#polymath

in 2025 i had two breakups

if this pattern continues, by 2033 i will be experiencing 1.4 breakups per day

Psychography, marvelous manifestations of psychic power given through the mediumship of Fred P. Evans. 1893.

In May 1921, American polymath Walter Russell entered a 39-day coma-like state, during which he claimed to have accessed “the source of all knowledge.” Upon awakening, he frantically wrote down what he had seen — pages filled with philosophical, scientific, and spiritual revelations that would later form the foundation of his manuscript *The Universal One*. Though he sent his findings to 500 leading minds of the time, nearly all dismissed him as mad — except one. Nikola Tesla, the visionary inventor, was so struck by Russell’s insights that he urged him to seal the work away for a thousand years, insisting that humanity was not yet ready for its truths.

Walter Russell’s revelations reimagined the very structure of reality. He argued that matter was not solid but crystallized light slowed by thought — that everything around us, from rocks to human bodies, was composed of light patterns, shaped by consciousness. He believed the universe was fundamentally mental, not material, and that all things moved in rhythmic cycles — expansion and contraction, like breath. He dismissed opposites like good and evil as illusions, asserting instead that everything sought harmony and balance. To Russell, death wasn’t an end but the release of compressed light returning to its source. Even time, he claimed, wasn’t linear, but a spiral where past, present, and future coexisted.

@craighnadonuts' recent post on *urv's encomiastic delerium about Madam Mao's polymath virtues inspired me to look a bit further into what obviously is adorned, yet empty prose:

An author? Crickey, how thought-provoking. We are then told that she wrote and published, during the COVID-19 pandemic, a children's book and donated all its profits to charity. If true, that would obviously be a solicitous, yet impossible to substantiate, gesture. At the time of writing this post, and with no other available data, perhaps calling it an 'intention' or a 'claim' would be more faithful to reality.

That being said, the book's existence can be traced:

[Source: https://www.amazon.com/When-Will-Hug-Again-Illustrated-ebook/dp/B088HFPK9D]

However, while the above information is factually accurate, I can't help but find the troll's message embarrassing and manipulative. Especially if we consider a wee detail that never made it into her post:

Like the famed days of Christmas, Madam Mao's book is twelve pages long. Kudos to the eagle-eyed friend who noticed this and alerted me - siempre, 💖.

Do twelve pages, out of which we must subtract the illustrations, an author make?

My question is honest. Its answer might be unsettling, though. Especially for the troll's audience, whose North Korean level of automatic praise is unparalleled, at least in this fandom.