The Therapeutic Value Of Psychedelics Is In Their Value As Spiritual Sacraments

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.

Research suggests that MDMA alleviates the suffering of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, psilocybin alleviates the suffering of Major Depressive Disorder as well as alcoholism, ketamine also alleviates the suffering of Major Depressive Disorder, LSD alleviates end-of-life anxiety and depression, ibogaine alleviates the suffering of withdrawal when overcoming substance abuse and that psychedelics in general alleviate psychological distress and suicidality.

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.

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The Elementalist Conception Of Justice

1. Justice is the principle that orders the social world and the virtue that orders the social world.

2. All understanding of justice in Elementalism is subordinate to the Law of Assortative Reincarnation and the Law of Attraction.

3. The Law of Assortative Reincarnation ensures that each fragment of consciousness incarnates in a part of the Great Fractal that is appropriate for its frequency.

4. As such, every deed of all one’s past lives still echoes in the nature of the world in which one incarnates.

5. Violent souls incarnate in violent worlds, gregarious souls incarnate in gregarious worlds, indifferent souls incarnate in indifferent worlds, withdrawn souls incarnate in withdrawn worlds.

6. The Law of Attraction ensures that, once incarnated, each fragment of consciousness attracts other fragments of consciousness that are appropriate for its frequency.

7. The frequency of each being attracts the equivalent good or evil energies; the vibration of each being attracts the equivalent masculine or feminine energies.

8. It doesn’t matter if the frequencies, vibrations or energies attracted by one’s consciousness cause suffering or not. On some level, whatever one’s frequency of consciousness leads to is justice.

9. Justice is met when the degree of suffering caused is equalled by the degree of suffering received. This can only happen in theory.

10. When observing unjust suffering, one can choose to act as an instrument of justice, or one can hold back and let karma deal with it. In either case, both the Law of Assortative Reincarnation and the Law of Attraction apply.

11. A person who punishes wrongdoers will incarnate in a part of the Great Fractal where beings are inclined to punish wrongdoers.

12. A person who refuses to punish wrongdoers will incarnate in a part of the Great Fractal where beings are inclined to refuse to punish wrongdoers.

13. Correctly applied justice moves a society up the Great Masculine Axis.

14. Incorrectly applied justice moves a society down the Great Masculine Axis.

15. Correctly applied justice moves an individual up the Great Masculine Axis.

16. Incorrectly applied justice moves an individual down the Great Masculine Axis.

17. The will of a society or an individual to apply justice through time is depicted by the Quadrijitu.

18. A society willing to apply justice is represented by the red of the Quadrijitu.

19. A society in the glory of the prior application of justice is the white of the Quadrijitu.

20. A society unwilling to apply justice is the blue of the Quadrijitu.

21. A society in the shame of the prior failure to apply justice is the black of the Quadrijitu.

22. Correctly applied justice is a gift to future generations.

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If Anyone Deserves Reparations, It’s Working-Class People

A lot of noise is currently devoted to the question of reparations. Most of the talk is about reparations to American blacks, with the remainder to homosexuals or mental health patients. However, as this essay will examine, there’s one group of people whose claim to deserve reparations is stronger than that of anyone else: working-class people.

The working class has effectively been enslaved for millennia – and still is. In, fact, the entire societal infrastructure upon which all wealth rests has been built on the backs of the working class, and continues to be maintained by the working class. Without the efforts of people in this class, no-one else would live any higher than barbarians.

The entire essence of being a working-class person is that you don’t own land, and therefore cannot earn a living or an income from your own property. That means that you have to labour on someone else’s property, and that means you’re forced to accept whatever terms they lay down. As there are no commons to hunt anymore, the alternative is starvation.

Our entire economic system is built on the idea that the owners of the land also own all the productivity that takes place on it. Those who do the producing have no say, because the landowners employ police and security services who will use force to destroy the workers if they try to keep their productivity. The end consequence of all this: the workers are dependent on those owners for a wage.

This wage is the only difference between the worker and a slave. In theory, the worker gets enough of a wage so that, if they save diligently, they too can become a landowner one day. A slave, by contrast, is incapable of improving his position. In practice, the modern Western worker cannot improve his position either, as his wage only covers tax, rent/mortgage, food and a few other necessities.

So even though the worker is given a wage in lieu of being left to starve, his savings are so low that there’s little practical difference between him and a slave. The three lions of profits, taxes and rents take away the vast majority of his productivity, leaving him with only just enough money to keep him alive.

Even worse than the loss of productivity has been centuries of anti-working class prejudice that has seen countless people driven to the wall.

This prejudice continues today. In Britain, some 19,000 girls are raped every year by foreign grooming gangs. But because the vast majority of those girls are working-class, their suffering is ignored by the authorities. In Rotherham, official contempt for the suffering of the working class was so great that the Police covered up grooming gang rapes of working-class girls so as to keep racial tensions down.

This transparently unjust state of affairs has existed for centuries already, in some form or other. Because slavery is more profitable than paying a fair wage, the landowners have always sought to reduce the working class to a state as close to slavery as possible. And they’ve always succeeded to some extent. The working class has never, at any point in history, got a fair deal.

Perhaps the worst deal the working class ever got was to be forced wholesale into the slaughterpits of World War I and World War II. Working-class men comprised the vast majority of the soldiery in both wars, suffering most of the trauma, both physical and mental. The intergenerational consequences of this trauma persists today in a higher-than-baseline level of most mental illnesses among working-class people.

All this historical exploitation explains why landowners are so wealthy today, and workers so poor.

This reduction to penury has only been possible because of power differentials. As mentioned above, owning land makes it possible to own an enforcer class, which can then be used to take all the productivity away from the working class. If the working class tries to get a better deal through e.g. strike action, the enforcer class will break the strike up. Effectively, then, the working class has been robbed of most of its productivity for centuries.

If anyone deserves reparations, it’s the people who have had most of their productivity taken off them under threat of starvation for hundreds of years. The same group who has performed most of the hard labour but which has the least of the wealth.

The majority of the world’s wealth has either been produced by, or made possible by, the labours of the working classes. Despite that fact, the working classes of the West continue to languish in poverty. The average Western working-class person today, not having middle-class parents to inherit from, has almost no chance of gaining enough money on his wage to buy a home and raise a family.

If reparations are to be handed out, it should not be on the basis of race, gender or sexual orientation but on the basis of need. This means that reparations ought to target working-class people.

The ideal reparations would come in the form of a universal basic income funded by a land tax. The land tax would hardly impact the working class, who can’t afford property on their wages anyway, while the univeral basic income would make it possible to both heal intergenerational trauma and to negotiate wages from a fair position.

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How To Self-Initiate As An Elementalist

1. The Holy Affirmation of Elementalism is “Never Have I Existed Not”.

2. The most important difference between an Elementalist and a Normie, a Tard or a Ham is that the Elementalist understands the First Tenet.

3. The second most important difference between an Elementalist and a Normie, a Tard or a Ham is that the Elementalist understands the Fourth Tenet.

4. Many who come to realise the wonderful and world-shattering truths of Elementalism desire to make a clean break with their previous life as a Normie. This can be achieved with a ritual self-initiation into the Elemental Mysteries.

5. Self-initiation as an Elementalist involves an extreme act of Will that severs ones connection with ignorance.

6. This severance should be so complete and so total that one should never again despair at the rising and falling of physical forms – unless that would entertain the gods!

7. Initiation into the Elemental Mysteries is a metaphor for consciousness overcoming the Prime Illusion and the Prime Delusion.

8. The initiated Elementalist understands that consciousness is primary, eternal and infinite, and that the individual Elementalist’s fragment of consciousness is one of an infinite number of parts of an interdependent system created to entertain the gods.

9. Those initiated into the Elemental Mysteries constitute the spiritual royalty of the new age of the world.

10. Self-initiation must involve a philosophical death and rebirth. One must will oneself to abandon false conceptions of self and reality.

11. The Winter Solstice is an excellent time to self-initiate, as is the moment of sunrise.

12. Spiritual sacraments such as cannabis, psilocybin, mescaline, lysergic acid diethylamide and dimethyltryptamine are excellent tools of self-initiation.

13. One might self-initiate by waiting until the Winter Solstice, taking a powerful spiritual sacrament after midnight and then, when the Sun rises and the sacrament is peaking, inhaling deeply and stating resolutely, as if before the divine: “Never Have I Existed Not.”

14. The days after the Winter Solstice represent in metaphor the spirit overcoming the darkness. The sunrise is similar on a less grand scale. This makes either an excellent time to self-initiate.

15. Another way to self-initiate is to count to 1,024 on one’s fingers, and, with every count, repeat “Never Have I Existed Not”.

16. Post-initation, one feels an awesome sense of purpose, living to entertain the gods before any other consideration. This means that no amount of suffering or death can distract one from one’s true purpose!

17. The initiated Elementalist is The Light of the New Age of the World.

18. When Normies and Tards encounter an Elementalist, they are astonished by the rectitude and sense of purpose displayed.

19. When Hams encounter an Elementalist, they despair, for they intuit their own religious doctrines to be false.

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