Day 6

Each day of the workshop included a trip up and down Sinai, during which we would re-envision our personal, family and cultural myths, and with which we would progress our symbolic immortality projects. These behaviours constitute ritual design for mythic hygiene.

Today, after the induction with the Golden Calf technologies, I followed Moses up the mountain, where he meets Sisyphus. They join the workshop and envision evidence of the horrors of human nature. They conclude, as we have discussed throughout the workshop, that changing the world requires new stories – including a new myth of God. I follow Moses to the top of Sinai to confront God with his culpability for human evil. We hypothesise a different kind of God, one that atones, becoming one with all sentient life. The Omega Point comes into being – a radical oneness of consciousness and existence.

The Golden Calf Elevator & Café descends to the base of Sinai. To retain the essence of the Omega Point in consciousness, we revise the traditional Shema. The festival then proceeds with the death of an elderly priest and his transformation into his Master of Scenarios. “Go Down, Moses” closes the orientation and festival. This retells the Golden Calf episode as a cautionary tale, and a reminder to experiment with mythic hygiene if we wish to foster a just and peaceful world.