Introduction

The Inclusive Holiday is a mixed media work begun in 1996, and still continuing. It is based, in large part, on the gnostic writings of Philip K Dick and Dave “Dave Cutlass” Cutlass, the importance of whose work is largely overlooked.

What follows is a schematic outline of the main narrative thread of the piece.

I.

First there was The Word
And The Word was made flesh.
Later, as an inevitable part of the story, there was The Plot.
And The Plot was made flesh.

At first The Plot was thin and weak
and easily ignored.
Later The Plot thickened.

II.

Gnosticism was a thorn in the side of the early Christian Church from the moment that it began institutionalising itself. Gnosticism was not a creed, with a clear set of beliefs, but rather an approach to belief. Although it had many strands, the basic unifying factor can be summed up in a single sentence. Gnosticism believed the Secret Knowledge was that the journey ended not with us coming to an understanding of god, but with us becoming god.

III.

Gnostics believed that we were not inherently members of an audience but rather that we could become authors; we could become part of the Author. It therefore recognised no external Author-ity.

IV.

Fictional Time, more properly known as the Occlusion, began during the conference at Nicea in 634, and ended with the uncovering of the Nag Hammadi gospels in Palestine in 1945.

V.

How was the appearance of Fictional Time achieved? Quite simply, a massive literary device was exploded over Nicea during the conference, and with the fallout came occlusion. This was a Plot mechanism, and its result was a brutal split between Audience (us) and Author-ity (Every1).

VI.

During the period of Fitcional Time, Every1 knew what should be done, and a large part of what should be done was to crush Any1 ( who organised to disagree).

VII.

The split was sustained through the agency of Commonsense™, which was taught ruthlessly throughout the period of Fictional Time. The basis of Commonsense™ is the purported existence of an external truth, a Deus Ex Machina, which can only be revealed through divinely appointed intermediaries.

VIII.

The divine nature of the appointments meant that the arrival of new intermediaries was, by definition, a development of The Plot.

IX.

In this sense, throughout Fictional Time, more properly known as the Occlusion, all conspiracies were part of the same conspiracy, since all conspiracies were ways of furthering the needs of The Plot without recourse to the agency of Commonsense™. Indeed all conspiracies were a means of altering the syllabus of Commonsense™; of changing, according to the needs of The Plot, what was taught ruthlessly in the name of Commonsense™. All conspiracies are, or are aspects of, a Plot device.

X.

The uncovering of the Nag Hammadi gospels in “1945″, which is in reality still 643RT (Real Time), caused an immediate Kenosis (a term used by Paul in the original Coptic translation of the Bible meaning an emptying, a process of undoing and isolating). This was the necessary precursor to the period of cultural anamnesia in which we currently live.

XI.

Anamnesia is the process of unforgetting; or more properly of forgetting that you have forgotten.
Is there any evidence of cultural anamnesia?
The period from 643RT onward has been a period in which creative activities (those activities dismissed by Commonsense™ as “art”) have increasingly sought to unite author and audience once again.
In almost the first moments of the Kenosis free jazz was born. Coltrane sought to create IN THE MOMENT of performance. What is this other than an immediate move to freedom through the outright denial of the power of The Plot?

XII.

The lesson of post-modernism is that words can only describe words; that there can be no “real” reality, but only a consensus based around the words used to describe that consensus.The explicit conclusion is that culture is authored and we are its authors. We now have, if we choose to take it, Author-ity.

XIII.

Don Cuppitt is not the only theologian to argue that belief in God is a heresy for Christians in a postmodern world. He suggests that Christians must realise that what they believe is a life-sustaining myth that has been written over time by all those who believed and sustained it.

XIV.

What is this but a rewording of the very beliefs which the Council of Nicea was called to defeat? Postmodernism is Gnoticism. Fictional Time has ended. We are living in 697RT.

XV.

All that is left is to spread The Word.
And the word is: we are living in The Denouement. These are truly the end times, because The Plot has run its course, and the final surprise, the very last Plot development in the very last scene, was that WE ARE THE AUTHORS.

XVI.

And we alsways have been.
Although for reasons that we do not yet understand it was apparently necessary for us to enter a period of Occlusion in which we contrived to forget this.

…and we didn’t know this before.