1. Perfect bliss is boring to the degree that it is blissful.
2. It was in order to alleviate the suffering of perfect boredom that the divine forgot some of itself, and, in doing so, dreamed up the Great Fractal.
3. The first thing that the divine dreamed up was a sine wave.
4. The second thing that the divine dreamed up was another sine wave, perpendicular to the first one.
5. The rest of the Great Fractal is also composed of sine waves, each running perpendicular to a previous one. This is true of all realms within the Great Fractal, whether physical, astral, mental or spiritual.
6. The divine dreamed up the Great Fractal faster than it could observe itself doing so. As such, the divine was left with the task of exploration.
7. What we call the physical world is one of the denser realms within the Great Fractal. Being dense, suffering is more intense here than in the subtler realms.
8. The real question is why our fragments of consciousness incarnated into this world and not one of the infinite others.
9. The only answer is that the divine willed it so, on the basis that incarnating into this world was appropriate for our frequencies of consciousness.
10. One reason to incarnate into a dense part of the Great Fractal is because the frequency of one’s consciousness is so low that the beings in higher realms and higher dimensions would suffer from one’s odious presence.
11. Another reason is because one’s true will is to burn away the impurities within one’s consciousness as rapidly as possible, and the lower the realm or dimension the more possibility there is for this.
12. Every part of the Great Fractal is filled with the consciousness of the divine at every moment.
13. Some parts of the Great Fractal experience a higher intensity of consciousness. This occurs when multiple fragments of consciousness experience the exact same vibration at the same time, which itself occurs when that part of the Great Fractal entertains the gods more than the others.
14. The Tard says to himself: the physical world was created by a force that is outside of us.
15. The Elementalist, understanding the First and Fourth Tenets, understands that the Great Fractal was dreamed up by divine consciousness.
16. The Elementalist understands that this physical world is merely a subset of the Great Fractal, and one in which perceptions are bound by certain laws.
17. This physical world is created in the moment from being observed by the fragments of consciousness that have incarnated here.
18. If the divine should tire of this world, there are infinite others. It’s simply a matter of willing to incarnate into one of them.
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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.
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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This chapter is an excerpt from Elemental Elementalism, the foundational scripture of the new religion of the Age of Aquarius.
As per the prophecy outlined in Thus Spake Zarathustra, I retired from the world at age 30, having tired of it. Also as per the prophecy, I retired to the mountains, far away from the mainline of human civilisation. I was far away from all the intercontinental travellers and the hot chicks and the bars that heaved with revellers.
For five years I wrestled with the great philosophical questions. This battle drove me into the depths of insanity, my mind pushed beyond the limits of human endurance. The low point was ten days of madhouse time. But, phoenix-like, I recovered. Eventually I came to answer every philosophical question I had ever asked, and to answer them to my absolute satisfaction.
As per the prophecy outlined in Plato’s Republic, I began my true life’s work – of liberating other fragments of consciousness from suffering – at age 35. This was primarily achieved through my work with the VJM Publishing company page, which has allowed me to reach hundreds of thousands of readers.
This work has allowed me to share the knowledge gleaned from gazing beyond. Perhaps most importantly, it has allowed me to connect with others who have also seen beyond. Soon it became clear that there was a great need for those who have seen the light at the end of the tunnel to carry this knowledge into the mainstream.
As per the prophecy outlined in Zarathustra, I now intend to return to the world, at age 40, having accumulated enough wisdom to have liberated myself from suffering. Liberating oneself is wonderful, but sitting on that knowledge, like Smaug guarding his hoard of gold, cannot satisfy any man, much less one who is getting old. It’s necessary to share it.
The objective for the next decade will be to return to the world and to liberate other fragments of consciousness from suffering. This will be achieved by sharing the Good News of Elementalism, which is that all suffering is temporary, having been dreamed up by the gods for the sake of entertainment.
There are a great many people suffering immensely for want of the wisdom I have, especially that which has been gathered under the rubric of Elementalism. Popular culture is a spiritual death trap that leads people away from the truths that would alleviate their suffering. I will return as the man with the key to the metaphysical shackles of the masses.
In the coming decade, my work will be a lot more personal than in the previous decade. Instead of writing in the abstract from my hut in the mountains, I will again be among the people. Only this time, it will be with a new set of motivations, intentions and aspirations.
The great vision quest of the 2010s is complete. I have spent many years sleeping during the day, smoking weed and howling at the Moon during the night. I have broken my mind down and rebuilt it more times than I can remember. The time for such work is past. Now begins a new era of contributing to the Great Work – an age of bearing light, rather than seeking it.
I will bring tidings of a glorious new spiritual age. There is a great wave of light passing around the world, initiating people into a spiritual order of those who have seen beyond. I intend to catch this wave and to ride it for as long as I can.
As per the prophecy outlined in Republic, by the age of 50 a man should have enough wisdom, justice, courage and temperance to play a role in the ruling class of his people. I cannot know if I will possess these virtues in another ten years. But in any case, I will work from now until then to alleviate the suffering of other fragments of consciousness.
I shall henceforth seek to entertain the gods by playing my role: that of a man who seeks to liberate his fellows from suffering. My Minor and Major Aspirations are in accordance.
