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If we are engaging in a dream-measuring contest, I had a wet dream last night! I have them every couple of nights and it gets a bit annoying sometimes. Maybe my subconscious is compensating for my hermetic lifestyle…

Schmachtenberger’s polyamory certainly gives “in search of the third attractor” a whole new meaning!

Hate to say I told you so… One look at the guy and I could have told you he’s in a polyamorous relationship with a couple of morons. He’s the quintessential evolutionary psychology game theory nerd who convinces himself he’s smart because he’s read books like Sex at Dawn… I realised why I dislike this guy so much. He’s like all the worst aspects of Leo without any redeeming features. At least Leo actually reminds me that my ultimate nature is Absolute when he isn’t ranting about how Trump is Hitler and progressive leftism is the embodied equivalent of divine Love!

Fair enough. The only thing that seems arrogant to me is the way that you conflate the aloneness of the Absolute with you as a human. It’s not just speculation. It is possible to become directly conscious of what prior civilisations were conscious of. You just aren’t interested! Not that you have to be… I only insist on this because you yourself have framed your awakenings in terms of what no other human has ever understood. How do you know if you are so dismissive of understanding what others have understood? Not to reduce things to a merely logical level, but this seems like a Motte-and-Bailey fallacy. You have been advancing a very outlandish reframing of awakening as the practice of compiling psychedelic insights into the endlessly weird capabilities of consciousness. Then, being challenged on this, you fall back onto the traditional conception of awakening.

I understand that you seek to ground everything in your own direct experience and throw off the false authority of contemporary spiritual teachers. In the end even the Buddha told his followers to be a light unto themselves! All that I am objecting to is the way that this is framed as though anything other than your own direct experience is sheer nonsense. Just because you claim to have arrived at a point in which any external teaching is no longer of any use, that doesn’t invalidate their relative value. What is more enlightening: TYT or the Corpus Hermeticum? Not are, were! We live in the ashes of human civilisation. Boasting that you are the most awakened man alive in 2022 is like being proud of being the tallest man at a midget meet-up club! The bar is set so low…

Yet, with respect to everything other than the pure possibilities of consciousness, you yourself are completely uninterested in anything other than your own beliefs, which then ironically contaminates your teachings about consciousness itself. For example, you recently claimed that “no human has ever become a spiritual trickster”. This is just laughable. Likewise, the fact that the Earth is conscious was commonly understood in all pre-modern human societies, as was the possibility of shape-shifting and adopting animal or superhuman forms of consciousness, but you are so ignorant of human history - except through dumbed down YouTube spirituality or some mediocre “Integral” books which handily reduce the grand complexity of human existence to a few colour-coded stages - that it is all misinterpreted as being some grand new awakening that nobody had ever understood before. Anyone who challenges this is quickly dismissed and if they do so too incessantly will be permanently dismissed! And since you have drawn such a harsh distinction between consciousness and everything which is merely human, this unstable mixture of advanced spiritual realisations and your own attachments to “petty human bullshit” is destined to become more and more volatile, as we have already seen. This is why I have recently called you “the most awakened bug-man”. While you have attained to advanced states of consciousness, your assumptions about human life are exactly those that one finds among the modern secular materialistic bugman: we are just apes on a rock in space and there is no greater purpose to life than “just enjoy the ride, dude!”

Berserk is wonderful. He captures the shift from the angelic to the demonic which took place in Europe around the time of the Renaissance in a very evocative way. The opening story of the Manga (before the Golden Age arc), in which a gallivanting knight comes home to find his wife in an orgy with Baphomet, has stuck with me ever since! What does it mean to you?

The essential difference is that every traditional form of spirituality demanded everything from its participants, orienting every aspect of life towards that which is beyond life. Leo’s form of spirituality is instead designed to be perfectly compatible with a degenerate Americanised lifestyle of “building your own biz”, picking up bimbos at clubs, “partying with god”, masturbating to pornography, living in Las Vegas (the “city of devils”!), the Satanic doctrine of progressive leftism and of course the narcissistic cult of “self-actualization”. It is no wonder, then, that the use of psychedelics is the only spiritual path that Leo can imagine, for the use of psychoactive drugs is probably the only way that someone living such a mediocre lifestyle can attain to any spiritual heights, however temporary these may be. Naturally, this is all justified by the alibi of a “spirally progressive” view of historical development. We, however, can watch and laugh as we witness the spiralling out of control of a narcissistic ego high on its own supply! Indeed, if anyone needed proof that the overuse of psychedelics results only in ego inflation and the dissolution of the personality into an incoherent mush of crass narcissism, self-centred nostalgia and soppy sentimentalism, it would be hard to find a better case study. In the end, and as has fortunately become very apparent recently, Leo is just the most awakened bug-man, and his followers are little more than a nest of other bug-creatures worshipping their bug-leader in true bug-style. Crush the bugs! SPLAT!

Anyway, as a true degenerate it seems that I have initiated myself into the 333 Current as Shugal, the Howler in the Desert of Seth! I will finish with an extended version of an earlier quotation and then be gone from here for good: With that, I shall take my leave from this place. Goodbye! And Good Riddance!

@Epikur Given all the money he must have, you would think he would have been able to afford a few lessons in lying! "I don't know, it's meaningful..." *quickly moves on*... "I don't remember..." *quickly moves on* After all, the Zuckerberg tribe have always been known for their deep commitment to honesty and forthrightness! Have you come across his sister Donna? She makes a living reinterpreting ancient texts to fit a feminist and progressive worldview. In response to which I can only quote my favourite passage of Aristotle: Sounds like a strong feminist to me! "For the common people too would fain be a monarch" is such a perfect description of our predicament. Tyranny of the idiots...

Well, we'll have to see. Schmachtenberger and all of his kind can take off into stratosphere, where the fundamental human realities of authority, hierarchy and power have finally been transcended. I will be here with the quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus ("what is always, what is everywhere, what is by everybody believed").

Yet they are serving the function of a priestly caste: mediating knowledge and helping people "make sense" of the world. Even in saying some pretty words about "love" and the "community" they are still playing the game of top-down aristocracy. If only that was what was driving them! A true leader could speak truth to power and power to truth... That is what I meant earlier about Nietzsche: for all his flaws, he never forgot about the basic realities of power and immanence. These people are just floating off into the clouds. It really is worth reading about the etymology of the word nuance! It literally comes from "fog", "veil", "dark and dusky"...

This is actually one thing I find subtly ironic about his kind: their very existence proves what I am trying to say. The competition today is, as it has always been, who is going to be the new priestly caste? The typical guest on Rebel Wisdom wants to be a member of the new priestly caste; the Game B guys want to be the new priestly caste; the shrinking Integral crew want to be the new priestly caste; mainstream media wants to be the new priestly caste; and so on. They all want to be but none of them are going to be! Or, rather, they all end up being the priestly caste of these bizarre virtual congregations which by their very nature can have no real impact on anything. Yes, that seems to be what he's going for: a Founding Father for the 21st Century. In other words, a founding father who will never actually found anything! Besides, it seems the 21st Century wants more of a Smothering Mother... Haha... Like I said: I am indeed a degenerate. So are you!

More of them than I would have liked to have... The entire problem today is that every idiot has to figure it out for themselves. They lack the capacity for this, as they always have, so someone else makes sense of things for them. Welcome to human society! The real issue today is that rather than having a holy priestly caste making sense of society for a given group of people, we have a bunch of Silicon Valley nerds and nepotistic elites making sense of society for unprecedented numbers of people. The whole framing of things in terms of mere “sensemaking” buys into the same delusional humanistic and egalitarian premises as progressive leftism. The essential delusion here is the idea that we can somehow escape human nature within human society itself. What I ultimately can’t stand about all these models - Spiral Dynamics, Wilber’s adaptations, Game B - is that they are just even more smug and self-satisfied versions of progressive leftism. At least your ordinary garden variety progressive normie has just been indoctrinated from birth into the “it’s a small world, Disneyworld” ideology. These people are actually actively contemplating the nature of society but yet coming to the same ridiculous conclusions.

Hey! This is Leo for Actualised dot org, and in this video I’m going to tell you about my deepest awakening yet. This awakening was so deep that it’s going to be hard to put into words, so I’ll start by telling you how it happened… I was sitting on my couch, staring at my hand, saying to myself: “Wow, that’s a beautiful hand!” Then I got up and walked to the mirror. I saw my body standing there and I said: “Wow, that’s a beautiful body!” I was so enamoured with the image of my body in the mirror that I actually started kissing the mirror. I was kissing the mirror so hard that I could feel it start to break. I was in such a heightened state of consciousness, however, that I knew that even if the mirror broke and cut me all over, this would be no different to eating ice cream at the cinema. As I kissed the image of myself in the mirror, a tear came to my eye and I said to myself: “This is what Love really means!” When I was a kid I really wanted to be a game developer. Now I know you’re probably thinking: “Little did I know that in only thirty years I’d have grown up to be one of the most awakened people alive!” That’s just the thing: I really didn’t know. I need you to understand that it has taken years of deep growth and inner work for me to get to the place that you see me at today. I didn’t just get here by accident. Once you understand that, you’ll realise that one day you can reach my level of development too. Anyway… In this awakening, I finally realised… *looks away and tear wells up in eye*… I finally realised that I haven’t had anything worthwhile to say for years. All I do nowadays is repeat old stories about how I got to where I am today and intimidate people for not having taken the same dangerous untested substances that I have… It was a level of awakening so deep that I realised I’ve become a complete idiot. It was a level of awakening so deep that I realised that the only thing I’ve “actualised” is a rather questionable drug habit. It was a level of awakening so deep that it made me really start to question what I’m even doing here. That’s when I remembered: I have a gun in my draw! Why don’t I just get it out and end it all right now? I walked over to the cabinet, brought the gun over to the mirror, gave my reflection one final kiss for old times sake and got on my knees. I put the gun against my neck and my finger around the trigger. At the exact moment that I pulled the trigger I finally realised: “I am God!” Note: this is not an endorsement of suicide. What worked for me might not work for you. Not everyone will see the same results from this practise as I have.

You end up blowing your brains out? Or you end up making a mockery of a “spirituality” forum? If the latter, I would say that that is just another version of the psychoanalytic interpretation that I have described above. It is just a way to deny that there is any reality to things and turn everything back onto the individual psyche. It is one part of the confusion of our age that I have called “collective solipsism”: the idea that we all create our own realities. Naturally, certain vague ideas within New Age ”spirituality” fit together all too nicely with this one…

I tried watching this video a couple of times today. I couldn’t stop laughing every few minutes. The guy says the most basic things in the most contrived vocabulary. His idea is literally just: we should pursue good outcomes and avoid bad ones. Thanks Einstein! He isn’t necessarily fostering fear. If he sincerely believes that the present civilisation is heading towards catastrophe then for him that is just a simple fact. How one reacts to that fact is quite another matter. To quote an author that I quoted earlier here:

Go pick up some bimbo at the club. Have a few beers whilst you’re at it! That’s not BORING at all…

A typical psychoanalytic interpretation serving only to deflect from the realities at hand… Some call this “gaslighting”; I, however, would never stoop so low as to use that word! Could it be that I am frustrated from living in a society of idiots lead by narcissistic overgrown children like Leo? “Of course not. That’s not the right attitude! You’ve got to take responsibility for your life! You are NOT a victim!” - after all, that’s the kind of killer advice that Leo “made his $” selling! Isn’t it significant that the only way to make a living in this world is through hustling and sleazery? One more proof of the degeneracy of the age; or will you tell me that this is just a projection of my own failure and inferiority too?

Sam openly confessed and made explicit what more or less everybody on the so-called “left” believes today. The truth is that we have long lived in post-democratic states, abiding by the pure law of Schmittian power politics: “Sovereign is he who decides the exception”. The true sovereign of our times - an agglomeration of mass media, so-called “intellectuals” of a mostly liberal and cosmopolitan class (the worshipper of Holy Logic and avowed “atheist” Sam Harris himself being a case in point), and of course, as is always necessary, financial support from congenial elites - decided that Trump was an exception, an "existential threat to democracy", using their sovereignty to declare a “state of emergency” in which the usual rules no longer apply. Of course, Trump also tried to declare an anti-democratic “state of emergency” in which the usual rules would no longer have applied. He failed, however, because he was never the true sovereign of the Global American Empire (GAE). In this way, post-democracy is not even a matter of the democratic electoral process being compromised. It no longer matters who is elected into office because the Prime Minister or President is no longer sovereign over the state that he is supposed to rule. Trump only had to be removed, as Sam openly confessed, because, given his unpredictably and rash egotism, he was enough of a threat to the real sovereign. The real sovereign today - that is, if Henry Miller was not quite right to describe society today as “a stone forest, the centre of which was Chaos” - is non-governmental, spearheaded by non-governmental elites having a mastery over mass manipulation and decentralised control that the governmental elites can no longer match. Perhaps the “state of emergency” brought on by the pandemic gave the new dominant class a taste of this power. The War in Ukraine and the extremely incompetent and malignant mismanagement of it by the GAE, resulting in a recession and ensuing supply deficits, is slowly creating a new "state of emergency". No doubt new "states of emergency" will emerge to justify the regime in its desperate and impotent clinging on to power. This, as even Aristotle had already noted, is the way that tyrants operate. In this way, a universal cynicism regarding the supposed modern Western values of liberalism and democracy encroaches: it is no longer possible not to know that the entire paradigm of liberal democracy is outdated and no longer adequate to deal with the problems of our time; as such, nobody with any intellectual capacity today really believes in it. The dividing line of our politics is those who openly disavow democracy and those who disavow it whilst pretending to support it; in the latter case, “democracy” becomes a mere synonym for the triumph of their own agenda. A note on liberalism. Liberalism can only ever be a transitional phase between an old and a new form of order. Liberty in our context simply referred to the liberation of the old structures of discipline as a preparation for the reintroduction of new structures of control. This is the weakness of so many arguments from the so-called “right” today: libertarianism, free speech, gun rights and so on. All of these "liberties" could only ever have been temporary phenomena emerging from the death throes of the old (in this case, European Christian) order. All that we are witnessing today in everything that I have described above is the filling of the void left by the death of this old order, if for no other reason than that “nature abhors a vacuum”, by a new order which is just as illiberal as the old one. In this way, we live not only post-democratic but also in post-liberal states.

Who’s a good girl!

These two ideas are perfectly harmonious. With time, mankind becomes increasingly separate from its origin as pure consciousness. As a result of this, the sanctity of this original state is forgotten. Therefore, wisdom is a remembrance of this sanctity and origin. As time goes on, this wisdom becomes an increasingly rare phenomenon… What has to be understood is that the pursuit of spiritual awakening is a going against the grain of decay and entropy. This is true on both a micro- and macrocosmic level. As each individual naturally loses connection with his origins, only regaining the sanctity of his primordial state through spiritual disciplines of various kinds, so the world itself loses this connection. That is why humanity has become more and more materialistic and disconnected from consciousness. Even so-called “spirituality” today is largely materialistic: physical yoga, drugs, “tantric sex” practices… Exactly. Plato overemphasises the Being (transcendent) aspect whereas modern philosophers emphasise the Becoming (imminent) aspect. The idea that oneness is a result of historical development is obviously absurd. How could you develop toward oneness? It already is what it is. Indeed, a very good question… The point of societal unfoldment is to provide a space and a time for people to awaken from the dream of space and time. The profundity and beauty of the original state of the world lures people into existence, whilst the decay and entropy which gradually set in force them to return to their original state. After all, when we are talking about history we are talking about a grand illusion.

Likewise!

Yet, only a few days ago, you were all too enthralled by the idea that: “All this demonization of the ego is so foolhardy!! The ego= your human life”…