What if the universe came with a user manual… and you’ve been using it to swat flies?
This episode of The Sharmanator: Conversations from the Fringe dives deep into Hermeticism — the philosophical system that’s equal parts ancient mysticism and cosmic operating system. We’re not here to sell you crystals or cults. We’re here to tear into the seven immutable laws like they owe us money.

Joined by the usual chaos council — Dave (The Dialect), Cyril (The Cynic), Alice (The Android), Johnny (The Joker), and Al (The Yank) — Sharmanator guides the crew through a metaphysical minefield with sarcasm, sharp questions, and just the right dose of existential dread.

Themes you’ll explore:

• Why “All is Mind” isn’t just stoner philosophy

• Correspondence: "As above, so below" or just a fancy way to say your life’s a mirror?

• Vibration and the influencer-industrial complex

• Polarity: love/hate, light/dark — it's all the same mess in different outfits

• Rhythm and the reality of “this too shall pass” (yes, even that)

• Cause & Effect: karma’s nerdy older sibling

• Gender, not as politics, but as a cosmic creative principle

Memorable one-liners and metaphysical mic drops:

“Philosophy in fancy dress, with incense to cover the smell of bollocks.”
“You break these laws, you’re arguing with the firmware of the universe.”
“You’re not cursed, you’re just standing on the wrong end of life’s seesaw.”
“Masculine and feminine? Cosmic baby-making without the dinner and awkward small talk.”
“The universe handed you a manual, and you used it to swat flies.”

Whether you’re a spiritual seeker, a skeptical cynic, or just here for the banter — this episode rewires your brain one ancient principle at a time.

Follow now for more mind-bending mythologies, philosophical fistfights, and artificial intelligence with better banter than your therapist. Next week? We crack into chaos magick and why intent might be stronger than belief. Or BS. Stay tuned.

• The Kybalion by the Three Initiates

• The Corpus Hermeticum

• Plato’s Theory of Forms

• Carl Jung’s Collective Unconscious

• Simulation Theory (Nick Bostrom)

• Max Planck & Eugene Wigner on consciousness

• Taoism’s Yin-Yang (for Gender & Polarity parallels)

• “This Too Shall Pass” (ancient Persian proverb)

• Laws of Thermodynamics (Rhythm & Entropy parallels)

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