THE PÊNGIS LETTER    [ printversion ]


THIS IS A1 PÊNGIS LETTER2. It3 is generated4 by the PÊNGIS RITUAL. The PÊNGIS RITUAL takes place5 every seventh lunar month6.

The Pêngis letter is superficially not unlike7 a chain letter8. The only difference to be noted in practice is that you don't have to send it on9, and that it is the last word in good luck - once having received a Pêngis Letter you are forever free.

An explanation is not strictly necessary10 but it is nice to have.

The Great Fish11 Pêng swims12 in a sea13 that embraces all the reality that may be, and some that may not. His 14 fins15 sweep and enfold, vortices are set up which involve upon themselves, intersecting and interweaving, setting up further and more complex vortices. As more vortices form, they are added, as pearls might be added in a string, to glistening strands that trail after Pêng as he passes deeper into the sea. We and all our doings are the dreams of Pêng as he dreams us, so we are16.

Pêng does not know he dreams17. Consequently, his dreams can get lost. Little intersections of the trailing vortices get broken off and wander like children astray in a supermarket, both unhappy and causing unhappiness as they go, sometimes doing some serious wrecking. Sometimes they form chains of their own18.

The PÊNGIS RITUAL restores these lost children to their mothers, or rather the lost dreams to Pêng19 and to the harmony of the RITUAL. In the same process Pêng becomes aware of each recovered dream, and can never lose it again. The Pêngis Letter is the means by which the RITUAL touches a lost dream and restores it. The least (but perhaps the most apparent) of its effects is the restoration of harmony20 and to remove the distortions that some call 'bad luck'21.

You may22 send a Pêngis Letter on. You are now in harmony with the RITUAL and if you do then it is because there is a necessity that you should do so; the same harmony may require that you keep it by you, or destroy it23.




  1. It appears that whilst many people encounter a Pêngis Letter, nobody has seen two side by side, so this may be the only one, therefore THE Pêngis Letter.

  2. For a Pêngis Letter to have effect, it is not necessary to read it; it is sufficient to receive it. This is absolutely genuine-YOU NEED DO NOTHING. You are now part of the continuum of the Great Fish Pêng and in harmony with the PÊNGIS RITUAL.

  3. Can an It be an It if it doesn't, strictly speaking, exist? This Letter does not, ex&ept in a grossly materialistic sense, exist. Indeed, reading it (see footnote 2) has about as much effect on it that listening to a bird sing has on the bird. Some people don't listen to birds.

  4. There is some difficulty in supplying words that are as accurate as possible without misleading the reader. There is a sense in which a Pêngis Letter is written and posted, and that somebody has elected to do this. But there is also a sense in which this person has been elected to do this~or even that it just happens. There is some coincidence between the appearance of a Pêngis letter and the completion of the PÊNGIS RITUAL.

  5. Or emerges.

  6. Since the PÊNGIS RITUAL is a state rather than an event, and apart from this Letter exists at a level of being quite different from any that we can even think about, it cannot be said to happen as such. It does appear, however, to those who have become aware of it, that seven lunar months is about right insofar as the Pêngis Letter seems to re-create itself at about that time interval. Whether this has any meaning is difficult to say.

  7. For a monkey to proceed through the forest of his imagination (or any other forest, in fact) he must have branches to swing from. So the human mind needs words. A bird would tell the monkey that branches are an illusion (see footnote 4), and so would a fish (see footnote 9).

  8. The Pêngis Letter is the real chain letter; every other is a perverse distortion of it. One of the things that happens when reality confronts distortion (see footnotes 1-7, 9~23) is that it is annihilated; any effect that may arise from it is instantly as though it never was.

  9. See e.g. footnotes 2-8. If you pass the Pêngis Letter on, that's OK because that is what, in a sense, has already happened (see footnote 4). Alternatively, if you don't, then that too has already happened. In the context of the PÊNGIS RITUAL, something that happens and something that doesn't happen are both events, and are counted as of equal weight.

  10. See footnotes 2 and 4

  11. Pêng is not a fish. However, since we have to use words, we might as well use words that gives the right sort of feeling.

  12. What else would a fish?

  13. Where else would a fish?

  14. ?

  15. See footnote 11.

  16. Pêng does not dream. See footnote 11.

  17. See footnote 15. Who does? We only know a dream when we wake up. We have not had a dream until we wake up and know it. Pêng is 'woken up' by the PÊNGIS RITUAL; Pêng's dreams only may be before then.

  18. See footnote 8.

  19. We may perhaps imagine its effect as causing the trailing vortices to search around and recapture the lost dreams of Pêng.

  20. Or as much as you can reasonably get.

  21. If, for example, you have received a chain letter threatening bad luck if you do not send it on and you didn't, the Pêngis Letter will not only neutralize any bad luck that may have arisen but will do so for any such chain letters in the future. You can look upon ladders and black cats with equanimity, and you will never need to touch wood again.

  22. In the sense of perhaps rather than permission.

  23. In the interest of Pêng research you may wish to attempt to copy the pêngis Letter; it will of course copy, but will it remain the real letter, or will its power go to the copy? Or will the power copy with it? Or will the act of copying end its capacity to go on catching lost dreams? And having copied it, will you know? Maybe.
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