(PASS apocalyptic manifesto)
Imagine a world without displaced-persons camps and prisons. Imagine a world without caravans of immigrants, without refugees at sea trapped in a desperate destiny.
Imagine a bored society and culture without umbilical connections, similitude, and plagiarists, imagine an art without appropriations and endless repetitions, without carbon-copy aesthetics, reproducing past trends over and over.
The Poets & Artists Surrealist Society (PASS) is breaking two stones with one bird and one mosquito: Speak up when you have nothing to say and create without the brainwash of studies in the avant-garde.
Struggle against dominant populist Pop-Kitsch-ism, via a permanent dissatisfaction with the anesthetizing effects of social mass media. Reject banalization of all emotional relations, a derision of the impact of dreams and the subconscious universe.
Beware: The committee of sleep is controlling your psyche through a fetishism of possessions. Rebel against forgone conclusions of conspicuous consumption. Re-individualize your logic: One must risk reason for an experience worth attempting; invent good trouble with a turbulent aggression for practical social changes.
“Let us not lose sight of the fact that the idea of Surrealism aims quite simply at the total recovery of our psychic force by a means which is nothing other than the dizzying descent into ourselves, the systematic illumination of hidden places and the progressive darkening of other places, the perpetual excursion into the midst of forbidden territory, and that there is no real danger of its activities coming to an end so long as man still manages to distinguish an animal from a flame or a stone”
—André Breton
Stop streaming mindless fillers of rarified cultural squalor, stop buying subscriptions to periodicals and books of gutter sex and domesticated hobbies. The marvelous is everywhere: Sometimes it happens that unexplained images appear in mirrors, in dreams, in our art and poetry, and we can suddenly perceive them, perhaps in a state of intoxication or intense emotion or in a hypnotic state of sexual ceremony. It is the power of imagination at work in our mind and body. Entertain the Alchemical Brain! Finally, consciousness will no longer imprison living impulses, it will be at the service of desire: Going past the sordid layout of common sense and logic, it will rejoin the great possibilities of imagination and dream on a level of transcendence.
Power to the imagination!
How I discovered Surrealium!
In the early morning of November 15, 2025, I finally separated a very small amount of green liquid in my search for the ultimate “dream” element that I spontaneously dubbed “Surrealium” (pronounced SUR-REAL-I-UM), named after my surrealist mentors in Romania. For the best medicinally induced dreams or visionary prophesies, Nostradamus stated that we need to extract, farm and dispense Surrealium as a medicine to cure boredom, depression and writer’s block.
In my early education I also studied organic chemistry at the Polytechnic of Bucharest and graduated with an engineering degree, all against my will. I learned that even technology is not neutral. The alchemy of those five years continues to fallow me in my nightmares and in my poetry.
While reading the Tarot cards, I came upon a combination of VIII, IX and The Fool used by alchemists. The Fool is a poet, beggar or vagabond, who wears ragged clothes and stockings without shoes and carries a stick on his back, all the while happily singing.Number VIII of Swords indicates facing one’s mental barriers, breaking through mental inhibitions and conquering fears. The number VIII in the Tarot Card imagery also depicts the process of manifesting the new material reality.
At the time of my discovery via a microscope, I found that this strange green liquid happened to be Surrealium oxide (SrrO2), and although I realized I was looking at a new substance — possibly a new metallic addition to the Periodic Table — it became apparent that only I could fully envision its properties. I guessed that this substance was a component found in the brain, maybe a psychotropic agent, a testosterone buster or an aphrodisiac.
Surrealium, metallic element nr.119 in the Periodic Table, has 60 protons, 59 neutrons and a variable number of electrons. I named it Surrealium because of the compound proprieties known as “citrates of Surrealium” can create a psychotic episode or a state of trance, euphoria-sexualis (orgasm), hallucinations, schizoid episodes, wet dreams or even religious revelations.
Perhaps Surrealium can be extracted during autopsies from the gray matter of recently deceased adults, male or female, from prisons, mental institutions or monasteries. It also can be detected through spectrographic analysis of the active live brain during intakes of hallucinogenic drugs or during deep sleep (REM) or a medically induced coma.
Srr is a natural element that appears in pineal neurons. It can be activated by substances such as yage, ayahuasca, mescalin, psylocibin and peyote, or provoked by depravation of sleep, depravation of water, food or speech, and also during religious rituals.
Surrealium compounds have a short lifespan and reabsorb back into gray matter and non-psychoactive brain liquids.
Surrealium is governed by the planet Uranus, which is a planet of solitude and silence and subconscious introspection.
Surrealium can be generated by anyone through meditations, Zen for Nothing sitings or just in the automatic practice of surrealism.
The danger is that the critical mass of Surrealium is prone to explosion, often accompanied by cascading hormonal weaves that can induce convulsive reactions in the muscles and delirium tremens.
SURREALIUM 119
Surrealium as a Chemical Element
I. The “Scientific” Datasheet
| Property | Green liquid spheres or gas |
| Name | Surrealium |
| Symbol | Srr |
| Atomic Number | 119 |
| Atomic Mass | The weight of a subconscious thought |
| Group | The Noble Gases (because it refuses to work) |
| Standard State | Fluid (takes the shape of the container’s desire) |
Electron Configuration
Instead of standard orbitals, the electron path is nonlinear, possibly “theoretical” in a quantum state of strings.
II. Physical and Chemical Properties
The element Srr behaves as a stimulant for inspiration for exquisite corpses.
1. Phase Transitions
- Melting Point: The element does not melt at a specific temperature; rather, it melts when observed by a clock that melts.
- Boiling Point: It boils instantly when exposed to Rationalism.
2. Reactivity
- High Reactivity to Logic: When Surrelium comes into contact with “Hard Logic,” it triggers a violent reaction known as Juxtaposition to Logic and Sentimentalism.
- The “Exquisite Corpse” Bond: Atoms of Srr do not bond covalently; they bond randomly, creating chains where the head of the molecule does not know what the tail is doing.
3. Isotope Stability
- Isotope Srr-Magritte: This isotope appears to be a solid metal, but upon testing, reveals it is merely a painting of a metal.
III. The Discovery Narrative (The “Methodology”)
Every element has a discovery story similar to the Paranoiac-Critical Method.
The Abstract: “We did not find the element in the earth’s crust. We found it by staring at a blank wall until the wall became a window. The isolation process involved distilling the essence of a dream recorded immediately upon waking.”
The Extraction Process:
- Step 1: Induce a hypnagogic state (the space between sleep and wakefulness).
- Step 2: Filter the results through a mesh of “Automatic Writing.”
- Step 3: Centrifuge the logic out until only pure Absurdity remains.
IV. Safety Warnings for artists
Inhalation: May create the feeling that the floor is the ceiling.
Skin Contact: May result in the growth of anthropomorphic drawers from the torso.First Aid: If exposed to too much Surrealium, (SrrCl+H2O), immediately read a dictionary or a train schedule to restore boring reality.