By Thad McKraken - July 2013
Watching the ongoing retardo spite dialogue between materialist science and religion continues to amuse me to no end as an Occultist. I mean, both camps should be giving each other fucking high fives. You both hate altered states of consciousness. You are each other’s greatest allies in stunting logical inquiry into the topic. Before any of us can remember, the church got inside science’s head and told them not to tread on their turf by studying experiential inner phenomenon like near death experiences and psychedelic drugs. Science folded like a bitch and has now completely sold itself on its own nonsensical spiritual ignorance.
In the other corner, there’s the most belittled fringe minority in the universe going, errr, why’d we reject all that shamanism stuff? I took mushrooms and stared into a transcendent cognitive eternity. I did it a bunch of times. Isn’t that the sort of thing shamanism was based on when you get right down it? Maybe those folks who didn’t give a shit about killing the planet were onto something. Not so much with the not creating the internet thing though. And that’s sort of the main issue I have with both overly scientific and excessively religious freaks. When faced with a world of increasing complexity, why on earth would you believe that somehow spirituality would be insanely simplistic. For the religious nut, some book from 2000 years ago holds all the answers to the universe and you’re judged based on what you did or didn’t do with your pussy. For science geeks, nothing to see here. Get it, we don’t have to study altered states of consciousness because they’re “not real”.
Where did this absolutely bizarro obsession with the supreme powers of binary thought come from in the first place? Want the crazy Occult opinion? Shit is purely intentional and emanating from some supremely powerful and daemonic demi-urge programming embedded in the linguistic infrastructure creating our reality from within. Certain ancient shamanic cultures think we’re being controlled by the forces of a “dark sorcerer”. I might re phrase that to a “dark conglomerate”, but hey, Christians, you should know where I’m going with this. What on earth were they getting at with the book of Genesis (passed down from shamanic cultures, just sayin’)? So, humanity was meant to live in a utopian paradise, but they fucked up, gained sacred knowledge and were therefore banished to the harsh and brutal confines of the material world.
Your basic Occult practice revolves around the idea that each human is a universe unto themselves and capable of divinity if this is a path they should so choose. It’s not an easy route, and as a human, there’s only so much you’re ever going to know. I’m never going to be able to explain the plot to Battle Galactica to my pug.
Which is the enormo problem with binary thought. It makes us fucking arrogant. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a pro scientific inquiry guy, but it doesn’t take a genius to see that there’s more going on my block every morning than I could ever keep up with, my perception as fixed into my own plotline as it is. I’ve seen the macro-consciousness, our entire time stream is just a tiny little blip on the radar. The information age should be pointing out to us that we don’t know dick, but for so many people that’s not what’s happening at all. A lot of these technologies have been created with binary language after all and so we’ve come to increasingly worship at the altar of our own supposedly supreme intelligence. The general push in education is to move more towards science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Yet, the world we’ve created with this logic is crumbling under the weight of its own limitations. Thinking like this is a powerful tool, a means of creation. When you start confusing the means of creation with the ontological nature of life itself, that’s when you blind yourself to the larger perspective. Again, there’s something that wants it this way. The spiritual ignorance of mankind is too preposterous to be unintentional.
Of all the crazy binary explanatory models of thought we’ve created to explain to ourselves how we can’t at all understand what the fuck is going on, real vs. unreal is by far the most destructive. It’s how they keep us here. But warden, what’s outside of those prison walls? Nothing. But I see a bird flying around and it looks like a mountain or something. I said NOTHING.
And that’s pretty much the way we’re all raised to think about inner experiences in western society. Let me re-mystify the universe for you some more here as an Occultist. The Occult is about studying the unseen, unknown, or hidden. So like, nearly everything right? No, really. People are thinking thoughts all around me, at all times. I can’t pick up on any of that. I only see how it reflects in their behavior, but that’s only an itty bitty portion of what’s going down. If women knew what I was thinking I’d get punched in the dick twenty times a day. So why is it that we all grow up being sold on the supreme idea that none of this stuff is “real”, and therefore irrelevant? Gee, wonder why we’re so nuts.
Funny thing about shamanic philosophy. When you start studying it, you can sort of break it down to, sooooo, rather than just pretend like your personal inner visions and dreams are meaningless, do the opposite of that (friend me on Facebook to see how weird this gets). Also, try to induce those visions rather than avoiding them. Obviously, that’s a gross over simplification but it’s not too far off the mark either. Because of the great real vs. unreal virus implanted into our psyches since birth we for some reason think this avenue of inquiry is crazy. Crazy or sane, see what I mean about the binary thinking? What about people like me that fit into both categories comfortably. Why have we been buying into this dominant materialist theory about things like dreams for so long? It’s just a theory and there’s a gajillion holes in it. Anyone who’s had a lucid or psychic dream knows this, but even when we do we say things like, that was weird. But if we listen to the Occult viewpoint, that isn’t “weird” at all. It’s exactly what we would expect to be happening. When you’ve been implanted with the dominant human narrative regarding spirituality since birth, it’s hard to escape but we’ve got to try. Materialism is turning us into colossal assholes. Colossally stupid assholes.
Make no mistake, the assholism stems largely from our insistence on the importance of dividing all experience into things that can or are experienced by more than one person, which we call real, and things that happen internally, hidden from the perception of others, which we call unreal. It doesn’t take a genius to say, ummm, why do we think that the inner world of thoughts where all ideas come from should just be completely dismissed as meaningless? One might even propose that, gasp, the two things are related. One might go even further to say that everything in the physical world originated as a thought at some point. This article you’re reading right now certainly did. I swore less in the version in my head.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m also of the mind that these more shamanic cultures lack an understanding of why this dark sorcerer would be allowed to wreak his torturous vision on the backs of his lower dimensionally bound minions. It takes a more westernized approach to grasp that. Me and the dark evil guy are tight. Dude can sure tell a story. All these brightly colored distractions are quite glorious in their resplendent mindfuckery. Consciousness has come quite a ways rather rapidly as of late. I now live a lifestyle of informational overload that didn’t even exist a mere 10 years ago. Eternity is reflected everywhere you look. There are more albums than I could listen to in a billion years, more books than I could ever read. Everything around you perceptually points you in the direction that you don’t know dick in the grand scheme of things. This is your friendly neighborhood Occultist reminding you to quit pretending like you do.
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