Christopher Sly
@bacchustown.bsky.social
Writer, Mechanic
My Writing Adventures -
A Hand Full of Sand (1987)
The Uncertainty Principle (1991)
The Mysterious Pass (1995)
The Lord's Bedchamber (2002)
The Peace Story (2008)
https://bacchustown.substack.com/
My Writing Adventures -
A Hand Full of Sand (1987)
The Uncertainty Principle (1991)
The Mysterious Pass (1995)
The Lord's Bedchamber (2002)
The Peace Story (2008)
https://bacchustown.substack.com/
Pinned
A Writer’s Introduction to Story Alchemy
My Alchemical Writer’s Game
bacchustown.substack.com
My secret alchemical journey -
#writing
#writing
AI can play the roles of Pirate Predator and Monster Punisher. It can bind us inside bullshit to control our perceptions. Crazy-stupid to ignore that Pirate Predators are financing A1, are pitching AI as paradise found, and that they won't use it to punish and prey.
#writing story sorcery
#writing story sorcery
Anthropic Researcher Resigns, Warning That AI 'Could Kill Us All By The End Of The Decade'
“No other human activity poses this level of danger,” Jacob Coxon wrote on X.
www.huffpost.com
September 9, 2026 at 12:10 PM
AI can play the roles of Pirate Predator and Monster Punisher. It can bind us inside bullshit to control our perceptions. Crazy-stupid to ignore that Pirate Predators are financing A1, are pitching AI as paradise found, and that they won't use it to punish and prey.
#writing story sorcery
#writing story sorcery
Hypothesis: There is a story outside of my current story.
If I were there -
My perceptions would be clearer.
My responses would be wiser.
My consequences would be better.
How can I get there?
Jump Point...
#writing
If I were there -
My perceptions would be clearer.
My responses would be wiser.
My consequences would be better.
How can I get there?
Jump Point...
#writing
A Writer’s Introduction to Story Alchemy
My Alchemical Writer’s Game
bacchustown.substack.com
September 8, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Hypothesis: There is a story outside of my current story.
If I were there -
My perceptions would be clearer.
My responses would be wiser.
My consequences would be better.
How can I get there?
Jump Point...
#writing
If I were there -
My perceptions would be clearer.
My responses would be wiser.
My consequences would be better.
How can I get there?
Jump Point...
#writing
"It is catastrophically stupid for a nation to propagate selfish and self-righteous citizens."
Turbocharging Democracy: How a Hero Engine Educational System can accelerate We the People into a future of security, freedom, peace, and prosperity. Bring on the Hero Show!
#writing #education #civics
Turbocharging Democracy: How a Hero Engine Educational System can accelerate We the People into a future of security, freedom, peace, and prosperity. Bring on the Hero Show!
#writing #education #civics
Turbocharging Democracy
Bring on the Hero Show!
bacchustown.substack.com
September 7, 2026 at 12:52 PM
"It is catastrophically stupid for a nation to propagate selfish and self-righteous citizens."
Turbocharging Democracy: How a Hero Engine Educational System can accelerate We the People into a future of security, freedom, peace, and prosperity. Bring on the Hero Show!
#writing #education #civics
Turbocharging Democracy: How a Hero Engine Educational System can accelerate We the People into a future of security, freedom, peace, and prosperity. Bring on the Hero Show!
#writing #education #civics
My secret alchemical journey -
#writing
#writing
A Writer’s Introduction to Story Alchemy
My Alchemical Writer’s Game
bacchustown.substack.com
September 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
My secret alchemical journey -
#writing
#writing
When I was 6yo, the Santa Claus Shift revealed that my perceptions were trapped inside my story. I think I was 14 when a shift revealed that my emotions were trapped with my misperceptions, by reversing. I can flame or get incredibly high on complete bs.
So can you.
#writing story sorcery
So can you.
#writing story sorcery
September 4, 2026 at 12:08 PM
When I was 6yo, the Santa Claus Shift revealed that my perceptions were trapped inside my story. I think I was 14 when a shift revealed that my emotions were trapped with my misperceptions, by reversing. I can flame or get incredibly high on complete bs.
So can you.
#writing story sorcery
So can you.
#writing story sorcery
The "Make America Great Again" story was created to kill American democracy. The "Stop the Steal" story was created to steal the election. This is story sorcery.
#writing
#writing
September 4, 2026 at 11:31 AM
The "Make America Great Again" story was created to kill American democracy. The "Stop the Steal" story was created to steal the election. This is story sorcery.
#writing
#writing
"Consider, if you will, the vast chasm between the raw data, the vibration of Reality, and our story. Factor in limits on human perception and interpretation. There is room to be humble and reason to explore."
My 1995 Jump Point charging the Taoist Mysterious Pass. #writing #taoism #mindfulness
My 1995 Jump Point charging the Taoist Mysterious Pass. #writing #taoism #mindfulness
The Mysterious Pass (1995)
Beyond Story Space...
bacchustown.substack.com
September 4, 2026 at 10:44 AM
"Consider, if you will, the vast chasm between the raw data, the vibration of Reality, and our story. Factor in limits on human perception and interpretation. There is room to be humble and reason to explore."
My 1995 Jump Point charging the Taoist Mysterious Pass. #writing #taoism #mindfulness
My 1995 Jump Point charging the Taoist Mysterious Pass. #writing #taoism #mindfulness
JD Vance -
"The president didn't mean any offense. Obviously, he loves Christians …"
Fried or baked?
"I think there are things about the world that make me feel, like, not shocked if the antichrist was walking among us."
Maybe someone pretending to be God? #writing story sorcery
"The president didn't mean any offense. Obviously, he loves Christians …"
Fried or baked?
"I think there are things about the world that make me feel, like, not shocked if the antichrist was walking among us."
Maybe someone pretending to be God? #writing story sorcery
JD Vance says he’s doing ‘God’s work – and if that leads to the end times, OK’
Vice-president says on evangelical podcast he would feel ‘not shocked if the antichrist was walking among us’
www.yahoo.com
September 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
JD Vance -
"The president didn't mean any offense. Obviously, he loves Christians …"
Fried or baked?
"I think there are things about the world that make me feel, like, not shocked if the antichrist was walking among us."
Maybe someone pretending to be God? #writing story sorcery
"The president didn't mean any offense. Obviously, he loves Christians …"
Fried or baked?
"I think there are things about the world that make me feel, like, not shocked if the antichrist was walking among us."
Maybe someone pretending to be God? #writing story sorcery
Problem Definition - The Character Wars driven by selfish hearts and certain minds are the enduring source of man’s inhumanity to man.
Proposed Solution - Hero Propagation
#writing #education
Proposed Solution - Hero Propagation
#writing #education
A Hero Nation Manifesto
Turbocharging Democracy
bacchustown.substack.com
September 3, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Problem Definition - The Character Wars driven by selfish hearts and certain minds are the enduring source of man’s inhumanity to man.
Proposed Solution - Hero Propagation
#writing #education
Proposed Solution - Hero Propagation
#writing #education
The first story-shift I remember was from inside of a story where Santa Claus was absolutely true out into a story where it was all a vast conspiracy of lies designed to control my behavior. #writing story alchemy
September 2, 2026 at 3:52 AM
The first story-shift I remember was from inside of a story where Santa Claus was absolutely true out into a story where it was all a vast conspiracy of lies designed to control my behavior. #writing story alchemy
My Four Journeys Model (2002) I have been inside of all of these stories. I started naming with the Hero but it was years before I settled on all 4 -
Hero (Player) (Top)
Pirate (Predator) (L)
Monster (Punisher) (B)
(Loving) Saint (R)
Can you see these characters among the people you know?
Hero (Player) (Top)
Pirate (Predator) (L)
Monster (Punisher) (B)
(Loving) Saint (R)
Can you see these characters among the people you know?
September 1, 2026 at 11:49 PM
My Four Journeys Model (2002) I have been inside of all of these stories. I started naming with the Hero but it was years before I settled on all 4 -
Hero (Player) (Top)
Pirate (Predator) (L)
Monster (Punisher) (B)
(Loving) Saint (R)
Can you see these characters among the people you know?
Hero (Player) (Top)
Pirate (Predator) (L)
Monster (Punisher) (B)
(Loving) Saint (R)
Can you see these characters among the people you know?
"Uncertainty is a story solvent that can dissolve a story-model allowing story evolution. It can free our awareness to more clearly perceive the stimulus of an uncertain reality. No one is born with good judgment. Our judgment evolves as our story evolves." #writing story alchemy
August 28, 2026 at 11:01 PM
"Uncertainty is a story solvent that can dissolve a story-model allowing story evolution. It can free our awareness to more clearly perceive the stimulus of an uncertain reality. No one is born with good judgment. Our judgment evolves as our story evolves." #writing story alchemy
Finally we can stop harping about blowing up schoolgirls and raping schoolgirls and starving poor children and focus on punishing the evil Canadians for their disobedience.
Make Americans Global A**holes! (MAGA)
We always win.
You always lose.
#writing - story sorcery
Make Americans Global A**holes! (MAGA)
We always win.
You always lose.
#writing - story sorcery
August 28, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Finally we can stop harping about blowing up schoolgirls and raping schoolgirls and starving poor children and focus on punishing the evil Canadians for their disobedience.
Make Americans Global A**holes! (MAGA)
We always win.
You always lose.
#writing - story sorcery
Make Americans Global A**holes! (MAGA)
We always win.
You always lose.
#writing - story sorcery
"My Hero is not a person, it is a solution role that a person can choose to perform. The Hero’s Journey is a solution function serving the People. A selfish heart will not undertake the Hero’s Journey and a certain mind cannot perform the solution process." - The Hero Way
#writing The Four Journeys
#writing The Four Journeys
August 28, 2026 at 10:25 AM
"My Hero is not a person, it is a solution role that a person can choose to perform. The Hero’s Journey is a solution function serving the People. A selfish heart will not undertake the Hero’s Journey and a certain mind cannot perform the solution process." - The Hero Way
#writing The Four Journeys
#writing The Four Journeys
The Four Natural Journeys are created by the thresholds of Heart and Mind and the binary choice made at each.
Selfish Heart (win-lose) or Loving Heart (win-win)
Certain Mind (One True Story) or Seeking Mind (The Game of Guessing Right)
#writing - (The Four Natural Journeys)
Selfish Heart (win-lose) or Loving Heart (win-win)
Certain Mind (One True Story) or Seeking Mind (The Game of Guessing Right)
#writing - (The Four Natural Journeys)
August 28, 2026 at 10:19 AM
The Four Natural Journeys are created by the thresholds of Heart and Mind and the binary choice made at each.
Selfish Heart (win-lose) or Loving Heart (win-win)
Certain Mind (One True Story) or Seeking Mind (The Game of Guessing Right)
#writing - (The Four Natural Journeys)
Selfish Heart (win-lose) or Loving Heart (win-win)
Certain Mind (One True Story) or Seeking Mind (The Game of Guessing Right)
#writing - (The Four Natural Journeys)
"When the story of the loving heart spreads it unites us in survival, peace, and prosperity. When the story of the selfish heart spreads it rips us apart and eats us."
bacchustown.substack.com/p/a-hero-nat...
bacchustown.substack.com/p/a-hero-nat...
A Hero Nation Manifesto
Turbocharging Democracy
bacchustown.substack.com
August 26, 2026 at 11:20 AM
"When the story of the loving heart spreads it unites us in survival, peace, and prosperity. When the story of the selfish heart spreads it rips us apart and eats us."
bacchustown.substack.com/p/a-hero-nat...
bacchustown.substack.com/p/a-hero-nat...
My #WIP involves a story war between story sorcery, (binding perception in bs) and story alchemy (freeing perception from bs). The sorcerer brands "woke" (awakening from their bs) as Truth Derangement Syndrome. Their Sh*theads (bs addicts) attack the evil awoken who could set them free. #amwriting
August 24, 2026 at 11:15 AM
My #WIP involves a story war between story sorcery, (binding perception in bs) and story alchemy (freeing perception from bs). The sorcerer brands "woke" (awakening from their bs) as Truth Derangement Syndrome. Their Sh*theads (bs addicts) attack the evil awoken who could set them free. #amwriting
April 15, 2026 at 9:38 AM
#AndrewWeissmann talking to #SarahLongwell about his new book - Liar's Kingdom. Solutions for an honest #democracy .
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnWe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnWe...
Andrew Weissmann: Trump Built a Kingdom of Lies | Illegal News
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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March 11, 2026 at 9:48 PM
#AndrewWeissmann talking to #SarahLongwell about his new book - Liar's Kingdom. Solutions for an honest #democracy .
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnWe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnWe...
The so-called “Trump Bibles average in price between $60 and $1,000 for copies signed by the president, who receives fees for his endorsement."
Trump was paid to endorse bibles...
www.rawstory.com/ryan-walters...
Trump was paid to endorse bibles...
www.rawstory.com/ryan-walters...
Revealed: How ex-MAGA schools chief lied to board members to pass controversial standards
The Oklahoma State Board of Education plans to review, and possibly dismantle, social studies academic standards approved during the tenure of controversial former state schools Superintendent Ryan Wa...
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October 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The so-called “Trump Bibles average in price between $60 and $1,000 for copies signed by the president, who receives fees for his endorsement."
Trump was paid to endorse bibles...
www.rawstory.com/ryan-walters...
Trump was paid to endorse bibles...
www.rawstory.com/ryan-walters...
One of my writing stories from The Hero Way: An Alchemical Adventure (for #writers). How I wrote my first novel -
medium.com/@bacchustown...
medium.com/@bacchustown...
A Hand Full of Sand
A Mini-Writer’s-Memoir
medium.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
One of my writing stories from The Hero Way: An Alchemical Adventure (for #writers). How I wrote my first novel -
medium.com/@bacchustown...
medium.com/@bacchustown...
The first story-shift that I remember was from inside of a story where Santa Claus was absolutely true out into a story where it was all a vast conspiracy of lies.
substack.com/profile/4026...
substack.com/profile/4026...
October 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The first story-shift that I remember was from inside of a story where Santa Claus was absolutely true out into a story where it was all a vast conspiracy of lies.
substack.com/profile/4026...
substack.com/profile/4026...