You Are God, According to Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe has a reputation for darkness and gloom, but that’s just because most people don’t know him well enough. He wrote some really bizarre, optimistic stories as well. Including probably the weirdest of the bunch: Mesmeric Revelation.
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[@BS-bd4xo]

haha no comments here

[@Phoenix_Core]

What is known about quantum mechanics at current, can prove at least the conclusion, however Poe did not know EXACTLY what he was talking about- though interestingly close to reality.

[@hentaimage95]

Even if these stories were hoaxes you don't know how the united human consciousness works, it could have sent Poe a message of truth that he interpreted as a story. If some say that they replicated the experiment then we have no way to know if it was true or not. Many truths have been divulged through the media way ahead of their time, this could be one of those occasions.

[@wail4084]

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[@whatsupdoesrandomstuff9856]

I think we could be small particles on a potato chip

[@countessclock]

From my perspective, we are the universe's attempt at understanding itself, in the same way that we contemplate the universe and each, that we are children of that abyss, children of light, a universe that might seem lonely at first glance but that truly wants recognition of itself from another

[@carloss.2877]

Someone’s been watching sisyphus 55

[@bumpkinbee1524]

I don’t agree but certainly an interesting take!

[@Shabriri_the_reviled]

Hey hey same ideology gang *high five*

[@shrek2861]

OK ngl this is one of those shower thoughts everyone always talks about

[@nataliekennedy4646]

So it’s a god if it can create life

[@TH3F4LC0Nx]

"loathsome mass of detestable putrescence" Now that's a metal band name if ever I heard one!

[@MegaDeox]

Sounds like a song name by Necrophagist.

[@Neho420]

Or a dark souls boss for that matter

[@hanarielgodlike9283]

for a second i tought he was talking about me

[@lucasblaise11]

What is your picture?!?!?!?!

[@scruffles3838]

That sounds like something the ancestor from darkest dungeon would say

[@HelloFutureMe]

I'm God? NOW NOTHING CAN STOP ME

[@TheTaleFoundry]

EXCEPT EVERY OTHER PERSON WHO IS ALSO GOD

[@ThunDerCrossfire]

ok buddy!

[@TheLordKanti]

No one has to, because you will stop yourself.

[@strega0]

that's what Melkor said.

[@geckoed132]

NO FUCK OFF IM GOD

[@luizguilhermecortez3460]

"In order to become God, you need not ascend: you are doing just fine" - a quote from an character in a book I might make

[@shadowling77777]

We create a mild tomfoolery

[@xXx_Regulus_xXx]

this idea has potential, you should write it

[@sammuelcruz4169]

This definitely sounds like an awesome quote and character. I hope you make that book. I myself am writing some.

[@bookdragon369]

Nice.

[@nel3624]

I'm still living in my parents house

[@tahunuva4254]

We're certainly "gods", from the perspective of our fictional characters. Be kind to them - everything they've got is on you.

[@fatalos6855]

Authors : ...kind ?

[@imnotwhatiseem1727]

Lmao no I'm gonna give them trauma and conflicts that are just like mine in order to process my own

[@tahunuva4254]

@@imnotwhatiseem1727 Parents be like:

[@fatalos6855]

@@tahunuva4254 Ok first of all how dare you-

[@DToTheB]

woopsie! too late! already put them in an infinite death loop!

[@anoninunen]

Hypnotist: "Keep talking." Dead man: "Eh, alright then." Hypnotist: "...?"

[@mikeware5567]

The idea that we are all connected, empirically, is correct. We all come from space dust, we will all return to space dust. We all share one world, one sky, the same basic blueprint. The degree of this connection, how much of it we can be aware of, and whether it spans the barrier between life and death, now that is something interesting.

[@mathieuleader8601]

reminds me of Pullmans Dark Materials

[@oceandreams9916]

Actually we come from the dust of the earth but close enough ig

[@pancakes8670]

I know this doesn't add much to the conversation but the way you worded that reminded me of Kingdom Hearts lol "There is only one sky! One destiny!"

[@TimeForDunston]

@@oceandreams9916 And where did that earth and the dust come from?

[@oceandreams9916]

@@TimeForDunston gee, i dunno the ground?

[@danshakulawrence983]

"I gaze into the abyss... and the abyss gazes back. You wanna know why? Because that abyss is TERRIFIED OF ME! IT'S A BIG GAPING NOTHING, AND I'M A STARK _SOMETHING!_ I'm EVERYTHING IT CAN NEVER HOPE TO BE!" "I'm done asking the universe for permission to be happy. I'm never gonna get an answer, so I'm never gonna give it the question to begin with! DID YOU _REALLY_ THINK I WOULD BUCKLE UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES? THAT I'M A TOY TO BE MESSED AROUND WITH? HOW! ADORABLE!"

[@celestia1309]

What is this quote from?

[@shadowling77777]

What’s this from?!

[@generaldraco7070]

i remember this quote. It shall remain a mystery

[@discospider4198]

what is the quote from

[@NathanTowles]

I am now the third person to ask where this quote is from

[@sirpattheperson]

You know the fun thing about writing and fiction? It allows you to send yourself into the world and let people see your wacky or serious thoughts. And creating characters is the same. Every character you create, you add a little bit of yourself without you knowing. Either it’s a secret passion or a open feature, it’s so much fun to pick up a pen/pencil, sit at a typewriter/keyboard, and write!

[@malosprime4910]

Exactly. That's the beauty of fiction. Imagination and a simple question: What If? That's why I write, to entertain and to make people think and wonder.

[@sirpattheperson]

@@InfraRedChameleon Definitely. I remember playing a song that describes one of my characters and in my shadow I had some of their characteristics.

[@kipofthemany2213]

This video rebooted an old idea of mine. A while ago I thought about what the opposite of Eldritch horror entities would look like. Entities that embody the discovery of the unknown, the hopeful exploration of new places. What would the immense ocean entities look like to those who brave the sea and are rewarded for their efforts? What about space or technology? What would these concepts look like to those who choose to explore them instead of fear them? I want to turn Lovecraft's nightmares into dreams, basically. Maybe I'll try it out on this week's prompt. Scientific magic sounds just about right for this.

[@mathieuleader8601]

think of Yivo from Futurama's the Beast of a Billion Backs Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby , Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid, and Mother Carey from Charles Kingsley's Water Babies and Tabalugah

[@alyseleem2692]

@Michael Baggett Indeed. Without his lens of terror,I wonder what kind of character he imagined Nyarlethotep to be, at first. I read the poem,and it struck a cord to me. Probably being an Egyptian myself helped.

[@018FLP]

uuh, i dig it!

[@CorbCorbin]

One doesn’t choose to fear them. Part of the concept behind a couple of the Old Ones is that it drives one mad to look upon it, or it’s presence within our world drives people crazy. It’s not universal among them, though none of them bring anything good to one who ventures to find them.

[@alyseleem2692]

@@CorbCorbin Why not? Put it this way: By the same logic that they are so beyond us that we are gnats in comparison, what prevents them from trying to positively influence our reality out of a simple whim? After all, we cannot harm them,and they find no true benefit in destroying us. Might as well take us as pets or something. Look at Nyarlethotep, for example. His greatest enjoyment seems to be imitating the human experience, all the while amazing people with his seemingly infinite knowledge and power. To his fellow gods,this is closer to childish play than anything else. Why not apply that positively? Why not try helping us for once just for the sake of it?

[@susanpoltergeist]

It's pretty interesting the part about being small as individuals, because when you analyze the universe as only one thing, this concepts like big and small seem to fade. It's like something that Neil Degrasse Tyson said in a video in Big Think channel, you could be small but you're also big, because you are part of the universe.

[@jf2801]

Take into account that there's possibly a multiverse and things get real wild lol.

[@ghabsterlol7768]

"big" or "small".... every size is relative...

[@susanpoltergeist]

@@ghabsterlol7768 Yep! This is something that people usually ignore.

[@Fayanora]

I have a similar sort of philosophy in my writing. I like to play with cosmic horror in a way that balances it with something good. The main ultimate villain of the series I'm working on is a being called Nightmare that lives outside of the multiverse and seeks to be invited into different universes so it can devour them. But Nightmare is balanced by another great cosmic power called The Conductor, which seeks to stop Nightmare. And ultimately all of reality is a great dream dreamed up by The Dreamer -- a sort of God figure that is neither good nor evil. Like the name implies, The Dreamer is asleep, all of reality is dreams that it's having. You cannot communicate with The Dreamer in any useful way. I eventually want to bring it around to where The Conductor becomes a figure like an author writing a story but at the same time like someone asleep attempting to lucid dream. An entity that is part of the Dream but can tap into The Dreamer's powers in some relatively small way. The point being that authors and other creatives create real places with their creative minds, and even ordinary people create real places in their dreams. Or did the dreams themselves create the people who dreamed them? And balancing all this cosmic philosophy stuff is a series where the characters are the main focus, and the gradually unfolding Heavy Plot Stuff (introduced about halfway through the middle of book 2) is mainly there to see what the characters do in response to it. Even the multiverse itself is a kind of cosmic horror, with -- for instance -- a character finding out that there are infinite versions of themselves in the multiverse and having a mental breakdown from the existential dread of it. And if they're strong enough, they can maybe move past that dread and find hope and wonder in these things. Maybe even figure out how to unlock the powers of Dreaming.

[@floramew]

I've held for years that science fiction (and fantasy), while it can be thoughtless schlock at times, is also able to push the characters to the extremes of human experience in ways that realistic fiction cannot. And the interesting part of this is the thought experiment of _how would that feel?_ so yeah, agree with you on that point lmao

[@Duplicitousthoughtformentity]

Fiction allows impossible circumstances that we cannot experience, and allows us to imagine how people might deal with these odds. It’s really something to see how many incredible scifi/fantasy novels have been written in the last century alone. We’ve got Herbert and Tolkien just to name two, and that’s already a tour-de-force!

[@amazingsupergirl7125]

The imagination is unlimited but reality is not.

[@tagteam.7760]

Poe and Hypnotic Mesmerism have been my life's studies but I never knew of panthionism. This is going to have me researching Poe-losophy for a week!

[@organicenglishinput]

Can I ask what are you studying about it? This seems really interesting to me and I want to learn more about it, in the literary sense... Nothing religious or anything like that.

[@lindboknifeandtool]

“I’m a god, you cannot kill a god. Shame on you sweet Nerevar”

[@NOOB-ps8km]

Isnt this the plot of Evanghelion. Everyone is whole but separated by something.Thus making us individual.

[@fiaTheFae]

Ohh, was that the plot? I genuinely never got it, though I just watched it for the first time in the last year or two

[@NOOB-ps8km]

@@fiaTheFae At least the End of Evanghelion is about that. Dont know about 2.0 and 3.0

[@Sacron1143]

@@fiaTheFae The story says that the magic shield that the Evas and Angels have, the "Absolute Terror Field", exists in everything and is what separates the individual and gives them form. The big bad guys wanted to trigger the third impact in order to erase humanity's AT field, with which everyone's souls would unite into one single perfect entity.

[@antigrav6004]

Dude even turned into tang.

[@ibrahimreyhan8616]

exactly what i was thinking while watching this, cool seeing even evangelion took inspiration from poe

[@zkassai.audio.2]

I feel this video makes a very interesting synergy with your video on Pneuma. The idea that the soul is produced in the body upon first breath, and the idea that this first breath is drawing in an infinitesimal fraction of some ineffable whole, making it discriminate, individual for a blink of time. This also goes well with one of my favorite quotes: “we are a way for the cosmos to know itself”, said by Sagan. What if the brief time that this all-breath spends in flesh is a way for this… essence of everything to learn and experience, to live, and then to go back to the whole with more than it had before? I’m sure that this idea has been proposed before, perhaps even by real world religions, but I really like the angle that these two videos give to it.

[@shaunkhan9049]

That's also one of my favorite Sagan quotes

[@shadowling77777]

Growing spiritually, yes

[@Sarah_H]

I remember reading a short story with this idea. The point-of-view character has died and gone to meet "God", and "God" explains that it's just the two of them in the entire universe, "God" who stays in this in-between place, and the point-of-view character who's lived a million different lives and will live billions more, until they've lived every life in the entirety of existence. "Next you're going to be peasant girl from China" FOUND IT "The Egg" by Andy Weir

[@nonsensicalabyss]

Reminds me of a short story titled The Egg, in which we are all parts of God who one day will return to one divine egg bringing our experiences and knowledge, so one day God can be whole, and when the time comes, They will hatch from the cosmic egg, fully grown, with a full understanding of the world

[@Exile_Sky]

It kind of mirrors one of my explanation's of the nature God and why 'Evil' exists within the world back when I was having my crisis of faith when I was a kid. God is in everything and the reason God can't stop evil things from happening in the world, or people from being evil, is because those people and things are God too. God put a bit of themselves in everything and everyone, either as a martyr or like a parent gives a bit of themselves to their kids. It ended up going to the wayside with all the other explanations because it was still depending on the presupposition that God (as it was explained as a being of infinite ability and compassion) exists. Eventually kicked that whole notion to the curb... but it is a beautiful thought, I'll give it that.

[@kregy7509]

I don't know dude still doesn't seem like an explanation for evil at all to me, but I am by no means criticising you.

[@Summer-uq1vr]

So to this conceptualisation evil and a triomni god can coexists because god is all and all is god... and this god is inherently omnibenevolent and yet They are evil?

[@Exile_Sky]

​@@Summer-uq1vr I did write that I was in the midst of losing my faith in God. I was pretty much having an emotional and psychological melt down for months. The idea was more that God is inherently benevolent, but powerless due to the circumstance of giving 'free will' and not being able to take the gift back once given. That people corrupted 'free will' for self gain and people are the cause of "Evil". I was still clinging to the idea of "a Just world under a benevolent God" because the idea of a world without some sort of inherent justice that must not be violated was something I couldn't accept at the time. The idea that "something" out there actually gave a shit was comforting. I didn't truly move on from that position though. Over time I cut away what wasn't necessary, and let go of that idea of "a Just world under a benevolent God". From the original idea in the first post I went to "God is Evil and controls every 'wrong' and 'right'. After all, God made Hell if god made everything, so the idea that people could ever by anything other than what they "are" is wrong." I then flip flopped between the first and the second idea for a couple of months, (the idea of whether we can choose to be evil or good or if we just "are" and have no choice) then finally to "There is no Benevolent God that I can see and the world is worse for it. Their presence or absence doesn't change that people are Evil.". Toward the end of the 9 months this was going on it turned into "There is no God with power over the world that I can see. People are Self-Centered and do whatever they have to do to maintain their emotional and physical comfort. That includes but is not limited to, lying, stealing, judging, beating, and tyrannizing other people. Most don't hate you, they just don't care about you. Just like most people don't actually care about truth, but lie and say that they do." Hasn't really moved from there since, given the people around me, and the people I see out in the world have yet to prove it wrong as a general rule.

[@Zilla1954]

@@Exile_Sky I am sorry that the people around you have given you such a poor portrayal of humanity, perhaps you should consider finding a new group of people (if possible.) Also, social media is not a great sampling of true human behavior since it is hard for people to treat each other as people when all they see is a profile picture and a grouping of words on the screen. But humanity is not as corrupt as you make it out to sound. Yes, there are bad people out there, but I have seen some of the best of human behavior, it’s not all bad. As for the question of free will, the answer is more simple than it appears on the outset. The truth is that God is love, and it would go against his nature to remove our free will, because free will is our life. Without free will, we are dead without having ever had a chance to live, and that would be murder. In addition to that, God seeks to enter into a relationship with us, a deep and genuine relationship. If I removed your ability to exercise free will forced you to be my friend, would that be a genuine friendship. Of course not! That is why God does not remove free will, because removing our free will is the destruction of our entire being. Removing our ability to be able to enter into a real relationship with God, who is literal good, is a worse fate than Hell, because at least you had a chance to enter into a relationship with God in life. Also, removing free will would not solve the problem. In truth, it is our free will that makes it possible to resist sin. Our nature is one of a wounded people, wounded by sin. Without free will, we would not be able to resist our semi-sinful nature because we would not be free to choose otherwise. But with free will, we can choose to be something different. God is not evil for creating Hell. Because He could not remove our free will without destroying the very essence of who we are, we forced His hand by rebelling. God created Hell so that He would not have to destroy us, because it would be impossible for someone who has rejected God to enter into the sight of God, it would literally destroy them. But God had provided a place where they can go so they do not have to be destroyed. God has, however, offered us salvation, a way to escape the Hell that we and our forefathers chose by Original Sin (the eating of the forbidden fruit), He offered Himself on the cross. But it is a twofold act of salvation. He has extended salvation, but we must accept it. As Saint Augustine said, “God created us without us: but He did not will to save us without us.” Why did he not will to save us without us? Because it would be a violation of our free will, which is the dignity of humanity, and it would not be the result of a genuine relationship with God. I understand the pain of going through a crisis of religion, there was a season where I denied God myself, and I am not proud of it. But your conclusion that religion was simply created to be a comfort to man is illogical. If it was simply the invention of men to comfort themselves in the face of death, than Hell would not exist in the first place, for Hell is the greatest fear of those who believe in God. Nor would sin exist in this supposed religion of comfort, because the last thing that a man wants to hear is that he is in the wrong. Instead, a religion created to comfort would more so resemble a religion where everyone is god themselves and can do no wrong nor is in any risk of punishment, which is false in so many ways. I do not write this to berate you, but because I am concerned for you and want to see the best for you. So, be not offended when I say, “May the God of truth bless you and illuminate your mind as He has done for me, a poor sinner. May He be your comfort and your joy in the years to come, and may He make Himself known to you in all His glory. Amen.”

[@Exile_Sky]

@@Zilla1954 "perhaps you should consider finding a new group of people" The people that instilled that nihilistic view in me were people in general society over years of neglect, callousness, and lies. What I mentioned above was going on during Grade 2. As for good and bad people. Yes there are a few genuinely good people, the number of which that I've met I could count on one hand. As for social media, for context I grew up in the era before such a thing. My isolation was total and complete so long as I was unwilling to allow my peers the privilege of physically abusing me. By the time public internet, blogs / message board / chat rooms / instant messenger, started up I was well into escapism because dealing with the rest of the world just caused pain and confusion, either through maliciousness or just lack of care (that is not to say in some instances I was not at fault. I've put my foot in my mouth on far more occasions than I care to remember). It certainly didn't help that my socialization was stunted and that didn't really get any kind of developed until around Grade 8. That ineptitude of mine coupled with the societal expectation that was drilled into me from age 7 to always maintain self-control (oppress impulsive instincts... like fun and self defense) because I looked older than I was, made a lot of things difficult, as I could look at what my peers did and how they lived their lives and *knew* that I couldn't do that. That no matter how much I wished to act like them, I would have to walk on eggshells if I didn't want to be unjustly punished. "God is love" I've heard this, to me it's a lie. God is not Love. The closest word I could use to describe God, if any, would be Consequence. God as it is in the Bible destroyed lives and robbed people of every joy just to test their faith. God massacred countless innocents over the corruption of a few. God damns good men and women to eternal torment for the simple refusal to kneel to a higher power, not through pride or arrogance, but just sense of self respect. God is both enslaving and natural because the God of the Bible (King James, and since the Council) was specifically designed to cow the common man into compliance with "powers above them", while maintaining some of truths that come off as threats, and providing a comforting reward for compliance. A corrupt few *can* lead to the downfall of the many. Higher powers *will* damn good men and women to a hell on earth that refuse to kneel. The things you devote yourself to *can* completely destroy your life and rob you of every joy, only for you to find joy again so long as you refuse to roll over and die. No amount of bargaining or pleading with chance will/can make some horrors stop until its stripped you of everything you value. The world is cruel and the reward for a life lived is the cold embrace of death and instead of accepting that truth that "a dead thing is simply gone" religion created the comfort that the "Good and Loyal" go to paradise and the "Evil and Malicious" find eternal torment. Which isn't even what is in the Bible, that's Bullshit because according to the Bible there's a war at the end of time between Christ and the Antichrist, except they both look exactly the same and the side that wins reigns in Heaven (catch 20/20 and just a lesson of "morals mean nothing next to might"). To me all those lessons are "truths" about just how weak, foolish, amoral, and blind to reality humanity is. I reject the notion of getting on your knees and begging for a miracle. I did that. All it did was hollow out the place where my heart used to be as I was forced to realize the absolute callousness and corruption of the overwhelming majority of people. That the world doesn't and will never actually care about me. Similarly I refuse to not look at Death as what it is, "The End". We all have to face it, as a living thing it is the one thing all creatures on Earth share. There's no good reason to turn away from it, no good reason to cover it with pretty lies about "just" rewards. "But with free will, we can choose to be something different." The idea of free will (I accept that it does exist to a degree) is actually why we can choose "sin" at all. Man without free will was Adam and Eve in the garden prior to eating the apple of knowledge. That was pure man, pure and clean and without a will of its own, without the ability to bare false witness, without the ability to truly choose their own path. It's kind of horrifying actually.. Perfect Humanity in the Bible was a domesticated pet in a gilded cage. Nothing more than ignorant children. "But God had provided a place where they can go so they do not have to be destroyed." That's a new one. "Eternal torture is a mercy." That is not an act of love. The idea of "mercy" being related to death for the horribly maimed is not a mistake. Oblivion would be a kindness next active and eternal torment. There is a lot I could say about your last paragraph, but instead I'll simply accept your well wishes.

[@Laribhaven]

I'm ready to fight God or BECOME IT! Jokes aside, I'm loving this video.

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Jesus, everything about this channel is beautiful, the content, the art, the discord community looks promising, I also got the free trial, thank you so much.

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Thanks so much for the kind words! I hope we'll see you around! -Benji

[@nunocampea2395]

when i used to play with ants my only thoughts were: "if i cant be god for humans ill be a god for ants"

[@kiklonio]

You can really tell how much Lovecraft took from Poe if you compare the first story in this video with HPL's ''Cool Air''

[@dalila2442]

I really like pantheism. I like how it connects and balances everything that seems unfair to us from this small point of view we're stuck on. If everything is just the same being, then... It's all and nothing at the same time. If you make someone suffer, you're making yourself suffer. You are the villain and you are also all it's victims. You're doing this to yourself, but for what? Entertainment? Is that all we crave in the end? To satisfy our need for content? Imagine you have the power to create anything, like a giant sandbox game. So you create, you create a world, a lot of characters, a lot of stories... You give meaning to existence. But then... What? Imagine if it feels like you've watched all the possible movies in creation. Have you ever wanted to erase your memory so you can experience something for the first time again? What if that's what we're doing? We're the player experiencing the world itself created, through every character at the same time, but we gave ourselves amnesia so it feels authentic, so we can enjoy the ride as if it was really our only life and point of view. So maybe when it's done, we'll know more about ourselves than we did before... Or maybe it's all still just one layer of the game, and we'll find out more later. Imagine every star is burning for you, just for you to see them in this exact moment you're looking at them. Every star is you interacting with yourself, trying to get your attention even if for just a second.

[@t.r.everstone7]

This is part of why Poe is one of my major influences, along with Doyle, Dickens, C.S. Lewis, and Twain. If even a fraction what makes them interesting comes through in my writing, I'll be thrilled!

[@Luc13nTh3M0thM4n]

my teacher showed this in our class yesterday and im now in love with your channel

[@Xcizior]

this is a little existential for me because ignoring how they got there with mesmerism- for the past few years ive believed in this idea that we are all just god/the void/the cosmos just experiencing itself. that at the end, i will become myself again and rewrite what i did and did not like, or to take what i learned in this life and all others to become one central thing. this was really fun TF. thank you for such a stimulating and thoughtful video.

[@cloudfair2]

I have to admit, this has given me an idea for an interesting entity to add to my DnD world. A positive spin on the hive mind trope. A collective mind not where individuality is stifled but shared across the network. Where members are not slave of the collective but more like a brotherhood the cares for one another and has each other’s backs. It’s philosophy being, “Together we can face the cruelty of the universe”. And it respects those that choose not to join it. I think it sounds like an interesting subversion of the Borg. Thoughts?

[@Eclipse.7897]

That's basically the premise of that controversial russian video game "atomic heart" which came out this year

[@shidosuteshi464]

Hey this might not be seen nor cared about but I was hoping to ask if you would cover Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series and more specifically The Sandman Overture. In that story, Dream comes into contact with aspects of himself, they all refer to themselves as "We/I Dream" and I was hoping you would be able to do a video on the world of The Sandman Overture. Please?

[@robertdochter277]

Yes please! There is so much to explore in The Sandman.

[@adeadphish7931]

I adore The Sandman and its universe and would love to see it analysed here

[@haydengardiner2394]

This was an exceedingly interesting video: I've taken to the work of Poe, and enjoy his stories quite a lot. To see a video regarding the Gothic writer, I was intrigued - especially by the notion that 'everyone is god' - and I was not disappointed. This video has had a clear plethora of research poured into the foundation of it; and the production and delivery of the ideas - from the images, to the music and style - it all ties together into a really enjoyable and thought provoking experience! To hear about Poe stories that I haven't read was also just as interesting as the ideas the texts evoked in this video. Very well done; a great video, and a great source of thought, as well as entertainment!

[@emberhermin52]

Edgar Allan Poe out here like "we're all characters written by the same author"

[@sarahluchies1076]

This reminds me of the Golden Compas trilogy. The author definitely explored this concept, especially in the third book.

[@JayVBear45]

You mean His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman? Golden Compass is just the first book followed by The Subtle Knife and concluded in The Amber Spyglass.

[@sunnydsyoutube]

I am a new viewer so I hit subscribe buttom because this channel is awesome, keep up the good work

[@flynnmandrake6954]

Talebot: "...and they're not even really that dark!" Image: "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" I'm sorry? Edit: Okay, he paddled back on that one, good.

[@jacobwoodbury2977]

hey thanks again Tale Bot. your telling of old stories is a great craft and it furthers my own understanding of each story.

[@Riseofhistiry]

I ascended last week. I don’t have to worry about death.

[@HogandDice]

This is why Cosmic Horror never really grasped me. Pantheism is how I've always seen the world so the revelations of Cosmic Horror never held any horror for me

[@usermanico]

Lovecraft:squid Poe : Do you believe in gravity?

[@mihaiioc.3809]

the amount of jojo references in these comment sections astounds me

[@bloodystatic4156]

The ending of The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar pretty much stuck with me!

[@xonxt7479]

thank you for the update man!

[@yossipossi]

Absolutely wonderful video!

[@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat]

gotta love 19th century stories sometimes: Newspapers: "We've replicated this study found in Poe's writing to great success!" Poe: "uh, you guys realize that was just a framing device right? it was never meant to be a literal study..."

[@Tach_ion]

This became one of my all time favorite videos I had thought about this concept before and I plan to eventually make it some sort of plot or revelation in a story

[@atlasweylandeden1091]

Really interesting video. It makes me wonder whether it would work to write a story that combines cosmic horror and Peo’s pantheism, to make the two contradicting ideas co-exist.

[@TheTaleFoundry]

You could make it the weakness of a cosmically horrific entity. "I will destroy you with the mere motions of my thought" - "you big dummy, I AM you" -Benji

[@CarlErikSimonsen]

Azathoth welcomes you ;)

[@satanisonthis]

Getting some big Third Impact vibes from this.

[@DXDragon38]

This is actually very fascinating.

[@DoJayMi]

Well this one took me by surprise. I went into this expecting it to be a message of you being the god of your own stories rather than us LITERALLY being pieces of God himself. I can’t say I really believe Poe’s ideas but it does give me some ideas.

[@grandthanatos]

I may have some way to update Valdemar and to make it all my own.

[@thomasnorton4015]

Amazing video!

[@almondrewhiteman1132]

I am so glad I found this channel❤️

[@PoseidonXIII]

Amazing stuff man.

[@hoseadowning2814]

Think about it like this matter/energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred between the two states. this means that every molecule in your body is just as essential to the laws of physics as the largest galaxy. Relatedly, it hasn't been proven whether our universe will suffer a heat death or crunch back into itself. Maybe the result of that proposed crunch is a singular intelligence that consists of everything that exists. Then, the universe, basically a god, decides that it is lonely enough to divide again.

[@fiaTheFae]

While we're talking about Poe, check out his Comedies! Xing A Paragrab and Lionize are two of my favorites, and frankly two of the funniest pieces of writing I've ever read~

[@TheTaleFoundry]

X-ing The Paragrab is SO GOOD! And virtually no one has read it, either! -Benji

[@lordzaboem]

I am not familiar with these, but I have grown fond of "The Angel of the Odd."

[@Vates104]

Excellent video. Thank you. His last work, Eureka, is a tour de force of such reasoning.

[@VisiblyPinkUnicorn]

Title: You are God Me, a italian: KONO DIO DA!

[@brandont5264]

I'm writing a novel about a roleplay character I have. But I decided to give him awareness of he being a characters, and remembering his past lifes. The goddam dude ia trying to overcome me and become real, but I don't let him do it v:

[@kipofthemany2213]

Unless you really are a god, I don't see how you have the ability to

[@fiaTheFae]

Isn't he real already, though? If he can feel and exist, is that not reality, if not the same layer of reality that you inhabit?

[@sizanogreen9900]

pantheism and "we are the origin of the world seperated by our limited perspective on it, together/as one dreaming the world" are the foundation for my big worldbuilding project I have been going on for many years now. It is also the source of magic in that world as in various types and levels of luzid dreaming limited by the fact that "you" aren't the only one dreaming, everyone is. Combining that into a logical and rule based universe was kinda tricky but well worth it.

[@not_jelly1579]

i love your vids its so big brain 🤩🤩

[@majorsilly8966]

Need more of this thank you thank you this in particular how to activate it in anyway ❤

[@just_a_guy3346]

really loved the visual effects in this video.just beautiful

[@j.b.5422]

gee, your voice sure changed a lot since 2021

[@aidandangiolillo415]

If we are all god, can we all promise to be kind and gentle to all life and things?

[@Mx.muffin]

This kinda reminds me of a villain in an old story I have. This villain was a girl who had her universe destroyed, and so, seeked out the God who destroyed it, going to another active universe and gathering all she could get to destroy the God who destroyed all she loved. In that universe, she found out that the God resided in another universe, and so went there to enact her revenge. However, when she found the supposed "God', they were simply a child with a sketchbook filled with all the protagonists she encountered in the other universe. It was there she realized just how much power one had with their imagination, one that could destory universes and create new ones, even if the child felt so small. Either way, it was there the villain realized that she was loved enough by the child that they reused her to make another story.

[@Fido-vm9zi]

Dear Tale Foundry, You are so very special! Sending love to you all!

[@knightdados]

thanks edgar for the boost of confidence!!

[@robxholicfoxyfan8552]

To be totally literal, all of what we are is made from the same matter as stars, asteroids, and planets... Just in a different construction. After all, the smallest atoms fused to be new atoms over time anyways.

[@callicosis8569]

I found and watched this video hours before it turned a year old, and I’m glad I did!

[@hamishthehero6872]

You deserve more subscribers.

[@jacobshore5115]

What was discussed here almost sounds like The Force from Star Wars in a way. Both the living and the cosmic Force.

[@adeadphish7931]

I thought the same thing

[@johncash8467]

And everything I loved, I loved alone...

[@amatanata]

I don’t know if this would be interesting to know, but my search history involving tips on DMing a dnd campaign lead me here. I know as a youtuber myself I enjoy where and how my videos get scene(when they get scene) to help me with my SEO score so I figured this would be helpful. Great content.

[@darknesskingdom1184]

Mesmeric Revelation clicks with me so well from a religious perspective I practice witchcraft and other metaphysical/occult subjects I sort have devouted my life given all the eyewitness accounts Ive had to study everything on death I possibly can especially from a metaphysical perspective the story definitely gives a massive eyeopener and explanation to things like the spirit plane and other planes of existance

[@AtaraxianWist]

I accidentally invented this idea when I was fifteen. I wrote it into a short story following a confederate soldier in the US Civil War. It was pretty bad, really, but it was interesting to later learn that others had conceived of the same idea, and some had even considered it more thoroughly than I had.

[@jonathandavis8051]

I've heard many jokes about how Edgar Allen Poe was on drugs, mostly because of how weird his stories are and not because he ever admited to it (as far as I know). But this kinda thing makes me think he most likely actually was, jokes aside. The idea that "we are all God" or "everthing is God" is something that I've heard from many people who are on psychadelics and such, and I've never heard anyone say it who wasn't XD There's a psychological explanation that I rather like, but there's a lot to it and I can't really organize my thoughts let alone say it in a short way, so I'm not gonna try

[@machinegunblues7]

Just bugged out when I heard the theme song from Quinn's ideas playing in the middle of the video.

[@Nightmare_puppet-q3x]

Nice video

[@ThreeProphets]

This is the original creepypasta

[@spamatron6471]

I found this in my recommendation and thought it was a video game

[@mahzi_productions]

Poe definitely tripped balls

[@thomasnorton4939]

The art is so cool!

[@bees4839]

😂🥰

[@dinamosflams]

finally some recognition!

[@Bread_Lord]

I just found this guy and love his inkwell art style

[@thedootlord]

Idk why but that part about the ultimate matter and how itd all one shook me abit when i remembered exotic matter is a thing

[@LiyemEanapay]

This “magnetic fluid” sounds a LOT like the Force

[@CueninsCove]

The Taleoids are back baby!!

[@TheTaleFoundry]

You killed with the animation in this video! -Benji

[@CueninsCove]

@@TheTaleFoundry Awww thanks buddy ❤️

[@littenkittenproject4816]

to me i think the universe is just a place full of answers to any question we just need to find it

[@MrBern-ex3wq]

This sounds familiar. "Who am I? Oh I'm so glad you asked! I'm called by many names. I'm the World. I'm the Universe. I'm God. I am truth. I am all. I am one. And I'm also, you!"

[@joecassidy2887]

Seems much like a mystical informed version of Spinoza's Metaphysics in the Ethics.

[@TheTaleFoundry]

Exactly like that!

[@D_BLECK]

Good video, good story, I hope everyone who saw it liked it. I assumed that everything living (and non-living) is one whole, only this “whole” consists of particles. Each has its own memory, each has its own body. But I didn’t understand one thing: Why am I here and now?

[@Gorboduc]

Poe summed up his whole cosmic philosophy in an essay called Eureka, one of the last things he wrote. It's very long, very confusing, and from what I could make out a bit like an Epicurean Spinoza-ism. (Kinda?)

[@siamihari8717]

Funny i came to the same conclusion though a philosophical examination of history. "If it is found that the work of god is but the toils of man, then is it not that man was always god and god was just man?"

[@dr_feelgood1902]

I had no prior understanding of this concept until my spiritual awakening back in August of 2019, when my psychic senses briefly opened up and I could see orbs and hear entities telepathically. "Oneness" was one of the words I heard telepathically, and it wasn't until I did some googling that I understood what it meant. It sounds crazy, I know, but I swear it's true.

[@RestlessMonarch]

How did you have a spiritual awakening?

[@Console-l0gger]

I actually thought of this idea while ago its actually quite unpleasant thinking about universe but some sleepless nights just brings me some questions that why do we even exist and since infinity exist what was start of all where did god come from, and I had idea that maybe we were actually but that just raised more questions overall concept needs to be picked up again

[@flavertex658]

The philosophy and practice of Non-dual Shaiva Tantra explores the unity between the divine and the material, the individual and God, on a highly sophisticated level. If you're interested, the books by Christopher D. Wallis on the topic proved excellent for me as a layman. Having currently been enamored with these ideas, I figured I would slide the recommendation. It's not fiction (well, depending on your metaphysical perspective it could be absolute nonsense) but it is certainly fascinating no matter your theological persuasion.

[@GethIng001]

I am a big fan of Lovecraft, but I also know he is a student of Edger Allan Poe. I know a few of Poe's stories, but I feel I need to read the originals, or just read more of his works. I get the feeling that much of Poe's topics, subjects, and style work well with my perspective and what writing style I already have figured out. I am glad to learn that Poe has a bit better perspective on the universe than Lovecraft. Lovecraft did toy with something I remember being called something along the lines of "Architipism." This is the idea there are "types" of beings that exist, and there is an exemplar of that type of being, and in turn that exemplar is in all the "substituent" beings "under" it.

[@chaster8798]

I got an existential crisis from this. but in a good way.

[@Blitzuro]

You have quite interesting videos, I’d love to see some SCP videos!

[@Louiseatrismegistus]

I was reading an academic journal today about modal collapses and works out a few new problems but has restarted the efforts to do more ontological pursuits and research via modal logic. Godels ontological proof(essentially logical based proof of a creator entity(God(el)) and a couple others such as in the words of Anselm “you [God] are whatever you are… you are the very life by which you live, the wisdom by which you are wise, the very goodness by which you are good.” Even further in Alan Watts humorous dialogue on Job and how he is God too, he just doesn’t know it yet, one can much like the hermetacists understand God as the field in which one exists and is thus intrinsic to all things that exist and yeah we’re probably all something divine inside.

[@josephsarra4320]

Can you do a topic on Joseph Conrad's The Heart of the Darkness and The Lord of the Flies?