The Postgraduate to Come

They’re looking for a way to unlock the memory of all supervisees. And supervisors. A way of bridging space and time.

It’s a deliberate programme, that’s lasted hundreds, if not thousands of years. A careful matching up of certain supervisors with certain supervisees.

The aim is to produce a postgraduate who could see into the future. Could escape the wheel of postgraduate supervisions. Who will experience time in a new way. And save the humanities!

Is that possible?

 

We’re waiting for the postgraduate to come, who will not need supervision. Who will recall all the lessons of previous supervisions, all the cycles of PhD study, going all the way back. To wherever there was a teacher and pupil. Wherever there was instruction.

 

This is the secret supervision pathway. Steered towards the messiah of the humanities. The K'fitzat ha-Derekh, as they’re called in The Zohar. The Golden Way, right?

 

And who will he or she be, this messianic postgraduate?

The utterly organisable, Nimrod says. And unmanageable. Unruly. Coarse. Sweary. But who would be able to recollect the fruit of every philosophy supervision. All learning.

Amazing. It’s probably you, Shiva. Except for the having philosophical learning.

But it’s a terrible burden. Because they have a salvific role. Not just for philosophy, but for the whole humanities. Can you imagine what it would be to bear the future of the humanities future upon your shoulders?

Anyway, the learning has to be awoken through a special ceremony. You have to take the postgraduate water of life. That’s what will awaken the great supervisorial memory.

The problem is that the water of life is lethal. And that lethality has to be neutralised. Which means that the drink has to enter into a coma-like trance. Then covert the toxic elements on a molecular level. If you fail, you die. You’re poisoned. But if you succeed … you unlock the entirety of supervisorial memory. And along with it, all the secrets of philosophy.

And that’s how Organisational Management will be defeated. The K'fitzat ha-Derekh will lead their people – all the humanities – to liberation.

 

It’s a test. Only the PhD student at the brink of submission can endure it. You need the training of an MA and three years of full time PhD study to risk it. Just when you’re about to submit your dissertation, you’re at your strongest.

And what happens? If it succeeds? Enhanced psychic powers. You’ll become prescient. Experience visions.