In this International Transurfing Institute presentation, Renée Garcia interprets Vadim Zeland’s Tufti, the Priestess concepts through a series of illustrations by ITI member Iyum. She explains three core ideas: (1) both waking life and dreaming are states of sleep, and lucid dreaming—waking up within a dream—mirrors the need to become consciously aware in waking life to author one’s reality; (2) reality functions like a film roll, where each frame represents a moment and future frames embody our goals, allowing us to perceive life as a scripted movie; and (3) control over reality is exercised not by manipulating the present frame but by influencing the upcoming frames that will become the present, emphasizing the importance of directing future outcomes rather than trying to force change in the current moment. Garcia promises further elaboration in subsequent illustrations.
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Welcome. My name is Renee Garcia, and this is an International Transurfing Institute production. These illustrations are based on the concepts from the book Tufti, the Priestess: Live Stroll Through a Movie, written by Vadim Zeland, as illustrated by ITI Facebook member Iyum. I will be giving both my unscripted interpretation as well as relaying notes from my Tufti seminar that are in line with each illustration. Please enjoy.
Illustration 1: Introduction: Dream and Life. So what Iyum is presenting to us here is that reality is different from what you have imagined via an illustration showing a baby being born, a child, a young adult, a full-grown adult, and then obviously an elderly person eventually dying. Life really equates to a dream in the Tufti book, and Vadim Zeland also presents this to us in Reality Transurfing Steps 1-5, that life is like a dream and death is actually waking up. So down below, we have 3 points that I will read out. 1, both in waking and in dreaming, you are asleep. So that's why Vadim Zeland really presents to us in Reality Transurfing Steps 1 through 5, the power of lucid dreaming, that's you waking up inside of your dream. The reason that this is valuable in creating, creating your own reality is that we have to wake up in the same manner we wake up in our dream. To have a lucid dream, we have to wake up in our waking lives to be able to take control of the script and start creating our own realities. Two, in both spaces, reality moves like a frame in a film roll. So In the Tufti book, Vadim Zeland presents to us the idea that life or reality is like a film roll, and our goals are those future frames. And in our sleeping life and in our waking life, reality moves just like this roll of film, and we ultimately can take control of that roll if we do wake up and realize that reality is like a film roll and that we are part of a script. So when we, when we become aware of the script, that's when we can move that film roll in the direction that we choose, which is ultimately that end frame, our ultimate goal. 3, the moving frame can be controlled. But you don't know how to do it. So this is where most people have problems with reality creation, is they're actually trying to control or create their reality rather in that moment, in that current frame. But it's that end frame or the frames that are in front of us that we can affect. So when those frames come into our current frame, reality can look different, but you have to attempt to add material to those future frames. You can't control reality or create reality in the current frame. It's the future frames that allow us to do so. So please stay tuned for 2, and I will go over that one, which is 2 screens.