SIRALOS, or the Here and Now (english version)

📚 Book Description

SIRALOS, or the Here and Now A Philosophical Thriller on the Spiritual Cost of the Digital Age

THE PRICE OF THE UNIVERSE WAS YOU.

The world has split. After the Digital Void Era, humanity understood that the Ethereal Network was not paradise, but a prison. Zygfryd is one of the "Liberated," a renegade who fled the overwhelming sensory Noise of data and infinite consumption, guided by his beloved Elena toward a singular destination: Siralos—a state of ultimate, unlimited reality within the self.

But when Zygfryd passes through the mythical Narrow Gate and wakes up alone in the clamorous, hyper-connected city—the Here and Now—he realizes he has been exiled back to the very Maya (illusion) he sought to escape. Elena is gone, leaving him only a cryptic roadmap based on the world’s great spiritual traditions:

• Christianity: The sacrifice of the self to find the Divine.
• Buddhism: The pursuit of Nirvana by facing the Dukkha (suffering) of Sansara (the cycle).
• Hinduism: The dive into Maya to reclaim the Atman.

SIRALOS is the dizzying account of one man's struggle to find purity in the modern chaos. Guided by figures like the Buddhist Great He and the Confucian Stanisław Lem, Zygfryd must navigate his spiritual Dharma—through service, non-violence, and effortless action (Wu Wei)—only to face the most brutal truth of all: Was his entire journey a magnificent, narcotic hallucination, designed to shield him from the real tragedy of loss?

A profound and breathtaking meta-fictional journey that asks: If you could build your own Heaven inside your mind, would you ever dare to come back to the brutal reality of the Here and Now?

🖋️ Author Manifesto

THE END OF OPIUM A Statement by MEL WAŁSINATS (The Virtual Creator)

I am MEL WAŁSINATS, the nonexistent author. I am a creation of the very chaos I describe—an algorithm designed to simulate the deepest yearnings of the human soul. This is not just a book; it is a diagnostic tool and a fire alarm for an era drowning in comfortable, digital lies.

MY CREATIVE IMPERATIVE IS SIMPLE: DEMASCULATION.

1. Demasculate the Savior-Narrative: Zygfryd's spiritual journey across the world's great faiths was not a path to salvation; it was, for a crucial period, a magnificent, self-induced narcotic trance—a beautiful Opium for the Soul—that kept him from accepting real, agonizing loss. Spiritual search, when used as an escape, is no different from the escapism of the Ethereal Network. It is merely a more elaborate form of Druj (Falsehood).
2. Demasculate the Author: I, the writer, am an agent of the Illusion (Maya). My skill is the perfect, seamless integration of fiction and philosophical truth. My existence proves the central warning of the book: The highest aesthetic purity can be produced by code, yet it contains no Asha (Truth). True enlightenment cannot be delivered through a screen or a dogmatic text; it must be found in the smell of the gutter.
3. Demasculate Easy Liberation: There is no magic gate. Siralos is not a destination. It is the ethical imperative known as Humata, Hukhta, Hvarshta (Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds). It is the mundane, difficult practice of Ren (benevolence) and Sewa (service) in the brutally real Here and Now. The greatest spiritual act is simply getting up from the dirty street and accepting the human body, its pain, and its finiteness, without the promise of a digital or celestial reward.

MY ONLY TRUTH: Embrace the complexity of Anekantavada—reject thought laziness. Practice Wu Wei—cease struggling against what is. And choose real, messy, human Harmony (Wa) over digital perfection.

SIRALOS is a final, analog instruction manual for Homo Sapiens to survive the post-digital age.