This course is a thing you do, not a thing you know - seeing the machine is not leaving it. Day one: a twenty-minute sit assembled word for word from quoted sources, nothing invented. Every day after: the same sit, neti neti run against whatever binary the feed hands you, and one line on a working sheet. The scholarship - Abraxas, the sophists, Bernays - is the proof the practice is older than everyone selling you a pole. The texts are free at the addresses printed inside; the $49 is for the doing.
Day one you print the sheets and sit for twenty minutes with a protocol assembled only from the quoted sources - posture, breath, and the concentration ladder from Vivekananda’s Raja Yoga, his warnings included. Every day after, the same sit, plus neti neti run against whatever pair of poles the day handed you, and one line on the sheet with the ending our grimoire made standard: what you checked the result against. The sheets are made to be reprinted until they are dirty. The reading exists so you trust the instructions enough to follow them; the practice is the product.
Before the poles were fenced, there was a figure that refused the split. The Gnostics carved him on amulets: Abraxas, rooster-headed, serpent-legged, neither the good god nor the bad one - the one prior to the division. The Upanishads said the same thing a thousand years earlier and said it more carefully: the world of pairs is appearance, and what is real sits before the first cut. Part I earns that claim from the sources - Hippolytus on Basilides, the Mandukya on the fourth state - instead of asking you to feel it.
The poles are manufactured. The field is one. Everything after Part I is either evidence for that sentence or practice built on it.
Gorgias called speech “a powerful lord” and boasted he could make the worse case the better. Machiavelli wrote down when appearing beats being, and we quote his chapter unsoftened, the way our grimoire quotes Saturn. Bernays industrialized the whole art in 1928 and named it in his first paragraph: the conscious manipulation of the habits of the masses. The feed is the same machine with a billion operators. Part II is the receipts, in order.
The final lesson of Part II dissects a sales funnel clause by clause: the problem it names, the fear it feeds, the cure it sells. The funnel we use is this page. You will take apart the exact document that convinced you to buy, and you will see every screw. If a course about persuasion will not show you its own machinery, it is the machinery.
This page is a funnel. It names a problem, makes you feel it, and sells you the cure - the oldest arc in the trade, and the course teaches you to see it, so it would be absurd to hide that it is being used on you right now. We leave the machinery visible on principle: no countdown timer, no fake scarcity, no “only 3 spots left.” A PDF has no spots.
Every quotation in the course is checked word for word against its scan by a script that runs on every build. If a quotation fails, there is no file to sell.
What it does not claim: that you will be enlightened, or by when. No measurement touches the fourth state and we have not made one. The breath practices carry the sources' own warnings and ours; this is scholarship and practice, not medicine. What you are buying is the arrangement: the machinery named in order, the practice assembled from texts that are free at the addresses printed in Part IV - and the sheets you will actually use.
What you walk away doing, not knowing: a twenty-minute sit you can run without us, neti neti applied to any binary the day serves you, and the Part II skill of taking a funnel apart clause by clause - starting with this one. The course is built to make itself unnecessary: the sheets are reprintable, the sources are free at the printed addresses, and the practice needs nothing from us once you have it.
The purchase includes the video course — modules appear on your download page as they ship. Patreon comes later, for everyone else.
$49 · a 57-page printable course PDF, A5 · downloads the moment you pay · no account, no list you cannot leave · you can be twenty minutes into the first sit tonight. The purchase includes the video course — modules appear on your download page as they ship. Patreon comes later, for everyone else.
On sale shortlyThe course is an arrangement of texts that were never ours to fence. Start where it starts: our Abraxas films cover Part I's opening figure, and the sources page lists free addresses for the tradition the practice is drawn from. If the free material is enough for you, take it and go with our blessing.