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All these problems are downstream of the nihilism of our generation.

I don't think it is surprising: it makes no sense to go through extreme material hardship in war just for the sake of material well-being back home. It only makes sense to die for something which transcends your individuality. "There is a field forever called England" or something like that. In most of Western Europe, only a quarter or less of the population is willing to die for their country. The number increases as one moves closer to Russia, for obvious reasons...

No… And most of the Western world now agrees with me. None of these countries offer anything worth dying for.

I’m currently researching psychedelics as I plan to experiment with them more rigorously in the future and I came upon this interesting essay which criticises their use from a Perennial Traditionalist perspective: https://charles-upton.com/2018/02/25/on-psychedelics-and-or-entheogens-drug-induced-mysticism-revisited/ I’m not posting this because I agree with everything he says, nor do I imagine any of you will. Let me know what you think of it!

Truth is important because it is the nature of reality. If you are not living in accord with the truth, you are living in delusion and fantasy. Also, lies corrode the soul...

Porn is definitely not harmless. It fills your subconscious with garbage, especially over time. It can even attract dark and demonic forces which corrode the soul.

Whenever I listen to or read discourse about dating, relationships and sexuality, I get triggered because it evokes all of my own unsatisfied desires. So many years of loneliness and misery build up a lot of resentment. Ironically, this keeps me from having a relationship because, as soon as I get the chance, the wounded part of me relishes the opportunity to reject someone else and get revenge. Not sure why I shared this, maybe somebody here can relate to it…

My friend has access to some 2C-B and I am considering trying it. Do any of you have experience with 2C-B? Do you have any thoughts or advice on how to use the trip effectively? I know Leo had an old video where he described experiencing physical death on it. Most other people seem to report fairly superficial experiences, though, at least compared to other psychedelics. I have also heard that it can have quite a heavy body load.

He will become God and live forever!

I think more and more people are aware of this and care about it. The sense that people don’t care is likely a holdover from times when it was more taboo.

What is one to think of religious and spiritual discourse which refers to god anthropomorphically? My own understanding is that such terminology exists primarily within a theistic and devotional context, as opposed to esoteric accounts of what is beyond even God such as the Absolute, the Unconditioned and Nothingness.

From an esoteric point of view, the Anti-Christian forces which have obviously taken over the world are actually working for God. Like all the mythological depictions of a descent into the underworld, the world itself has now descended into hell. However, this descent is necessary to bring about the resurrection of higher and sublimated values. Trump - egotistical, narcissistic, greedy, corrupt, perverted - is the perfect embodiment of Anti-Christian values. As such, I ask you: who better to rule over this collapsing world of ruins and, in doing so, bring about the much-prophesied New Age?

It’s not even an experience!

On some level. I suppose any defence one sets up is for one’s own benefit, at least initially, as a way to cope with a situation which would otherwise be unbearable. The trouble is that, like @theleelajoker said, it then becomes an internalised self-narrative which one feels a need to sustain, regardless of whether it is true. In my case, at least in the past, it has proved to be a toxic combination: I reject and chase after all the people I shouldn’t. This is a recipe for bitterness and dissatisfaction. Maybe one day my mentality will catch up with my biology! In the meantime, these are the riches of the poor…

A combination of mother issues and rejection in early life. It’s interesting you ask these questions. Earlier today I was discussing my broken psychology with ChatGPT and it went down a similar line. Firstly: Secondly:

I think that one also builds an identity around the traumatised part of oneself. The ego seeks to defend itself, even - especially - if it is broken.

Interesting, thanks.

I wonder if it works like this… Is it a mountain that you gradually climb up or is it something like a sudden rupture of levels? The teaching that the True Self is never revealed and therefore anterior to all of creation implies a disjuncture between any action one might take to raise one’s consciousness and the ultimate objective of Self-Realisation. Interesting.

We are all like the dreamer, who dreams and then lives inside the dream… But who is the dreamer?

I don’t buy the genetic explanation. It must have been accumulated karma from past lives. People who are into psychedelics prefer the genetic explanation because they have come to associate Awakening with a chemical process. The True Self is chemical, not chemical, chemical and not chemical and neither chemical nor not chemical! I think there’s a difference between awakening and embodiment of that state. After all, the True Self is the True Self, is it not?

Here I am, baby.

As the Satanic reign of Trump and Israel commence World War Three, here is a poem dedicated to the secret blessings promised by nuclear Armageddon:

A relevant quotation from the essay I linked above:

This reminds me of John Lennon’s song God: It’s a shame he swapped Yoko for some “cute girls” on Epstein Island.