The Mental Appendage

As I have described elsewhere, I went through a terrifyingly turbulent, skull-poppingly psychedelic initiation into adulthood during college. I was getting divine downloads before I was ready to admit there was a divine.

That’s when I decided to be a translator. A liminal bridge between the Woo and the Material. A link that promotes reconciliation between High Weirdness and Default Reality.

That is The Mental Appendage

This short story is part of a longer project that was thrust into my meat computer back around 2012. It covers the Mental Appendage, a potential materialist theoretical underpinning for New Thought that I explore with less jaunty, rhyming LSD narrative in this article.

So what is The Mental Appendage about?

Dylan Friedman is your typical college stoner who finds school-funded psychological research and LSD to be a gateway to the Occult.

That’s typical right?

Dylan beats the pavement, supposedly to “save rainy San Francisco from a plunge into the Bay” due rising sea levels. That’s only a piece of real reason. Dylan’s “Enlightenment Campaign” is a mission to change out people’s incandescent bulbs for energy efficient LED alternatives, while subtly steering conversations toward shining a light on California’s Prop 19, a ballot initiative for the legalization of cannabis.

Students of history will remember how Prop 19 faired come election season. Still, Dylan’s forays into applied psychology (also known as Magick, with a “K”) might help ensure the war isn’t over.

This short, melodic, metered Epic Poem is sure to stick with you long after you put it down.