Arise, Ye Priests of The Religion of The Age of Aquarius!

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!

This chapter is an excerpt from Elemental Elementalism, the foundational scripture of the new religion of the Age of Aquarius.

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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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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.

This chapter is an excerpt from Elemental Elementalism, the foundational scripture of the new religion of the Age of Aquarius.

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The Metaphysical Microscope

One of the most common arguments the materialist makes is that nothing divine can be proven. If anything divine existed, so the materialist has it, the believer in the spiritual worlds would be able to present it for scrutiny. If the believer cannot summon the divine to stand before us on command, then it can logically be concluded that nothing divine exists.

The materialist usually demands that the believer produce a magic rabbi with a beard and sandals, this being the conception of the divine in the mind of the herd. Failing that, showing Buddha, Zeus, Krishna or Odin would do. Because no divine being can be so produced, the materialist smugly concludes that nothing divine exists.

Realising evidence of the divine is not a matter of someone bringing it forth as if it were evidence in a court trial. It’s a matter of seeing it. The evidence, in reality, is everywhere. The determining factor is the clarity of one’s vision.

If a sceptic should claim that microbes don’t exist on account of that the sceptic had never seen one, a scientist could give him a microscope. “Simply use this tool called a microscope”, the scientist could say, “and the microbial world will reveal itself to you.” A scene like this happens in high school science classes all over the world every day.

This all sounds logical to a modern person. But what if the sceptic was religious, and didn’t want to look down the microscope for fear of demon possession? Or, what if the sceptic suspected, rightly, that looking down the microscope would so vastly expand his narrow conception of reality that his smug, empty confidence would be shattered?

This might sound absurd, but this is directly analogous to the current situation with psychedelics.

It was known, from the first modern psychedelic wave of Humphrey Osmond and Aldous Huxley in the 1950s, that these sacraments revealed the divine. That’s even where the name comes from: ‘psyche’ means soul, and ‘delic’ comes from ‘deloun’, which means to reveal. In other words, psychedelics reveal the presence of the soul – and thereby the spiritual worlds – to those who could not previously see them.

Anyone who denies this point is obliged to either: take a massive dose of a psychedelic sacrament and take a look for themselves, or keep quiet, and let those who have taken a look do the talking. To refuse to take a psychedelic on any grounds – fear of mental illness or otherwise – and then deny what other people have seen, is childish absurdity.

People may choose not to look through the metaphysical microscope, but they don’t get to deny what others have seen.

The use of psychedelic sacraments is a metaphysical microscope that reveals the spiritual worlds to the observer. If a person denies the spiritual worlds, they are hereby invited to take a large dose of a psychedelic sacrament. Enough is now known about psychedelics for any intelligent person to research a safe dose and to source it from a reputable supplier. Even in the most desperate case, it’s possible to identify and consume a pile of magic mushrooms in the wild.

An unwillingness to do this is not proof that no spiritual worlds exist. It’s merely proof that someone is a coward.

It’s possible to take a heavy dose of a psychedelic and still not see any worlds beyond. This is analogous to how a blind person won’t see any microbes even with a microscope. But neither is this proof that no spiritual worlds exist.

Psychedelics, after all, are not even necessary – it’s possible to see spiritual worlds simply through refining one’s consciousness to a high enough frequency. Since most people don’t have enough time for that, most people take psychedelics. But no-one is blinder than he who will not see.

A microscope is a tool for looking deeper inside the physical world; a psychedelic is a tool for looking deeper inside the metaphysical world.

Those who have seen beyond are as convinced of the existence of spiritual worlds as they are of the existence of Planet Earth. If materialists refuse to use a metaphysical microscope to catch up to those of us who have seen beyond, we will just have to move on without them. They can gather and ponder the contradictions of their worldview while the rest of us can exult in knowing the truth.

Those who do not see are normies, but those who will not see are tards.

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