February 2, 2022
Dear Dr. Peterson,
Last October I launched a public experiment on the existential nature of connective transcendent consciousness within humanity within current popular music/lyrics, by purveying an interior experience I perceive as connective ahead of time, and seeing whether the future album releases would strike a chord with what was written ahead of time, or not. We are right in the middle of that right now, and it’s resulted in quite a number of updates; there have been nine different releases that were subject to analysis with respects to the proposal/introduction/writ so far. I’ve maintained a thread with each update on your main Reddit forum and your Letter subreddit, (which means it’s invisible more or less). A hand to hand delivery attempt appears to be the only possibility of this reaching you, so here goes the try.
I chose you because I felt you’d be a qualified observer, after watching the sum of your Genesis lectures on Youtube. This is, by being relational to my own subject matter as pertains to Biblical references/objective analysis of the nature of belief, what qualifies you in my perception as a potential observer. (Besides if it’s a diagnosable condition you’d be qualified to tell me, and vise versa.) In short, I am dealing with a situation where I think Christian religious values and arch-types are the only thing that can elevate humanity in terms or evolving into a collective consciousness in love, and I’ve been tracking this evolution, consciously or unconsciously as it evolves, for almost thirty years. You have an understanding of these tenets having inherent value through belief because of how it successfully maintains and elevates society as a whole through individual aspiration/holiness. I’m trying to offer an indication of just how far an evolutionary leap might be inbuilt, but I do not want to make a mistake. This might make you exactly what I need as a qualified observer.
I wouldn’t approach you unless I thought I was offering possibly the most significant observable discovery to ever occur in your field, one that would be valuable to you. I’m serious, because I’ve been navigating/observing this circumstance alone by myself as the nigh sole observer for nearly thirty years, which included contacting the artists personally who I thought were potentially the most linked/inspirationally involved. (It was only December 2020 that I finally wrote to the one I regarded as the fourth.) The first was Bono in 1999/2011; -the second time, I gave him the book where the draft stood, which was it had reached the date where I met him in person in 1999. With every artist I’ve contacted, an assimilative process begins with what I’ve written, a measure of artistic incorporation that slowly graduates, but I’ve never actually spoken to any of them, which means none of this is confirmed. (None of them have ever contacted me back.)
At this present threshold, Bono appears fully aware of the book, in that he appears to have written a song about it and keeps stealth referencing it/myself. (For a first draft I apologize in advance.) When artists/celebrities went through the fad of posting text numbers for their fans to add to their phones, U2 did the same, on their official Twitter. Unlike other artists who are basically creating a pretend connection with fans that is basically for automated artistic and merchandise announcements, U2’s (New York area code, receives texts) was never used for any announcements of any kind, for over a year. They then took it down from their Twitter but it still receives texts. It initiates with a text “from” The Edge and has Adam Clayton on the answering machine saying it only receives texts. I sent only enough to see whether it remained active, and eventually concluded it was worth trying to send the full first draft of the book that way (October 26, 2021), pleading that Bono be willing to acknowledge he wrote “Book of Your Heart” due to reading mine with a citation in his current autobiography, (which stands a chance of making my book of interest to publishers), with the added complaint that Bono’s maintenance of this potential existing circumstance as a secret for over twenty-one years since encounter prevents publication (among other things). A rather odd video post was made by Bono very shortly afterwards, not through the official U2 YouTube account, though this auction was real.
I don’t have a pretension this means something (given it’s the second time I’ve been presented with this manner of rabbit hole I’m leery), but it is the first time since 1999 when I asked him to please discuss with me what I thought was happening that any potential channel has existed to present what I consider the essential necessaries to discuss. You will find none of this is easy. (I’ve barely started, and apologise in advance for this too, but you’ve volumes to start reading already if this proposal is of interest to you, so that’s probably ok. Give me nine days on this one; please don’t look at it yet. When I finish, I will date when it was actually sent to U2’s text number at the top, meaning that will be the point where it’s read ready.) Given the weight, I’m not about to make demands of anyone. I’m really presenting him with the nature of my experiment because I feel that is the best way for him to be able to make an informed choice about what he wants to do about this (or not), and give back to him what appeared to begin between us at a stadium concert almost thirty years ago. Making you privy to this letter puts you at the very beginning of this being presented to the person it matters to present it to the most. He’s going to know if this delivery succeeds; I already told him I tried this over email/web. (That’s if the texts are read, which I do not know.) I don’t intentionally leverage in this manner (by informing each recipient of each other’s letter, and that the proposal has been made individually simultaneously), but it has happened circumstantially three times now. (I approached you first because I was unsure about the text number, and leery of Bono ever reacting in a real way, besides which there’s no way to know if this is indeed a channel.)
Contacting you about it is a way of personally letting Bono off the hook in terms of needing his assent to show this connectivity really exists in a Transcendent way. I am presenting to him and everyone to see if this inspirational pattern really is an observable thing. A qualified observer has the ability to render a verdict, which means his is not necessarily required to validate the situation personally. There is a (very) strong basis for proceeding in this manner. Also it offers you a qualified assessment of myself.
The motivation is personal for me. What really prompted me to move forward was that Coldplay/Chris Martin did this, meaning it’s the first time the entire time it appears someone out of this whole universal unconscious connection wants to meet me in person. I’ve letter contacted in the past when and where this appeared to happen in the past (three times), but it never actually was a thing (which means I’m not sure that it’s supposed to be this time ‘round either). It got awfully close once. It ended with my heart being broken.
Again, contacting you is a way of not letting this prospect (or lack thereof) determine the verdict as to whether this is really happening (or not), which is basically what happened last time ‘round. It is much bigger, better, and much too important for that. What’s happening should not be denied by something so simple as what the circumstances of attraction/lack thereof/circumstances might be between two individuals. (I haven’t even searched him on the internets. Not even once.) The real reason I really hope this will interest you is because I’ve been alone in it with it all inside my head for almost thirty years, which is true solitude. And on the other hand, if Bono chooses again to maintain this interaction solely inside his art as a maintained secret, there’s not much way for anyone else to find out about it this time ‘round, is there? Maybe if you see, Chris Martin might get to too. Bono won’t be the barrier thanks to his choice. And there are prospectively many more out there than Chris Martin.
Farewell in sincerity and utmost gratitude for everything you have done,
Rahab Cummins
PS: This was your prior email. I archive some letters here but make them unsearchable and un-navigable.
PPS: These are the artist updates on the public time lapse experiment to date, analysed with respects to the proposal/introduction/writ the order they were released:
Tears for Fears, “The Tipping Point”, video
Coldplay, Music of the Spheres, album
Jack White, “Taking Me Back”, first single release
U2, “Your Song Saved My Life”, Sing 2 Soundtrack
Johnny Marr, Fever Dreams Part 1-2, EP
Damon Albarn, The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows, album
Sting, “Rushing Water”, first single release
Johnny Marr, Fever Dreams Part 3-4, EP
Jack White, “Love is Selfish” video, David Gahan, “Dark End of the Street” video