Occultism and Post-awakening Natures:
Countries Don’t Build Culture; Music and the Fungus Among us Does: So we covered general semantics in the last few posts as a way to cure blockages in one’s states of consciousness (towards a higher spiritual goal or oneness). However, there are still these underlining matters that must be recognized. Like etymologies of the word on how it’s used in modern society juxtaposed with its historical meaning. As well as the simulation of images and symbols for new meaning – to simplifying or dumbing down images, words, and symbols to something reductive (or a debased version of the word occult). As well as stealing of words while changing it slightly along with changing its definition – and if one can’t reconcile it … just be aware of it, and continue with your life.
In my town, for decades the university would host a multicultural event where groups with different national backgrounds from various long-standing generations to early immigrants celebrate their cultural heritage with dance, music and food. Showcasing the many different traditional and ethnical cultures where suburban traditional homes might not be aware of. Intellects in their proclivity to denote politically correct groups, but instil their own politically correct fervour as to claim the word multiculturalism is an invalid word as well as its definition. By advocating there is no such thing, but recognise there is such a thing as multiracialism. Multiracial is the progeny of two different cultural traditions.
This seems to be an attempt to redefine an established definition because culture can’t change or grow or morph into something new. Take for instance early paganism before occult traditions began to surface in the form of mystery cults. They admired nature and showed it through the celebration of the harvest in the early agricultural era. The celebration took form in rituals, and the rituals developed into mythology using various deities to represent fertility and nature. This tied into their cosmology where they recognised the sun travelled into the underworld [the sun-setting]. This would later change into something more dynamic.
Some have equated this dynamic change through psychedelic mushrooms made evident through McKenna’s work on psychedelic mushrooms that stated that early civilizations introduction of psychedelic fungus [magic-mushrooms] in the food source of early agriculture civilisations gave new rise to spirits and gods. Out of that came shamanism, which then was codified and became a religion. It became a celebration by tribes in which they would gather after the hunt and bang on the drums around the fire. The entheogenic trance of those drum beats would find itself reconstituted or reborn in the mystery religion of the Dionysian expression of musical culture. Occult tradition understanding of ‘time’ was extended in their music that required dancing and singing around a communal experience.
These were counter-cultural movements of that time meaning it went against the Church, and so Mystery cults became a rebellion movement against the authoritarian state-cult gods of Zeus. The mystery cults elevated the minor gods as the saviour godhead notably Dionysus and Isis. Isis incorporated other goddess’s archetypes with it their identity. And we know Isis turned into Mary. The Isis’s cult with its initiation process is described as ecstatic and psychedelic.
The Church’s suppression and patriarchal dominance didn’t outweigh those movements, but only refined those expressions. In modern times in the guise of new-Christianity; centre-right intellects have equated this type of religious authoritarianism as the evolution of Judaic-Christian ethics, and is what holds western societies in check; from slipping into chaos. Could this just be an ethical imperative since every individual has a sense of just and unjust in them? This would later be an abstraction in the form of fair or unfair. Is it ideology posing as truth and the accompanying inevitability of belief? And its antithesis force the comes with it – this is that other thing I mentioned ‘the rock that’s attached to the one who can call spirits’ but in this case, it’s the constant ambition of self-interest. Considering the Evangelical Christianity is a canonization of suburban-Capitalist consumer culture, and has nothing to do with historical Christianity at all. It’s all about convenience and consumerism.
These movements extrapolated among the many other cult-centred groups of the ancient mystery world culminating in the Dionysian’s cult that explored public sex, singing, dancing, and inebriation. The Dionysian incorporated the mysteries of Demeter, Isis, Kybele, and Mithras. These types of music and rituals started by early cult groups in the mountains – it became a culture full of vibrancy as it moved west to Greece and Rome.
The contention that I’m trying to make here is perhaps that two cultures of different expressions may not cohere to a multi-cultural sense in a technicality viewpoint [definition]. Although the underlining constant here is music and the growth of new cultures that can be derived from it. All of the different tribes of the world have danced around the fire at one point, and its synthesis grew into something else; something new and the details and difference in that process are merely semantic. The resistance to this view is guided as some sort of cultural-inclusive-individuality. While this is important only ever relates to cultures and their nations that have a long history. Countries build on federation doesn’t have this ‘history’ and their culture is derived from an amalgamation of different cultures from different countries alongside their history. And even those countries with a long history have a modern model of civilisation and society that aligns with those federation countries, the model of capitalism. And so in many ways, culture is a memory of history.
Memory and history often lead to romantic myth. The idea of Rome prevails in the idea of New Atlantis and New Jerusalem. New Jerusalem is the romantic idea presented in a Manichean manner [light vs. dark]. The avenging superhero [gods] that may choose at will to do good or evil things. Or become fragile that can only find strength in reason by becoming a creature [possessed] and so it loses itself; detached from life. However, ethics is the opposite of romantic tendencies. In reality, New Jerusalem is really about the return of Jews in Palestine described by the Anglo-sphere [Britain, US, Australia, Canada] as a great moment in history. Fulfilling an ongoing realization for the revelation of the Bible – where Biblical demands were part of the last phase in the European colonization plan. Although these religious principles are centred in the United States since Christian-Zionism goes further back than Jewish-Zionism. Israel is essentially a military stronghold for the U.S. And whether it’s a good thing or bad thing is always debated endlessly.
Throughout the centuries the excitement of the mystery-cults was put to rest when Rome went from worshipping sky-gods and headed towards individualism; towards authoritarianism and a consolidated synthesis-god. This would then lead to the rise of Henotheism, which would later become Christianity, and the of-shoot of that would become new-Christianity, with the idea of elevating one god above all other gods. As we covered this was a guise, the one-god [solar-saviour] is not different to any other sky-gods [Jupiter]. The idea was more important as it was far-reaching.
The mystery-cults would have gone underground, disappeared or forgotten. Its magical practices and ideals would re-materialize or be co-opted in the form of secret-society-cults like Freemasonry and Templars. Freemasonry is said to originate from the middle ages from fraternities of actual stonemasons. And they would interact with other secret groups inspired by the mystery-cults like Rosicrucian, Kabbalists and Alchemists, and this interaction was the basis of a new revival of the ancient mysteries in Europe. Freemasonry gets a lot of credit by Christian-conspiracy-theorist where they act as a reveller of truth for the people, but at times does the very opposite thereby invoking a type of controlled opposition. Anti-masonic revolution would rise in France where these secret groups would find themselves in Scotland.
In reality, Freemason in the late 17th century was not a reflection of the ancient world [but tries to be in a romantic sense] because most of the ancient text hadn’t been discovered or translated yet. The early revolutionary period worked its way through secret masonic lodges. They broke away from England and created the confederation of the United States as a new governmental system. Successful revolutionaries often become reactionary, and after the revolutionary war, they were ruled by the ruling class. During that time you had settler and explorers who were part of masonic groups around the new country, which were in constant disagreement with each other usually over land titles. Not all founding Fathers were Freemasons, but most were part of other particular secret orders, and often were rivals.
Throughout cultural-civilisations, there have always been with it ‘Cults’ [secret societies]. A misconception is to think it’s an aberration, but this is not the case. They were the rock to those that can call spirits, but it would seem they’ve become the rock who can call spirits and also rule a country. While the rest of the people would go through a great forgetting, in doing so, the spark within them would be put out. A modern notion of secret societies is just the elite ruling class that has sway over managerial governance – an elite ruling class who are very religious, capitalistic and pro-Empire.
Choose the Middle Way: From here on civilisations embraced secular beliefs from a satellized cosmos [Atheism] to a form of theistic-Christianity [a paradoxical theology] that followed that same idea, but with a firm belief in God. And because both are secular in many ways; both have gone (and are going) through their versions of a micro model of the fall of Rome. The collapse of confidence in institutional Christianity paved the way for Atheism which began with the satellized idea, which is still present in the modern day. The fall of Christianity began with the notion of ushering in the kingdom of God, which was/is played out in the middle-east … a continuous undertaking that started many centuries ago. Right-centric Christians believe that what had held American-Society together which is ‘Christianity’ had started to implode. And what replaced it, was Atheism and Nihilism. Although at this stage it’s fifty-fifty [meaning for a half millennia both religion and atheism concepts were present] because it’s an assumption to conclude that Christianity or society acting out the Christian ideal is the sole factor for stability in society when this is just an ethical imperative brought about by reason not so much religion. Having said that let’s not forget that reason is only a tool to help us deal with many shades of ethics, and is not the source for truth. To treat it as such leads to relativism.
Both camps; Christian-Religion and Atheism-Scientism like to use ideology that poses as truth – and both have ambition for self-interest. And self-interest [narcissism to a lesser extent] does not hold the core of our ethical principles. Take for instance Evangelicalism it would become a modern concoction for corporations as an adversary for bolshevism in the 1920s. This denomination grew and along with it, the fear – a fear of something that hasn’t been around for almost 100 years. At the same time preach a version of their truth alongside a post-bolshevism fear – a fear with missing context is an ideological reason, and not so much for God.
While Atheism, nu-atheism, and scientism and so on, like to use reason as a tool against an argument, together with general semantics especially with orders of abstraction that is corrupted. To them, ‘reason’ is the only thing that can articulate ethics, and our imagination and memory are inferior to reason. Their problem is approaching ethics as a sub-genre of reason. However, it’s really about the assumption of intellectual form which is central to distancing ethics from real life. Considering a satellized worldview is also flexible enough to have a God in its equation [at least for theistic-Christians], and so an Atheistic-Cosmos [and its off-shoots evolution, etc.] along with the Christian ideal had both held together society. The contention to whether each side was responsible for causing more chaos, I will leave that for debate. Just consider in the last two centuries wars had broken out, and there is the ongoing mandate for heaven on earth as a mirror for a modern war in heaven. And that it was Christian Civilisation that took part in the mascara of Jews in world-war-two.
So, there is no falling without the other. It’s not that Christianity imploded and took on Nihilism as a consequence of Atheism to which it gave rise to communism; perhaps this is a misconception given communism is a religion without a theistic aspect. A better claim is to suggest a point of measure that a percentage of Christians took on Nihilism. Fundamentalism’s inherent fear of communism is an inherent dysfunction. Communism to right-centric Christians is rather like their debased definition of occultism that mirrors an occult of personality ideology rather than what is – an unethical and immoral increase of power to the government, and the occult as something hidden or secret. Although it became two modes of the same ideal; atheism and religion, it’s just that atheism like to act out a religious structure than deny it. There is also this false assumption that Atheism and the rest of its ideological subsidiaries nu-atheism, scientism, etc. are not masonic [remember it’s a religion without the theistic aspect].
The two modes are the same in that they’re religious. However, it’s always played out as a split between two dichotomies. We are lead to believe (at least where the public is concerned) that there is a split. The same kind of split that match early Greece. This spilt was found between the mythical and the rationale mindset. Which has taken form in Atheism and Theism of today; both sneak various forms of argumentative models to explain their argument. Atheism sneaks in objective-morality and scientism [not science more in line with faith], which is difficult to argue against. While Theism takes those arguments presented by Atheism and ask “well, who is responsible for all those things to be present … or come to be?” – While also sneaking in animism to argue not a supernatural power, but a supernatural being in their reasoning. While Atheism would then reply not so much as who is responsible, but more of what makes it tick. And so the debate goes on forever.
The mythical to the rationale [logical] was a gradual process in the early times and Plato basically played both sides. This would bring us forward up onto the age of reason. I believe today there is the same movement but in reverse – there is clear uptake of the mythical to the rationale. However, those types of split back then were never clear cut or absolute. And it was Francis Cornford [Religion to Philosophy] who made this aware that both dictums are needed; he called the two permanent needs of human nature.
To further elaborate these types of splits being in reverse today is to understand firstly – is that early philosophy was able to hold to myths symbolically rather than literally. Then the essential split would take form; not in the explicit but in a literal sense. By trying to understand what symbols meant in a larger metaphorical way. This is what the Neo-Platonist started to do. They, however, would lose its grip with the rise of the practical (or quantifiable) way. This approach gain favour throughout the decades, and so the idea of the imagination took a back seat. The mythical traditions having had a cognitive grasp on how we perceive the world was undermined.
However, in our modern time there is a clear reversal meaning what we held as quantifiable or practical are being exposed to be false or a simulacrum. And this is largely due to scientism, and to combat this fall – in a last ditch effort they [possibly] instigated a program called ‘Woke.’ Although the question on whether it’s a conspiracy or something that came about organically – is put to question. Scientism has come undone, which is realised in the scientism community upon their technocratic and futurist endeavours, having had nothing to show for it. All their efforts, even with all the billions of dollars given to their programs, cannot be denied.
The implosion of Christianity and the rise of communism is more about a fundamentalist fear of old gods awakening, and therefore a fear of our imagination rising. And more so in the fear that protestant-religion may go more gnostic or even Catholic. The change away from the status quo of a static religion is the truer fear. Due to religious idolatry, dogmatism, narcissism, corporatism, and being pro-military/empire – and the so-called Christian-conspiracy-theory-groups happened to act more like damage-controllers than altruistic speakers of the morally just. . This can all be stifling and cult-like, which incidentally mirrors the same kinds of processes s being made with woke.
And so the inevitable change from both sides take form by changing camps. And one can only hope they choose the middle-way than changing from one extreme to another. And having awakened from psycho-spiritual transformations, you’ve come to realize your living in a simulated- satellized-cosmos. And you come to know it’s but one domino in an effect that grew a life of its own. Furthermore, realising a split in the conscious reality is also wreaking havoc on consensus reality. Or rather, perhaps, our holographic reality is changing because of that split.
Woke; Woke and Cult Jam: French philosophers took on the idea that words, ideas, and thoughts are patterns that have traces that don’t ever really go away. And so if you use a word that’s associated with something bad and if that word is still used in the modern-day then it carries as a negative trait. The moral panic on the psychology side – is that it’s fuelled by an incomprehensible idea that words have to mean what they meant in the first place.
This is in some ways similar to the contention I raised earlier about etymologies [Restraint and Catharsis post]. How ‘words’ are used in modern society juxtaposed with its historical meaning, and not just the history, the idea of context because it must be heard in the context of others at that time [which requires memory] – this is when memory can morph into its opposite. This is why I defended the word multiculturalism because it must be heard in the context of this [present] time. Funny enough this contention was raised by centre-right intellects [who didn’t believe in the definition of multiculturalism], as a way to separate politically-correct-contention in ‘words’ for articulation. As well as differentiating oneself from politically correct concepts with woke-ism [which has other connotation].
The moral panic in the psychology side seems to be an amalgamation of corruption in the orders of abstraction I mentioned in general semantics with ‘reason’ as a tool device. Take for instance [film director] James Gunn who was condemned on Twitter for posting jokes about controversial subjects. At that time, it was posts/tweets that were made more than a decade ago. To which he had already apologised for, but it was screened grabbed by conservative-Christian groups. In which Gunn was condemned and vilified a decade after the event. This was pre-cancel-culture and it wasn’t by woke groups. This very idea leaves out personal growth in the individual meaning what people have done in past will forever be what defines a person.
The contention I’m trying to make here is that the tools for reason are not the culprit they’re just the tools. It’s the varying groups that wield it. Blaming it on the tools opens it up for confusion and generalisations towards an idea, particular ideas that are predominately safe. This confusion would be a modern misunderstanding. This pre-cancel-culture would find itself in the woke group who happens to have no religious structure but acquired religious cult ideologies as well as religious cult processes for indoctrination. That uses tools for reason as a mechanism in which there is no way to argue out off.
The result will entail scenarios such as this: white middle-class people wrestling with inner fears about race, and within their inner turmoil [white-fragility] concluded that the very act of wrestling with it means all white people are therefore also conflicted [racist]. Not only there is this narcissistic quality entailing the assumption that one white person is the spokesperson for an entire group of people, but a quality inherent to fundamentalist-Christian-(Conspiracy)-groups and that is of solipsism. Although in this variant ‘I exist and everyone else is an illusion,’ in as much as ‘when my thoughts change so does everyone else.’ In no way have they concluded that their inner turmoil lies within them only.
In general semantics, the referent must be experienced to function as quality or a ‘thing’ from here it would go towards ‘reference’ which is about acquiring states of consciousness [memory or thought files]. How does one go from referent to reference when the context of meaning for the word changes every often? The answer is your intuition. The success of falsely labelling woke-isim as a radical-left, Postmodern or cultural-Marxism exemplifies what I’m talking about. Remember cultural Marxism has never been about culture, but about class. Woke-isim is normative, not postmodern as well as being non-ideological. The confusion lies in postmodernism jargon being appropriated by woke-isim hence the false label to which it has been popularised by centre-right intellects. However, we know we can’t go from referent to label without the reference; without the relationship of function.
Another example of mislabelling and exclusion of quality is when the ‘right’ purposely mislabels the word ‘fascism’ or ‘Nazism’ as a leftist or a socialist ideology. There is only one problem: This argument is untrue. Although the Nazis did pursue a level of government intervention in the economy that would shock doctrinaire free marketeers, their “socialism” was at best a secondary element in their appeal. ‘What’s in a name’ – Shakespeare. The Nazi regime had little to do with socialism, despite it being prominently included in the name of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.
The simulacrum notion of meta-morphing of opposites to perpetuate itself in its censored form can be used as a tool, much like a Trojan-Horse. Probably as a way to distance the fear of ethics; or rather that ethics may be embraced by any particular [religious or non-religious] groups to which it would be accentuated. This way gives the illusion of division perhaps more so towards the differences. Although when it comes to the hierarchy of spirits [gods]; you will find out there are no real major ethical differences in all major religions. Then it’s about developing wrong aspects of orders of abstraction. Take for instance the Koran, which in many ways are a direct reflection of Judaic and Christian texts.
The standard or confusion in the orders of abstraction towards Islam; is that Islam is violently militant, promotes its martyrs to paradise and admires revenge. But Christianity has precisely the same tendencies within it. In both cases are expressions of ‘transcendental good intentions,’ not of their ethics. When it comes to history Christian militancy has wreaked far greater destruction than anything managed by Islam. The ongoing mission for New Jerusalem and the war in heaven is further clarified when we know Christian-Zionism predates Jewish-Zionism. This can be an indicator of European and North-American aggressive nature towards Arabs. And that over the last half-century it’s less to do with middle-eastern politics, but almost a psychotic need to forget. This comes from a guilt-ridden past of which entailed Christian civilisation’s responsibility for past atrocities like the genocide of six million Jews.
You will have a clearer understanding of what woke is because of this guilt-ridden past. This guilt would manifest itself in the west as Woke through civil-religious-movement [shared spiritual political moral vision and ideology that has a national foundational impact] with the element of German-guilt-pride. It’s grounded in Christianity and republic pride with a focus on activism, moralism and social issues. It marks a shift from theological transcendent values. Civil religion had with it schisms that match modern-day political schisms. Woke-isim and what it is to be a leftist is fundamentally in opposition meaning woke-isim has never been leftist, but is post-leftist.
When it comes to left and right politics its experience or quality is not the same as it once was in the past. Left; meant a republican mindset – and the right; meant a monarchy mindset. This would change with the rise of Marxism and became more of a socio-economic designation. The left; became more of a socialist that was more critical of capitalism that took on working-class causes. While the right; became a modern-capitalist which favoured liberal market as well as being anti-communist. It’s a modern misconception to think woke-isim comes from the left because leftism with identity-politics and woke- isim is not primarily political or economic, but about identity or hyper-individualism. It doesn’t value class issues or the struggle of capitalism, and so it aligns more with the left of neo-liberalism.
German-guilt-pride is about a reactionary idea stemming from post-war Germany where the country was divided about their fascist past. In East Germany notions of Communist Germany found themselves, anti-fascist. They saw themselves as victims to the Nazis as well as liberators for Germany from fascism. West Germany acknowledges that it was a state of Nazi-Germany, but it also acknowledged that it was also a crime. And so they admit the guilt, but at the same time adopted a sort of penance to clear away a debt for that crime. After the breakdown of the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war, Germany united from their schism. And they formed a new Germany symbolised in the holocaust memorial centre; representing the acceptance of guilt, but also knowing that it can never be paid off. Guilt inherited from previous generations is internalised. Paradoxically with this admittance, they have elevated themselves morally and can be proud by accepting such enormous guilt.
Guilt-pride becomes this paradoxical redemption and moral self-elevation through guilt admission. The same can be said with former Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd apologising to the indigenous people of Australia and Torres Strait Islander in 2008. Woke-isim is this sort of German-style guilt pride into identity-politics that took form in 1989 after the breakdown of communism and fall of the cold war. However, America is problematic as they’re deeply proud, and adhering to notions of ‘admission,’ is probably out of the question, but it can’t deny the fact their guilt is deeply rooted in colonialism and slavery. Having no guilt admission it manifested itself in woke – a combination of American individualistic liberalism and civil religion with a strong focus on identity.
Now you know what woke is all about it doesn’t make it less dogmatic than any other cult religion with certain taboos and thoughts even humour becomes suspect. The dogmatic side comes from this decisive-morality component that parallels Biblical notions like Matt 12:30 ‘He who is not me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters abroad.’ This binary good vs. bad distinction gives no credence to a middle ground. Then there is this ritualistic conformity popular among celebrities and Hollywood studios. Then there is woke washing of capitalism and imperialism serves as a moralistic profile creation of capitalist and imperialist institution [the intelligent agencies vs. billionaires]. Then there is this strong personal internalisation of woke-isim that matches the zealotry of fundamentalism.
At the same time, there are these complex issues regarding culture in regards to countries built on a federation state having no real history compared to those that have it [particularly of identity]. On the other hand, the Chinese gave us the Tao Te Ching and yet the majority of them do not live out those philosophies. Perhaps this is the effect of countries with longer history having become static. While in relative newly formed countries has this energy matching those early mystery cults of Greece. The negative effect of this federation enterprise, however, would come to effect among the disenfranchised white males having had no real identity to cling to. Amongst those generations, they have this emptiness among them, even though they are among other ethnic cultures [perhaps there are these micro-cultural-separations]. Having no real identity they started to head towards something ecstatic or metal as a sort of new rebellion. Like the rise of punk culture intermingled with the rise of (Nazi) skinheads during the late 70s and early 80s. However, beyond that dreary cultural descent, other micro-cultures started to arise and they became leaders in trends when it comes to culture.
However, anything culturally related is under threat by woke, and so one must realise that our imagination is not held by institution or cults they are only the rock to those that can call spirits. Imagination transcends the self, and Adam Smith elaborates on this truism. By realising that we initially don’t have ‘immediate experience’ of what others experience or feel. We can only try to conceive what they experience and feel. And it’s by the imagination that we can form any conception of what others feel. So, here lies the heart of society, and it’s anti-narcissistic or at least that’s what we wish it to be.
Both imaginations and ethics are neither romantic; a person with talent is not inherently romantic they just have exceptional skills. Together with the transcendent self and the intuitive act can be a driving force for creativity and we can’t forget that the subject of creation can’t be owned or assigned to cultural heritage. Woke undoubtedly struggles with shared knowledge as common sense. As it doesn’t try to own the subject but dictate who promotes the subject of creativity for an agenda. The element and quality they lack, which allows it to reach beyond itself to a sense of the other and therefore free from dictation or agenda … is imagination.
The Dionysian expression of Drum Beats is the modern expression of syncopated break-beats intermingled with loops and acapellas rhythmically accentuated with scratch-notations of turntables, mixers and beat pads. The marriage doesn’t end there as the Dionysian expression of Dance is modernised as break-dancers popping to a tune developed by a musically synchronistic madman on the turntables. The dance engulfs amazement as they play out the cymatic sound of musicality and language coming to life in dance.