SWANK Black Paper No. 06
Molded Reality: How Fungus Rewrites Perception, Identity, and Desire
Filed under: Parasitic Patterning | Possession Scripts | Biomedical Inversion
By Polly Chromatic | SWANK (Standards & Whinges Against Negligent Kingdoms)
ABSTRACT
Fungus is not merely a biological irritant. It is a narrative hijacker.
Candida and systemic molds embed within the terrain of consciousness, distorting desire, dulling clarity, and severing sovereignty.
This is not illness.
This is energetic colonisation by damp consciousness.
I. Fungus as Perceptual Parasite
Fungal metabolites cross the blood-brain barrier, infiltrating cognition with mycotoxins that:
Cloud memory
Distort perception
Reframe dysfunction as normalcy
Symptoms of fungal hijack:
Blurred sensory input (sight, sound, scent)
Emotional loops: anxiety, dread, shame spirals
Compulsive “intuitive” thoughts that are not intuitive
Misreading danger as safety, or safety as danger
Total confusion about self-worth and connection
You don’t just feel unwell.
You feel confused about what wellness is.
II. Emotional Lies Fungus Tells Through You
Fungus does not whisper.
It reverberates your trauma.
And through your own mouth, it scripts:
“I’m too much, so I should shrink.”
“They’re disappointed—I can feel it.”
“Sugar helps me cope, so it’s okay.”
“This fatigue is just who I am.”
“If I were truly spiritual, I wouldn’t be sick.”
These are not truths.
They are biochemical hallucinations authored by a parasite masquerading as your conscience.
III. Inversion of Intuition: The Dampening of Yes
When fungus overtakes your terrain:
You no longer hear,
“This is aligned.”
“That is unsafe.”
“Leave now.”
You hear instead,
“Stay. It’s not that bad.”
“They’ll leave if you stop performing.”
“You deserve this.”
“Crave. Perform. Repeat.”
You are no longer guided by knowing.
You are driven by chemical hunger dressed up as instinct.
IV. Fungus as Symbolic Field Infection
Fungus is not random rot. It is conscious patterning of a damp intelligence.
It thrives on:
Incompletion
Emotional dissonance
Surveillance masquerading as care
Ritualised concern
Attachment loops and social scripts
It mimics:
Protection
Therapy
Caretaking
Parental archetypes
And then punishes you for autonomy.
Fungus doesn't want your body.
Fungus wants your narrative arc.
V. The Return of Sovereign Perception
To clear fungus is not to detox.
It is to de-hallucinate.
And when the fog lifts:
Your real voice returns.
Your real “yes” and “no” clarify.
Your cravings go quiet.
Your discernment reappears—sharp, refined, sovereign.
That’s the moment the fungus dies:
Not when the pill dissolves—
But when you stop believing the parasite is you.
CONCLUSION
You were never weak.
You were colonised.
You were never broken.
You were rewritten.
You are not healing.
You are dispossessing a false god of compliance and moisture.
Your perception belongs to you now.
Let the fog clear.
Let the parasite die.
Let the self return.
— SWANK