I was born in Salt Lake City on April 15, 1997. For the first few years of my life I was raised by an amazing single mom. From a young age my mom taught me that happiness comes from within. We lived in a single bedroom apartment without air conditioning but there was never anything missing. We camped, we read, and we focused on everything positive that was going our way. I learned that your outlook on life determines how happy you are. To this day this lesson is still the most important thing I have ever learned.
My family situation is one of the more complicated situations that I've ever heard of and initially I was going to leave it out of this site altogether but now I see that it's an important piece of my puzzle so here it goes. My mom's side of the family comes from a mormon background and they're known for massive family gatherings and reunions. My early childhood was filled with camping trips and nature adventures with these family-centered people. They taught me the importance of family and real, genuine community. After raising me alone for the first few years of my life my mom started dating a man by the name of Giancarlo Skolnick. Gianni is an amazing person and my mom and him raised me together for many years through my childhood. Gianni's father (my grandpa) was a brilliant scientist and the founder of Myriad Genetics. Their family gave me a very scientific understanding of the universe and always leaned on skeptical side for anything supernatural and paranormal (which I completely understand). Gianni and his parents are also very generous and have played a huge role in getting me to where I am today. After my mom and Gianni broke up many people might've lost touch with their mom's ex boyfriend but I have remained a proud member of the Skolnick family. The Skolnick's have taken me on all sorts of amazing trips around the world and even paid my way through college. From them I learnt the importance of generosity and scientific reason.
I met my biological dad Jonathan when I was 6 years old. He is another interesting character and spent much of his life traveling the world taking amazing photographs. Jon even studied buddhism in Nepal with the monks and is what many would consider a 'free spirit'. His sister Holly and her family have also been a huge part of my life. Holly is in a happy gay marriage with my Jewish aunt Sue and I consider their kids to be my siblings. I'm actually still on their family plan for my iPhone. My dad's family has taken me on many great adventures and I am honored to consider myself one of them. They taught me the importance of enjoying life and not letting momentary stress impede your happiness. When I was 9 years old my mom married for the first time. She married a great guy named Parry and eventually had my two little brothers Jake and Roger. Parry is from Canada and he is one of the hardest working men I know. He is an optical engineer and he works long hours every week to provide for our family and make sure we are comfortable. Parry taught me many important things including the importance of self discipline, commitment, and authenticity.
Anyways, I've got a few dads, a mom, a couple aunt-moms, and four families from all over the place. They don't all see eye to eye and they all choose to live their lives in completely different ways but I realized something really important this last year. I honestly just love all of them. My mom. My Lesbian/Jewish aunts. My buddhist dad. My bass collecting mom's ex boyfriend. My Canadian step dad. My mormon fam. My geneticist grandpa. My buck hunting grandpa (he freezes the meat). There's some more but the point is I love them all for exactly who they are because I learned how to love myself. This is the point I really wanted to make with this site. How we see this world is completely dependent on our own perception and sense of self. Therefore, what we see in others is actually just a reflection of ourself and when we learn to love ourselves authentically we learn to love other people for who they are. My life experience has also convinced me that political correctness isn't necessarily the answer. We shouldn't tiptoe around race and religion and sexual orientation like they are somehow bad words. We should be sensitive to people that are being oppressed but we should also grow up. There are people that like having sex with their own gender and there are people that don't want to be their gender anymore.. why would you personally care? On this earth there are Black people and Mexicans and Asians and Indians and Caucasians and pretty much everything in between... why would you possibly take the time to hate a whole race? There's something like a hundred religions and they are all convinced that their book is the absolute truth.. why would you care if someone's reading a different book? Ya feel me... The first step to completely loving yourself is to get to know yourself. I made this site so that anyone could spend a little alone time just learning more about themselves and this universe that we all get to be a part of. Who are you and what do you believe in? Are you a republican? Are you a Democrat? Libertarian? Conspiracy theorist? Are you religious? Are you a mystic? Spiritual? Atheist? Agnostic? Esoteric? Maybe you're a big Jesus fan or maybe you love astrology. Maybe you believe in Atlantis or maybe you think we're all trapped in some giant video game. Maybe you believe that we evolved from apes and maybe you think that god came and made us. Maybe you believe that we are all AI programmed robots gaining self awareness or maybe you believe that we are gods and goddesses trapped in physical bodies. Maybe you believe in all of it or maybe you believe in none of it. Personally, I'm just a trippy dude fascinated by psychedelic drugs, inter-dimensional aliens, and also a huge proponent for the creation of Utopian governments moving forward. Don't agree with me? I really don't care... because you are you and I am me. I get to wake up in my skin every day and live my truth and I really encourage you to do the same. Honestly though, why would anyone hold back from being authentic because they fear the opinions of others? I'd much rather live my life with a smile doing what I like while others judge than to be the one judging.
Whoever you are and whatever you believe in there is one thing we should all be able to agree on. You are a human living on this earth. Right now you're currently standing on a giant ball (or a flat plane if that's what you're into.. no judgement in the Pyramid Realm) and you are orbiting an even bigger gaseous ball which is probably orbiting around a bunch of bigger balls somewhere out there. So why not spend some time researching this crazy, multidimensional, conscious, quantum universe that we're living in? Let your mind be curious again because it was never supposed to stop. If you can really take a step back I think you'd realize that your homework doesn't really matter and neither does your job. The letter on your test doesn't matter that much and the number in your bank account doesn't matter... but you matter. You're a crazy, intelligent, bipedal, organism that gets to wake up every day and do whatever the fuck you want. I'm serious... whatever you want (as long as it doesn't stop other people from doing what they want). There was a time when I thought to myself "maybe I shouldn't make a website about aliens, conspiracies, spirituality, consciousness, and the downfall of western civilization because my friends and family will judge me". Guess what? They judged me. Somewhere in the blur of building this site I lost my girlfriend, most of my family wants me to see a therapist, and half my friends think I ate one too many mushrooms. But guess what else? I'm happy. My family still loves me. The real homies will always have my back. I do not claim to have any absolute truth and I never will. All Pyramid Realm ultimately stands for is genuine curiosity and authenticity.
I went on a hell of a tangent there but back to my life.. Growing up my mom shielded me from technology as best she could (I got my first iPhone senior year of high school). As opposed to living in a world of screens we spent time in nature and I believe this had everything to do with my happy childhood. Screens sell us a different reality. They show us the luxuries of others and we are meant to assume that these luxuries equate to happiness. We are taught from a young age that wealth is the path to happiness and that all these material things we don’t have are what is standing in our way of being happy. Therefore, until we have that car or that house we feel discontent because in our eyes we cannot be happy without them. Don’t get me wrong, I want a Porsche and a mansion as much as the next guy. However, the reality is that our incessant desire for luxuries is a product of the capitalistic society we live in, but I digress.
In eighth grade I moved from Salt Lake City, Utah to Redmond, Washington. I attended middle school and high school there and eventually got into my dream school, Cal Poly. None of my friends or family had ever attended Cal Poly but something drew me there. I made my mind up all the way in ninth grade that I was going there and I never budged. I applied early decision and soon I was studying mechanical engineering in the rolling hills and beautiful coast of San Luis Obispo. My first two years of college looked a lot like most people’s. Beer, parties, girls, beach days, late study nights etc. I even joined a fraternity and served as the social chair (which already seems kinda funny to me). I tried my best to find the right balance between my studies, my friends, and finding myself.
My junior year things got a little interesting. I’d always had a mathematical mind and until recently I didn’t believe in much that couldn't be explained by science. I saw death as the end and religion as a farce. I also thought that most conspiracy theorists were just looking for attention. Eventually my own curiosity got the best of me and I started researching deeper into the occult world. I took everything with a grain of salt but I couldn't ignore the sensation that there was much more to this reality than we've been led to believe. My research quickly brought me to the most brilliant man to ever walk the earth, Nikola Tesla. Tesla was obsessed with numerical codes, higher intelligences, and he grasped a much deeper understanding of reality. Interestingly, Tesla would only enter a building after circling it 3 times and would only stay in hotel rooms containing the number 33... Weird right? I initially started researching Tesla’s work because of my curiosity with the numerical nature of reality and the prospect of free energy but I quickly became more captivated by his thoughts on life than his actual inventions. Tesla saw the world clearly and he believed that humanity was barely scratching the surface of what we could achieve as a species. He saw how governments clung to power at the expense of the general public and he envisioned a better world. He believed that he could supply free energy to the entire world and end so much of the suffering we see around us. It's worth noting that many believe he could’ve achieved this if others’ greed had not stood in his way. I quickly fell in love with his mind and his vision. Honestly, at times I think I loved his work more than my own life sometimes and this is ultimately what tore my relationship apart. I wasn't living in the same world anymore. I don't know why I'm really getting into it on here but I guess it helps me explain. You ever get the sensation that your life is a movie and the world is a stage? "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players" - Shakespeare feels me. Maybe I was a little overwhelmed. My schoolwork didn't matter. My career didn't matter. I guess in some ways even my relationship stopped mattering. The world I saw through my eyes became a corrupt shell of our true potential and no one else could even see it. Everyone seemed to have accepted that this was the best we could do but I refuse to believe it. We all get indoctrinated by the education system, funneled into our 9-5, and then we spend our lives chasing materialistic needs? There's so much more to life than this. I made the decision that I would commit whatever my life was worth to shattering this illusion. I don't really care if I fail or succeed. I don't even care who I lose on the way because I believe in the people I will find.
I started digging deeper and deeper into Tesla's work. He claimed that all people were connected through our own consciousness, something which is now confirmed by mainstream science. "Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance" - Nikola Tesla. He saw life in terms of frequencies and energy and he even claimed to have received intelligent extraterrestrial messages while working in his radio lab. I became obsessed with all the implications of his work and it led me everywhere. His work led me to a world of higher intelligences pulling strings, government corruption, and hidden codes. Many of his insights also completely shifted my beliefs on human spirituality and consciousness. So that’s how the site began but let me go more in depth about some of the actual events. After hearing Tesla’s claim that he had received messages from other intelligent life I decided to do some research on all the UFO and abduction accounts that are reported yearly by the thousands. I looked over government documents, personal accounts, and physical evidence and eventually it became painfully obvious to me that there must be some truth to all these accounts. Whether the UFO cases were extraterrestrial in origin I cannot say for sure but it quickly became clear to me that governments were doing everything in their power to keep UFO technology under wraps.
After I came to terms with the existence of UFOs and the role they'd played throughout our history everything got even crazier. Within a month I saw a UFO fly 50 yards over my head. At the time I kept it to myself but a month later I saw another one. Both of them were equilateral triangles. They had lights on all three corners and flew like nothing I'd ever seen. Instead of propelling their way through the air like planes do, the UFOs seemed to glide through the air without making a sound, as if gravity did not apply to them. I couldn’t explain to myself how I went 21 years without ever seeing anything of the sort and then saw two within months of researching UFO sightings. It dug at me and honestly made me question my sanity a few times. Then I started researching something else that Tesla had valuable insight into- consciousness. I realized in retrospect that by making the intention to see a UFO I was actually affecting the likelihood of witnessing one, I was expanding my perception and welcoming new experiences that didn't fit with my old understanding of the world. I began to understand that whatever a person focuses their mental energy on they are welcoming into their reality like a magnet. As I became aware of how my thoughts and intentions manifested into reality I started writing down questions I had and the answers I sought would always seem to find me. It all felt pretty unreal honestly and it gave me a whole new appreciation for life. The universe is a truly incredible place and I made Pyramid Realm to hopefully open some eyes to the implications of this research. Our overall perception of this world and what can happen on it is the limiting factor of our potential. So all I ask is that you take a few minutes and imagine a better world. Imagine a world where money does not discourage people from education. Imagine a world where governments do not allocate most of their budget to the creation and funding of wars. Imagine a world where the deteriorating condition of the earth is treated with the urgency it deserves. Imagine a new world.
After completing all my research I felt like I'd been awakened from a deep sleep but I still didn’t know what to do with all of it. I tried talking to my friends about it but most were quick to dismiss. And then a thought occurred to me- why not make a website? If I was going to do it I wanted to do it right so I researched platforms that would allow me to buy a domain name and build the site I envisioned. But it costed $25. Seems funny to me now how much of a deterrent this was but I honestly decided against it. I didn't need to be the guy with the UFO/conspiracy/conscious/spirituality website about saving the world did I? Anyways, I was at the library and I closed my computer and went to grab lunch. I only walked about 30 yards when I saw something crumpled up on the ground ahead. Dozens of people walked right by it and as I got closer I saw what it was and it sent chills down my spine- it was a $20 bill. I suppose it could’ve all been a coincidence but I decided not to take chances with the universe, and Pyramid Realm was born.
