With the news that America intends to respond to China’s move towards militarising the Solomon Islands, it seems apparent that Northern Australia will now become a militarised zone. If China does establish a base there, America will inevitably establish one to counter it in Far North Queensland. The Anzac nation seems to be preparing itself physically for war.
The Anzac nation also needs to prepare itself metaphysically for war. This must involve reflection upon why divine forces would have called us into existence in the first place.
In the opinion of this author, the Fall of Singapore could serve as a kind of origin myth for the Anzac nation. This was the closest we ever came to destruction at the hands of a hostile outside force. But thanks to the exceptional bravery and warfighting skills of our ancestors, and assistance from some close friends, we overcame that challenge.
That the Fall of Singapore was followed by Japanese defeats, at the Battle of the Coral Sea and at the Battle of Milne Bay, can be attributed to divine favour protecting the nascent Anzac nation. The foundational myth of the Anzac nation holds that this divine favour is still with us, and will guide us safely through the 21st Century and beyond.
An element of our national myth ought to be that we are inherently more likeable than our enemies, and as such have a moral right to triumph. This is because we are originally good, honest men and women who stood up to corrupt power structures and were exiled for it. This shared history is the basis of our national moral imperative of a “fair go”.
If there is to be war in or around Northern Australia, we will need to make sure to win the propaganda war at the same time. Winning this soft war will heavily influence the extent to which we are to gather support for the hard war. So we need to establish in the minds of the world that we are more likable than other nationalities.
For the most part, this will not be too difficult, because many people have had experience with Anzac travellers, and most of those experiences have been positive. For every drunken bogan we send overseas we send several cultured and educated people. So those of us who cannot contribute to the hard war can still contribute to the soft war.
The foremost work in this soft war ought to be spiritual. The most heavily-armed and most well-liked force can still lose if they don’t have spiritual wealth. Manifesting this wealth into the material world is the true work of the Anzac nation in the 21st Century.
The Anzac nation should hold, as part of our foundation myth, that we are destined the lead the rest of Planet Earth into a spiritual Golden Age. We are uniquely suited for this role owing to the fact that psilocybin mushrooms grow plentifully here, including the world’s most potent version, the psilocybe subaeruginosa.
That the world’s most powerful subspecies of arguably the world’s most powerful spiritual sacrament is endemic to the Anzac islands can only mean one thing: that divinity itself has chosen us for spiritual leadership in this new age of the world.
Australia and New Zealand already have some of the world’s most psychedelic-friendly populations. Apart from the West Coast of North America, there are few places with the widespread experience of using psychedelic sacraments that Aussies and Kiwis have. Psychedelic sacrament use is an established element of our festival culture, and any Anzac who has ever truly wanted a psychedelic experience has been able to have one.
Fittingly, Australia is the location of the world’s first psilocybin mushroom trial. Subconciously, it may be that many Anzacs understand the role of magic mushrooms in the future spiritual health of this nation. Let it be said that our role is to bring a new understanding of the perennial spiritual philosophy to the entire world.
Supporting this sentiment is the fact that Aussies are the 18th and Kiwis the 15th heaviest users (out of 164) of that other common spiritual sacrament of the Indo-European people: cannabis. We Anzacs love our spiritual sacraments, which is why we are able to produce genius-tier animated film like Choomer Island 2, one of the greatest explications of spiritual truth produced this century.
Let us let it be said that God spared the Anzac nation during World War II because God wished for us to play a role in promulgating God’s Will in the next Great Age of the Earth. In return for this favour, the Anzac nation is tasked with spreading true knowledge about spirituality and how certain natural sacramental substances can be used to reconnect with the divine.
A foundation myth that explained how we Anzacs have divine favour in all of the past, present and future is something that needs to be added to the national consciousness.
1. A New Age is dawning upon the peoples of the world. With it, old ways of doing things fall by the wayside and are forgotten, while new ways of doing things rise and become a part of everyday life.
2. One of the novelties that will become a part of everyday life in the Age of Aquarius is the religion of Elementalism.
3. The leaders of the Elementalist religion are the priesthood of the Elemental Mysteries.
4. The priesthood of the Elemental Mysteries consists of seven degrees of initiation.
5. The first degree is called the Book Degree. This involves studying this book (Elemental Elementalism) and successfully passing an oral examination on its contents. This examination can only be conducted by existing Elementalist priests.
6. The purpose of the Book Degree is to establish that the candidate has enough basic intellect to understand the truths about Elementalism.
7. One who has successfully achieved the Book Degree is known as a Mystai, or Initiate (of the priesthood of the Elemental Mysteries).
8. The second degree is called the Joint Degree. This involves partaking in a smoked cannabis session with existing Elementalist priests.
9. The purpose of the Joint Degree is to establish that the candidate has enough spiritual rectitude to handle a minor dose of a spiritual sacrament.
10. One who has successfully achieved the Joint Degree is known as a Scythian (of the priesthood of the Elemental Mysteries).
11. The third degree is called the Brownie Degree. This involves partaking in an edible cannabis session with existing Elementalist priests.
12. The purpose of the Brownie Degree is to establish that the candidate has enough spiritual rectitude to handle an extended, if minor, dose of a spiritual sacrament.
13. One who has successfully achieved the Brownie Degree is known as a Sadhu (of the priesthood of the Elemental Mysteries).
14. The fourth degree is called the Molly Degree. This involves partaking in an MDMA session with existing Elementalist priests.
15. The purpose of the Molly Degree is to establish that the candidate does not possess self-hatred within their own heart. Those who hate themselves must not be allowed to progress past the Brownie Degree.
16. One who has successfully achieved the Molly Degree is known as a Leary (of the priesthood of the Elemental Mysteries).
17. The fifth degree is called the Minor Psychedelic Degree. This involves partaking in a psilocybin session, a mescaline session, and an LSD session (in any order) with existing Elementalist priests.
18. The purpose of the Minor Psychedelic Degree is to establish that the candidate has the spiritual rectitude to handle an extended moderate dose of a spiritual sacrament.
19. One who has successfully achieved the Minor Psychedelic Degree is known as a Huxley (of the priesthood of the Elemental Mysteries).
20. The sixth degree is called the Major Psychedelic Degree. This involves partaking in a salvia divinorum session and a DMT session (in any order) with existing Elementalist priests.
21. The purpose of the Major Psychedelic Degree is to establish that the candidate has the spiritual rectitude to handle a major dose of a spiritual sacrament. This requires that they can see beyond the illusion of materiality.
22. One who has successfully achieved the Major Psychedelic Degree is known as a McKenna (of the priesthood of the Elemental Mysteries).
23. The seventh degree is called the Pater Degree. This involves being elected to the position by a plurality of the existing McKennas.
24. The purpose of the Pater Degree is to establish a spiritual leader from among the priests of Elementalism.
25. One who has been elected into the Pater Degree is known as The Pater (of the priesthood of the Elemental Mysteries).
26. Hams are absolutely forbidden, under any circumstances, from holding a degree in the Elementalist priesthood.
27. Arise, ye priests of the religion of the Age of Aquarius! The next two thousand years belong to you!
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This chapter is an excerpt from Elemental Elementalism, the foundational scripture of the new religion of the Age of Aquarius.
The pharmaceutical machine is turning its attention to psychedelics. Having finally milked dry the antipsychotic and antidepressant market, Big Pharma has sniffed out new profit potential in using psychedelics to alleviate mental illnesses. This new paradigm brings the potential for great benefits if we get it right, but also great risks if we get it wrong.
All of this research, however, is currently just data points, with no unifying theory to explain it.
Researchers understand that psychedelics can alleviate the suffering associated with several conditions, but they don’t understand why, or how to maximise the benefits of these mysterious substances. The danger is that they will never come to understand, because their science is based on erroneous assumptions about the nature of reality, and these erroneous assumptions prevent them from seeing reality accurately.
The vast majority of researchers in the field of psychology are materialists who believe that the brain generates consciousness, and therefore that all of the contents of consciousness are simply brain states. This is, in fact, the great delusion of psychology as it is currently practiced. The delusion is so prevalent that it’s rare to ever hear a psychologist challenge it. Anyone who does is usually shunned.
This materialist paradigm is assumed without any hesitation or doubt. One consequence is that all psychedelic phenomena are explained in materialist terms. Some researchers define a psychedelic as a high dose of a hallucinogen. Others group psychedelics based on which receptor sites they operate on. Inevitably, the psychedelic experience is explained (but only ever conjecturally) by a change in brain state.
The end result of the assumption that all suffering is caused by chemical imbalances: psychiatry has been reduced to dishing out pharmaceuticals. This is why modern psychiatry is next to useless (although it is true that a great many acutely psychotic people can benefit from being administered a sedative for a while). In this context, psychedelic sacraments have shown great promise, as a medicine that need only be administered once, and with a minimum of physical side-effects.
But in order for them to be properly understood, and therein properly utilised, psychological science will first have to outgrow materialism.
The fact is that psychedelics don’t alleviate suffering by altering brain chemistry or brain structure (at least not primarily). They primarily alleviate suffering by destroying spiritual illusions and delusions. The word ‘psychedelic’ means ‘soul-revealing’, and it’s precisely this quality that enables psychedelics to have their therapeutic effect. They reveal – in Aldous Huxley’s words – the fundamental all-rightness of the Universe.
In Western society, a great deal of suffering has resulted from the adoption of certain false metaphysical beliefs. The three most prominent false spiritual beliefs are: this physical world is all there is; the brain generates consciousness; there’s nothing divine about either this physical world or consciousness. All three of these beliefs are harmful, but the second one is particularly so.
If a person truly believes that the brain generates consciousness, then it inevitably follows that consciousness ends with the death of the brain. Because the death of the brain is inevitable, from there it follows that all experiences and memories of experiences are meaningless, because these are dependent on the brain and will disappear with brain death. Because nothing continues beyond the death of the physical body, there’s no overall purpose or goal to life here. It’s all just one bizarre fluke.
What remains to be commonly accepted is that this attitude leads to colossal amounts of misery, hopelessness and despair – and it’s not even correct.
If a patient comes to a psychiatrist in a state of existential despair induced by the apparent meaninglessness of life, the psychiatrist can do little other than commiserate on a human level (and perhaps dish out some pharmaceuticals). They cannot assure the patient that consciousness survives the death of the physical body and therefore that life actually is meaningful, because the vast majority of the time psychiatrists are materialist atheists. Christianity can’t fill the gap because no-one really believes it.
The uselessness of psychiatry, as it is practiced today, is why so many people take drugs.
Many addictions are fuelled by despair at the apparent meaninglessness of life. To get forced into existence as a mortal creature, doomed to suffer old age and death for no apparent reason, seems like a kind of torture. Many find this torture so excruciating that they decide it’s worth numbing the pain with alcohol or heroin. Others fill the gap with sex, power, social status or any of the other ape instincts that can substitute for a meaningful life.
Pharmaceuticals don’t help here. They can numb and stupify, and they can prevent the extreme agitation that often leads to fatal consequences, but they don’t alleviate any spiritual suffering. They don’t free people from fear of death. They don’t help people find any meaning in life.
Psychedelics liberate people from this spiritual suffering. They blast away the delusion that consciousness is trapped in the brain and doomed to die with the body. They reveal an entirely new world: one of meaning, purpose and fundamental all-rightness. This explains why there is a correlation between feeling mystic experiences on a trip and the therapeutical efficacy of that trip.
In other words, the more a trip helps a person to see beyond, the more suffering that trip will alleviate in that person. This is because so much psychiatric suffering is ultimately caused, not by material causes, but by spiritual illusions and delusions. The therapeutic effects of psychedelics lie primarily in their ability to dispel these illusions and delusions, and not until this is understood can the benefits of psychedelics be fully realised.
