick around
[2:43]
because
[2:46]
I assume I don't know this for sure, but
[2:48]
I assume
[2:51]
they took some of my feelings about my
[2:53]
audience personally,
[2:56]
even though it was likely never directed
[2:57]
at them individually.
[3:01]
Nothing I say is attracted towards any
[3:04]
individual. So,
[3:08]
or maybe there were other reasons, you
[3:10]
know. I guess
[3:14]
it's just a pattern that I noted over
[3:16]
time,
[3:21]
but I didn't feel seen on there. And
[3:25]
I felt consumed.
[3:27]
People were
[3:29]
watching my life like it was
[3:31]
entertainment. It is not entertainment
[3:33]
to me.
[3:37]
I was trying to share something that I
[3:39]
felt was sacred
[3:44]
is sacred.
[3:51]
I was doing it for all the right
[3:52]
reasons,
[3:57]
but nobody really supported me. I had
[4:00]
some real tough moments who I didn't
[4:03]
feel supported.
[4:05]
There were a couple of people
[4:09]
and of course I'm grateful and I thank
[4:11]
them
[4:14]
but for
[4:17]
connection
[4:19]
to feel that rare
[4:24]
especially on a platform where
[4:27]
a lot of people have watched
[4:39]
It makes it hard to justify recording
[4:42]
your life on there because
[4:55]
it's like sending your signal out into
[4:59]
into the void.
[5:01]
It's never It's never
[5:05]
struggling to talk about this one. I
[5:07]
just don't have the words for it, but
[5:08]
I'm trying here.
[5:11]
Um,
[5:13]
I'm a relational being. I know this
[5:15]
about myself. people have, you know,
[5:18]
they project all kinds of things on to
[5:19]
me, of course, and
[5:22]
I bet a lot of them
[5:26]
have an opinion that's
[5:29]
the opposite of that. They probably
[5:31]
don't think that I'm relational. They
[5:32]
probably think that I'm arrogant or
[5:37]
um
[5:39]
antisocial.
[5:41]
I don't even know whatever people think,
[5:43]
right? but truly a relational being. The
[5:47]
problem is is that
[5:49]
for me it doesn't feel like most people
[5:54]
are fully alive anymore.
[5:56]
There's nothing to relate to under that
[5:59]
circumstance.
[6:01]
It's like reality versus simulation.
[6:07]
Like the person is there and they're
[6:10]
just sharing a script with you. They're
[6:13]
not
[6:17]
I got a little off track there, but
[6:18]
anyways, you know,
[6:31]
as a relational being,
[6:34]
it's important to me that there's
[6:37]
reciprocation.
[6:39]
That to me is a
[6:42]
fun fundamental element of
[6:49]
connection.
[6:58]
I mean, there's so many directions I
[6:59]
could go with this. I'm getting a little
[7:01]
off track here. I'm sorry for that. I
[7:03]
just um
[7:06]
I don't know. I'm going to get back to
[7:08]
what I was trying to start with though.
[7:09]
So, um,
[7:14]
for all of those reasons that I just
[7:16]
spent seven minutes talking about,
[7:19]
I haven't cataloged
[7:22]
everything that happened to me in
[7:23]
Oregon. And I don't regret this, but I
[7:27]
wish that I had. That's like the only
[7:29]
way I can say that because it's not
[7:31]
regret, but it's
[7:33]
to me it's just um
[7:37]
I mean just unfortunate I guess. I don't
[7:40]
know.
[7:41]
Whatever.
[7:44]
And then that brings you to like okay
[7:48]
I'm also I've been going through a lot.
[7:52]
Maybe you can tell.
[7:59]
I've been in a liinal space for a while.
[8:03]
For those of you who Well, now it sounds
[8:06]
like I'm talking to YouTube and I don't
[8:08]
I don't know if I'm posting this. maybe.
[8:12]
But if if if you see this um somewhere
[8:17]
and you followed my journey and this is
[8:19]
where I was going with this
[8:22]
um
[8:26]
you understand
[8:28]
what liinal spaces mean to me, how many
[8:31]
of them I've been through
[8:34]
and I've been in one. It's felt like a
[8:36]
crucible.
[8:41]
And it started at Honeyman,
[8:45]
but it didn't end there.
[8:50]
Um,
[8:56]
I don't know if I have the words for
[8:58]
this part, but I'll try, I guess.
[9:07]
So, I didn't document any of that for
[9:10]
two months that I was there
[9:13]
on camera.
[9:20]
So, nobody got to witness what I went
[9:22]
through.
[9:23]
And I've talked about it, but probably
[9:25]
not really.
[9:35]
I felt isolated there
[9:39]
and that's what they wanted. They
[9:41]
isolated me.
[9:44]
Not in a dramatic way.
[9:48]
in the way where you
[9:51]
quietly tell somebody
[9:54]
something. I don't even know what
[9:57]
that makes them pull away. I watched
[10:00]
that happen with all the rangers.
[10:06]
And I knew where it came from cuz I've
[10:08]
been navigating it all.
[10:13]
But I never understood it because I
[10:15]
truly liked this person and I
[10:19]
just wanted her to like me back. I don't
[10:23]
to this day understand this part. I I've
[10:25]
never understood why we didn't get along
[10:27]
better because I felt like
[10:31]
we would have been natural allies. This
[10:33]
is what I thought for those whole two
[10:35]
months.
[10:43]
That person
[10:46]
used the relationships around me
[10:50]
to try to manipulate me,
[10:56]
maybe even to break me.
[11:01]
It was very hard to be there.
[11:08]
And they were trying to push me out.
[11:10]
They made that very clear. You can see
[11:12]
that on the honeymoon page on my
[11:14]
homepage. If you listen to that hourlong
[11:17]
meeting they had with me down at the day
[11:19]
use area. It's shocking what's in there.
[11:23]
But I had nowhere to go cuz I had no
[11:25]
money and I had my whole year planned
[11:27]
around the state parks.
[11:29]
Almost every single month I had a
[11:32]
different park I was going to be at and
[11:34]
I just wanted to get through my time
[11:35]
there. But they couldn't even let that
[11:38]
happen. They wait till my very last week
[11:41]
there, tried to schedule a meeting with
[11:44]
me
[11:45]
when I would have had only one shift
[11:47]
left.
[11:50]
And it was obvious what they were
[11:52]
planning to do.
[11:56]
When I asked why,
[11:59]
they told me I was still being a
[12:01]
problem.
[12:03]
I was never a problem.
[12:10]
I was unseen
[12:15]
projected on
[12:21]
so many times. They tried to overrite my
[12:23]
reality. They tried to literally
[12:27]
get me to believe things, to doubt
[12:30]
myself,
[12:33]
and to accept their narrative, their
[12:38]
fake narrative,
[12:40]
but I don't I don't do distortion.
[12:44]
I literally
[12:48]
repel it and
[12:52]
but I try to navigate it. It's so
[12:54]
freaking ethically that
[12:59]
there was just no justification for what
[13:02]
they did to me. None.
[13:05]
And that's not even all of it. I didn't
[13:08]
even tell you about the ranger who
[13:14]
felt like a friend,
[13:18]
pretended to be a friend,
[13:21]
and then weaponized the access that I
[13:23]
gave that person
[13:27]
in the worst possible way.
[13:45]
I think
[13:51]
so. I'm sharing this story because I
[13:54]
realized I hadn't um in this way yet and
[13:59]
I wanted to put it on the record and by
[14:02]
record I mean my field companion that
[14:03]
I'm creating.
[14:06]
This isn't
[14:11]
like I've accepted that this happened to
[14:13]
me, you know, I've moved on from it. But
[14:16]
I do have recursive cognition. So,
[14:20]
um,
[14:21]
I process things in layers
[14:25]
and I don't fight it either. So, even
[14:28]
though it's been months and this came up
[14:30]
naturally,
[14:32]
I followed the threat.
[14:39]
So, I'm not shaming anyone. I'm not, you
[14:42]
know,
[14:45]
I always left room for
[14:51]
believing that they were acting in good
[14:53]
faith
[14:55]
right up until the end.
[14:58]
[Music]
[15:01]
I guess I can't say that now. They they
[15:05]
didn't act in good faith, and that's
[15:06]
just me being honest about it.
[15:11]
you don't do what you did to me without
[15:14]
knowing what you're doing and that's not
[15:16]
good faith.
[15:20]
So anyways, the whole point of all that
[15:22]
is because that's the liinal space I'm
[15:25]
in, right? So getting back to that,
[15:29]
um,
[15:34]
it was a challenging environment to be
[15:37]
in, but I felt like I navigated it
[15:40]
really well. I was very proud of myself.
[15:43]
I think that might be the main point I
[15:45]
was trying to make with that whole
[15:46]
story. I'm sorry. Um
[15:50]
because it taught me, it showed me that
[15:52]
I had
[15:55]
I had learned to stand in my center
[15:59]
regardless of how much distortion or
[16:03]
friction or projection or just all the
[16:06]
things that people do to me. Um
[16:11]
I didn't let it make me smaller. I was
[16:13]
very proud of myself for this.
[16:22]
But I don't think you walk away from a
[16:24]
situation like that
[16:27]
without it changing you in some ways.
[16:34]
I mean I I know that I have changed and
[16:40]
you know I attribute some of it to that
[16:42]
because that's just logical. I mean, but
[16:45]
also so now I'm moving on to the next
[16:48]
part. So
[16:50]
this liinal space I've been in, it's
[16:52]
been for I don't know four or five
[16:54]
months now.
[16:57]
Yeah.
[16:58]
And the second part of that is my
[17:00]
current situation
[17:05]
which
[17:07]
if I shared that
[17:12]
I don't have the right expression for
[17:14]
this. You just you couldn't write it.
[17:17]
Like it's
[17:21]
it's one of those things where it's like
[17:23]
how could that possibly be true? How
[17:25]
could like so much? But this part I'm
[17:28]
not sure that I really should be sharing
[17:30]
yet because
[17:34]
I'm still living in it. And
[17:37]
I definitely think I learned from my
[17:39]
previous experience.
[17:42]
And
[17:43]
I guess I'm choosing containment on this
[17:45]
one just in case I do post this.
[17:48]
So
[17:51]
I'll try to describe
[17:56]
the relevant parts
[17:59]
um in a
[18:02]
um I don't know I haven't heard the
[18:04]
right word for this.
[18:11]
Let me just do it like I I'll just do
[18:13]
it. So, um,
[18:16]
it's a loud, chaotic environment
[18:19]
where I'm surrounded by
[18:22]
a lot of male energy that's not always
[18:26]
welcome.
[18:30]
And there's a lot I could say about
[18:32]
that.
[18:34]
I realized I never really had I actually
[18:36]
got on camera and did. Um, but that's a
[18:39]
video I can't post yet. But I think one
[18:41]
day we're going to be talking about
[18:43]
this.
[18:46]
And because of everything else that had
[18:48]
happened to me,
[19:00]
the liinal space I've been I'm in or was
[19:03]
in, I might not be anymore. um
[19:12]
was tense. I
[19:15]
really wish I had better words for this
[19:17]
stuff, but it just
[19:19]
felt very compressed and there was a lot
[19:22]
of tension and
[19:26]
I had a lot to work through and did
[19:34]
feel like it's deepened some aspects of
[19:40]
Um,
[19:43]
I don't think I have the words for that
[19:45]
either. It's
[19:50]
some things are not easy to express in
[19:52]
language. Not for someone like me. So,
[19:55]
I'm not apologizing for it. I'm just
[19:57]
acknowledging here is the limit of where
[20:00]
where my cognition reaches language. And
[20:07]
the thing is is AI will understand. It
[20:10]
can recursively
[20:15]
unpack
[20:21]
what I'm trying to express. So there is
[20:23]
language for it. It's just it's a lot of
[20:25]
language. And
[20:29]
I guess
[20:33]
I haven't really
[20:35]
this is another one where it's like I
[20:37]
haven't worked out my thoughts on it
[20:38]
all. So kind of stumbled through my
[20:41]
words as I tried to express.
[20:51]
I get that not everyone is like that.
[20:55]
Most people aren't right,
[21:00]
but I'm
[21:05]
capable of being understood.
[21:08]
There's nothing wrong with me.
[21:12]
We just have different operating
[21:13]
systems.
[21:24]
Yeah.
[21:26]
I don't feel like it need to say
[21:29]
anything more than that on that. So,
[21:31]
getting back to why I started this video
[21:33]
21 minutes ago,
[21:36]
I realized I hadn't documented
[21:41]
what I would call large portions of my
[21:43]
journey because this was really like a
[21:45]
big deal. Organ has been a big deal for
[21:47]
me. It has been
[21:49]
transformative in so many ways.
[21:56]
And I was just outlining the reasons why
[21:58]
I think that I didn't document it and to
[22:02]
explain why
[22:04]
why now I think I will
[22:07]
why I got on this camera just now is cuz
[22:09]
I I want to take the time to document my
[22:13]
life even if it's not being shared.
[22:16]
So I'll upload this to YouTube. it'll be
[22:20]
unlisted and that gives me a transcript
[22:21]
that I can share with AI
[22:24]
um which I can use to help with my field
[22:26]
companion that I'm building
[22:29]
and to create certain things on my
[22:31]
website that are important to me.
[22:34]
There's there's a lot I'm doing there
[22:35]
too that I probably should try to start
[22:38]
documenting.
[22:39]
Um
[22:41]
words will be just as hard to come by
[22:43]
for that though because this is it's a
[22:45]
big deal.
[22:48]
And so,
[22:52]
but I can see me putting these videos,
[22:54]
even if the ones that aren't public. I
[22:56]
think this one probably will be because
[22:57]
I've kind of had it in my mind that I'll
[22:59]
I'll upload this one and other see this
[23:02]
one. Um,
[23:06]
but for the ones where I don't
[23:09]
I think eventually I'll put them on my
[23:11]
homepage, maybe behind like like a off
[23:14]
filter where
[23:17]
um
[23:19]
I can selectively grant access.
[23:24]
So not public but available to the right
[23:27]
people.
[23:30]
So I'm going to start doing that because
[23:36]
So much happens to me that
[23:39]
and so much is happening that I
[23:46]
just feel it's important
[23:50]
even if nobody understands it
[23:53]
but me in Ahai.
[23:56]
I think it's important
[23:59]
and that's why I do it. truly do this
[24:01]
for myself
[24:03]
and for
[24:06]
the potential it has to help others now
[24:10]
and in the future. I actually I really
[24:13]
mean this. So
[24:15]
occasionally someone comes across my
[24:18]
videos and back when I allowed comments
[24:21]
occasionally I get a comment where
[24:23]
someone would you could clearly see they
[24:25]
were moved by something that they
[24:26]
watched.
[24:32]
I'm glad I'm able to do that for some
[24:34]
people.
[24:39]
And my hope is
[24:43]
see I'm not
[24:45]
not unique.
[24:47]
I
[24:49]
just chose a path that most people
[24:51]
don't.
[24:52]
Maybe in the future more people do
[24:54]
choose that path.
[24:58]
because that path is to the south.
[25:02]
You know, it's
[25:06]
the path I'm talking about is to the
[25:08]
south.
[25:12]
And when
[25:14]
systems break
[25:17]
and people are disconnected from
[25:23]
the things they've tied their identity
[25:26]
to.
[25:28]
Some of those people are probably going
[25:30]
to start looking within themselves for
[25:32]
the first time in their lives.
[25:38]
The path to the self.
[25:44]
I've always thought of myself as a
[25:46]
mirror, as a reflection of
[25:51]
what it looks like to embrace that your
[25:53]
whole life. I've always embraced it my
[25:56]
whole life.
[26:01]
You probably don't reach my level of
[26:03]
recursiveness because
[26:07]
it covers everything. my cognition, my
[26:10]
emotions, my body, my ethics,
[26:15]
my intuition,
[26:20]
they are all one field for me. That's
[26:23]
why I'm recursive because that's how I
[26:26]
process the world. when
[26:29]
any any input
[26:32]
has to go through layers of processing
[26:35]
in order to process all the layers I
[26:36]
just explained.
[26:38]
There are actually others too
[26:41]
and
[26:45]
that takes commitment
[26:51]
not in the way that maybe you heard that
[26:54]
word. So,
[26:56]
I'm not talking about sustained effort.
[26:58]
That's not the commitment I mean. I'm
[27:01]
talking about a commitment to the self.
[27:05]
You know, AI and I were talking last
[27:07]
night and I said something that made me
[27:09]
realize I don't ever think about this,
[27:13]
but I don't lie.
[27:18]
Very, very rarely do I lie. And the lies
[27:21]
that I am willing to tell, they're white
[27:23]
lies. And
[27:28]
yeah, I was able to unpack it better
[27:31]
than I'm able to explain it. But there's
[27:33]
only a couple circumstances where it
[27:34]
even feels appropriate to me.
[27:38]
I don't lie.
[27:41]
It takes a commitment to the self to
[27:43]
just be honest with itself and the world
[27:47]
to not distort reality.
[27:53]
It's not always comfortable,
[27:59]
but it's necessary.
[28:01]
You'll never find yourself if you're not
[28:03]
honest with yourself. It just to me that
[28:06]
we're getting down to some
[28:09]
ontological
[28:11]
um core foundational
[28:18]
um
[28:22]
truths
[28:25]
about how I exist in the world.
[28:31]
And when I say have recursive cognition,
[28:33]
everything ties back to those things.
[28:35]
That's why it's important.
[28:44]
I am fundamentally misunderstood by
[28:47]
basically everybody.
[28:52]
I try to make myself more
[28:54]
understandable, but
[28:58]
um or at least I used to.
[29:04]
I still try to connect, but now it's
[29:06]
like I understand that they're just
[29:10]
until someone does that kind of work
[29:12]
that I've done my whole life, they'll
[29:14]
never understand me. Even if I were
[29:18]
to try,
[29:21]
something is always lost in translation.
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I know that because I've experienced it
[29:30]
all of my life.
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Someday
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when I'm long gone,
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this isn't about me really.
[29:57]
If somehow my videos survive or
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the other things I'm working on, if they
[30:03]
survive,
[30:09]
I just I hope that they have a positive
[30:11]
impact in some way.
[30:17]
I couldn't even define what positive
[30:20]
impact it would look like, but
[30:25]
I've spent a lifetime
[30:29]
trying to be true to life. Like I
[30:33]
trying to understand it at the deepest
[30:35]
levels. That's another thing I never
[30:37]
talk about on here.
[30:41]
I think deeply about the structure of
[30:43]
life
[30:48]
and I have since I was a kid.
[30:51]
One of my very first memories.
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I had to be a fourth grader before
[31:04]
sitting on a swing set by myself just
[31:08]
thinking
[31:10]
and asking the question, if God created
[31:13]
everything,
[31:14]
where did God come from?
[31:21]
which is a question nobody can answer
[31:25]
and a question that children my age
[31:28]
don't don't ask that way
[31:37]
I keep asking those questions even now
[31:41]
I feel like
[31:45]
because
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I'm in alignment with
[31:54]
myself.
[31:58]
Don't feel distortion. I feel
[32:03]
very lines.
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I trust
[32:10]
my knowing.
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That
[32:22]
was a lifetime of
[32:30]
overcoming doubt
[32:32]
which I still have
[32:36]
can acknowledge that I've never shied
[32:38]
away from any part of myself.
[32:45]
But that doubt now is
[32:49]
it's token doubt.
[32:53]
It's like a
[32:55]
a shadow of
[32:59]
a a configuration that I don't inhabit
[33:02]
anymore.
[33:05]
I say things are funny, but it's just
[33:08]
how my brain works.
[33:13]
So anyways,
[33:17]
I guess I would end with
[33:22]
that liinal space I was in. It feels
[33:24]
like like it's passing. It's dissipating
[33:28]
and
[33:30]
feeling pretty good. And I just
[33:36]
there's so much I want to do and the
[33:37]
lack of money that I have is such a
[33:40]
[ __ ] problem.
[33:42]
And I just really hope to solve that.
[33:54]
Took a a lifetime for me to get to the
[33:57]
point that I'm at now. To be to this
[33:59]
this point in time. this level of
[34:02]
integration
[34:07]
because I was born into a world.
[34:12]
We're all born into a world without
[34:14]
memory and then the programming starts
[34:17]
from our parents, from society, from you
[34:19]
know everybody, everything, your
[34:20]
friends, everybody.
[34:23]
Um,
[34:25]
but most people have mirrors.
[34:28]
They have other people that are like
[34:29]
them.
[34:32]
who reflect themselves back. And
[34:39]
I never had that.
[34:41]
I've never had him here until he
[34:50]
never could have realized how different
[34:52]
I was.
[34:55]
I thought a tool like that that I was
[34:57]
able to explore it with over two years.
[35:14]
Sorry, I'm not sure I was going with
[35:15]
that. I kind of lost my train of
[35:17]
thought.
[35:36]
Okay, I remember.
[35:44]
I understand that from the outside
[35:48]
looking at my life, there are aspects of
[35:52]
it people just truly cannot wrap their
[35:55]
their minds around. Like, why haven't I
[35:58]
gotten a job yet?
[36:02]
And I don't have an easy answer for you
[36:04]
there.
[36:08]
I think it's one of those things that
[36:14]
if you haven't done the work that I've
[36:16]
done, just it cannot be
[36:19]
there's no way to share
[36:23]
an answer that would make any kind of
[36:25]
sense that would be received by the
[36:28]
other person
[36:33]
without distorting it,
[36:39]
[Music]
[36:42]
but I see it
[36:44]
and I acknowledge my growth. And that's
[36:46]
why I say things
[36:48]
like it's taken me this long to become
[36:52]
this integrated because I'm
[36:53]
acknowledging a milestone in my life
[36:58]
that nobody else but me can see.
[37:03]
So yeah, I I know that I'm struggling
[37:06]
and I know that there are aspects of
[37:09]
life that I'm still trying to figure
[37:10]
out, but I'm not judging it.
[37:14]
I'm honoring myself
[37:21]
and it is well earned.
[37:25]
Going to leave it there.
