Aether & The Pleromic Void | Chance Garton on Strange Mosaic with Emily Moyer
Emily Moyer had me on Strange Mosaic to talk about symbolism as a language, archetypes and archons as part of a co-creative conversation, and my views on the ether and the pleromic void.
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In this episode
Core themes
Language, Symbolism, and the All Mind
Chance described language as the channel through which people communicate with a universal ether, which he called the all mind. He explained that studying creative writing and film gave him a symbolic vocabulary, and that reading life experiences through symbolism let him treat synchronicity as a two way conversation. He said the signals had always been arriving, and that noticing them allowed a person to answer back. Emily Moyer connected this to her own image of letters feeding a machine, and both agreed that how people speak shapes what they understand.
Archetypes, Archons, and Co-Creation
Chance said he did not believe people were ruled by archetypes or archons, and called the relationship co-creative. The two agreed that without giving feedback a person only receives updates, and that those who do not govern themselves get governed by others. Emily Moyer said she had never heard archetypes and archons paired that way, and offered her own example of sports figures seeming to respond to her commentary. Chance later described guardians of the threshold as figures a seeker has to meet on the way inward.
Daily Practice and Where Attention Goes
Chance recalled a college writing course and a meditation course that asked students to write briefly each day, and he said they taught him what a daily practice adds up to. He described a large drawing finished by working on it a little each day. He argued that attention given to making art builds lasting value, while mindless consumption feeds a machine and returns little. Emily Moyer related this to her own habits and to the pull of easy pleasures.
Psychedelics, Caution, and Biofield Tuning
Chance said he neither condoned nor condemned psychedelic use and did not urge anyone toward it, calling it serious and not to be taken lightly. He said he had studied shamanism and treated his early use as a private initiation. He voiced concern about appointing experts to dictate what these substances mean, and said they were no shortcut to health. Emily Moyer wondered whether molecules open realms like backstage areas at a festival. Chance said he was drawn to biofield tuning as a gentler route to clarity.
Ether, the Pleroma, and the Zero Point
Chance gave his opinion that an ether exists as the medium behind matter and energy, and described the pleroma through Jung's Seven Sermons to the Dead as everything and its opposite together. He argued that a zero point field of potential power could not be negated and could not be divided. Emily Moyer raised an idea of places recording events, like a larger geocaching, and Chance answered that he credited the ether rather than the location itself, while Emily added that she saw the body as an interface.
Quotes
“How does the is-ness come out of the void? It's because the opposite of power or effectiveness is ineffectiveness, and ineffectiveness cannot cancel out effectiveness. So even in this pleromic void, there is a pure potentiated power energy that cannot be negated.”
“There isn't a spirit world over there and a physical world here. This is the spirit world. Psychedelics showed me that quite clearly. I just needed to open the aperture wider to see.”
“I've realized now that language is everything. Language is how we communicate, not just with each other, but with the universal ether or the all mind. And the language of symbolism is huge for that.”
“When you make art, as opposed to just mindless consumption of Netflix or something, your spiritual currency, your attention is going into an artifact that continues to exist and actually builds value over time, potentially.”
“Whenever you're able to syncretize information that you're seeing that would be divisive, but find how actually there's more sameness than difference between this, that, or the other thing, that's what sinks the enemy's battleship.”
“If you know the artists, you can go backstage. Then there's private after parties. I wonder if the dimensional realm is kind of like this as well, and that there are realms that are predicated on certain molecules opening them up, and they're further and further backstage.”
“I think it's completely possible to engage in a variety of interchanges and conversations with these entities and to effect change in that realm.”
“If we can bring some of that conversation into state so that we're accurately understanding the information around us and able to have a back and forth communication in a more meaningful and well understood way, then we're really gonna start to get somewhere.”
