Arriving At The Beginning

Much of what we call ‘waking up’ or ‘enlightenment’ is really just about our finally becoming comfortable with living paradox, which is to say living as paradox.

Our usual modality is to live through the screen of the mind with its beliefs, judgments and preconceptions. Awakening isn’t really a choice so much as it is a conscious recognition of that which is happening regardless. What is it that is finally real? Who is this one to whom we attribute all of these thoughts, experiences and memories?

These are answers you will not find in any book.

When you awaken to the truth of who you are, you aren’t in a state of knowing or unknowing, rather you are in a state of authenticity. This becomes self-evident, because no further question emerges. Even calling it a state does not adequately pull together the breadth of awareness that transcends all states.

It isn’t something new that you come across. It is always immediately available as the closest truth of who you are. It can’t be an object of knowledge. There isn’t a separate someone to figure it out, and there really isn’t anything to figure out.

Our various traditions have played a part in advertising awakening as some kind of permanent removal from the challenges of earthly existence, in which we are removed to some distant heaven or nirvana in a perfected state. The trouble with this view is that our freedom is very intimately linked with our authentic engagement with this moment, wherever it is that we happen to find ourselves. In one sense, our ground of being is so ordinary we do not see it and we therefore completely take it for granted.

We have also inherited a notion of someone who as awakened to their true nature as being someone who has ‘arrived’ on a spiritual level, which is really another extension of the dream state.

These people can easily become attributed with all kinds of projected virtues and assumptions. This invariably leads to much confusion and disillusionment.

It is intoxicating to the ego to imagine that people have crossed over the threshold in this way, and the allure that we too could also achieve this, on the implicit condition that we follow instructions carefully and repeat the program step by step. In other words, if we act and behave just right, we will get it. Can you think of any other field of human life this condition has been promoted?

This is a remarkably dangerous misunderstanding. Everyone has seen the effects of this in our world. We worship those we think have made it, and this attitude filters down into every facet of life until our entire worldview and life structure is dictated by the insatiable need to arrive. The big ways are easier to see, but what about the small ways in which we give away our freedom?

For example, allowing others to decide when we are happy or upset, or placing our sense of worth in the eyes of others – as though we even knew what they were seeing!

This is all a very elaborate, coherent, and above all convincing illusion, and it is one we have all bought into at some point. Some of us continue to pay the subscription to this worldview, while others among us have grown to see it as flimsy and untenable, but are not really quite sure what could replace it as a foundation.

This brings us to awakening to yourself as awareness, which is simply the withdrawal of identity from the pervasive illusions of the mind-ego, and quite literally, coming to your senses.

This withdrawal from illusion is actually easy in principle. You simply stop investing your energy in what you recognise to be illusory. The mechanism is quite simple, only it requires a lot of honesty which is usually leveraged upon the total dissatisfaction with the consensus of illusory beliefs which form the status quo.

The difficulty comes from the tendency to withdraw from illusion being quite painful, at least initially. It can very often lead to pain in the same way that recovering from a foolish investment can be painful, because often there is a great degree of investment by way of time, money and resources.

When there is only who you truly are, then what will end is the mind’s fascination with the mythologised ‘other’ which is always frustratingly just out of your reach. Your hunger for spiritual attainment will naturally retire, and you will accommodate no opinion of yourself – yours nor anyone elses, because you will know that in the final analysis, none of this touches who you truly are.

This is not a theory, but an experiential transition. Be forewarned – you will not gain anything. In fact, you will lose your fictional world, and you will know your place humbly amongst your brothers and sisters. The only part of you that desires reconnection with what is real is the only part of you that is real.

We are so hungry for the imagined reality of this success that we will often bargain away nearly anything in the transaction, including our honesty, our integrity, our happiness and well-being.

People are often quite prepared to allow themselves to be brainwashed by whoever they have delegated authority to on the condition that they will be allowed to partake in their share of glory.

The discovery of who you are is the termination of the primary identity pursuit, and the ending of the persistent denial of one’s own inherent freedom and worth. Awakening is the end of existential insanity.

Fortunately, you never need to worry about trying to figure out who you truly are. All you need to do is to stop energizing every thought and movement away from your natural state, and witness that which is right in front of you. Your arrival at the beginning is simultaneously to comprehend the nature of the end. This unspeakable depth of experience is what is hinted at in the symbol of the ouroboros, the serpent eternally swallowing his own tail.

It is one thing to believe that there is neither beginning nor ending, but another thing entirely to bring forth that truth within your experience. This is the sacred invitation to living paradox. You must eventually come to arrive at the point that you always were. How could you do otherwise? What else is there worth doing? All that it requires is the complete willingness to forfeit every idea of who and what you are – just for one moment.

Simon P Murphy is a Nelson-based esotericist and philosopher, and author of His Master’s Wretched Organ, a brilliant collection of weird fiction stories.

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Suggestions For Celebrating Matariki

Like Australia, South Africa, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Brazil, New Zealand has never resolved the fundamental conflict at the heart of our culture. This refers to the fact that we have imported a Northern Hemisphere culture, with its calendar and its seasonal holidays, into the Southern Hemisphere. This has led to some glaring contradictions.

When Christians invaded Europe and destroyed the native European religious traditions, part of their strategy was to impose their culture over the top of those existing traditions. To this end, they took the existing Northern European festival of Yule and replaced it with Christmas.

The celebration of Yule in the Nordic calendar occurred because at that time, three days after the Winter Solstice, it was possible to notice the celestial procession changing direction. Some stars that had appeared to “die” by falling below the horizon now rose again. The days started to become significantly lighter. It was if the gods had chosen to turn their favour upon the people once more.

In Elementalist terms, it means that the society started going up the right-hand side of the Quadrijitu. Yule marks the transition from the Undergoing Will to the Overcoming Will.

Naturally, such an occasion called for great joy. Everyone still alive had survived the darkest part of the winter. They could all look forward to more and more sunlight, every day (for the near future, at least). As a new year was underway, it made sense to take time to make up for old grudges and to renew friendships by gathering in merriment.

This is why Northern Europeans gifted presents at that time, celebrated the return of the light and made up with people in their community. It was one of the most joyous and anticipated events in the calendar. Luciferian scholar Debbie Cartwright believes that a festival at this time has been celebrated since the Neolithic period.

During the Age of Colonisation, settlers from Europe brought their calendar to all their colonies. This worked out fine in America and Canada, where the seasons are similar. But in the colonies of the Southern Hemisphere, the seasons are the opposite to Europe. So December 25th in South Africa, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand etc. fell in the middle of Summer.

There’s nothing necessarily wrong with celebrating the Summer Solstice with beaches, beers, BBQs, cricket and touch rugby and calling it Christmas, but it does mean that there is a big Yule-sized gap in the calendar around the Winter Solstice.

Because none of the Southern Hemisphere countries celebrate the Winter Solstice (for the same reason that none of the Northern Hemisphere countries celebrate the Summer Solstice), there is an empty space where no festivities take place. Matariki, a holiday recently introduced by the Government, fills that gap nicely.

Matariki is otherwise known as the Maori New Year, but in reality it’s the Southern Hemisphere New Year, as it heralds the beginning of a new solar cycle for all of the countries South of the Equator. As such, three days after the Winter Solstice marks the day of the Yule celebrations. In New Zealand this year, three days after the Winter Solstice is 24th June – the same day as Matariki.

The suggestion of this essay, therefore, is that Kiwis ought to treat Matariki as another Yule, except Yule similar to how it is celebrated in the Northern Hemisphere.

In the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter Solstice heralds the coming of the light, and so the people celebrate it with lights. Their homes and neighbourhoods are decorated with lights, representing the Unconquered Sun’s victory over the forces of darkness. They also give each other gifts, whether those others are family, friends, neighbours or workmates, and apologise for past misunderstandings.

In Scandinavia people drink a lot of mulled wine for Yule. This may or may not catch on in New Zealand. What would surely catch on is smoking cannabis for Matariki. Cannabis has already become an established feature of festivities for both Maoris and white Kiwis. A day or evening when we came together to give gifts, smoke weed and celebrate the return of the light would be amazing (I personally will be celebrating Matariki by taking some LSD with my community).

Above all, Kiwis should be aware that, whatever our calendar says, this is the beginning of the life cycle of the solar year. The Sun will get stronger and stronger in the Southern Hemisphere for the next six months, as living creatures do in the first half of their lives. Then, after the Summer Solstice, the Sun will get weaker and weaker for the next six months, as living creatures do in the final half of their lives.

We should therefore celebrate Matariki as we would an auspicious birth.

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An Elemental Prophecy

1. It is the will of the Principle of Evil to manifest on this Earth, and to conquer it thereby.

2. The Principle of Evil longs for a climactic final battle in which it will finally subjugate the Earth and the human race. This is known as Armageddon and Malhama Al-Kubra in Hammic thought. It is known as the Boogaloo in Elementalism.

3. All Hams are on the same team, against the human race. They are beginning to realise this and beginning to unite.

4. The next Century will see the unification of the various Hammic religions under the leadership of elite Hams.

5. The world will see many high-ranking Hams come together in public declarations of their shared faith. This is the Principle of Evil drawing its people together.

6. Various leaders will rise over the next Century, all claiming to be the one prophecised to unite the Hams. This is the Principle of Evil looking for a champion.

7. Actions such as the Vatican opening a Muslim prayer room will become more common as Hams unite.

8. As the Hams get closer to unity, they will become more aggressive. They will cause even more suffering in the service of their god.

9. For the Ham, causing suffering is an end in itself. This is how they worship the Principle of Evil.

10. As the Age of Aquarius approaches, the forces of the Principle of Evil will arrange themselves to prevent the return of the Principle of Good.

11. At the darkest moment in human history, the Principle of Evil will sense that it has the opportunity to dominate, and will make its move.

12. The Hams will unite for the specific purpose of subjugating humanity under Hammic control from Jerusalem.

13. Elementalists will play a major role in defending the human race from this threat.

14. As the Principle of Evil arranges its forces for the Boogaloo, the Hams will become arrogant.

15. As the Hams get closer to unity, counter-Hammic forces will arise. These will primarily arise in New Zealand, Australia, California, India, China, Scandinavia and Japan.

16. Elementalists in the vanguard will lead the counter-Hammic forces. They will be assisted by Buddhists, Hindus, Daoists, Confucianists, Shintoists and various other followers of Dharmic and Taoic religions.

17. The Age of Aquarius will involve the destruction of the reputation of Hams thanks to the Internet, which will propagate news of their evil.

18. As the Boogaloo approaches, Hams will realise in all manner of subtle ways that they are on the same team.

19. The willingness of the Ham to attack other Hams will be his downfall. This will be exploited by Elementalists skilled in psychology.

20. The inability of the Ham to abstain from raping children will also be his downfall.

21. Defeating the Ham will involve partialling off those within Hams who are more like Normies, and partialling off those who are more like Tards.

22. A major part of defeating the Hams will be convincing the lowest members of society to become Hams. The rapist, the murderer, the slave and the thief must all be convinced that the Hammic cults are their spiritual homes.

23. The corollary to this is convincing the best members of society to become Elementalists. This does not mean the most wealthy but the wisest, the most intelligent and the most creative.

24. New Zealand and Australia will be the Holy Lands of Elementalism. New Zealand, especially, will become recognised as a holy isle.

25. As long as Sun City is loyal to Elementalism, the Principle of Evil cannot win.

26. Every time a person shares spiritual sacraments, Elementalism is strengthened.

27. Every time an Anzac helps a person acquire cannabis or mushrooms, Elementalism is majorly strengthened.

28. An Elementalist sound will precede victory in the Boogaloo. This sound will be a genre of music.

29. Hams will continually be forced to choose between their blood and their creed. Those who choose their creed are traitors to their blood and will be destroyed.

30. Hams will fight against their own household; in Hammic households father will fight daughter etc.

31. The last Ham to die will not cry out to his god but to HIS MOTHER. This is foreseen.

32. Elementalism will win most support from those who have lost their native religions. This will mostly be white people.

33. The battle between good and evil was dreamed up to entertain the gods. Therefore, the Ham is not to be hated even though he is to be destroyed.

34. The assertion that all religions have a core of spiritual truth is known in Elementalist thought as the Wretched Cliche. Most do, but the religions of the Hams do not!

35. The Hams are fated to lose on account of their hatred of the feminine element. This hatred allows them short-term wins at the expense of long-term ones.

36. Elementalists are fated to win on account of correct and proportionate use of both masculine and feminine energies.

37. The Principle of Evil is first defeated in the spiritual realm, then the intellectual, then the emotional, then finally the physical.

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

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Why You Incarnated Here

Many an Earthling has looked around themselves and asked: “What the fuck am I doing here?” This planet is so horrific that it can seem as if it must be a place of punishment. Planet Earth is, indeed, one of the Hell Realms. The explanation for why we incarnated here, and not somewhere better, is a fundamental part of Elementalist philosophy.

The Law of Assortative Reincarnation teaches us that the frequency of the consciousness of each of us is matched after death with the frequency of the part of the Great Fractal that we reincarnate into in the next life. High-frequency souls that tend to produce bliss in their near environment incarnate into blissful parts of the Great Fractal, while low-frequency souls incarnate into awesome parts of the Great Fractal.

Spiritual adepts can sense that, because everything incarnating into this realm must die, and because most deaths are extremely painful, this is not one of the higher realms. This world is, in fact, one of the Hell Realms, in which consciousnesses come to suffer for the sake of purifying themselves.

In order to incarnate into one of the higher realms, such as the Heavenly Realms, a consciousness has to be high-frequency enough to match the beings in that Heavenly Realm. Those beings don’t want – and don’t deserve – to spend time around a selfish, abusive, retarded low-frequency consciousness. Low-frequency consciousnesses ought to quarantined along with the rest of their kind.

A high-frequency consciousness can be trusted to behave in a way that does not unjustly cause suffering to other consciousnesses. It will not act sadistically, only causing harm to prevent greater harm. That high frequency, then, is like an entry ticket to otherwise exclusive places: the higher realms.

A low-frequency consciousness, by contrast, cannot be trusted to behave correctly in one of the higher realms. As such, they incarnate into a lower one, so that the suffering inherent to that realm is sufficient to motivate them to raise their frequency. The lower the frequency of the consciousness, the less subtle the lessons have to be.

In much the same way that the body raises its temperature to fight off a fever, a soul can purify itself by entering into a high-intensity environment. The further away from God’s natural state of bliss one incarnates, the more awesome the experience, and therefore the greater the impression one’s lessons make upon one’s consciousness.

All of us incarnated into this realm because, in our previous lives, we allowed our consciousness to fall to a particularly low frequency. Because this world is a slaughterhouse in which animals kill each other all the time, we know that, in our previous lives, we must have acted with murderous intent (or perhaps suicidal intent).

The 24/7/365 abbatoir that is Planet Earth exists because we killed other beings in our previous lives.

Your author can remember one such deed. I was a duke, in some kingdom across the Great Fractal from here, and had a great many loyal underlings. One of them I sliced up with a sword, suspecting him of plotting against me. In reality, he was entirely innocent. Because of the severity and the unjustness of this slaying, I incurred an enormous karmic debt.

For this grotesque act of evil I was cast down into this lowly realm, to incarnate into a deeply traumatised family for which violence was seen as normal.

Deeds like these – of homicidal selfishness – consign souls to Hell Realms in which killing and death is a part of everyday reality. Hence, we incarnate on Earth, doomed to die, doomed to watch that which we love die, doomed to constantly feel the shadow of death across our hearts. We suffer here until our consciousnesses are purified enough to allow us entry into a higher realm.

The vibrations of the beings in the higher realms are much the same as the vibrations of the beings in this realm. But their frequencies are all higher than the frequencies of the beings in this realm. As such, in the higher realms, it is much less common to see hatred, fear and violence.

Ultimately, all of us incarnated here because this is where we deserve to be. We don’t deserve to be in the company of either higher or lower consciousnesses than our own. As such, we ended up here, in a world full of violence and death, but a world that could be much worse. May all of us summon the will to overcome, and to purify our consciousnesses so that we may rise above the Hell Realms.

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