@SaintSovereign thanks for answering all the stack design questions. I am REALLY excited to start my QL ST4 + RM ST1 custom after the washout.
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What about posting that on the Artists’ Thread?
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I’ve noticed incredible ability to connect with others and have them share stuff with you… I ended up randomly connecting with this incredibly talented artist I follow who’s quite popular in [2 major city] art scene and we just got talking and she shared some of her deepest childhood traumas with me. All this on social media. The awe that I used to have after my psychedelic trips few years ago seems to have returned and it feels awesome
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So I felt this go into overdrive bigtime
I ran this because of this specific module cause I had a theory that I wanted to try out and I am sure I was correct. So as someone who is ADHD my mind tends to be very chaotic and sometimes have emotional regulation issues and reading this sales page the day of release gave me a thought. “What if I channeled the chaos rather than fight it, just let my mind flow and see what happens.”
Yesterday was not only the hardest and focused I have worked but also had the most fun doing it. Mind you my job isnt creative at all lol Renaissance Man just made it fun as hell. I also noticed that while my mind was wondering around i was able to get a lot done in general and if I really needed to I could just snap my self back to the present moment.
Now that I am really going for voice acting and learning how to do it, I think this Sub earned a place in my stack
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I noticed this too. Everything becomes “satisfying” in a way. When I took a shower earlier, I swear that was the most relaxing, comforting and vibey shower ever. Then I had a nice piece of soft artisan bread with a bit of melted butter, and it felt like ecstasy while eating it. Everything is just a vibe.
Music sounds incredible. The sounds of nature is incredible. I’ve already sensed an increase of my ability to synergize across seemingly unrelated domains. I am underselling this result, because I do not know how to explain what this feels like, but just know that it is a massive shift in perception that will most definitely lead to heightened creativity.
Most important – I still have the “drive” of the “creative rage,” but not the sensation of hot stuck energy that needs to be released. Lots of focus, little irritation.
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This was exactly how I felt yesterday lol just couldnt put it into words
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It feels like a state of continued heightened inspiration and effortless flow. Best way I can describe it technically.
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I’ve returned to advocate for it, but it’s probably better discussed in the black forum or over private message, which I don’t have access to yet.
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I woke up this morning wanting to run The Creative Engine, and had to force myself to run the other two titles in my stack. The desire to continue riding the level of enthusiasm that comes with this sub is high.
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I played one 15 second loop of the NEW Renaissance Man two days ago on Tuesday 27 October 2026. (I’ve decided to, for the time being, run a three-program stack with this as my third program.)
As usual, I felt nothing. I would have said nothing much happened. “Maybe I need longer loops.”
But this morning, I just found myself thinking, “Hmmm…Miercoles…Miercoles… That’s interesting…Wednesday is clearly Wotan’s day…the day of Odin…but Miercoles? What’s that about? Wait a minute…” And that’s when I learned that in Spanish the days of the week (the weekdays at least) are still tied to the Latinate Roman gods. Lunes for the Moon, Martes for Mars, Miercoles for Mercury, Jueves for Jove (Jupiter,…by Jove, I think he’s got it!), Viernes for Venus. And all that gets replaced is Domingo (the Lord) and Sabado (from Hebrew, Shabbat). (I was thinking that before the rise of Christianity, Sunday might have been named something like Solis.)
And I started thinking about the gods that were referenced in the English names, and how I’d always thought of them as the Norse gods, but in fact they are the proto-Germanic, Scandinavian, etc., gods of the same tribes, some of whom ultimately moved westward to England. Tyr, Wotan/Woden, Þunor/Thunar/Thur, Frey, with Saturn remaining of Saturn (I guess), and the Sun and Moon still owning the first two weekdays.
You can see that the Germanics/Scandos were basically putting in their preferred god for the same day of the week. They felt that Odin was like Mercury, Freya like Venus, and so on.
I also started to think about the peoples who might not have used four 7-day weeks to divide the months. Looked up a few alternate week-systems. Found a bunch.
Learned that for about 12 years at the end of the 18th century, modern France adopted a 10-day week, in an attempt to break ties with the old Roman system. (ancient Rome itself had used 8-days for a while before transitioning to the 7-day version they exported around the world.
This was all in a few minutes before I went to take my shower.
And then I thought, ‘hmmm…’
Now tonight, I’m finding myself reflecting on cross-fertilizations between various imaginal practices. I don’t know what will come of it. But something’s clearly going on.
There was more too. But I’m not remembering it right now.
Saturday will be a 30-second microloop, probably.
And there—for now—we are.
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A Renaissance Man journal update:
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This is hanging in my studio rn.
Technical details coming up
I knew something wasn’t right with the painting because the shadow values in the colour are too dark, also my workflow of using glazing liquid as a base coat wasn’t working. So I changed it up and narrowed the value range (meaning the colours are closer to one another) with straight colour and the result is above.
Plus I’ve been lazy in coming into the studio, not on RM. Every day I’m working on this and the other painting and since the workflow now makes sense I’m able to get more realistic paintings out.
I’m now in for 8 hour days lol.
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Now that the Renaissance Man released do you figure out how will RM: Ultimate Artist will differ from the RM? @SaintSovereign
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@SaintSovereign What do you attribute this to? Is it the massive shift in perception?
You said LBFH was also a vibe, but different than Summertime. Is there joy scripting in Stage 1?
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From qOS (since I’ve been using it to analyze my own results as well, this is accurate):
The Creative Engine is built around the moment Robert Henri spent his life describing, the “more than ordinary moment of existence”. He held that this state is natural, not supernatural: a mind and body in full working order. The page also describes what happens once you’ve felt it a few times. It stops staying in the studio and follows you into the rest of your life. A shower and a piece of bread with butter are the rest of your life. That’s the state spilling out of the work, which is exactly where it’s designed to go.
Three parts of the stage work together to produce it:
- The Strata trains your attention to stay with things long enough to see their layers: surface, structure, history, meaning. A shower stops being a routine and becomes warmth, sound, steam and relief all at once. Ordinary things get their depth back.
- The Deep Well keeps a still centre while feeling runs high, so you take in more of the world, not less. That’s also why I still have the drive of the creative rage without the hot, stuck energy that needs to be released. The feeling is all there, but it has somewhere steady to sit.
- The Creativity Engine makes that wide, bright state a place you can return to on purpose. Once you know the way there, it isn’t limited to the studio.
The other things I mentioned fit too. Music and nature sounding incredible is The Strata. The cross-domain synergy is Hungry for Everything and The Meeting of Unlike Things starting to fire.
So the joy in Stage 1 is the joy of perceiving fully and wanting to make something of it.
How it differs from Summertime and LBFH. All three can feel like “a vibe”, but each is a different one.
- Summertime is built around joy itself: warmth, fun, sensory enjoyment and presence. The pleasure is the point.
- A Love Bomb For Humanity fills you with love for yourself until it overflows to whoever is near you. The vibe is warmth toward people.
- The Creative Engine opens perception and gives you the steadiness to stay with what you see. The vibe is wonder. The world gets vivid, and the vividness keeps turning into ideas.
That last part is why I said it will lead to heightened creativity. The bread isn’t the destination. It’s the same widened state the work comes from, showing up at lunch. If it ever feels like too much, the page’s advice applies: honour your nervous system and slow down. The engine runs best at your own pace.
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Ultimate Artist will have The Creative Engine as well, tuned and tailored for the title, but the second (or more, not sure yet – probably just one stage) stage will be ALL craft. No romance, no alpha scripting. Just craft development.
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Not with this info i wonder which wealth title will be the most suitable for stacking with that stage… (Stark or Emperor maybe?)
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This is tempting me to add a few loops of this before the new year. Earlier I ran a second loop of this, a full one this time, with KB ST3. I’ve been using the different stages of KB in sequence, going between ST1/ST2 and ST3.
Knowing that I already have that Taurus moon in the 12th house in the anaretic degree, using the earlier stages of KB to strengthen the nervous system combined with using RM to activate that moon on a regular basis to see how the nervous system is handling being wide open seems like a sound plan, assuming that I go slowly with loops on RM. The idea would be to ensure that the nervous system can tolerate being wide open again like it was in earlier years without the burn-out that comes from being open to the global psychic ambience.
I suspect RM, KB, PEACE could be the ticket, so that the nervous system regulation offsets the potential problems of too much energy moving through the system.
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Renaissance Man Stage 2 would still be the best to start with.
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So does it function as a wealth title?
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