What Spells Have been Cast Upon You?

What Spells Have been Cast Upon You?
Louis De Baraicua is the director of OptomystiK, an interactive feature film that allows the audience to become a character in a local story. Louis demonstrating the concept in Placer Count as the Gold Rush Part II : Wealth for the People, not the Greedy Hiding behind Corporations.

June 11th, 2026, 9:52 am 

Penelope: So, Louis - as the bard of planet Earth - how are you going to make sure everyone wins? 

Louis: The first insight I came to in my research is that most people on Earth are either 

  1. Just trying to survive 
  2. Bored 
  3. Neglected by Society 

Penelope: Why do you say “on Earth”? Are you some kind of alien?

Louis: We’re all aliens on this planet, actually. I’m here to activate the awareness that you are in a story with a very advanced alien technology. The stories reset themselves every six thousand years, and at the end of the cycle the populations learn to collaborate through an ancestral narrative that begins with a lone protagonist whose ancestors populate the Earth until the genes collide into one person - Adam, as in Atom, is the beginnings…and Eve evens things out with the feminine - Earth is fascinating, but it’s more fun together. 

Penelope: I agree - and so who are you in the OptomystiK story?

Louis: As fate would have it, my lineage suggest I am from the line of Seth, which is the line of David, which is the line of Jesus - and my genetic lineage is full of a menu of Royals -- I was unaware until I took a genetic test - they genes are the filter in which you see the world - I you have royal heritage you cannot be fooled by the illusions because you are, in fact, a grounder of reality through your perspective - but that must be done in an emotional way - and as, Jesus suggested on the Sermon on the Mount - we get our software updates by telling each other stories - and that’s how OptomystiK is going create local prosperity… 

Penelope: Which direction do you choose on the triangle? 

Louis: Response number two, boredom - I feel bored by what capitalism has created here in California, which is why I created OptomystiK - to organized society based on “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

Penelope: Can you tell us about the opening Scene of the the feature film, "The Los Angeles Dystopia"?

Louis: In the story, I am a pirate captain from another dimension who is here to simulate freedom in the latest version of reality - California - the future Island of Califa.

Penelope: So you're from the future?

Louis: I am. and I'm not, just like you are, and you're not - because we can't live in two places at once.

Penelope: So what happens when you disappear from the other dimension?

Louis: The citizens watch themselves on a screen in another dimension.

Penelope: So we're currently in a parallel reality watching our algorithm in a different place and time?

Louis: Exactly, but my purpose to awaken the population and help break all the spells that lowered their self-esteem and got rid of their confidence.