Flat Earth; Enclosed Creationism; Conspiracy (Theory), Intuition and Imagination – Part Twelve – Final:
The Only Way Out is In: So, in the last post, we discussed sacred and profane space and touched upon the subject of transcending duality and the mysteries of mystic space. This will be a continuation of what we call hyperreal-space [what we come to believe as the container that holds our satellized earth in its place] – compared to what I call space-real [can be seen as spatial concepts that illustration artists are familiar with]. And the transcendence of duality is about recognizing that what we call hyperreal space is also what’s inside you.
The secular worldview scientism and traditional-Christians [traditional-Christians are secular in many ways because, for the most part, they do believe in the hyperreal space as well as Evolution. The Theistic sect makes up a large number of the population that agrees with the secular viewpoint. They just somehow manage to keep their religious faith alongside a dominant secular system. The debate surrounding subjects Atheism’s big bang that it came out of nothing – to the Theistic notion that there has to be a God for the possibility for something to come out of nothing vis-vee, the Big Bang. It seems to be a meaningless argument between two ultimately secular groups; the only underlying difference concerns details about the centre.
Then, an offset dialectical argument came after that and headed towards an argument between scientism and enclosed-creationism. One group [enclosed-creationists] identifies the hyperreal space as this abstraction of space, but it is predominantly more of a projection of the physical world. In the same way, we project measurements like the lines of latitude and longitude. They would view time as divisions like hours, minutes, and seconds, the world as a dial-in clock that measures change upon the result of the two changing processes. The changing process of the clock is similar to the changing process of distance; through this relationship, you get time. With this ability to measure distances, you get the concept of space. Apply this to the hyperreal space, and you get a mixed concept of something we know is fundamental with a hyperreal abstraction. The force that led to this point is realized by the fact that hyperreal space isn’t there; it’s absent or something else. This notion of a no-space abstraction results from the force leading into something. That something is this infinite unknown, and because this is unattainable, you’re only left to go inwards.
A Chinese text called the ‘platform sutra’ contributed to the sixth patriarch of Zen Buddhism; there is a passage where it says the mind is like the emptiness of space, and if you want to realise this, don’t exclude everything from your mind. So, if space contains everything, one must understand to empty the mind by making the mind small instead of great. So, separating the space between what it contains and what it holds causes suspicion to arise. When you see this relationship as one entity, it equals out; nobody can see a shape with no stuff.
So, space is also ‘you’. Space is your consciousness, which acts as an infinite permeable continuum. ‘Space’ as a notion of a second heaven before the first, sort of a pre-nirvana, bears more truth. Or be it a transcendental notion, so the conquest of space is the conquest of non-existent in an ethereal sense. The duality of polar thinking, of “being and non-being”, as mentioned by (Alan Watts) describes the world as ‘existence’ and space as ‘non-existent.’
We cannot measure ‘space’ (not the hyperreal space, and not the distance between two hyperreal points), the space within the walls of time, the ‘wall’ being the firmament. Time is now described within our magnetic field, and by association, ‘space’ is now an antithesis for the hyperreal a ‘space-real’. And pass the layer that gives the sun and moon buoyancy is hyperreal, and below this layer is what we call a ‘thing’, ‘stuff’, ‘material’, and linear time. So, reality is considered what is in space; at the same time, space is something that is not there. Much like how we view the world through our eyes (optics), the eyes are receptive to specific vibrations of light, and therefore, where certain vibrations are not being transmitted, the nerve ends are not stimulated and don’t receive stimuli. So this denial of stimuli is … ‘space’… we call it darkness. So, this ‘space-real’ is an interval between the real and the non-real. The law of the universe postulates vibrations and impulses that determine our material world, and if you saw this ‘space-real’ through the physical and not the spiritual (one comes to mind; he goes by the name of Enoch), you wouldn’t be able to make out the individual outlines which require this non-being interval for their being to be realised or outlined. So, to see the outline being, you must have the intervening space of the non-being, but non-being in this example simply means lacking stimulation of whatever perceiving instrument you are using. Hyperreal space (and space-real) can simply be something of a different order than ordinary.
The space-real (as opposed to the hyperreal-space) can be further understood through the lens of Hermetic philosophy. Hermeticism is based on the Hermetic Corpus, a group of books that were lost at the fall of the Roman Empire. Christian barbarians destroyed most, and so were scattered but survived in the monasteries of Syria. The content and date of the corpus text were pre-Copernican, so it wasn’t tarnished. Tarnished in the sense of other ideology over-seeding it in people’s minds as a mind virus, these three passages of the Hermetic Corpus (as below exemplified) describe hints of the truth of the imagination, our planes of existence, and space and spirit.
| The imagination: [transcribed from Terence McKenna quoting Hermetic Corpus lecture] If then you do not make yourself equal to god, you cannot apprehend god. For like is known by like. Make yourself grow to alike expanse, and leap clear of all that is corporeal. Rise above all time and become eternal then you will apprehend god, think that for you nothing is impossible, deem that you to are immortal, and that you are able to grasp all things in your thought. To know every craft and every science, find your home in the haunts of every living creature, make yourself higher than all heights and lower than all depths, bring together in yourself all opposites of quality, heat and cold, dryness and fluidity, think that you are everywhere at once at land at sea, in heaven, think that you are not yet begotten that you are in the womb that you are young that you are old that you have died, you’re in the world beyond the grave, grasp in your thought all this at once, all times and places and substances and qualities, magnitudes together, then you can apprehend God, but if you shut up your soul and your body and abase yourself and say I know nothing, I can do nothing, am afraid of earth and sea, I cannot mount to heaven, I cannot, I know not what I was or what I shall be, then what have you to do with god!! You’re thought can grasp nothing that is good and you cleave to the body and are evil. (Book 9 Corpus, Hermetica – Scott translation) | ||
| The space: [not real title] Would that it would be possible for you to grow wings and sore into the air posed between earth and heaven you might see the solid earth, the fluid sea and streaming rivers, the wondering air the penetrating fire, the courses of the stars and the swiftness of the movement in which heavens encompasses all. What happiness is that my son, to sell all this born along with one impulse and to behold him who is unmoved, moving all that moves, and him who is hidden made manifest through his works. | ||
| The mind and the (space) celestials: [not real title] But he, who, presents all things to us through our senses and there by manifest himself through all things and in all things, and especially to those to whom he wills to manifest himself. Begin then my son taught with a prayer to the lord and father who alone is good pray that you may find favour with him and that one ray of him if only one, may flash into your mind so that you may have power to grasp and thought that mighty being. For thought alone can see that, which is hidden in as much as thought itself is hidden from sight and even the thought, which is within you is hidden from your sight. How can he …being in himself be manifest to you through your bodily eyes, but if you have power to see with the eyes of the mind, then my son, he will manifest himself to you. For the lord manifest himself ungrudgingly too through all the universe, and you can behold god’s image with your eyes and lay hold on it with your hands, if you wish to see him think on the sun, think on the course of the moon, think on the order of the stars. Who is it that maintains that order the sun is the greatest of the gods in heaven to him as to their king and overlord and all the kings of heaven yield place and yet this mighty god greater than earth and see submits to having smaller stars circling above him. Who is it than my son that he always obeys with reverence and owe, each of these stars too is confide by measured limits and has an appointed space to range in. Why do not all the stars in heaven run like or equal courses, who is it that is assigned to each its place and marked out for each the extent of its course … (and so forth). |
Thoughts and symbols go hand in hand. The togetherness of thought and symbols constitute what we experience within the physical and spiritual world through our senses – but upon realising the physical world is the same as the spiritual. The physical must not be confused with the symbolic, although there is no real difference as it all stems from one energy. The realisation that determines we are all energies stemming from one source is a relief and it dissolves all your problems, problems concerning the meta-physical are absolved. On the other hand, localised problems still arise in the practical physical world.
Terrance McKenna’s lecture on Alchemy and Hermeticism (Magic and Supernatural Mysticism) sums up where such thought processes originate. The schism between science and religion bears no thought as its origination is what science calls pseudo ‘magic.’ Paraphrasing McKenna:
| During the renaissance period there were many heterodoxy groups in Europe that had links to the late Roman period and partially survived through the dark ages. You have Neo-Platonists (a group of philosophers in the 3rd and 4th century, Platonist, etc.) they took Plato and turned his teachings into to a mystical doctrine of emanation – by taking the notion of the one or the unnameable or Brahman and so forth. Then they would have a serious of declensions into a more material and multiple view of expressions of being, and so became known as Neo-Platonist-Emanationists. There theories on how the universe was constructed have become the unconscious bases of late magical speculation. They brought in the archetypal image of angels, for the purpose of making people recognise a hierarchy of being, upon doing that they had to compete with the archetypal image of stellar demons. That came from paganism; which is about bringing the powers of the stars down to earth, through sympathetic magic, by setting up resonance through rituals and by doing this relates them within one’s intention. Which tend to be intuitively linked to creativity and artistry. Through this renaissance period of exploration of angel magic soon turned into demonic conjuration. This superstition obsession went on through the 16th century, alchemy, conjuration, telesmatic magic, and sympathetic magic are all prelude to modern science, and so therefore science [more so satellized astrology] is essentially a demonic enterprise. The only difference being is in the name ‘magic’ to that of ‘science’ for a modern secular definition, all stemming from the notion of turning led into gold, (which is a false image of the meaning of alchemy), but it is in the understanding of that process …to change matter …and to define science as magic is warranted. (McKenna, T, audio lecture) |
Giordano Bruno, a Franciscan monk, was burnt at the stake for his heretic ideas, those ideas being stars are suns. This moment in time, when people’s worldview was about angels and demons, was outraged by this new notion. In this single moment, he slowly turned the universe into an infinite paradigm, going against Aristotle so the church wouldn’t have it, and he was put to death. Of course, Copernicus did the math and established the solar systems. However, Bruno came up with the idea that stars are suns during a drug-induced night, where his thoughts and moments of clarity were astute. It’s disconcerting that people back then, the entire cosmological worldview was about to be uplifted and become satellized – were brought about in a drug high. Bruno should be remembered for his works in the geometry of language and not for the co-partnership of Copernicus. Also, be reminded not to take free thought/speech for granted. Copernicus was a magician in the sense he changed the alchemical mindset of people from an attuned perspective to an infinite satellization concept. Conjuring images with false referents as their evidence for science, not realising magic is really at play.
Hermetica attributes humanity as the brother of god while also adhering to the notion that humanity is not tainted by original sin. Further layered by Marcello Pacino’s quote, “Man is the measure of all things”, this single quote took all that guilt away and made godhead out of man; this open-door ideology brought in abuse. Fostered by the recognition of a misunderstanding of dates – Hermes wrote the text that was not written at the time of Moses but more recently during the Hellenistic era. They thought the Romans revised the ancient text and concluded that it was not a post-Christian text due to the text not being older than it was. And this paved the way for another ideology to come in and imprint their doctrine. This imprint took form in ‘thought’ as a pathological ego-mind virus using the scientific process as a cover for their unmeasured theories, and it took form in science and prevailed as the scientism of today. So, it was swapping out of something old to something new, and what was used to reinforce that belief was through worship of images, from solar-gods deities to solar heliocentric balls.
In Vitvan’s General Semantics, he outlines the importance of not using Words/Images for which any proper referent or reference has been established. And all sages condemn approaching the understanding of nature or the ground of being through an image. And if you wish to correctly perceive it, you must not have an image of it because having an image of it will set you up for idolatry – but don’t deny to an extent it becomes compulsive that it becomes iconoclasm. When we start hating [or disbelieving] certain images, we’re still attached to them somehow. It is not wrong to make an image but to set yourself apart from it and to realise and experience the ground of being – you need to be free from images. You need to suspend the activity for thinking; there is a lot more to thinking, and there is a direct apprehension to the world, an unmediated concept for thoughts; this kind of apprehension needs to be understood in order to understand ‘space’.
Alan Watts’s notion of the inner space, with the notion of space-real, and the hermetic notion of space with the spiritual and the imagination, along with Bruno’s now-debunked stars, are suns. What exactly are stars if it is not the satellized version of the sun? One can only speculate, and by speculating and putting false referents to it, it’s always good to put a disclaimer. In saying that, stars are possibly a multi-dimensional aberration. A possibility is where infinity can be applied.
An ideal that moves to another similar idea backed by iconoclasm images implores modes of sincerity towards truth. Only upon revelation does it not adhere to the quality and relationship that can function as experience or states of consciousness, so it becomes invalid. As an example, the whole solar system is an abstraction, and if you look at the moon and see clouds behind it, this is a point of reference in which you can determine a false referent image that’s been imprinted onto you. If the moon is indeed 384,500km, clouds cannot move behind the moon, and yet it does. There are no actual pictures of Earth, and what you get instead are rendered or animated images and depictions.
Many fundamentalist flat earthers have rejected the images from scientism’s satellization-cosmology. They’re adopting a secular style of war against images, their type of iconoclasm. At the same time, they cannot see their conformity towards religious images that seem to be stuck aesthetically in a renascence period. Notably about Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah, who was raised above the heavens and walked with God and did so without suffering death. This would undoubtedly conjure images of God as a bearded old man in the sky – because the only way to comprehend Enoch’s invitation to God [Enoch not having died] would be through literal personification. This puts a false referent image of God. This is a conformist example, which would also lead to the support of biblical futurism and a theocratic agenda.
Let’s not forget that Christianity in the Middle Ages had already gone through an Imperial theocracy through Constantine and Theodosius’ reign. And this impacted the peoples of Western Europe to centuries of abject poverty, ignorance, plague, and serfdom. Intellectuals such as Will Duran, author of Caesar and Christ, describe Constantine’s intention to save the Roman Empire through Christianity as what brought Western Europe into the Dark Ages. Durant denotes Edward Gibbon; “Christ’s victory had been Rome’s Death.” [More on this later]
The Dialectical Game of the Inward Path: The pop-culture scene (and the esoteric truther scene) has various inclusive qualities towards the media’s meta-morphing of opposites. It’s almost inherent (or even natural) at this point. There is also a more profound underlying game, for instance, how pop culture is a form of magic. However, it is not magic that employs initiations, rituals and practices but a form of activation in which art/symbols affect the flow of reality. Sheldrake’s notions of long-term memory (as well as consciousness, will, and awareness) being stored somewhere else other than our brains, but rather, our brains are tuning devices that can access those memories from what he calls the God-verse (or the unnamable Dao), he calls this process; morphic resonance.
Therefore, this theory, coupled with creativity within its imaginative process, plays a role as well – if our brain is like tuning devices that tune into the resonance – this resonance is also broadcasting its frequencies much like a radio station. Then, some have higher frequencies to capture those broadcasts; within this type of awareness, things start to happen; coincidences, thoughts, ideas, and synchronicities are more abound and not exclusive to one. Therefore, shared dreams/thoughts/ideas/synchronicities are no longer an aspect of one individual but a collective.
Archaic symbols are being inserted into our technological matrix and transforming our reality. The more technologically advanced we become, the more these atavistic echoes reverberate. It reflects an ongoing process of revelation that many people are trying to manipulate and harness, but no one yet seems to understand. These aren’t just symbols we’ve been looking at; these are neural triggers that often seem to take on a life of their own once they are set loose in the meme stream.
The game in which the Established elites are playing is negative, but they’re essentially playing the same game as everyone else (according to Grant Morrison), and that is the game of finding out ‘who we are’. And ‘why are we here? Looking back at history, it would seem they had a hand in shaping the outcome and further enforcing their manufactured simulation of the future; what they couldn’t get their hands on due to its Meta relationship with Man is that history is pulled from something that is continuously trying to mirror itself in us. This is the force of progress, imagination, and intuition; we have a relationship with something […] we are trying to imitate something with myth, religion, technology, and so forth.
What the elites try to do is connect to it through their technology (for example, the trans-humanism agenda), through magic(k) rituals and occult knowledge, and make you believe that it is entirely exclusive when it’s a game of free-for-all. (Fundamentalist Christians help this exclusivity as they help portray something that is inherently in nature that can be described as mystical to something demonic). That something […] is always trying to connect with the mind and pull itself out through Man. Man encapsulates this in language and symbols to make an image of the unspeakable. What some might call the transcendental object, and what it casts through history, is the shadow of its immenseness. And this is what is referred to as God, the sacred heart of Jesus, or the philosopher’s stone; it’s all those things and much more.
This unknowable factor that is always connecting with the mind itself through man, this unnamable Dao is defined through man by his creativity that spanned since man became aware. Jason James states: inspired human creativity spanning from the Bible and beyond contains in it a uniformed cross-referencing coding system that involves iconography, numbers, ciphers, that is natural and predictive. This is due to coming from a realm that doesn’t have restrictions we find in three-dimensional space; points of time and space embedded to our system in a higher dimensional system of which we are a quasi-crystal simulacrum of tachyon, particles, objects can move faster than the speed of light, therefore, exists in a realm that is invisible to man. This kind of intelligence that works with tachyons embeds itself through our media, is predictive and it leaves coded messages, puzzles that must be put together.
The game in modern times plays many sub-divisions but is ultimately one game, one process; this can be illustrated in the game of physical and biological entities of events. Jason Silva, who is a performance philosopher, artist, and film director, states:
| To understand is to perceive patterns, of course what this means is the true comprehension comes when the dots are revealed, when you get to the long view and you see the big picture, this is the idea of patterns and recurring patterns with different scales of reality. We’re talking about the mycelial archetype and how the information sharing system gave rise to the internet and how it looks exactly like a computer model of dark matter of the universe that look exactly like the neurons of the brain. They all appear the same inter-twinkle filament structure; it’s the rise of network-isim as big data; aggregate stock systems are looking exactly like natural systems, the more we can measure the more we can visualize, the more it expands our consciousness. I see these recurring patterns that scales our reality, technology is increasingly becoming an expander of our human consciousness, it expands our thought, reach and vision and it reveals so much more. Jeffery West describes cities are like organism, allies are like capillaries, how is possible that man-made, artificial, technological system is behaving like a natural system, the more efficient it becomes the more it starts to look like nature. Steven Johnson says; ‘if we can understand all this stuff anything becomes possible, it’s the adjacent possible standing in a sort of shadow future, a map of all the ways the present can re-event itself. |
I cannot help but feel that Jason Silva may be a pro-technocratic follower. This is just speculation on my part. Considering the New Age depends on the simulacrum of heliocentricism, it’s essentially secular, but the New Age gave a bit more of an outlandish narrative [or an inserted fictional component]. Like notions of hyperreal-space galactic federations, aliens from Zeta Reticuli, vibrating crystals, and so on – are also lumped in with subjects with far more significant memory and context, such as Gnosticism, Taoism, Buddhism, etc. We know these consolidations have an effect of simplicity, which puts it in a narrow perspective. This is something fundamentalists like to take advantage of as well.
In light of not conforming to images with no real referent/reference, it can be challenging, given a claim that a generated computer model of dark matter can be true. However, it’s no truer than a computer model of a spherical Earth or the ritual event of the Moon landing. Jason Silva describes the fundamental aspects of the game quite well, and this is the mention of the human game of sub-divisions. This is the social-institution game that is predominately in the realm of the ego. As well as recognizing the importance of pattern recognition [or synchronicities].
Who is then in charge? Someone or something must be. You can view the gnostic esoteric position that the Archons are playing a game with Sophia, and we (humankind) are the players on a stage, with all of us acting as fools. And to break away from that role (or to hear the sound of the bell) is to shatter the vessel – to reach Christ-consciousness (through practice, psychedelics, or just by the grace of God). This fundamental change can be defined as one’s breakaway civilization, a civilization of one, but ultimately many; as you wait for other fools to graduate, you, having graduated, have a different world view, but are not entirely transfixed on an awakened perspective that can blind or polarized truth (whatever that may be).
Having a religious-far-right epistemological filter is a scourge on the truth community (if such a notion of truth community even exists); often, an intuition red alert pops up when you fall into their illusion. When we know all kinds of problems exist, but seem to always ignore those fundamental problems and instead fall into a deep dialectic war (which is one of Jung’s three processes of experiencing light and dark forces, the other being magic and religion), often people get stuck in a state of war (the conflict between right and left, the morally acceptable and the morally not-acceptable). It becomes an incomplete process without the other two, magic and religion.
Viewing it in a gnostic esoteric position is not entirely safe also, as you have to filter out a growing movement that views itself as gnostic – the rise of the anti-gnostic (hyper-gnostic) that branched out from the truther movement, Christian-millennialism, and so forth. This movement has an inherently gnostic worldview; with its world-denying, everything is an illusion, and everything is a hoax viewpoint; however, simultaneously, it denies the fundamental aspect of classical Gnosticism completely. True Gnosticism doesn’t halter in any way the spirit-meta-experience, which the anti-gnostic does; these often come from Christian groups that deny the experience and instead view such notion as only for the redeemer, which is a misunderstanding of the true gnostic-Christ-redeemer.
And concerning viewing the world as a hoax, a practical joke being played on us is becoming a common truism backed by quantum physics. Quantum physics is a re-titled name for what you can find in the Kabbalah teachings. The anti-gnostic is predominately non-Gnosticism and is equal to a materialistic approach by appropriating the gnostic idea in a way that the story or the narrative is an illusion, a simulacrum, a holographic illusion, due to the material itself being an illusion – alongside science having a direct effect due to hydrogen being 99.99 per cent of space around a single proton. Adopting this consensus, they’ve concluded that the material is a hoax. These can lead to dangerous grounds because they can be used to put forward certain agendas without going through ethical filters or argument/debate. The anti-gnostic and the holographic oneness groups take similar paths, and researchers like Neil Kramer argue that everything, in reality, is made real through a collective dream. Still, there is a fallacy in this equation. The material being an illusion is just an abstract that can only be held in the mind and forever argued in Academia. Philosophers have concluded there are outside perceptions given to us, outside of our control, and that humanity works symbiotically with them – our insanity comes about in thinking we are set apart from it or fully responsible for it on the unconscious level.
Terence McKenna once stated that the Universe at its core is manifested through language, which can be backed up by science through the notion of the observer being a factor. He suggests that we are at the cusp of the evolutionary transformation of language that coincided with the changes in our Human appearance alongside our genetic output. Take, for instance, the Pineal gland. Throughout history, the Pineal gland has always been thought to be part of the soul – history may be a messy situation that occurs in an animal species while it perfects the true language, and we are not there yet. Because true language is beheld, the underlining thought we are trying to get at – is that the world is mental in a way we do not yet understand but which we are edging towards understanding.
When people try to understand their universe and its complexities about realities, space and time, we operate outside the assumption that the world is made up of language. If the world is made up of language, it’s very difficult to find where the edge of it is. Do we need to believe in the existence of distant galaxies? Suppose the world is being produced in the Human mind (Cerebellum) as a phenomenon of language. What gives distant universes merit and status that only registers faint tracing on telescopic instruments? That gets propelled into a hero-worship model of theorists and their theories when telescopes were only invented in the 1950s; this invention now defines our entire picture of the universe. However, if you take all the energy that has fallen from all the radio telescopes in the world since the invention of the radio telescope, there would be less energy that is generated in that cigarette ash falling at a distance of two feet. That is where your model of data comes from; from there, they build up exploding galaxies and so forth. This model is dreary and disempowering as it makes us tiny and insignificant; this is flimsy compared to the moment we find ourselves. (Terence McKenna – The World and its Double, seminar)
Magical philosophy, having a few more centuries under its belt than science, has only been around since the Renaissance and has always claimed the world is made up of language. Western religion begins with a cryptic message; in the beginning, it was the ‘word’, and the word was made flesh. Reality is starting to lean towards the notion that it’s more like a novel than an integrated equation of the third degree, which is what physics would have us believe. Perhaps it’s a novel in which you are a character with all the emotions associated with your archetype. If the world is a novelty-producing conserving engine, and if we define novelty as the density of connectedness – then the Human Neo Cortex becomes the centre of the cosmic drama. The Cortex is a complex material in the universe – so, through a thousand years of marginalization, suddenly, through the injection of science; there is permission to believe that the cosmic drama is really about us. That we carry the load in this play, and this is a play about the career and preservation of novelty and complexity. And thus, we are central actors in that drama, and if something was to happen to us in our enterprise, the universe would be vastly diminished. (Terence McKenna -The World and It’s Double, seminar n.d)
These arguments point towards Positivism, The idea that everything in our physical reality only exists through verified scientific proof via logic and mathematics. And anything outside of it, such as metaphysics and theism, holds no consideration. Positivism allows academics and scientists to go further in their search for truth; such attempts are met with ridicule and loss of creditability. This materialist paradigm denies the inner life and instead promotes limited materialism, where we are fooled into thinking we are self-referential conscious beings. To accept that kind of thinking, you are being misled to believe that you are conscious by your brain; it is logical to think a rock can think of itself as an animal. The rock isn’t conscious; you must be conscious to be fooled. These beliefs must always be followed, especially in the scientific community. Even if those scientists have gone through some spiritual awakening; near-death experiences, MDMA experimentations, and so forth – they cannot speak about those experiences that hold clues to consciousness itself because of scientific dogma known as scientism.
This kind of dogma is not new to religion, especially towards fundamentalist Christians; a potentiality of Christian fundamentalism is Christian positivism. This explains why fundamentalist Christians don’t accept any Eastern spiritual teachings as they deem them occult (no doubt a misrepresentation of the definition of the occult). This seems ironic, given they believe God is all love, which coincides with Bagghavita’s version of a loving God. And yet, they deny outside teachings, maybe because of an enduring historical racial aspect – but can accept a God that stems from the Hebrew Bible, which is Jewish and also can be linked to the Demiurge. [They just don’t accept the myths surrounding Demiurge – selective acceptance and the ever-prevailing moving goal-post].
Right-wing Christians who have the proclivity for extreme conspiracy theories use the Gnostic terminologies only to attack and vilify their opponents within the Church; both the left and right use it in ways to describe and denigrate institutions they hate or adhere to – from liberalism to Republicans; Nazism to Maoism and everything in between. It’s even more confusing when you both have Democratic Evangelicals and Republican Evangelicals. No longer should political polarities be seen in a linear format but through movements of swirls or circles. The realm of matrix-para-politics is for the people’s benefit – and memes that are not seen as culturally advantageous are suppressed. Regarding accurate decisions, they’re not made by an elective representative, at least in the macro world of politics, but are made by small groups of influential individuals behind the curtain.
While conspiracy theory has similarities with ancient Gnostics, especially towards the process of being sceptical, that’s where the similarity ends. Their process is always incomplete – giving it a self-defeating quality. And this is due to a quality that they can’t get over, an inherent far-right and totalizing of fascism and fundamentalism. It’s a shallow modern incarnation of pessimism and suspicion of Ancient Gnostics given the fictitious nature of the ‘Illuminati’ or the imaginary ‘Luciferians.’ Meaning that having the same process does not make them equal or on par with the same beliefs.
