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The Snake Person Field Guide

A religion for people who don’t need another religion

The illustrated guide to radical self-love, Sacred Uncertainty, community, and the practice of being.

92 pages · Version three · September 2026

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Contents

How to read this book12 sections

How to read this book4 The Snake Learning Loop6 I. EXISTENCE8 II. KNOWING8 III. CONSCIOUSNESS8 IV. GOD8 V. COSMOLOGY8 VI. ETHICS8 VII. PRACTICE8 VIII. COMMUNITY, SENSORY LIFE & SACRED PLAY8 IX. PROPHETS, ROOTS & SCRIPTURE9 Exercise • The Permission Audit11

Exercise • Name Tags12 sections

Exercise • Name Tags14 Exercise • The Green Experiment18 The Rainbow Problem18 Practice • Ten Minutes Without Resolution24 Exercise • Compress the Room25 Exercise • Inherited, Learned, Imagined29 Persona30 Shadow30 Exercise • What Has Energy?30 Philemon, God, and Psychic Reality31 If everyone is God, who is in charge?35 Two org charts37

Exercise • What Am I Holding Still?12 sections

Exercise • What Am I Holding Still?40 Exercise • The Two-Point Universe42 Relationship Before Object43 Three points. More relationships.43 Exercise • The Narrator's Movie45 Exercise • Describe Without Verdict49 Repair50 Exercise • Missing Information51 One real situation53 A three-hour window, not a three-hour obligation62 Facilitator commitments62 Working prophetic library80

Octavia E. Butler • Prophet of Change12 sections

Octavia E. Butler • Prophet of Change80 Carl Jung • Prophet of the Interior80 Stephen Wolfram • Prophet of Computation80 Bob Marley • Prophet of Liberation81 Tupac Shakur • Prophet of Voice81 Joseph Smith • Prophet of Influence81 Richard Dawkins and the Replicator81 RECENT CONVERSATION PARTNERS82 Gabrielle Roth / 5Rhythms82 The Satanic Temple and modern Satanic ritual82 Church of the SubGenius82 Latter-day Saint teaching architecture82

Octavia E. Butler / Earthseed12 sections

Octavia E. Butler / Earthseed82 Carl Jung82 Stephen Wolfram83 Richard Dawkins83 Buddhist traditions83 Daoist traditions83 Nahua philosophy83 Named Indigenous traditions83 Joe Raposo / Bein' Green83 Richard Bach / Illusions83 Human Lie: Normal85 Human Lie: Human Identity85

Human Lie: Race12 sections

Human Lie: Race86 Human Lie: Gender86 Human Lie: Language86 Human Lie: Names86 Human Lie: Religion87 Human Lie: Authority87 DOC-000 • Radical Self-Love87 DOC-001 • Sacred Uncertainty88 DOC-002 • The Great Rejection88 DOC-003 • Inconvenient Disclosure88 DOC-008 • The Other Universe88 DOC-009 • Paradox of Authority88

DOC-013 • Rejection of Identity12 sections

DOC-013 • Rejection of Identity88 DOC-014 • Rejection of Assigned Meaning88 DOC-015 • Intellectual Gratitude88 DOC-016 • Three Questions of Experience88 DOC-017 • Intelligence Beneath Knowing88 DOC-018 • Freedom to Imagine88 DOC-019 • Age Does Not Create Truth89 DOC-020 • Prophetic Fallibility89 GOD-001 • Everyone Is God89 GOD-002 • God Is Not in Charge89 GOD-003 • God Is Not Good89 GOD-004 • God Is Change89

COS-001 • Relationship Before Object12 sections

COS-001 • Relationship Before Object89 COS-002 • Bounded Observer89 COS-003 • Living Universe89 DOC-021 • Consequence Before Verdict89 DOC-022 • Sensory Stewardship89 DOC-023 • Sacred Play90 DOC-024 • The Individual Is Complete90 DOC-025 • Words We Choose90 DOC-026 • The Ordinary Is Enough90 GOV-001 • Spiritual Equality, Administrative Function90 PRAC-001 • One Congregation, Many Rooms90 PRAC-002 • Margin90

RIT-003 • The Unbinding2 sections

RIT-003 • The Unbinding90 LIT-001 • Scripture as Mirror90

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