Otis Funkmeyer, The Ph.D. of Popping

So it’s a couple hours before my show and I am feeling this sort of malaise. I’m gonna write it out here because I find that this helps me and you all seem to find it valuable at times. I am creating now, on my path, doing my thing, and well, so what? My friend Tamara told me about this warehouse filled with boxed paintings that people had labored over and on and on and on and you get the drift. They’re all just in boxes in a nameless warehouse now. It feels a little meaningless.

On top of that, there’s this desire in me to do magnificent work, to do things of importance, to really transform the world. And here I am performing for a handful of people at a library in a small town in Bali. I understand that this is all some downer shit but it’s nice for me to share.

The real thing is the movie VV and I are working on. It’s finally hitting me that there are about an infinity number of ways to tell a story and stories to tell and it’s freaking me out and I want to tell a “good” story, a story that “matters,” and I’m finding it debilitating. But when I just let go and tell something that seems fun or good or nice, it feels so trivial that I’m kicked back into this meaninglessness thing.

So basically, I’m a little confused. I’m sure it will pass because it just came on right before I sat down to write anyway, but it feels important to me.

Do I even like to make movies? Why do I think I’m so important to transform the world? Does everyone want to do this? All I know is that it feels like a tight rope at the moment. If I get too self-important, I am debilitated and can’t enjoy anything and thus can’t create. But if I’m too self-unimportant and shits and giggles and all that, I am thrust into existentialism. So I’ll do my best to keep on keeping on.

Living a life of luxury has made me see that yes, a life of luxury is quite nice, and no, I’m not particularly attached to it. It seems to have nearly as many downsides as upsides, in the keeping up with the Jones’s sense of things.

I’m going to go back to joy now, thanks for listening:

I have to say that this is a surprising thing for me to be writing or speaking about or even interested in. This is not a subject that I remember fascinating me as a child and I have generally regarded myself as fairly dismissive of wild theories or non-materialistic matters.

Several years ago, I became interested in certain spiritual information that I later found out was “channeled.” Channeled information is that which is supposedly downloaded from some other consciousness when a meditative state is entered. The consciousness then speaks through the person channeling and says whatever they feel like saying.

What struck me so much about the information was how pertinent it was to my lived experience of life. Nothing airy-fairy, no catastrophic predictions or heralds of future spaceships, but the nuts and bolts of reality. How to be happy, how to be successful, how to enjoy yourself and your life. This is the type of information that I *have* always been interested in and so it was quite shocking when the information I found most resonating with me came from someone who claimed to be, in effect, a telephone for an alien.

At first, I tried to deny this or avoid it or just not think much about it. But after a while, it just felt like it was starting me in the face and it was something that I had to take a deeper look at. What I found is fascinating, exciting, and speaks to the shift that we as a humanity are right in the middle of, waking up to our galactic heritage and to a broader conception of ourselves, of reality, and of the universe we live in.

The information that I would like to share with you sounds straight out of a science fiction movie and the best answer I can come up with for that is: Where did the science fiction movies come from?

What is our imagination? Why did we even think of aliens? Why does this fascinate so many of us? Why do they make so many movies about these subjects? Why are we as a planet spending billions of dollars looking for signs that we’re not alone?

I would like to share some stories and present them as nothing more than thought experiments. Interesting ideas that at the very least are “cool” to ponder.

The reason that this subject has continued to interest me and why I find it worthy of getting up on a stage and discussing is that it has the possibility to awaken our imaginations, open our minds to possibilities that we had never considered. It dares us to think bigger, dream larger, see the world we abide in in a new way, and I think that all of this expansion leads us into a direction that we all deep down want to go in.

Towards hope, towards joy, towards community, towards harmony, and towards possibility.

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Here was the program for the second show I did. It was Wednesday and the theme was Mayan Cosmology. The shows have gone really well. The amazing thing is that I am *finally* having the courage to do what Bashar told me to do all along: do what is my highest joy, simply because it is my highest joy. Not because I think it will make me rich or famous or will pay the bills, but simply because it’s who I am.

I LOVE DOING THIS MORE THAN ANYTHING! Just get me on a stage, any stage, and I will do my spiel! And people are enjoying it! Next Monday’s show is on Extraterrestrial Existence. Improv Everytime (get it?).

I am really happy here, VV is here, life unfolds, I am thinking a lot about STORY and MYTHOLOGY and ARCHETYPES and ASTROLOGY these days and I have become a *MEAN* raw food chef. On the real.

Going to the gym a lot, getting a little buffness going on, it all just keeps unfolding. I am finally on the path that I always wanted to be on and it is a happy, happy, rewarding, fulfilling place to be:

I want to share with you tonight some of the things that I have
learned about Mayan cosmology. Growing up in a modern Western society,
the idea of cosmologies seems at best mythical and at worst the work
of cranks and primitives.

Hidden beneath this judgment is the ignorance of the fact that we too
have a cosmology of our own: a scientific, Catholic cosmology that was
constructed, not as God-given or absolute as it is presented to us to
be.

What this means is that we have a certain conception of time and how
this time plays out in our lives, on our Earth, throughout our solar
system and galaxy, and ultimately throughout the three-dimensional
universe in which we see ourselves abiding.

This is important because the cosmology that we subscribe to gives us
a certain sense (as do all cosmologies) of how life works, and perhaps
more specifically, how TIME works.

In our current cosmology, which I will refer to as Gregorian
cosmology, we have a conception of time that is focused on the Earth’s
rotation around the Sun. This is a very regular, linear rotation that
repeats every 365 “days,” where a day is seen to be the time it takes
from one sun rise to the next.

As we have all grown up under this cosmology, we are often ignorant of
the effect that it has on us, the world view that it engenders. I
would argue that this world view is one that views life as a linear,
random process where change is unpredictable and cycles continue
indefinitely.

The Mayans have a completely different cosmology, based around the
Earth’s rotation around not only the sun, but also around the Galactic
Center, which they refer to as Hunab Ku. Two important things follow
from this Mayan cosmology. The first is that we are part of a much
larger picture, a galactic picture. The second is that time is not a
linear process but is instead a fractalline process, where the same
cycles repeat, but at different intervals of time.

From this cosmology, the Mayans deduced that a great shift was to
occur when the Sun became conjunct (aligned) with the Galactic Center,
on the Winter Solstice in the year of 2012.

Their cosmology predicted a gradual awakening of consciousness to its
heritage beyond the Earth and the solar system, to its rightful home
at the center of the galaxy.

Scientists have found that it appears to be a black hole that resides
in the galactic center. This is interesting due to the fractal
mathematics involved.

If we take a piece of bread, and chop it in two, and then again, and
again, and again, we can continue this process infinitely if we have
instruments of sufficient precision. The piece of bread will become
infinitely small, though we will never reach a point where this is “no
bread.” This is basically how a black hole works. Matter is sucked
deeper and deeper into the hole, accelerating towards infinity, but
never reaching an end point. It is an infinite process of ever-faster
free-falling.

This is what the Mayan Calendar predicts will happen to consciousness.
The cycles will be split, infinitely smaller and smaller, as we
approach this alignment with the galactic center, until we are thrown
into speeds that approach infinity.

As we are currently locked in a cosmology that denies the reality of
fractal mathematics and infinite acceleration, this is a tough pill to
swallow. Thus, the systems based on Gregorian cosmology will have to
shift as we approach this time. Already, we are watching economies and
resources and systems that were viewed in a linear nature become
increasingly problematic, while at the same time, new systems, such as
the internet, that embrace this other cosmology, flourishing.

The purpose of this acceleration is awakening. Awakening to the
reality of who we really are and of the dream that we find ourselves
co-creating. It is an exciting time to be alive!

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