If the first five volumes of Vadim Zeland's Transurfing represent a fundamental reading for understanding the dynamics between consciousness, reality, and perception, this volume marks a clear decline.
The writing becomes moralistic and confrontational, imbued with a malaise that contrasts sharply with the balance and clarity of the previous texts.
The author attempts to update the concept of lucidity, but this update seems to embody the decay of someone who presumes to maintain power and awareness without recognizing the cycles of ascent and descent intrinsic to human experience.
In this sense, what was once a tool of illumination becomes here a medium of oppression and inner conflict.
From an anthropological and psychological perspective, considering the trajectory of the author’s work from the first volumes to this one, the decline becomes evident, offering insight into the dynamics of perception, control, and human attempts at pretending to maintaining a lost awareness.
However, as a reading experience, it is severely compromised, turning a potential journey of awareness into a path marked by contradictions and conceptual dissonances.
Here is an excerpt:
"The Discovery Channel, for example, used to be interesting and instructive! And now? They show 'smashers' who go into raptures every time they break and destroy things. On Animal Planet, they only show dangerous animals, on National Geographic only catastrophes, and on the news, only frightening and terrible reports. Watching these programs, one gets the clear impression that the era of intellectuals is over and the age of fools and degenerates has begun.
.... no, I don’t believe it, NOT EVERYTHING IS FINE in this world, there is something THAT IS NOT RIGHT and THIS IS NOT OK. THIS CANNOT BE."