How to Build a Pyramid

Some would begin by cutting stone. Others by summoning a group together. Still others, using the powers of their mind, would design the systems to transport and stack heavy material in just the right way.

But Circling goes much, much slower.

That’s how it teaches us to do great things together. Because if you want to build a pyramid, you need to begin at the beginning.

You need to understand the shape of a pyramid and why it is important. You need to grasp which way is up, which way is down. Before that, you need to know what is and isn’t.

And after all, maybe the pyramid is already here.

Pyramids Aren’t Made of Stone, or Circling Is Not About Connection and Presence

For hundreds of years, scholars have tested their mettle against the age-old question, “How did they build the pyramids?”

Without modern technology. Without modern physics. And with so many mouths to feed. How did they do it?

Many proposals have been pushed forward, each describing the various ways material can be mined, carried, and stacked. Initially, many of the hardest questions were hand-waved away with the idea that you could do almost anything with sufficient slave labor. More recently, evidence suggests those who built the pyramids were artisans of some standing. An encouraging thought.

But all of this is so far ahead of the truth of how you build a pyramid. And it is like this with Circling.

So much of our talk about Circling focuses on the final steps. We share from presence. We stay at the level of sensation. We commit to connection. We welcome everything. If we feel like going deeper, we might say it is about beholding someone.

All of these are the systems of pulleys and platforms that might have built the pyramids. They don’t tell us how to really build a pyramid.

To understand how to build a pyramid, you need to see the world through the eyes of the ancient Egyptian. To understand how to circle, you need to see the world through the eyes of a circler.

For many of us, we think of Circling as a practice of gently pressing into vulnerability or owning our experience or surfing waves of life force.

It is none of these things.

They might happen in a Circle, but they are not Circling. They are not the fullness of the practice.

They are not how to build a pyramid.

So, how do you build one, then?

The Circle is a space where we only do and say what is true.

And if you keep doing that for long enough, you will raise a wonder out of the desert itself.

The Geometry of the Pyramid, or What Is True?

The pyramids are not designed to be the shape they take. Their shape is revealed in the fullness of their truth.

If your blood tells you to build a giant structure toward heaven—one that will stand in the harsh winds for millennia, one that will orient to the cardinal directions and point to precise destinations in sky country—you may simply begin doing that. The conviction with which you do it and the purity of your desire to see it completed will draw others who will help. You will reach for stone to build it, and like manna from heaven, it will appear nearby. There will be sacrifice. There will be beauty. You will learn what every bone and muscle in your body was given for. In witness to the work, you will find companionship with others that goes beyond love into a realm where morality and effort and conniving and lust all burn so brightly before falling away one by one. Time will pass in the sands, but it will not matter. You will lose yourself in the simple doing until you become the sand and the blistering day and the shivering night and, yes, even the silent breath that holds all of this and will one day exhale and let it all sift into no more than a handful of dust thrown among the unfathomable stars.

And when you are done, you will step back and find you built a pyramid.

To Circle, you need only begin by saying what is true. You can always learn how to more artfully articulate what is true—that is the work of Thoth’s sorcery. But do not linger in this inquiry: questioning the how’s and why’s of truth is Satanic sorcery, and it will eat your children before devouring you whole.

Let it go.

Do not worry about how you could know what is true or by what astral fortune you were granted such an inheritance. Begin simply, right where the blood tells you to begin.

Maybe…

• My shoulders feel a bit tight.

• I’m scared.

• I want you to like me.

These are true enough. And they’ll get you going.

Do this with conviction, orienting it to the world as you really see it. Under the droning rhythm of sun and moon, others will come. Their blood will tell them to. And they will sit with you and begin to name the truth also. Theirs will not always sound like yours, but eventually you will learn how to listen to the tongues of the most distant lands. In fact, you will learn to listen to the truth spoken by those who have never come to sit and speak truth. You will hold moonlight in the most broken of vessels. You will recognize this brokenness because it is so much like your brokenness. You will drink deeply like this and laugh with the others. You will also cry.

And at that moment when it is time to stand up and leave the Circle to risk the eternal night wandering off into the coldest reaches of the barren desert, you will find that among you something has risen from the earth. It will bear witness to what you did there. It will last what seems like forever. And then, surely enough, it too will dissolve and scatter in the wind, returning to that most ancient and future state.

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What to do with all this enlightenment…

Our latest episode describes the next steps one might take when they wake up to the idea that they’ve been living inside a false reality their entire life.

It’s another part of our ongoing series with Rob Kancler, describing how we escape the Matrix and begin playing inside of it.