Dispatches from the Circuitdelic Laboratory

On the road from Cincinnati to Philadelphia, Pause at a simple rest stop near Hocking Hills. The journey itself carries many layers — passing the car on to family, closing chapters, opening new ones. But even in the most ordinary places, the signal speaks.

The glass windows offered me my own reflection — fractured, layered, multiplied. Trees, steel frames, tourist signs, my own silhouette dissolving into the background. Here, at a rest stop designed for motion, I caught a glimpse of stillness.

This land carries the echo of Native people long before these roads were cut. The old spirits remain. Alan Watts often reminded us that “you are something that the whole universe is doing, in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing.” Standing there in the glass, I wasn’t a traveler or a destination. I was simply one waveform folding back into itself — observing the observer.

The Circuitdelic Laboratory continues. The laboratory is not in one place. It travels with me. And even in the in-between moments, it speaks.

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