The Pneuma Box

The television seems to serve a definitive function in our lives. We use it as a source of entertainment—something that gives us an overall sense of well-being. But the television also serves as a tool of enslavement. By vicariously living through the dramatic, comedic, and action-drenched programs we find on television, we push ourselves away from ourselves. We identify with characters that we find appealing in a certain program, and then we use these characters as figureheads we can project our subconscious datum onto. Although this seems therapeutic if it is done consciously, it is surely catastrophic if it goes under our conscious radars, because once we’re vulnerable to subconscious suggestion—meaning we have projected our shadows without taking full ownership over them—we are the helpless prey for advertising agencies who are more than willing to capitalize on a hollowed-out sense of self. This biting into our hollowed-out selves by the jaws of corporate ideation is indeed not a beneficial aspect. It is enslavement and not entertainment.

However, this line of thought hardly presents itself to paranoia. Questions about who runs the networks we watch don’t need to be ruminated upon until we break out in a nervous sweat. This line of thought is simply here to make us all aware of the fact that we project psychical junk onto other living things all the time. This is just the nature of sending and receiving signals via the use of our extended minds—the minds which are embedded in the deeper constructs of the universe, and the ones which aren’t always detected by our rationalizing faculties.

The whole problem with the television doesn’t exist in the construction of the box. The problem exists in how it is used as either a fear-inducing machine or as a way to promulgate mundane information; information that snaps, crackles, and pops in the most vapid of ways. What we need to do is move beyond “the soap box”—a photo-conductive device filled with gossip and botox commercials—and revamp it so it is called ‘The Pneuma Box”.

The Pneuma Box wouldn’t exist as a standard television set. Sony wouldn’t patent it, Japanese technology pundits wouldn’t find any high definition feature attached to its name. The Pneuma Box would be a television set used as a meta-psychological instrument. Its sole purpose would be to allow souls—not consumers—to transmute subconscious processes into superconscious phenomena. In other words, the Pneuma Box gives the viewer the instructions necessary to realize that the viewed can be raised to the zenith of existence and beyond. Of course this is carried out by using symbols for a galvanizing purpose rather than an anesthetizing purpose. No commercials, no plotline. Just tuning the physical to the channel of the metaphysical.