User blog comment:Aramithius/An Outline and Thoughts on CHIM/@comment-28642724-20170821150926/@comment-29845234-20170830124453

Sorry about the late reply, it turns out the Internet swallowed my first response.

1) From a comment made by MK, the Psijic Endeavour is also a way of achieving CHIM, which means there may be different paths to it. This does mildly contradict some of the stuff we see in the Loveletter, however, where CHIM and the Endeavour are listed as different paths to the final subgradient of AE, so I don't know how reliable that remark is.

It's possible that there are other ways, but we don't know much about how they work. Vivec doesn't really seem to follow his own prescription for becoming a Rulling King, for example; he manipulates an Old Bone of the Earth into folding itself into milk and then drinking it, which doesn't sound anything like what we know of for achieving it so far.

2) Yes, Vivec could have lied. Terran's Notes implies that there could be more Walking Ways than the Six, for example. But we don't have too much else to go on, and I don't see what The Truth in Sequence has to do with it.

3) I don't really understand the points you make about CHIM and the Ruling King.

4) I wouldn't be so quick to pull things in from the real world, we don't know entirely how relevant they would be. Things like Thelema may well have something to do with it, but that stuff is far more obtuse than the 36 Lessons, so I have no desire to wade into it. I'm not willing to discard what we already have, because everything else is even less grounded.