Marty dances to Akira The Don. “I Act As If God Exists”
Channel: Martin Pépin
Date: 2023-05-23

MEANINGWAVE EXISTS!!!

Me performing at Caravan open mic at The Cube in Old Market Square, within the exchange district of Winnipeg. I danced to I Act As If God Exists by Akira the Don featuring Jordan Bernt Peterson

This is a spontaneous performance in which my dancing is pure improvisation. I did not choreograph or rehearse anything

Akira The Don: he’s got clout

“Akira the Don is a British musician, DJ and producer. He’s worked in genres as diverse as pop, hip hop, indie, dance, and more recently, perhaps, something that has come to be known as MEANINGWAVE”

Meaningwave is a musical psychotechnology developed by Akira The Don with the aim of helping listeners achieve their potential in this lifetime

CaRaVaN is an open mic put on by The Purple Room in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

The Cube is a public stage in Old Market Square

Old Market Square is a small park in Winnipeg’s exchange district. It is home to festivals and many other events

0:00 intro
0:15 I Act As If God Exists

Lyrics:
"People often ask me
Do you believe in God
I don't like that question
First of all, it's an attempt to box me in, in a sense
And the reason that it's an attempt to box me in is because the question is asked so that I can be firmly placed on one side of a
Of a binary argument
The reason I don't like to answer it is because, A, I don't like to be boxed in
And B, because I don't know what the person means by believe or God and they think they know
And the probability that they construe belief and construe God the same way I do is virtually zero
It's a question that doesn't work for me on multiple levels of analysis but strangely enough, just as we were talking, the answer to that question popped into my head

[Chorus]
I act as if God exists
I act as if God exists
I act as if God exists
I act as if God exists

Now you can decide for yourself whether that means that I believe in Him, so to speak
But I act as if He exists
Then with regards to these other issues the divinity of Christ
I would say the same problems with the question formulation obtain
What do you mean by divine?
And also what do you mean by Christ?
These are very, very difficult questions
Now, I believe that the Logos is divine
If by divine you mean of ultimate value of ultimate transcendent value
Yes
It's divine
It's associated with death and rebirth
Clearly
I act as if God exists
Because the Logos dismantles you and rebuilts you
I act as if God exists
That's what happens when you make an error when you make an error, some part of you has to go
I act as if God exists
That's a sacrifice, you have to let it go sometimes it's a big part of you
I act as if God exists
Sometimes it can be such a big part of you that you actually die
Instead of dying and being reborn
Is there something more than merely metaphorical about the idea of dying and being reborn
Yes, there is
Because those are associated with physiological transformations
What's the ultimate extent of that?
That's a good question
What happens to the world around you
As you increasingly embody the Logos
We don't know
We don't know

[Chorus]
I act as if God exists
I act as if God exists
I act as if God exists
I act as if God exists

The hypothesis is that there has been
One or two individuals who managed that
And that in their management of that
They transcended death itself
So what do you mean by transcended death?
Well, in the case of Christ, let's assume he was a historical figure
Is his resurrection real?
Well, his spirit lives on, that's certainly the case
Let‘s imagine that a spirit is a pattern of being
Patterns can be transmitted across multiple substrates
Vinyl, air, vibrations in your ear, it's all the translation of what you might describe as a spirit
It's that pattern
It's independent of its material substrate
Well, Christ's spirit lives on
It's had a massive effect across time
Well, is that an answer to the question?
Did his body resurrect?
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know what happens to a person if they bring themselves completely into alignment
I've had intimations of what that might mean
We don't understand the world very well
We don't understand how the world
Could be mastered if it was mastered completely
We don't know how an individual might be able to manage that
We don't know what transformations that might make possible

[Chorus]
I act as if God exists
I act as if God exists
I act as if God exists
I act as if God exists"