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# Episode 1: “You Are Living in Flatland (And You Don’t Even Know It)”
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**Welcome to the dimensional war. You just don’t know you’re fighting it yet.**
In 1884, Edwin Abbott wrote *Flatland* - a mathematical romance about a two-dimensional world where beings live as shapes on a plane, unable to perceive the third dimension of depth. He thought he was writing social satire.
**He was actually writing a transmission about 2026.**
About YOU.
Living in a reality you think is solid, complete, “realistic” - while being completely blind to dimensions you can’t perceive.
**Your worth measured in 2D metrics:** Credentials. Salary. Followers. Job titles.
**Your identity flattened to geometry:** How many “sides” you’ve accumulated in the game of status.
**Your future planned on a horizontal plane:** Assuming linear time, guaranteed tomorrows, safe predictability.
**You are A Square. And you don’t even know you’re trapped.**
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## What if I told you there’s a vertical dimension hiding in plain sight?
**Not “up” in some abstract spiritual sense.**
But **UP** as in: *What becomes visible when death shatters your 2D certainty?*
When you’re fired after 26 years and your identity evaporates.
When someone you love faces mortality and all your careful plans dissolve.
When you turn fifty and realize you don’t fit in the traditional game anymore.
**These aren’t tragedies. These are dimensional initiations.**
Moments when the **Sphere** - a being from a higher dimension - enters your flat world and shows you: *Everything you thought was solid is just a cross-section.*
-----
## This episode activates your Reticular Activating System.
That part of your brain that filters reality - deciding what you notice and what you ignore.
**After this episode, your RAS will be tuned to see Flatland everywhere:**
- In conversations where people brag about credentials
- In systems designed to keep you flat and measurable
- In your own thoughts when you catch yourself playing the 2D game
- **In the moments when death whispers: “None of this is real”**
**Once activated, you can’t deactivate it.**
You’ll start seeing the prison bars. The dimensional limitations. The game beneath the game.
**And you won’t be able to unsee it.**
-----
## This isn’t a book review. This is an initiation.
I’ve been lifted out of Flatland three times:
- **Fired after 26 years** (identity death - the 2D game of job = worth revealed as illusion)
- **Wife fighting cancer** (mortality confrontation - the future I was planning for might not exist)
- **Turning fifty** (threshold moment - realizing I don’t fit in the traditional workforce anymore)
**These were my Sphere moments.** When death entered my flat world and showed me dimensions I couldn’t perceive before.
Now I’m back in Flatland. But I’m… changed.
I can’t play the game anymore. Can’t pretend credentials matter. Can’t believe in “realistic” thinking.
**Because I’ve seen the vertical dimension.**
And once you’ve been there - once you’ve been initiated by death, loss, shattering - **you can never fully believe in Flatland again.**
-----
## What you’ll discover in this episode:
**The architecture of Flatland** - How 2D thinking imprisons you without you realizing it
**Death as the third dimension** - The vertical axis that breaks the flat plane of “normal life”
**Your initiations** - Recognizing the moments when the Sphere appeared in YOUR life (and you might have missed it)
**The RAS activation** - How this episode will permanently change what you perceive in your reality
**The elder’s burden** - What to do when you’ve been lifted out but dropped back into a world that thinks you’re crazy
-----
## WARNING: This is not safe content.
This episode is designed to make you **dangerously curious** and **a little uncomfortable.**
Not reassured. Not inspired in the Instagram quote way.
**Initiated.**
By the end, you’ll question:
- Whether your job defines you (it doesn’t - that’s Flatland)
- Whether your plans are guaranteed (they’re not - that’s 2D thinking)
- Whether “being realistic” is wisdom (it’s not - it’s prison maintenance)
- **Whether consensus reality is actually real (it’s not - it’s Flatland)**
You’ll start seeing patterns you can’t unsee.
Noticing dimensional breaks you used to ignore.
Recognizing when death is trying to teach you something.
**And there’s no going back.**
-----
## This is Part 1 of a 6-episode series exploring:
**Episode 1:** You Are Living in Flatland (And You Don’t Even Know It) ← *You are here*
**Episode 2:** The Sphere Has Already Appeared. You Just Don’t Remember Yet.
**Episode 3:** Being Lifted Out - What You See From the Vertical Dimension
**Episode 4:** Dropped Back In - When You Can’t Fit in Flatland Anymore
**Episode 5:** The Prison of Consensus Reality - Why They’ll Call You Crazy
**Episode 6:** Living Between Dimensions - The Work of the Initiated
-----
## Required reading (but read it AFTER this episode):
***Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions*** by Edwin Abbott Abbott (1884)
- Free online, any edition
- ~100 pages
- **Warning:** After this podcast series, you won’t read it as fiction
-----
## The quote that changes everything:
*“You are not crazy for seeing dimensions others can’t perceive. You’ve just been initiated by death. And prisoners who see the bars become insurgents.”*
-----
**Your RAS is now activated.**
**You can’t unknow this.**
**Welcome to the vertical dimension.**
**Welcome to the resistance.**
-----
*Initiated by death. Returned to Flatland. Speaking from the vertical dimension.*
*This is the Flatland series. This is the dimensional war.*
*And you just enlisted.*
-----
**[CONTENT WARNING: Discusses death, mortality, job loss, cancer, identity dissolution, dimensional initiation, reality destabilization, and the systematic dismantling of consensus thinking. Not recommended for those committed to remaining comfortably two-dimensional.]**
-----
## About this series:
Following the 5-episode *Don Quixote* initiation series (where we explored tilting at windmills, vision vs delusion, defeat at fifty, and coming home), the *Flatland* series takes you deeper into dimensional knowing.
**This is live philosophy.** Real-time transformation documented through literature.
Not memoir. Not self-help.
**Transmission from someone who’s been lifted out and dropped back.**
Consider this your field manual for the dimensional war.
-----
*Listen with headphones. Take notes. Your future self will thank you.*
-----
**Welcome to the dimensional war. You just don’t know you’re fighting it yet.**
In 1884, Edwin Abbott wrote *Flatland* - a mathematical romance about a two-dimensional world where beings live as shapes on a plane, unable to perceive the third dimension of depth. He thought he was writing social satire.
**He was actually writing a transmission about 2026.**
About YOU.
Living in a reality you think is solid, complete, “realistic” - while being completely blind to dimensions you can’t perceive.
**Your worth measured in 2D metrics:** Credentials. Salary. Followers. Job titles.
**Your identity flattened to geometry:** How many “sides” you’ve accumulated in the game of status.
**Your future planned on a horizontal plane:** Assuming linear time, guaranteed tomorrows, safe predictability.
**You are A Square. And you don’t even know you’re trapped.**
-----
## What if I told you there’s a vertical dimension hiding in plain sight?
**Not “up” in some abstract spiritual sense.**
But **UP** as in: *What becomes visible when death shatters your 2D certainty?*
When you’re fired after 26 years and your identity evaporates.
When someone you love faces mortality and all your careful plans dissolve.
When you turn fifty and realize you don’t fit in the traditional game anymore.
**These aren’t tragedies. These are dimensional initiations.**
Moments when the **Sphere** - a being from a higher dimension - enters your flat world and shows you: *Everything you thought was solid is just a cross-section.*
-----
## This episode activates your Reticular Activating System.
That part of your brain that filters reality - deciding what you notice and what you ignore.
**After this episode, your RAS will be tuned to see Flatland everywhere:**
- In conversations where people brag about credentials
- In systems designed to keep you flat and measurable
- In your own thoughts when you catch yourself playing the 2D game
- **In the moments when death whispers: “None of this is real”**
**Once activated, you can’t deactivate it.**
You’ll start seeing the prison bars. The dimensional limitations. The game beneath the game.
**And you won’t be able to unsee it.**
-----
## This isn’t a book review. This is an initiation.
I’ve been lifted out of Flatland three times:
- **Fired after 26 years** (identity death - the 2D game of job = worth revealed as illusion)
- **Wife fighting cancer** (mortality confrontation - the future I was planning for might not exist)
- **Turning fifty** (threshold moment - realizing I don’t fit in the traditional workforce anymore)
**These were my Sphere moments.** When death entered my flat world and showed me dimensions I couldn’t perceive before.
Now I’m back in Flatland. But I’m… changed.
I can’t play the game anymore. Can’t pretend credentials matter. Can’t believe in “realistic” thinking.
**Because I’ve seen the vertical dimension.**
And once you’ve been there - once you’ve been initiated by death, loss, shattering - **you can never fully believe in Flatland again.**
-----
## What you’ll discover in this episode:
**The architecture of Flatland** - How 2D thinking imprisons you without you realizing it
**Death as the third dimension** - The vertical axis that breaks the flat plane of “normal life”
**Your initiations** - Recognizing the moments when the Sphere appeared in YOUR life (and you might have missed it)
**The RAS activation** - How this episode will permanently change what you perceive in your reality
**The elder’s burden** - What to do when you’ve been lifted out but dropped back into a world that thinks you’re crazy
-----
## WARNING: This is not safe content.
This episode is designed to make you **dangerously curious** and **a little uncomfortable.**
Not reassured. Not inspired in the Instagram quote way.
**Initiated.**
By the end, you’ll question:
- Whether your job defines you (it doesn’t - that’s Flatland)
- Whether your plans are guaranteed (they’re not - that’s 2D thinking)
- Whether “being realistic” is wisdom (it’s not - it’s prison maintenance)
- **Whether consensus reality is actually real (it’s not - it’s Flatland)**
You’ll start seeing patterns you can’t unsee.
Noticing dimensional breaks you used to ignore.
Recognizing when death is trying to teach you something.
**And there’s no going back.**
-----
## This is Part 1 of a 6-episode series exploring:
**Episode 1:** You Are Living in Flatland (And You Don’t Even Know It) ← *You are here*
**Episode 2:** The Sphere Has Already Appeared. You Just Don’t Remember Yet.
**Episode 3:** Being Lifted Out - What You See From the Vertical Dimension
**Episode 4:** Dropped Back In - When You Can’t Fit in Flatland Anymore
**Episode 5:** The Prison of Consensus Reality - Why They’ll Call You Crazy
**Episode 6:** Living Between Dimensions - The Work of the Initiated
-----
## Required reading (but read it AFTER this episode):
***Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions*** by Edwin Abbott Abbott (1884)
- Free online, any edition
- ~100 pages
- **Warning:** After this podcast series, you won’t read it as fiction
-----
## The quote that changes everything:
*“You are not crazy for seeing dimensions others can’t perceive. You’ve just been initiated by death. And prisoners who see the bars become insurgents.”*
-----
**Your RAS is now activated.**
**You can’t unknow this.**
**Welcome to the vertical dimension.**
**Welcome to the resistance.**
-----
*Initiated by death. Returned to Flatland. Speaking from the vertical dimension.*
*This is the Flatland series. This is the dimensional war.*
*And you just enlisted.*
-----
**[CONTENT WARNING: Discusses death, mortality, job loss, cancer, identity dissolution, dimensional initiation, reality destabilization, and the systematic dismantling of consensus thinking. Not recommended for those committed to remaining comfortably two-dimensional.]**
-----
## About this series:
Following the 5-episode *Don Quixote* initiation series (where we explored tilting at windmills, vision vs delusion, defeat at fifty, and coming home), the *Flatland* series takes you deeper into dimensional knowing.
**This is live philosophy.** Real-time transformation documented through literature.
Not memoir. Not self-help.
**Transmission from someone who’s been lifted out and dropped back.**
Consider this your field manual for the dimensional war.
-----
*Listen with headphones. Take notes. Your future self will thank you.*
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“You Are Living in Flatland (And You Don’t Even Know It)”
The Death Initiation Version
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Cold Open
There’s a dimension you can’t see.
Not because you’re not smart enough.
Not because you’re not paying attention.
But because you haven’t been initiated yet.
By death.
Not your own death. Not literally.
But close enough.
Close enough to see through the game everyone’s playing.
Close enough to realize that all the things Flatland tells you matter… don’t.
My son died at birth.
I was fired after twenty-six years.
My wife is fighting cancer.
I turned fifty.
These were my initiations.
These were the moments when death—actual death, identity death, the confrontation with mortality—lifted me out of the flat plane of normal life and showed me dimensions I couldn’t perceive before.
And now I’m back.
Back in Flatland.
Where people are still obsessing over job titles and credentials and retirement plans and “being realistic.”
And I can’t relate anymore.
Because I’ve seen the vertical dimension.
This is Flatland.
And this is about what happens when death teaches you to see.
⸻
Act One: Welcome to the Plane
Let me tell you about a book.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.
It was written in 1884 by Edwin Abbott Abbott.
It’s about a two-dimensional world.
Imagine a perfectly flat surface—like a piece of paper.
That’s where everyone lives.
You can move forward and backward.
Left and right.
But there is no up.
There is no down.
Those dimensions don’t exist.
The inhabitants are shapes.
Triangles are the workers and soldiers—the lowest class.
Squares are the professionals, the middle class.
Pentagons, hexagons, octagons—the more sides you have, the higher your status.
And circles—the elite, the priesthood—have so many sides they appear perfectly smooth.
Your worth is determined by your geometry.
Sound familiar?
In our world it’s not sides. It’s:
Your degree—BA, MA, PhD.
Your title—assistant, manager, director, VP, C-suite.
Your salary—the number in your bank account as proof of your value.
Your followers—the algorithm’s measurement of your significance.
The more you accumulate, the more you are.
That’s Flatland thinking.
You’re a shape on a plane, trying to get more sides.
But here’s what the Flatlanders can’t perceive:
There’s a third dimension.
Up.
Down.
Depth.
A whole direction of reality they’ve never experienced.
And if you tried to explain it to them, they’d think you were insane.
The book is narrated by a character called A Square.
A respectable, middle-class shape.
Living a normal life.
Following the rules.
Accepting that the plane is all there is.
Until one day, he’s visited by a Sphere.
A being from the third dimension.
The Sphere tries to explain that there’s more—that Flatland is just a cross-section of something larger.
A Square thinks he’s hallucinating.
So the Sphere does something radical.
He lifts A Square out of the plane.
Up.
And A Square sees his entire world from above.
He can see inside houses.
See inside his neighbors.
See the truth of Flatland that was completely invisible from within it.
He realizes everything he thought was solid… was just a slice.
Then the Sphere drops him back.
And nothing is ever the same.
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Act Two: Death Is the Sphere
Here’s what I’ve learned.
Death is the Sphere.
Death is the thing from another dimension that enters your flat world and changes everything.
When my son died at birth, that was the Sphere appearing.
When I was fired after twenty-six years, that was being lifted out of the plane.
When my wife got cancer, that was seeing from the vertical dimension.
When I turned fifty and realized I no longer fit in the traditional workforce, that was being dropped back into Flatland—changed.
These weren’t just tragedies that happened to me.
They were initiations.
Moments when death lifted me out of the two-dimensional game and showed me what’s real beyond the plane.
And here’s what you see from up there:
All the things Flatland says matter… don’t.
Job titles become meaningless when you’re standing at your son’s grave.
Credentials evaporate when your identity collapses overnight.
Retirement plans feel absurd when someone you love is fighting for their life.
Death shows you what’s actually real.
Love.
Connection.
Presence.
Meaning.
Not what you have—what you are.
Not your status on the plane—your depth beyond it.
That’s the third dimension.
Maybe you’ve been initiated too.
Through loss.
Through diagnosis.
Through near-death.
Through the death of a career, a marriage, an identity.
A moment when death got close enough that all the 2D nonsense fell away—and you saw clearly what actually matters.
If that’s happened to you, you’ve been lifted out of Flatland.
And you can’t unsee it.
⸻
Act Three: Back in the Plane
But here’s the problem.
The Sphere drops you back.
You don’t get to stay in the vertical dimension.
You return to Flatland.
Where people are still networking, optimizing their LinkedIn profiles, saving for retirements they assume they’ll reach, obsessing over titles and credentials and “realistic” goals.
They’re playing the two-dimensional game like it’s all there is.
And from Flatland, you sound crazy.
A Square tried to tell people what he saw.
And they called him insane.
Dangerous.
A threat to society.
They imprisoned him.
I haven’t been imprisoned.
But I’ve learned to edit myself.
Because when you talk about seeing dimensions others can’t perceive, people get uncomfortable.
They tell you to move on.
To stop overthinking.
To be realistic.
Translation: stop talking about the vertical dimension. Get back on the plane.
But once you’ve been initiated by death, you can’t pretend Flatland is all there is.
You can function in it.
But you can’t believe in it anymore.
⸻
Act Four: The Activation
So here’s what I’m going to do in this series.
I’m going to activate your Reticular Activating System—your RAS.
The part of your brain that filters reality and decides what you notice.
Right now, most people’s RAS is tuned to Flatland.
Status.
Money.
Credentials.
Metrics.
After this series, your RAS will start noticing something else.
You’ll see Flatland everywhere.
And you’ll start seeing the third dimension too.
Moments when the veil lifts.
People who’ve been initiated.
Opportunities for dimensional shift hiding in plain sight.
I’m not here to convince you of anything.
I’m here to tune your perception.
And once it’s tuned, you can’t untune it.
⸻
Closing
At the end of Flatland, A Square is still imprisoned.
But he keeps writing.
Still insisting the third dimension is real.
I’m not in prison.
But I am between dimensions.
One foot in Flatland—bills, cancer treatment, survival.
One foot in the vertical—death-knowledge, depth, initiation.
And I’m done pretending I only live on the plane.
This series is for people who’ve been initiated.
People who can’t go back.
Over the next six episodes, we’re going to explore what happens when the Sphere appears, what you see when you’re lifted out, and how to live when you’re dropped back.
This isn’t philosophy.
This is fieldwork.
Your RAS is now activated.
You’re going to start seeing Flatland everywhere.
Welcome to the vertical dimension.
Welcome to the initiation.
⸻