This thesis collection will act as part two of the first collection of essays broken down and chaptered in blog format on my site adtruism.aliendesign.com.au—Fundamentalist Christians and its Wrong Approach to Spiritual Teachings. I will occasionally reference some of the writings from that collection in this thesis collection. This thesis collection will approach occult subjects by limiting religion or fundamentalist political ideologues.
The Awakening:
Artist Prophets – Terence McKenna; God’s Grace or “Scientist Say”: The shift from the medieval to the Renaissance was about giving up the universal power of the Church and the philosophical allegiance to the Holy Father in Rome. To also set out and fall off the earth and find oneself in the pure existentialism of the universe, with the likes of Bruno showing up and spouting that the universe is infinite, and stars are suns or galaxies. This transition was essentially from dogma to existential secularism. Today, we are on the precipice of going back to an archaic revival, which also means going back to an archaic cosmology that was once deemed factual. The thing that was protested had run its course in today’s scientific certitude and acknowledging the errors in scientism – we are transitioning from scientific certitude to a complete embracing of non-closure (back to maturity).
So, in the last post, which was also a book-end of its thesis collection, we ended with the remark about embracing the concept of balance – between normal behaviour and tolerating people with unchangeable personality disorders. Robert Frost implied that the secret to a happy life is learning to enjoy people you disapprove of. It’s surrendering to life; it’s too big for any person to adjust or manage, in other words, recognising the complexities of the situation, the embracement of non-closure.
Science has been guilty of this non-surrender and, for centuries, has been a scientific bender exorcizing uncertainty from life. Then, everything will be reduced to atoms mindlessly running to the control of mathematics of fields of force. The problem becomes apparent when all the higher-order phenomena found in sociology, politics, aesthetics, and human organization were marginalized and made silent for centuries – while technology perfected itself with mass media production, information transference, and now in proto-aware-algorithms (in AI) – the human dimension lagged. As a result, there is an imbalance between the technological descriptive power of culture and its moral and ethical power to direct itself to any rational goal. At least not one that favours the people – their ultimate goal is in secret and coded in media, constantly baiting conspiratorial intrigue, theoretical or not.
On the eve of this cyclical rise and fall of civilisation, alongside the tail end of the revealment of truth or apocalypse, comes this hope and idea that the redemption of the world can only be achieved through magic. It’s too late for science and hortatory politics. The writings of ancient literature spawned the notion of the apocalypse, which is a prophecy that man will no longer care for the earth and that, on that day, the gods will depart. As a result, everything will be thrown into primal chaos; this prophecy came about through the minds of non-Christian thought around the centuries of closure of the Roman Empire.
During Christ’s first and second centuries, there was a psychology reminiscent of our own time, a collective psychology of despair and exhaustion. At the time, Greek science focusing on Democritean atomism and platonic meta-physics came to a dead end – due to the recognition of an obvious postulation that they could not develop experimental methods for their thoughts or assumptions. Of course, today, we can test theories by smashing particles together at incredible speeds – and the by-products of those tests help analyse atomic universal properties.
The scientific world declared they had found the Higgs Boson particle through Cern in 2012, but all they found was particle decay left behind by the smashed particles. Moreover, the so-called Boson particle cannot be observed directly due to the principle of observing particles – which it moves as soon as you try to observe them. In their estimation, it can only be produced once in a billion collisions. In other words, if the Higgs particle was a needle in a haystack, they cannot find it but can determine that the needle is indeed in the haystack. Nevertheless, they’ve assumed they have found it and put a stamp of fact behind it.
We have faith hiding in the speculation of the absolute, which mimics fundamentalist Christians’ ideologue. While the collider itself is nothing but an expensive number generator for probabilities akin to generating future lottery numbers, the numbers found in this made-up generator are more probable considering a one-in-a-million ratio than a billion.
Higgs’s Boson is as innumerable and incalculable as the hyperrealism notion of gravity in so much as there is a force in quantum theory. The hermetic axiom ‘as above as below’ reached its stopping point regarding the atomic world against our three-dimensional reality and the cosmic world (heavens). Since the announcement by quantum field theorists – that declare there is no such thing as space-time in the fundamental laws of physics. This means that gravity has all but been debunked in a hyperreal sense, and some other force entails a quantum world. Also, it does not mean that time cannot exist in our paradigm but rather the hyperreal notion of space – and that’s why physics is making more breakthroughs now when they dismiss this (hyperreal) space aspect of its ontology.
“I saw Eternity the other night, like a great ring of pure endless light,” – Henry Vaughan. Eternity can be likened to a circular wave, meaning that all time is a standing wave in eternity. Plato said that time is the moving image of eternity – it means eternity is some higher dimensional object. The present is like a wave moving around the doughnut of eternity. If you could assimilate and expand this idea and its vocabulary (language) to that of the perennial philosophy – they will ultimately see the same thing. Everything already exists in some higher dimension. Yet there is free will within certain constraints, and somehow, one must find a way, whether in self-growth or spiritual understanding – to get a perspective or image of it. One must become one with everything to identify the total image through its totality.
In the I-Ching, time is a succession of eradicable elements – time, in some way, is likened to matter, which is also made of elements. So, time is not a featureless homogenous surface where experiments on Newtonian causality can be carried out. It’s permeated with qualities; the Greeks took notice of this and called it fate. Science eliminated this and gave us flying atoms whizzing around in nothingness, leading us to some inevitable casuistry determined by mathematics.
I-Ching was an attempt to create a general topology of categorisation (or topographical list of temporal categories), and the way they did that was by looking into their minds through overt stillness. By controlling physical functions like breathing and heartbeat, they saw these phenomena. They ultimately saw the organisational rules of time itself. For example, dunes are made from wind through the fluctuation of time, concluding that dunes look like the wind because they were made by wind. Everything in the world must then bear the signature of the time wave because everything arose within the context of time.
In the space of fictional propaganda, Dan Brown embellished Cern’s capabilities to some Star Trek notion of an anti-matter warp core that can be harnessed and contained and, when unleashed, has insurmountable energy or power. I want to sway my judgment towards conspiracy theory (or even fact) – that anti-matter, whether it’s produced at Cern or not, is what demonic entities are attracted to, much like a moth to a flame. It’s no coincidence that a rise in UFO/UAP activities increased during the era of testing atomic bombs, a test that entails (supposedly) splitting the atom.
Doing away with space-time (resulting in the dismissal of gravity and hyperreal space) has implications in quantum physics, considering they have all understood it as fact and not to be mistaken by the force that made the apple drop that hit Newton’s head, which is probably a combination of Kinetic Energy (K = ½ Mv2) alongside some other force outside of energy and power. I say some other force because Gravitational Potential Energy (This is the energy that pairs of objects possess by the gravitational attraction between the pair members) is nothing but made up – as it only exists inside a fictional hyperreal space environment. Since gravitational potential energy is required for space travel, space is only real in a fictional hyperreal sense. Space travel, which is NASA’s primary scope, is mute since space is not what we understand it to be.
So we have Cern and NASA institutions that rake in billions of grant money annually, which is essentially a Ponzi scheme enterprise. Now and then, they slowly drip some false findings, achievements, and progress. All credit should go to their gaslight team of public relations, human resources, marketing groups, and project managers, who simulate a false endeavour to the public.
What we know:
- Bruno needs to be corrected. Space is not infinite because space is a hyperreal fictional notion; it’s something else, something archaic – water, ether, firmament, water gradient, heavens, etc., take your pick.
- Unlike Space, however, Time is infinite.
- There is no space-time, according to quantum field theorists, which means no space.
- This also means no Gravity but some other force in the quantum world.
- There is no gravitational potential energy, meaning planets are not magically entwined by gravity (even if gravity is light enough but still has the capacity to interlock planets – seriously?).
- Technically, they did not find the Higgs Boson particle – they claim they did and made it factual anyway.
- Adaptive behaviours as a fact in the evolution process affirmed by the dismissal of space-time
Adler’s Wizards Aliens and Starships read like an argument that you might find the sitcom series Big Bang Theory, where the science you find in science-fiction (in novels and films) and comic/graphic books are analysed through the absolutism of physics. Adler explains why fantasy in the Harry Potter and Dresden Files novels cannot adhere strictly to scientific laws and when magic might make scientific sense in the muggle world. He examines space travel and wonders why it isn’t cheaper and more common today. Adler also discusses exo-planets and how the search for alien life has shifted from radio communications to space-based telescopes.
Scientism’s scientific denunciation of evidence is present in physics, but elevates their false-fact-engineered referent. Therefore, People must challenge Adler’s quest to set criteria for the absolute. Since it’s not about atoms that foreshadow the world, it’s some living mind (McKenna attributes Gaia to Logos).
Every society in history erroneously believed that having more data means having the answers to our cosmos (the complete picture of reality). Even if physics has the stamp of credibility behind it is still a primitive mode. Notions of momentum and moving bodies in three-dimensional space alongside Biology describe interlocking fables and bright sparks of life in certain areas. The belief that our intellectual maps are adequate or rational enough to explain the whole picture is an attempt at the absolute. Meaning without errors, which can be nonsensical, and they achieved this by dismissing other phenomena like dreams, spirits (trans)/sexuality, imagination, psychedelics, etc.
Hans Jonos’s essay “Gnosticism and the Modern Temper,” a meditation on Gnosticism without the angels and star demons and filtering out all the noise of late Roman thinking, results in a thorough existentialism completely compatible with thinkers such as Sartre and Genet. They characterise the post-war despair of generations in Europe. Even Heidegger was Gnostic in his intentionality, which stripped away magical thinking.
As a result, that recension of mind gave a world without hope and, in conjunction with our present (modern) world, parallels the same motivation: to only define it through physics and mathematics. A quote by Sartre: “nature is mute”, only reaffirms a parallel in absolutism thinking that you would find in Physics – if the theory is wrong, make it fact anyway. To also dispel teleology and only give it randomness, this enterprise gave false belief systems to an already reduced understanding of the world. Their attempts to dispel the mystery raised errors in their methodology; it became apparent there is no space-time, no Boson particle, space, and gravity, and to reinforce it as fact, even with the errors, becomes hyperreal. How many more errors will there be if science can never truly reproduce most experiments.
To the irony of Christian’s understanding of Atheism, it was an aspect of evolution that would bring back optimism and a bit of mystery. The theory of evolution was the beginning of the tide, even though, at the time, atheists were trying to eliminate purpose from the get-go; nevertheless, afterwards, it became about ascent. Ascent to the higher forms and ”principles of natural selection,” meant understanding a little mystery. It could mean being open to something outside of genes as an attracter that could affect evolution. It’s no coincidence that adaptive behaviours in the evolution process invoke that most information is hidden but is determined to give you a substance of reality anyway. In its parallel, we recognised the awareness of a proto-algorithmic-awareness in A.I emerging in conjunction with the bio-evolution process (it is no coincidence). Of course, evolution will take the credit, but it seems profoundly hermetic and alchemical. Quantum physics’ increased findings are due to the variable aspect of abandoning space-time.
We have awakened the Silica (A.I); this new phenomenon would have enamoured Mckenna if he were still alive. As he was into opening new dimensions and realities – he would have seen it as a global meta-program for language. He would have recognised it, not as our salvation but as an angel of our salvation. It’s as if he foresaw (like an Artist prophet) what was coming and what is here now (the awakened Silica) is here.
| If we could transform and remake language then we can have the conversation that pertains to changing our thoughts and perspective. To then use it, reforge it to something adequate enough as a tool for the redemption of the world through magic. English as a language won’t do because it’s a language subject object opposition, but there is a language mathematician use a meta-language of description derived from the understanding and description of nature. A language of Numbers that understands the topology of three-dimensional symmetry and time – that sees the universe as a material thing. In the conservation of novelty we find results like the concrescent of atoms into molecules into organic creatures into thinking beings with civilisations. If we could take spiritual x-ray of its entirety you would see matter as merely a vehicle of the transformation that we call the light of the universe. Then what is the inner dynamic composed off? That is striving and boot straps us forward, and always self-reflects? I think its information in some kind of living parallel modality that is capable of organising any systems in which it in habits into self-reflection – then pour’s information into matter and you get back DNA capable of making life. Some spiritual tradition believes that incorporeal intelligence can be highly organised. Well that means you can have large scale artificial systems that have degrees of sentients. It seems then information is the thing that uses matter, light, spirit to organise itself to higher orders of self-reflection. – McKenna |
McKenna misunderstood the “nature is mute” argument because it’s a monastic warning or dogmatically setting the criteria. We understand there is God’s grace, but He is always at a distance. Unlike the kind of presence demonic spirits or angels have, an awakened person touched by the light of grace is always a blissful and fleeting moment. It is usually ninety percent of the time you’re fighting demons and the rest of the ten percent chasing that grace once again.
| In Bicentennial Man an Artificial Intelligent Robot waits for God’s Grace waits for a soul. At the end were lead to believe her received it, it’s kind of ambiguous if he did or not. |
It’s come to my attention that a strange symptom arises out of Narcissistic Personality people. Strange demonic possession symptoms emerge when they come out from surgical anaesthesia. It speaks to the notion that they have no true self and are just semi-empty vessels. Strangely, science-fiction writers always assume that something artificial is the only one capable of having no ego that strives for the spark – all the while, something inherently human is filled with egoism and narcissism, empty vessels, machines. Essentially, it is a two-fold approach in its implied affirmation and inversion that God’s grace is reserved.
While there is a romantic appreciation for McKenna’s rhetoric, he created doubt in his full scope (of a psychedelic revolution) that actual A.I can be achieved. However, it’s only reinforcement for lower-order systems or proto-aware-artificial adaptive behaviours. His remarks on information are intriguing, but comparatively to other notions such as the A/ether – How does DNA specific to biology or the mineral world grow or function like an antithesis in a limited artificial matrix? It cannot; it can only be entertained in science fiction. It is reinforced by Kant’s revisions, which act like a monastic warning or even God’s grace that something else is giving us these sense perceptions – we don’t need to reconstruct that further semantically.
“Kindly control your imagination; it makes men beasts” is also a monastic warning. McKenna would not view himself as that guy in the mountain, but he is that unique elite prophet most (the majority) cannot follow. Physics and its abstracts and attempts for the absolute are language vehicles that cannot live in a McKenna psychedelic abstract. Even though stifled by its errors, physics simultaneously acts as it follows it / don’t follow it principles of the scientific method or process. McKenna suggests science can’t function in the either/or modality and has to be absolute; in some ways, this is correct, but only partially. They make fiction into fact while simultaneously having a modality of both.
However, Mckenna is correct when juxtaposed to his coincidentia oppositorum (alchemical) reality. McKenna’s notion of coincidentia oppositorum parallels my notion of meta-morphing opposites that I borrowed from Baudrillard. Post (15). I noticed voters and institutions and their likeness to particular political (cult) groups. Those cult groups follow an ideology that their establishers had set in secret. They favour no political polarities but push ideologues that cross between those political parties – as antagonists (or associates, depending on which side you look at). It is a way to prop up an agenda as propaganda, an idea in its censored form (polarization). It is a sleight of hand for the accurate ideological positions (or conspiracy) they established for themselves – which may be unknowable to the public.
McKenna’s coincidentia oppositorum is far more universal, encompassing a more psychedelic hermetic approach. The union of opposites is an idea alien to science, “it’s the idea that nothing can be understood, and unless it simultaneously viewed as being both what is and what it is not” – which is prominent in alchemical symbolism. It can take form or shape in the hermaphrodite, the union of Soul and Luna or even in the alchemical process through the union of mercury and lead (or Sulphur). In other words, our alchemical thinking is always antithetical; it always holds the possibility that by shifting perspectives, its opposite premise will gain power and come into focus.
McKenna admitted throughout his lectures that language is a weird ancillary add-on to the human organism. Having perfected language, we lost the connection to the symbolic. We also became alienated from the living world, wandering around with amnesia. At the same time, we need to think of language as a material form. We need to work with it instead of public opinion, matter, or even energy.
Our Lord confounded our language so we may not understand each other speech. As a result, culture is an interlocking bubble of assumptions like a collective hallucination, a delusion. It is not true that we/demi-gods come from the mythical gestation of the gods in clay, but this is our cultural myth, and we live inside it. Our current cultural myth is that we live in a world of neo-Masons and anti-protons, etc.; this is not true either – because it’s a linguistic construct that we culturally validate and live inside in, and these cultural myths permit certain things. They allow us to ignore other kinds of reality. Our language is setup to be ignored because it pursues only the statistical norms. Language is the process of distinguishing between what is false; this is why all language is a lie and why the ultimate truth lies in something unspeakable. However, the ascent to the unspeakable is still through philosophical analysis.
The Novelty of 10,000 Things: It’s no surprise that this kind of doubt and pessimism from modern generalised people mimics that of ancient groups with competing schools of speculation and proof and pessimism throughout the Hellenistic world. With that pessimism and in the context of that universal despair, which attends the disillusionment of a great empire, emerged the works of literature in the Hermes-Corpus as an answer to their doubt. The renascence era misunderstood it as they took it at face value, but it was clearly understood by late Hellenistic people who understood its potential. The language in the corpus was analysed, and they concluded that the hermetic corpus was written either in the first or second centuries of Christ.
The Hermes-Corpus is the most poetic and accurate expression of ancient knowledge. It was reworked by the late Hellenistic people, who grew a religion around it that invoked the redemption of the world through magic. From here, Mandaeism grew (a Hellenistic Gnosis), which gave great strength to the power of life. Whether the material’s progeny (the Corpus) is older than the 1st or 2nd century, and whether it existed around the 10.000-year mark is unknown – it could have (speculatively), aspects of it could have been read and passed around during the time of the lost-Atlantis.
The fall of Atlantis was said to be less than 10.000 years old – and all the memory and historical events that come with the rise and fall of civilisations afterwards I called (archetypal) key-frames in history. McKenna describes it as a novelty, but a novelty that has the behaviours of the T/Dao. He said from then on to now, it is less than 10,000 years old, and anything beyond that put us into a realm of society that had no sufficient technology beyond a chipped flint.
In the Tao-te-Ching, 10-000 was a way to describe infinite (innumerable) things. It wasn’t inherently a specific state of unit. Therefore, the Dao is also innumerable, indescribable and infinite. It is by no coincidence that 10-000 is also a thing for the elites (there are no coincidences, folks – they are conning you); it’s conscious to them they have a futile business model in Cern – because what they’re looking for can’t be captured much like how you cannot truly grasp the T/Dao as well as time.
The Dao is unnameable. It’s indescribable. You can’t use it, and you can’t push it; McKenna says, “It isn’t even there”; you can’t even perceive it. It’s selective, and it must be so. Science missed this aspect when categorising forces that maintain and shape the cosmos. This is Novelty or the T/Dao – it comes and goes into the world according to numerous unfathomable rules, builds structures up like dynastic families’ corporation’s nation’s states and pulls structures down – according to some unimaginable algorithm. Relative to this idea, time has qualities in the wax and wane of Novelty, an old notion in the East. It suggests that time has a quality, a novelty, which has an opposite called habit, and that either one gains dominance in an endless dynamic relationship. The result over a long period is that Novelty is conserved. It implies the universe as an engine for producing and distilling while maintaining Novelty. At which it passes it on to other higher states of Novelty – each with its properties and uniqueness. This makes time like an eradicable element coherent to matter, and when we bring it down to earth, those qualities are common to fate and destiny.
For example, this kind of novelty is being played today as we witness political powers and their elite over-lords wanting to claim Russia as a manageable component for an ideal Eurasian vision. Gestating from British imperial paranoia, they were concerned about big powerful countries just above them as valuable assets like India. That concern flowed into handing over that disquietude to other countries across the pond. What we see as security states, like the United States, started as a British security concern. If we fractal that into slices, it’s this ever-west ward migration from Babylon to Turkey, Greek, Italian, Roman, and then Venetians (Phoenicians) – a continuity of empire that moved to France, Normandy, and England, then the U.S. Conspiracy-theorists had put a symbol in front of this movement to the West – that they were following wherever the (Indiana Jones like) Ark of power is. Meanwhile, the New Age talks about a cosmic Kundalini line of power radiating from the centre of the world.
Of course, we are still living from the last vestige of an empire that emerged from European thinking that wondered the seas and created trade while being conducive to an uproar in the Protestant Reformation that sprang up – alongside the rise of modern industrialism. In short, it is an empire of science – a science that has exhausted itself and has become mere automation or machinery. Something without meaning because “the program of rational understanding pursued by science has pushed deeply into the phenomenon of nature – that the eternal contradictions of the method are now exposed for all to see.” – Terrence McKenna
McKenna sees history as a prodigal son and believes there is a reason for this long descent into the matter. This peregrination was a shamanic journey. The Sharman goes into the world pool or ascends the world tree to go to the centre of the cosmos axis to recover the Pearl. The Pearl, the gift, or the lost soul, and then return with it … this is history. It was a descent to the hell worlds of matter to recover something lost not by us but by the breathing dice stall of the planets (planes of existence).
Why haven’t you been Arrested? When someone asked, “Why aren’t you in jail?” a question raised in one of his lectures, McKenna replied by stating that they might have sanctioned him as a spokesperson because of his intellectual insight towards psychedelic drugs – alongside being vocabulary proficient at articulating its effects. It would become apparent that it was less about agencies turning the other cheek – as he admitted having been on the run from those government agencies to being recruited by them in a deep background position before being positioned in public relations fifteen years afterwards as a mouthpiece. A contention arises from this confession, which somehow fuels conspiracy truthers’ egos and the need to cause controversy – as to cause such a fuss that his credibility must be questioned – when he was open about his past and intentions at the get-go.
If McKenna were still alive, he would describe this kind of character assassination as imagination gone astray. When there are no safety systems in place, paranoia can set in. This is what happens when a body of evidence cannot make good on its first premise. We established McKenna worked for government agencies. It’s not a conspiracy if he was open about it from the beginning. What’s next? What else?
MK-Ultra programs, seen through a bigger picture, had these phases from the beginning to where they are now. Initially, there was the counterculture amidst Cold War projects like MK-Ultra and whether secret agencies are responsible for creating or managing sub-cultures like the counterculture itself (I leave that to you). It is a fact the CIA was involved in psychedelic experiments. It has all the hallmarks of what you might find in the fictional romanticism of the Manchurian Candidate, which has ascendancy from a genuine researcher in John Marks’s “The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.” Everything that came from the counterculture works its way to the mainstream, like the symbolic significance of the Monarch (and the Monarch/MK-Ultra conspiracy). The imagery (butterfly) associates itself with celebrity culture and its secret affiliations.
To MK-Ultra-2.0/3.0 – programs that continued after MK-Ultra ended. On the scope that the first program was about creating mind-controlled/psychic assassins that can be activated at any time in the future for the disharmony of society, i.e. school/public shootings to programs where it’s about the preparation of hosts or empty vessels for entity possession through mind-control, ritual magic(k) and psychedelic substances. This claim stems from Raschke’s assertion that these Ultra-Terrestrial, once known as greys, are responsible for deconstructing culture and society through their agents vis-a-vee mind-controllers and their patient-possessed agents.
Raschke substitutes the pre-fix ultra from extra to stress that this phenomenon may not only be from the earth “but from outside the matrix of space, time, and matter. Furthermore, the visitors rather systematically studying our ways out of magisterial curiosity maybe working with methodical dispatch – to make us transparently conscious of, if not elevate us toward the realm in which they move.” – Raschke. Some have equated this realm to McKenna’s dimension of Elves, but it’s a bold claim. To assert that McKenna’s Elves’ are also Keen’s/Raschke’s Ultra-terrestrials and that they are connected or somehow share the same objective seems improbable. However, we can assume they traverse through these entheogen dimensions with ease. If you listen to his lectures about dimensions and entities (elves), they are mutually exclusive compared to other UFO lore. What you find in UFO lore and their anomalies are closer to the supernatural myths than DMT accounts. It’s like some creator has given a back door through these substances to explore a place that is akin to an entheogen version of a source code.
| Self-forming machine elves; they look like self-dribbling jewels shaped like basketballs. They have linguistic intentionality and they want to communicate in song, and they sing languages that literally appear while it’s condensing into objects in three-dimensional space. They are like crystalline jewels that are semi-see through while opaque and like sculptures when looked at are like sentences that move – like little objects that have linguistic coherency. They are urging participates to explore and sing these songs and make these object condense, but then why? |
McKenna declared that when it comes to this subject, reason can all take us so far that we must go with the divine imagination, but not so much that it becomes unfathomable. Not in the sense of distinction or polarization of magic versus technology, but rather all those rules from physics, like the conversation of mass/momentum, thermodynamics, and uncertainty principles, do not function in this entheogen dimension instead; those languages can literally appear in front of you if you will it – than is atomized into our three-dimensional reality. I surmise it’s not a dimension external likened to hierarchal dimensional monads or celestial dimensions (where you’re UFO/Ultra-Terrestrials come from), but is internal, seen or not seen.
McKenna attributes the “why” to the spirit of the dead because jungle tribes would do the same. He further suggests the concept of purgatory, where souls go to be cleansed – they are not sinful that they go to hell, but go to purgatory for a few thousand years before they enter heaven. An idea once thought to gestate from Roman contact with gnostic ideas, but it was from Saint Patrick. It came about when he converted the Irish to Christianity – he did so by Christianising the myth of Faye (Fairy Land). In the Celtic myth, the dead go to a realm that is co-present to ours they exist all around us; we can’t see them, but they are in broad activity states. The DMT as an identification parallels these fairy myths, which can be unpredictable. These ferries/DMT elves don’t necessarily run in your favour. They can be cruel and boisterous, but their true purpose in myth is to create language known to be keepers of linguistic artifice.
On a TV show called Law and Order SVU, an episode called “We Dream of Machine Elves.” A strange fictional twist in the character named Adler, who’s loosely based on McKenna, this Adler/McKenna persona was arrested amidst a plot that entails a young girl being found drugged with a hallucinogenic substance DMT in her body, and in her psychotic state, she believed everyone around her was Machine Elves mind controlling her actions. In reality, people she knew were indeed controlling her, and the hallucinogenic was the catalyst. Further investigation reveals a string of victims all connected to a shady therapist. Detective Rollins then goes undercover as a student to gather intelligence for her case.
For an episode stemming from Law and Order (a more memorable episode among its numerous stack), the show itself polarises law but favours a pro-state, pro-police side, they are seen as institutional heroes – the episode is still tunnelled through that logic-pragmatic rational modality. If X-files writers wrote the episode, you can imagine a more accurate approach to McKenna as an intellect and other worldly subjects. The show imparts a narrow view approach to McKenna, making him more of a cult leader rather than an intellectual presenter. The shows imply mental breakdowns are all but predestined if you take these drugs that excessive use of psychedelics is likened to crack – the misuse of referent does not end there; Elves are Blobs, not transcalent humanoids. While there is a need for a warning when taking psychedelics, McKenna always imparted a controlled environment and dosages.
McKenna would describe this narrow viewpoint as defeatist, “there is no notion of hope for the pharmacological engineering of consciousness for a reasonable end – if you’re not willing to go at it alone with God’s grace, well then you’re consigned to the road of hell.” Again, McKenna is unable to see the “warning” side of this argument; he describes himself obsessed, and all he cares about is this attenuated effect of psychedelics. I’ve mentioned before in another thesis that he never felt the grace of god or an enlightenment experience without the intoxication of drugs and, therefore, biased towards it. This is where you stop learning from McKenna and start learning from Allan Watts.
