As Diesel discusses his credit card debt and television habits with Evan, the heavy reality of his financial situation settles over the table. The last bell rings somewhere far away.
In the back corner of the library, the sound barely makes a dent.
Tall shelves of old books form a wall around a small table. Fluorescent lights hum overhead. Rain taps against the high windows, turning the world outside into gray streaks.
Diesel slumps in his chair.
Hoodie up. Knee bouncing.
A pile of unopened mail fans out on the table—white envelopes with red words like PAST DUE and FINAL NOTICE flashing at him like warning lights.
Across from him sits Evan.
There’s something steady around Evan that doesn’t match the harsh school lighting, as he belongs under stars instead. A worn notebook rests under his hand, margins full of tiny sketches labeled: aura, soul school, nine powers.
Evan watches Diesel’s face.
“What’s going on?” Evan asks. “You look… wrecked.”
The word "depressed" floats in the air, unspoken. Diesel hears it anyway.
“Terrible,” Diesel says, rubbing his forehead. “Too much debt. Not enough money.”
He tries to sound flippant.
His voice cracks.
“Why so much debt?” Evan asks.
Diesel flips over one envelope.
Neat print on the front. A company name. Inside: numbers that won’t stop dancing in his head.
“My credit card bills keep climbing,” he says. “I can barely pay the interest.”
Interest.
Minimum due.
He stares at the ink until the lines blur.
“One good thing,” Diesel adds, groping for something that doesn’t hurt, “is I’m getting a new big‑screen TV.”
Evan blinks.
“How much is it?” he asks.
“It’s only twenty bucks a month,” Diesel says quickly. “Actually, more than that. The salesman said twenty covers the interest each month. But whatever. I’m already so deep it doesn’t matter.”
Even as he repeats the salesman’s pitch, Diesel feels stupid.
You watched Mom cry over bills last year, a quiet voice reminds him.
He shoves that thought down.
“For how many months?” Evan asks.
Diesel frowns.
“I don’t know,” he admits. “But hey, twenty a month is worth it. Less than a dollar a day. I deserve it. Life’s short. Gotta live it up.”
I deserve it. The words taste defiant and hollow at the same time.
“I wish I weren’t so in debt, though,” Diesel says in a lower voice. “I might have to declare bankruptcy again, but then I lose all my cards. Took ten years to rebuild my credit last time. Cash only. It sucked.”
He remembers paying with wrinkled bills at gas stations, the cashier’s bored look when his card declines.
“Can’t wait to start charging again,” he says. “Get what I need.”
He hesitates.
“Not really needed,” he corrects. “Want. I’ve been poor before. I know I don’t need much. I was probably happier then. But…” he shrugs, “it’s the nice stuff that makes life bearable.”
If he admits he’s wrong, he’ll have to change.
Change feels heavier than interest.
Evan tilts his head.
“That’s a weird attitude,” he says. “You’re smart. Stop buying things you can’t afford. Just freeze your card.”
Diesel feels the heat climb his neck.
“Hey, I’m eighteen,” he snaps. “I deserve a new TV. I work. I should be allowed to treat myself. Last year’s model doesn’t even have all the latest features.”
Inside, his shadow side—wired on dopamine hits and late‑night distraction—nods hard.
We survived another week. Another shift. Another fight. We earned this glow on the wall.
“How much time do you spend watching?” Evan asks.
Diesel shrugs.
“Not a lot,” he says. “Four hours a day. Maybe.”
He grimaces.
“More on weekends,” he admits. “I stay up late. Binge movies. I earned it after a long week.”
Images flood his mind: dark room, blue light, junk food, reality blurring.
He seizes on a safer topic.
“Did you see that robot movie on Friday?” Diesel asks. “Most humans get reprogrammed through hi‑def TVs. Their brains glitch, and they turn into killers hunting non‑watchers—stupid plot. Awesome blood. The normal people don’t see it coming until it’s almost too late.”
Evan leans back.
“Interesting premise,” he says. “How does it end?”
Diesel laughs once.
“No idea,” he says. “Commercial came on. I flipped. Three hundred channels now. Sometimes I spend all night just channel‑surfing. See a good ad, order what they pitch. That’s how I found the new TV. Called the number, gave my card, done. Easy.”
A whisper in the back of his mind says: Exactly like the movie, genius.
“Doesn’t the robot movie reprogram people through TVs?” Evan asks.
Diesel shrugs.
“I can almost believe it,” he says. “The picture’s so real, I feel like I’m in the movie. When I sleep, I replay scenes. Sometimes I can’t tell if I remember something from real life or a movie I watched three times.”
“That’s… confusing,” Evan says.
“Yeah,” Diesel admits. “I’m getting to the point where I don’t trust my own memory. I have trouble telling real memories apart from movie memories.”
He looks at the overdue envelopes.
Bills bleed into scenes.
Consequences start to look like plot twists.
He feels tired.
Outside, rain pounds the windows.
Above them, unseen, two different currents swirl—one bright and clean, trickling through Evan’s patience; one dark and heavy, coiling tighter around Diesel’s shoulders, whispering: Buy more. Watch more. Feel less.
Both wait to see which one gets fed.
When Evan explains to Diesel how television and movies stain the aura and prevent soul training, the library feels suddenly quieter. The library empties.
Chairs scrape—backpacks zip. The hum of voices fades, replaced by the softer buzz of overhead lights.
Evan and Diesel are the last two at their table.
The computer station screens go dark one by one. A desk lamp casts a warm circle over their pile of mail and notebooks.
Diesel flips his phone, scrolling through streaming menus he’s memorized.
“What are your favorite shows?” he asks. “Movies?”
Maybe Evan knows some underrated series Diesel hasn’t devoured yet.
“I don’t watch TV,” Evan says. “I rarely see movies. When I do, I usually regret it.”
Diesel stares.
“After a long day,” Diesel says, “my brain is fried. I need to shut it off. TV used to be three channels, all at set times, with endless commercials. Now there are a thousand options. I can stream almost anything, whenever. No ads. It’s so easy to find something.”
It’s easier than facing my thoughts, he doesn’t add.
“You never feel that?” Diesel asks. “Like you need to zone out?”
Evan’s gaze softens.
“My soul uses free choice and willpower to make its own experiences,” he says. “I color my aura with virtuous energy. Vertical light.”
As he speaks, Diesel almost sees it—like a faint upward shimmer around Evan’s shoulders.
“Television—tell‑me‑vision—tells me what visions to see,” Evan continues. “Movies—move‑me—force me to move emotionally instead of physically. ‘Entertainment’ comes from someone else’s script instead of mine. Their content—enter‑stain‑me—enters and stains my aura with whatever flavors they choose.”
The word lands.
Enter. Stain. Ment.
Diesel pictures ink pouring over a white T‑shirt.
“I couldn’t survive without movies and shows,” Diesel says. “I’d lose it. I need a TV to relax. I need movies to tell me how to think about stuff.”
As soon as he says it, he hears how messed up it sounds.
“When I depend on entertainment to relax and recharge,” Evan says quietly, “I pollute my creative power. My soul’s endgame is to be a co‑creator with a graduate master's. I don’t get into their club until I show I can consistently create my own experiences with discipline.”
He flips open his notebook and sketches—tiny people painting their own canvases, then a crowd glued to a giant screen.
“Staring at art all day doesn’t make me an artist,” he says. “I have to pick up a brush. Practice. Fail. Improve. If I get hooked on Hollywood’s perverted highlights, I skip my own training. Kids and adults who binge media rob themselves of opportunities to build real adventures.”
Diesel scoffs.
“Why do all that work,” he asks, “when pro storytellers are so good at making universes I can escape to?”
Also, he thinks, because what if my attempts suck?
“Movie makers want my money,” Evan says. “Not my soul’s graduation. I need to stay tuned to divine inspiration and use willpower to create what I’m nudged to create. My soul doesn’t need nonstop images of gore, horror, and ‘nice’ criminals. I aim at the whole Truth, not patched‑together narratives designed to rewrite morality.”
He takes a breath.
“My shadow side wants to have fun,” Evan admits. “It likes Hollywood’s stylized violence and corruption. My pure soul wants to develop mystic powers to control this body’s instincts. Shadow loves bathing in dark energy. Soul doesn’t.”
“Lighten up,” Diesel says. “We’re just teenagers. We have our whole lives to be serious. Everyone’s shadow needs playtime so we don’t go crazy.”
He hears echoes of adults: "Y You’re only young once; you should be having fun."n.
“Soaking in TV stain,” Evan replies, “stops me from practicing how to run my own emotions. Living life through someone else’s camera angle cripples my ability to shape my own story. Soul school is training: stay tuned to real inspiration, then use willpower to turn that into reality.”
He looks up.
“When I tune into someone else’s programming,” he says, “I detune from my mystic teachers. Not all shows are trash. But they still jam my signal. My soul has specific lessons to learn and tests to pass. Fantasy flicks distract me from my actual tests. Staying in contact with my higher self and graduated master's keeps the inspiration line clear.”
Diesel spins his phone.
“Watching movies is like dreaming,” he says. “Intense emotions. Zero consequences.”
“Easy emotional highs—whether from sugar, drugs, or intense scenes—wreck long‑term discipline,” Evan answers. “It’s like eating only candy. My equilibrium gets hijacked. I drop into a crash instead of living at a steady level of peace, harmony, and deep joy. As a soul student, I train to create my own highs. To raise my average peace level without substances or screens.”
Diesel’s throat tightens.
“Movies fill my brain with stuff I’d never think of alone,” he says quietly.
Monsters. Torture. Betrayal. A million ways to die.
“Fantasy is false‑seeing,” Evan says. “Reality is real‑seeing. If I pack my mind with false‑seeing, I have trouble focusing on what’s really going on. Reality: I’m a soul in a temporary body, in soul school. Fantasy doesn’t help that.”
“Free will says I can have harmless daydreams,” Diesel pushes back. “No one’s literally dying on-screen. Actors are okay. It’s just stories.”
Even as he says it, part of him wonders:
If it’s “harmless,” why do some scenes cling to me like wet smoke?
Under the table, energy gathers—threads of dark imagery tugging at Diesel’s mind like invisible vines, and a thin, vertical line of light running through Evan’s chest, steady and clear.
The next choice Diesel makes will thicken one of those lines.
And then the other.
As the Crystic Mystic group discusses how Hollywood movies create a negative energy grid, the weight of collective dark thoughts fills the room. The next day, the Crystic Mystic study group meets in a small classroom.
Someone has scrawled a diagram on the whiteboard: a stick figure in the center, with arrows pointing outward to media, friends, family, soul and Creator.
A few candles flicker on the teacher’s desk (contraband, technically). Their flames all lean very slightly toward Evan when he speaks.
“The movie industry,” Evan says, “focuses on pumping out images of violence, revenge, crime, porn, and horror.”
Diesel leans back, feet on a chair, arms crossed—but his eyes are on Evan.
“When people watch,” Evan continues, “their minds create thought‑forms based on what they see. Not just images. Emotions. Those mental-emotional forms cluster together. When enough people watch the same stuff, you get a bigger pattern—a grid—made out of that energy.”
He draws lines webbing out over the stick figure on the board.
“One blockbuster?” he says. “A few thousand new dark thought‑forms. A ten‑movie franchise? Millions.”
Diesel raises a hand.
“So,” he says, “every slasher sequel is like… building a bad vibes Wi‑Fi network over the city?”
Evan almost laughs.
“Pretty much,” he says.
Abby jumps in.
“My Creator makes everything,” she says, a little too loud. “If he lets movies exist, they must be good for us. Watching violent movies teaches us what not to do.”
Evan turns to her.
“Hollywood often glorifies criminals and cheaters,” Evan says. “Vampires, hit men, bank robbers—they’re ‘deep’ once you get to know them. The message: everyone has a dark side that must be embraced.”
Abby snorts.
“We are created broken,” she says. “Solvers start worthless. Our Creator makes us flawed. It’s His job to fix us if He wants us different.”
Diesel watches her.
He knows that flavor of self‑hate.
He sips it in different packaging every time he tells himself he’s a screw-up.
“Hollywood also makes law enforcement look stupid and corrupt,” Evan says. “Religion looks powerless. Devils show up but can’t be kicked out. Prostitutes are portrayed as inevitable. Nearly every serious marriage has someone cheating. The attitude is: ‘Everyone cheats eventually. Get over it.’”
Abby folds her arms.
“People are born with immoral instincts,” she says. “Killing, lying, stealing—it’s what sinners do.”
“Kids’ movies need to show healthy families,” Evan says. “Original mom and dad. Loving. Wise. Not all parents are divorced, yelling and clueless. When every show mocks parents, kids stop trusting them and run to TikTok and friends for advice.”
Diesel thinks about his own parents—still together, still arguing, still trying.
He hates it when shows treat that as a joke.
“Half of kids live with one parent,” Abby says. “Why rub their faces in what they don’t have?”
“Calling broken normal,” Evan answers, “teaches everyone to expect more broken. Normalizing corruption, perversions, and casual drugs increases them. Foul language batters our vocabulary. Swear words used for every emotion shrink the range of ways we can express pain or joy.”
Diesel shrugs.
“I swear when I’m mad,” he says. “Feels better.”
Evan nods.
“The movie industry also redefines virtue and power,” he continues. “People with special abilities often use them for selfish gain. Killing becomes satisfying, even heroic. The idea is: if your cause is ‘right,’ anything you do is justified. The world is doomed anyway—have fun burning it down.”
Rev leans back, chair tipped against the wall.
“Good and evil take turns,” Rev says lazily. “Always have. Just accept it and enjoy what you can.”
“That’s the attitude your enemy wants,” Evan says. “‘It is what it is.’ No resistance. Just compliance.”
The classroom lights flicker.
For a heartbeat, Diesel sees it—above the school, above the town—an invisible mesh of lines, throbbing faintly like neon veins—every horror scene he’s watched. Every violent joke is laughed at. Every revenge fantasy dreamed while scrolling.
All plugged in.
Are we all feeding the same gri?.
His stomach rolls.
While Evan teaches Diesel, Abby, and Rev about protecting the aura from negative media and substances, the late afternoon sun casts long shadows over the field. A week later, practice is over.
The sky outside the school burns orange and purple.
Evan, Diesel, Abby, and Rev sit on the metal bleachers, legs dangling, cleats clicking, choir folders and backpacks piled beside them.
Evan looks at the streaked sky.
“Where are the movies,” he asks, “about a golden age? World harmony. Actual peace. Where are the stories that show what our Creator dreams this planet could be?”
They’re quiet.
“The future we build,” Evan says, “starts with what we imagine. Right now, most movies plant seeds of dystopia. Control. Disaster. Why aren’t we seeding hope instead?”
Diesel kicks a pebble down the bleachers.
“There are a few good ones,” he says.
He remembers one documentary that made him want to eat better, treat people better. He watched it once.
Then went back to crime thrillers.
“If we cut out violence, swearing, drugs, glorified evil, horror, and cheap sex scenes,” Evan says, “the ‘G‑rated’ version of most blockbusters would be thirty minutes of someone staring out a window.”
He sighs.
“Producers weave in programming,” he adds. “Pushy politics. Belief systems. Many futuristic plots center on a mind‑control dictator. Why not a future where people graduate from school and actually run things well?”
He shakes his head.
“It’s not worth sampling everything to find the one decent show,” he says. “Shun most of it. Break the addiction. Free your mind from repeated staining. There are better ways to spend your soul energy.”
Abby tugs her jacket tighter.
“We’re not perfect,” she says. “Movies can help us feel pain. Absolvers are created to suffer.”
Rev raises an eyebrow.
“Why take away the human right to feel the full range of sensations?” Rev asks Evan. “Why limit free will? People learn from trying things—even if they’re rough.”
Evan watches the sun slide lower.
“Wise souls use intuition and discernment,” he says. “Not every experience is worth having. You don’t need to jump off a cliff to know gravity works.”
He holds up a hand, counting off.
“One,” Evan says. “Cigarettes damage the body. Drugs fry the brain and wreck quality of life. You can skip that lesson and still be wise.”
Faces flash in their minds—relatives coughing, classmates zoning out, news reports of overdoses.
“Two,” he continues. “Alcohol is poison in any form. It fogs the mind and body. It does not make you a better person or a better friend.”
Diesel looks away, thinking of his dad’s slurred apologies.
“Three,” Evan says. “Weed may feel chill. But it kills motivation, warps perception, and burns holes in your auric forcefield. It literally pokes gaps in your spiritual shield, making it easier for junk energy and low‑grade entities to mess with you.”
Diesel imagines an egg of light around a person, dark circles being eaten away by smoke, shadow hands sliding through.
“Four,” Evan says. “Not every thought in your head is yours. There is a battle between higher inspiration and lower whispers. The front line is your mind, heart, and emotions. Movies can hijack that feed. Plant scripts that aren’t you.”
“Five,” he goes on, “you are free to agree or disagree with Truth, but that doesn’t change it. People can insist that booze, drugs, and cigarettes aren’t hurting them. Reality doesn’t care. You only fool yourself.”
He breathes in.
“Six,” he finishes, “we have to build communication with our higher conscience and the graduated masters. You can’t travel on purpose if you don’t know your destination—basic truths: there is a God. We are spiritual beings having a physical experience. We have a mission. We create much of what happens around us. We are responsible for our thoughts, words, and actions. And yeah—we are in a battle against dark forces.”
The air around them feels charged.
Diesel stares at his hands again.
He imagines every binge session as an invisible payment into that dark grid Evan described.
He imagines what might happen if he pulls the plug.
The thought makes him uncomfortable.
And weirdly, quietly… hopeful.
Alone in his room, Diesel chooses to turn off his phone and practice soul school training instead of giving in to his digital cravings. That night, Diesel lies on his bed in the dark.
The cardboard box with his new TV leans against the wall like a shiny secret.
His phone glows in his hand.
His thumb hovers over the streaming app.
One episode, his shadow side whispers. You earned it. Long day. Hard week. This is how you recharge.
Another voice—smaller, steadier—speaks underneath.
You’re tired because you keep plugging into drains instead of power outlets, it says. You know exactly how this night goes. You also know how you feel tomorrow.
Diesel stares at the ceiling.
He imagines his aura as a white shirt.
Every intense scene—a splash of dark color.
Every hour lost to someone else’s vision—a new stain.
He imagines soul school, as Evan keeps describing it, not as a building but as a lifetime full of choices.
Each choice either feeds his shadow or trains his soul.
Choose numbness or awareness.
Borrow someone else’s fantasy or create their own meaning.
Consume or build.
His thumb shakes.
He takes a slow breath.
Then he taps the power button.
The phone screen goes black.
The room is suddenly, shockingly quiet.
The neon current of craving around him weakens, like a cable pulled from the wall.
Something else—a thin, vertical line of calm—brightens inside his chest, connecting him upward to… something.
He doesn’t get fireworks.
He gets… space.
He whispers into the dark, barely audible even to himself:
“Okay, soul school. I’m listening.”
Above him, in layers he can’t see yet, a soft surge of clear light moves through his room.
It doesn’t erase his debt or magically fix his life.
It does one thing:
It acknowledges a choice.
Somewhere, a mystic teacher chalks up a small but important win.
Crysticism parables keep unfolding like this—inside libraries, living rooms, beaches, bleachers—helping Crystic Mystic teens see how every small late‑night decision either trains their souls’ superpowers…
Or stains them.
And tomorrow, under the buzzing library lights, Evan and Diesel will sit down again.
Same table.
Different current.
The story isn’t finished.
It’s just getting interesting.
Here is a summary of the provided text:
In the library during a rainy afternoon, Diesel struggles with mounting credit card debt—partially driven by impulse purchases like a new big-screen TV—and admits that he spends up to four hours a day binge-watching television and movies. Evan explains to Diesel that movies and television act as a form of astral pollution ("enter-stain-me") that stains the aura, hijacks emotional equilibrium, and distracts souls from their true training of becoming co-creators with graduate masters. Later, the Crystic Mystic study group discusses how Hollywood media creates a collective "negative energy grid" through thought-forms of violence, horror, crime, and cynicism. Evan warns the group about the dangers of media consumption, alongside other destructive habits and substances like cigarettes, alcohol, and weed, which damage the etheric body and pierce auric shields. Challenged by these ideas, Diesel returns to his room that night, turns off his phone instead of giving in to his streaming cravings, and chooses to start paying attention to his soul school training.
The Stain of Media Consumption: Television and movies ("tell-me-vision" and "move-me") force external scripts and emotional highs onto the soul, polluting the aura and preventing individuals from developing their own creative discipline and mystic powers.
The Negative Energy Grid: Mass media broadcasts depicting violence, horror, and normalized corruption generate collective thought-forms that cluster together to form an invisible, negative energetic grid over society.
Subtle Damage from Vices: Substances (alcohol, cigarettes, weed) and unmonitored media consumption create gaps in the auric forcefield, making individuals more vulnerable to negative low-grade entities and distraction.
The Power of Conscious Choice: Real spiritual progress requires breaking addictions to digital escapism, choosing disciplined self-mastery, and consciously deciding to feed spiritual growth rather than the shadow ego.
Diesel: A student struggling with credit card debt and a heavy addiction to late-night television who ultimately decides to turn off his phone and try soul school training.
Evan: A grounded student who articulates the spiritual dangers of media pollution, unearned emotional highs, and auric degradation, guiding Diesel toward soul awareness.
Abby: A study group member who defends media and insists that humans are created broken.
Rev: A study group member who views media consumption as mere neutral sensory data collection.