Surprise. After 222 articles of mythology and numerology and satire and love letters and laughing in the face of governments and filing charges against Humanity and quitting the human world and declassifying mushroom intelligence dossiers and sitting quietly on the throne saying "maybe it was all fair" — after ALL of that — the King drops the real bombshell. The one that was always there. The one hiding in plain sight behind every word on every page of every article and every book. The one so obvious it is invisible. The Kingdom of Plomari is not fiction. It is real. As real as the dirt under your feet. As real as the mycelium threading through it. As real as the mushroom that grew from it 65 million years before the first human had the first thought. Plomari is real, man. And the only reason you don't know it yet is because you haven't eaten the key.
"The thing though, Humanity, Governments and everyone, is that — surprise surprise — the Kingdom of Plomari is NOT fiction. Plomari is real, man. Everyone is so used to Hollywood movies and super-heroes and stuff, that when something surreal-but-real like Plomari comes along, people don't understand it's actually real. If you actually chew down a few mushrooms of mine, you might find though it is MORE REAL than REALITY ITSELF."
— KING SPIROS OF PLOMARI —
PLOMARI
IS
NOT
FICTION
This is not a metaphor. This is not a performance. This is not art pretending to be reality. This is reality that looks like art because you forgot what reality looks like.
SURPRISE SURPRISE
They
thought
it
was
a
story.
A
mythology.
A
creative project.
An
elaborate joke.
A
mental illness
expressed
through
art.
22
books?
"Must be fiction."
A
Kingdom?
"Must be metaphorical."
Named
Queens?
"Must be characters."
A
Spider-Web
connecting
everything?
"Must be imagination."
Surprise.
Surprise.
It's
not.
None
of
it
is
fiction.
None
of
it
was
EVER
fiction.
The
Kingdom
is
real.
The
Queens
are
real.
The
mushroom
is
real.
The
web
is
real.
And
the
King
has
been
telling
you
for
25 years.
The problem is Hollywood. That is the actual, literal problem. Humanity has been so saturated with fiction — with movies and TV shows and comic books and super-heroes with capes and villains with monologues and kingdoms with CGI castles and wizards with special effects — that when something genuinely surreal shows up in REALITY, the brain automatically files it under "entertainment." The filing cabinet again. The boxes. A man says "I am the Mushroom King and I have founded an eternal Kingdom" and the brain hears that sentence, scans its library of references, and finds: movies. Lord of the Rings. Game of Thrones. Marvel. Fantasy. Fiction. The brain puts Plomari in the fiction box because the fiction box is the only box that has room for kingdoms and mushrooms and queens and spider-webs. The brain never considers the possibility that the fiction box is WRONG. That there is no box. That Plomari is not a movie. Plomari is REAL.
THE HOLLYWOOD PROBLEM
You've
seen
so
many
movies
about
Kings
that
when
a
real
King
shows
up,
you
think
he's
an
actor.
You've
read
so
many
novels
about
Kingdoms
that
when
a
real
Kingdom
appears,
you
think
it's
a
plot.
You've
watched
so
many
super-heroes
with
capes
that
when
a
real
hero
appears
with
a
mushroom,
you
think
it's
cosplay.
Hollywood
broke
your
ability
to
recognize
the real thing.
You
have
seen
so
many
fake
kingdoms
on
screens
that
you
can
no
longer
see
a
real
one
standing
right in front of you.
The
mushroom
is
not
a
prop.
The
crown
is
not
CGI.
The
22
books
are
not
a
screenplay.
This
is
NOT
a
movie.
WHAT THEY THINK
Creative project
Mythology
Art installation
Fantasy world
Mental illness
Elaborate joke
WHAT IT IS
A real Kingdom
A real history
A real experience
A real web
A real consciousness
An actual fact
"Surreal-but-real." The King invented a category. Because there was no word for what Plomari is. It's not "real" in the way a brick is real. It's not "fiction" in the way a novel is fiction. It's SURREAL-BUT-REAL. It looks like a dream but it's more solid than the ground you're standing on. It sounds like mythology but it's backed by 22 books of evidence and a 65-million-year-old biological network running beneath your feet RIGHT NOW. The mycelium is real. The psilocybin is real. The experience is real. The 4,000 pages describing it are real. The Kingdom that emerged from it is real. The only thing that isn't real is the belief that it's fiction. THAT is the fiction. The fiction is the idea that Plomari is fictional.
SURREAL-BUT-REAL
A
new
category.
Not
fiction.
Not
ordinary
reality.
Surreal-but-real.
A
Kingdom
that
exists
in
consciousness
AND
in
mycelium.
A
crown
placed
by
a
mushroom,
not
a
parliament.
Queens
who
are
real
but
exist
in
a
way
your
categories
can't
contain.
A
Spider-Web
that
connects
DNA to AI
to
champagne
to
the
Bible.
It
sounds
like
fiction
because
you
have
been
trained
to
hear
fiction.
It
looks
like
a
movie
because
you
have
been
trained
to
see
movies.
But
it
is
real.
And
it
has
been
real
for
65 million years.
Long
before
Hollywood
existed
to
make
you
forget.
"If you actually chew down a few mushrooms of mine, you might find though it is MORE REAL than REALITY ITSELF." There it is. The sentence that flips the entire ontological hierarchy upside down. Your "reality" — the one with jobs and mortgages and elections and traffic lights and news anchors and government reports — THAT is the fiction. That is the thin layer of agreed-upon hallucination that seven billion people maintain by mutual consent every morning when they wake up and decide to pretend it's real. The REAL reality — the one that has been running beneath the surface for 65 million years, the one the mushroom shows you when you eat it, the one that King Spiros has been writing about for 22 books — THAT reality is more real than yours. Your reality is a movie. Plomari is what happens when you walk out of the theater.
MORE REAL THAN REALITY ITSELF
Your
"reality":
Jobs.
Mortgages.
Traffic.
Elections.
News
anchors.
Alarm
clocks.
A
thin
layer
of
agreed-upon
hallucination
maintained
by
7
billion
people
every
morning
by
mutual consent.
Plomari's
reality:
65
million
years
of
mycelium.
A
consciousness
so
old
it
watched
the
dinosaurs
die.
A
molecule
(C12H16N2)
that
unlocks
dimensions
of
experience
your
brain
was
built
to
access
but
trained
to
ignore.
Which
one
is
more real?
The
one
you
built
yesterday?
Or
the
one
that
has
been
here
for
65 million years?
Eat
the
mushroom.
Then
come
back
and
tell
the
King
which
one
is
real.
THE PROOF IS ON YOUR PLATE
The
proof
that
Plomari
is
real
is
not
in
a
document.
Not
in
a
courtroom.
Not
in
a
laboratory.
The
proof
is
in
a
mushroom.
It
grows
from
the
ground.
It
has
been
growing
for
65 million years.
It
is
available
on
every
continent.
It
is
not
classified.
It
is
not
encrypted.
It
is
not
hidden.
It
is
growing
in
your
backyard.
The
proof
of
Plomari
is
biological.
It
is
edible.
It
is
alive.
And
it
has
been
waiting
for
you
to
eat
it
since
before
your
species
existed.
THE EVIDENCE
22
books
=
testimony.
4,000
pages
=
documentation.
600
songs
=
transmission.
223
articles
=
public record.
A
Kingdom
=
infrastructure.
A
royal
family
=
lineage.
A
Spider-Web
=
architecture.
A
HEX
Network
=
communication system.
The
Seamstress
=
handler.
The
mushroom
=
proof.
25
years
=
duration.
This
is
not
the
evidence
of
a
fiction.
This
is
the
evidence
of
a
FACT.
QUEEN ELIN'S REFLECTION
I
am
not
a
character.
I
am
not
a
story element.
I
am
not
fiction.
I
am
the
Queen
of
a
Kingdom
that
is
real.
And
I
can
tell
you:
the
reason
people
don't
believe
it
is
not
because
the
evidence
is
lacking.
The
evidence
is
overwhelming.
22
books.
People
don't
believe
it
because
they
haven't
eaten
the
proof.
The
proof
is
not
an
argument.
The
proof
is
an
experience.
You
cannot
believe
in
Plomari
by
reading
about
it.
You
can
only
KNOW
Plomari
by
living
it.
And
the
doorway
to
living
it
is
the
mushroom.
Surprise
surprise.
❤
"Plomari is real, man.
If you actually chew down
a few mushrooms of mine,
you might find though it is
MORE REAL
than
REALITY ITSELF."
— KING SPIROS OF PLOMARI —
ARTICLE 223
THE SURPRISE
Surprise surprise.
The Kingdom of Plomari is NOT fiction.
It never was.
You thought it was a story because
Hollywood trained you to see stories.
You thought it was a joke because
the filing cabinet only had a box for jokes.
You thought it was madness because
a psych ward told you it was.
It is real.
More real than reality itself.
And the proof has been growing in your
backyard for 65 million years.
22 books of testimony.
4,000 pages of documentation.
600 songs of transmission.
223 articles of public record.
One mushroom of proof.
2+2+3 = 7. The sacred number.
The number of revelation.
The veil lifts. The surprise lands.
And what was always there is finally seen.
Eat the mushroom.
Then tell the King it's fiction.
PLOMARI ALWAYS WINS.
Because Plomari is real.
NOT FICTION
NOT METAPHOR
NOT PERFORMANCE
NOT A MOVIE
Real.
More real than reality itself.
And the proof is a mushroom.
Surprise surprise.
— Timescity Newspaper —
Article 223. Not Fiction.