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10 Years Of VJM Publishing On Amazon – And The Plan For The Next 10 Years

It was ten years ago today that VJM Publishing launched our first book on Amazon. Titled Stop Smoking Cigarettes with the Token Economy Method, it is a short Kindle book describing how to use a clinical psychology technique known as the token economy method to overcome cravings for tobacco cigarettes. It hasn’t sold many copies, but it has two 5-star reviews, showing that it greatly helped at least two people.

Since then, we have published 15 other books on Amazon, all of which are available in paperback form as well as Kindle (see sidebar to right). In general, these books have received good reviews, especially the most recent one, Clown World Chronicles, which has a 4.5-star rating across GoodReads and Amazon.

All in all, the last ten years have been pretty good for VJM Publishing. We have produced a decent number of high-quality books, but have been hampered by a lack of the funds necessary to promote our work in today’s pay-for-play media landscape. The way forward from here will be about finding new ways to bring our work to a wider audience.

The plan for the next ten years is to keep producing quality books and to keep building our company reputation. We are already shadowbanned from both FaceBook and Google, banned outright from most Reddit subs and the mainstream media will never feature us, so we have two major strategies to stay relevant over the next decade.

The first strategy is to prioritise alt tech.

Getting shadowbanned from our erstwhile main sources of traffic has been difficult. Luckily, there are alternatives. The main alternative has been podcasting: VJM has already made multiple appearances on the Jackson Fowler podcast, the Chad Chaddington podcast, and the Bobbing Along podcast. Not only that, but we have also started our own VJM Publishing podcast!

Apart from the podcasts, we’ve been able to establish a decent presence on Gab, and have just expanded into Telegram. The Gab presence has been particularly fruitful, as our posts there regularly get more reactions, comments and shares than on FaceBook, despite that we only have one-eighth of the subscribers on Gab. Alt tech today is as reluctant to ban wrongthinkers as FaceBook and Google were ten years ago, so we will use them more in the future.

The second strategy is to expand in meatspace. This involves two sub-strategies.

The first sub-strategy is to buy land that can be used as a physical base for operations – a literal asylum in the mountains. This involves increasing VJM Publishing’s income over the next ten years to the point where we can afford the land and, once the land is purchased, to establish a temple and monastery dedicated to Elementalism.

Elementalism is the name given to the religion we launched with the publication of our book Elemental Elementalism. This was founded as a Dharmic religion for the Age of Aquarius, one which promulgated the perennial spiritual truths that have been mostly forgotten after the twin onslaughts of the Abrahamic death cults and nihilistic materialistic atheism.

Elementalism needs a physical space that can serve as a holy ground for followers of this religion, the religion of the new age of the world. It is to achieve that end that VJM Publishing intends to raise $2,000,000 over the next 10 years. The goal is to buy a secluded campground somewhere that can serve as a temple and monastery.

With a temple and monastery established, VJM Publishing will be in a position to take in spiritually-minded people who can’t find a place in Clown World. These people will be able to stay at this holy ground and help work towards providing spiritual truth and solace to the benighted masses of the world.

The second sub-strategy is to sell copies of Elemental Elementalism in the street.

This will involve a kind of spiritual evangelism, not like the Abrahamic crusaders and jihadists, but like Socrates’s effort to enlighten his fellow Athenians. Here we will strike up discussions with passing citizens, and debate them about philosophy, in an effort to shine a light upon the ignorance of the modern age.

With copies of Elemental Elementalism in hand, VJM Publishing will take to the streets to spread the truth about the nature of reality and the Good News of Elementalism to as wide an audience as possible. The Good News of Elementalism is the doctrine that Clown World so desperately needs. Although we expect to encounter massive opposition, as Socrates did, we know that the truth will win in the end, as it always does.

The next ten years will see the religion of Elementalism take root and expand all over the world. We will be pushing it as hard as possible from our offices here in New Zealand, working towards the goal of acquiring enough money to buy land for our temple and monastery. Herein we intend to follow in the footsteps of Pythagoras, who established a philosophical monastery ancient Greece.

This second sub-strategy supports the first. It will be through demonstrating the power and truth of Elementalism through street evangelism that we are most likely to encounter a generous donor with the wealth necessary to help us buy land. Promoting Elemental Elementalism is the most effective way to light a fire in the soul of such a person.

In summary, the next ten years of VJM Publishing operations will be similar to the first in the sense that we will focus on producing quality informational material and promoting this to the masses. But they will be different in the sense that we will explore alternative methods of promotion, as well as developing real estate in the physical world instead of just online.

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The Elementalist Conception Of Time (redux)

1. Most people assume, as if it were self-evident, that space and time exist and that we move around in them.

2. This assumption holds that space is three dimensional (the x, y and z axes), and that time adds another dimension, so that spacetime can be said to be the four-dimensional space in which we all live.

3. We are born at one point in spacetime and, over the course of our lives, move through it as time progresses.

4. This materialist conception of time creates a number of logical quandaries, such as: when did time begin? How did it start? If it started 13.7 billion years ago, with the Big Bang, what happened before then? Did time exist before the creation of the physical Universe?

5. Is time an inherent property of the Universe or does it exist as the result of the will of some divine creator? If an inherent property of the Universe, what makes it progress at the speed it does, and not a greater or a lesser speed? Why progress at all? And – most frightening of all – if it begins and progresses then will it end?

6. All of these questions create great confusion in the minds of materialists and non-Elementalists.

7. The Elementalist, who understands that consciousness is the prima materia and that it explores the Great Fractal to entertain the gods in perpetuity, has no such confusion.

8. To the Elementalist, time is an illusion. It simply doesn’t exist.

9. Time is an illusion brought about by the movement of consciousness through the Great Fractal.

10. Because the sets of perceptual impressions experienced by consciousness appear to change in a rule-based manner, it seems that time exists and flows at a uniform rate. The reality is different.

11. The illusion of a moving picture on film is created by displaying a number of still frames in quick succession. If these frames are displayed rapidly enough, the image on the screen will appear like it is moving. But they aren’t – they just appear to, as if in a flipbook.

12. Our fragments of consciousness navigate the Great Fractal in a comparable manner.

13. Our perceptions cycle through a cosmically large number of static universes in extremely short order. Entire universes blink in and out of perception at such a speed that it feels like we’re moving fluidly through one single Universe.

14. This movement through time is, however, no more fluid than that of a horse running in a motion video. It’s also an illusion.

15. The Great Fractal, in its unspeakably majestic, all-encompassing nature, is static.

16. Because the fragment of consciousness that each of us possesses can only be aware of a tiny section of the Great Fractal, and because the tiny section that we are aware of keeps changing, it seems like time exists.

17. In reality, there is only one ever-present and unchanging now, and it exists within consciousness.

18. In this eternal now, perceptions change, and that’s all that time is.

19. The contents of consciousness are ever-changing, but consciousness itself is not, serving as an unwobbling pivot around which the entire drama of material existence unfolds.

20. The common perception of time as something real follows naturally from the common assumption of materialism – and this assumption is neither accurate nor rational.

21. Dilemmas like the Grandfather Paradox are easily solved by the Elementalist. A world in which your grandfather lives and gives rise to one of your parents exists in the Great Fractal, and will always exist there, and will always be experienced by at least one fragment of consciousness, forever.

22. Somewhere in the Great Fractal are worlds in which your grandfather is killed before reproducing, but this doesn’t negate the fact that there are still an infinitude of worlds in which he was not killed before reproducing.

23. Therefore, you could kill your grandfather a million times and it wouldn’t change a thing.

24. His vibration would still exist in the Great Fractal, so consciousness would still be perceiving him at all times, and would still perceive pathways through the Great Fractal in which he existed and gave rise to progeny.

25. Likewise, dilemmas about how time started and where it will end are easily resolved.

26. To the Elementalist, there is only one eternal now, and in that now we navigate the Great Fractal.

27. Knowing that time is an illusion, questions about how it started or where it will end are meaningless.

28. Consciousness exists outside of time and is more fundamental than time.

29. Therefore, time is a phenomenon limited to the contents of consciousness.

30. All dilemmas of time have Elemental solutions.

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

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Thoughts Of A Luciferian Occultist On The Occasion Of His 40th Birthday

It is time to return to the world.

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.

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The South-Eastern Territorial Imperative

The South-Eastern Territorial Imperative is the name given to the strategy of protecting the high civilisation of the world from the coming catastrophe.

It’s apparent to all that the old order of the world is collapsing. After 20 years of disastrous Middle Eastern military adventurism and 40 years of equally disastrous neoliberalism, only a very few Westerners still have faith in their political rulers. The widespread despair felt today has caused many to drop out of society completely, a phenomenon akin to the behavioural sink of John Calhoun’s Mouse Utopia experiments.

Times like these often involve a massive loss of knowledge and culture. The great risk is of another Dark Age, when the forces of ignorance seize control, and the forces of science and wisdom are marginalised and silenced. Signs of this can already be seen in the New Authoritarianism that seeks to cancel or deplatform anyone who thinks wrongly, where wrongthink is anything that does not serve the interests of globohomo.

The proposal of the South-East Territorial Imperative is that all the K-selected peoples of the world pull back to the territories currently occupied by Australia and New Zealand, i.e. the Anzac Empire, in the Southeastern corner of the map. In practice, ‘K-selected’ refers to high-IQ people who have relatively few children and who look after them properly. This includes, but is not necessarily limited to, Europeans and Far East Asians.

The South-East Territorial Imperative has a precedent in the settlement of America. The population of the United States in 1860 was around 30 million, or roughly the same as that of Australia and New Zealand combined in 2021. By 1890 this had expanded to 60 million, and by 1930 it had reached 120 million. These rates of growth were not surprising given the opportunities available in America compared to the moribund economies and cultures of Europe.

If the now-present peoples of the South-East would spend this decade winning the propaganda battle, we could spend the rest of the century fighting for the South-East Territorial Imperative. If we did so, then we could have as many K-selected people as Japan by the end of the century. With over 20 times as much land as Japan, our Anzac Empire could even potentially become a world force on the order of Russia by 2100.

There are two major advantages with calling the world’s K-selected peoples to gather in the Southeastern corner of the world.

The first is geographic. The Southeastern corner of the world is protected from the world’s r-selected hordes by vast distances. Whereas Europe and America have Africa and Latin America (respectively) on their doorsteps, the Anzac Empire shares no border with Asia or with anyone else. Europe and America appear to be getting slowly overrun by their rapidly-breeding Southern neighbours, but the Anzac Empire would have no border that could be crossed on foot or by dinghy.

Moreover, the geography encompassed by an Anzac Empire would be sufficient for future growth into a world superpower. Australia and New Zealand combined would already have the world’s 11th largest economy, the third largest amount of agricultural land, and the world’s single largest Exclusive Economic Zone. The only thing we’re missing, and which America, China, India, Japan and Russia possess, is 100 million or more K-selected individuals.

The second is pragmatic. The South-Eastern Territorial Imperative is inherently eugenic, and as such seeks to maximise the ratio of K-selected to r-selected people. There are very few r-selected people already in this Southeastern corner of the world. As such, it’s the closest that we can get to a blank canvas upon which to paint our high civilisation.

Our current rulers aren’t just going to step aside, though. They will have to be removed, and prevented from regaining power, by a concerted and determined effort of the Anzac nation.

A revolution that introduced an Anzac Empire to the world stage would inevitably take inspiration from the American Revolution. As such, it would be necessary for a hard-core of individuals, free from slave morality, to put forward a new and comprehensive system of human rights. The best candidate for any such system would be modelled on the Sevenfold Conception of Human Rights, which posits a spectrum of rights encompassing everything from the grossest aspect of life to the most subtle.

Now is the time to prepare for such a move. America was populated mostly by those who felt that Europe was lost; the Anzac Empire will be populated by those who feel that both America and Europe are lost. Any citizen of either civilisation, once they realise that the future of both places are grim, could be encouraged to pull back to the South-East. If we could attract enough high-quality people looking for a fair deal, we could become what America was 120 years ago.

The difference is that, with enough wit and will, we can prevent the mistakes the Americans made. The worst of their mistakes, and the most important for us to avoid, was the Hart-Celler Act, which opened American borders to the world’s r-selected. In the Anzac Empire of the future, it will be a crime punishable by 20 years imprisonment to agitate for the mass importation of r-selected cheap labour.

The ultimate goal of this nascent empire would be to terraform the Australian interior to the extent that a great inland sea occupied what is now empty desert. This would alter the climate of the desert such that it was habitable for modern Western civilisation. With this achieved, the population of an Anzac Empire could reach 500 million or more. And this would be 500 million of the world’s most K-selected people: the most intelligent, the most rectitudinous, the most industrious and long-sighted.

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