The Elementalist Exhortation Against Suicide (redux)

1. Albert Camus wrote that humanity is constantly challenged by the ever-present prospect of suicide.

2. To many people, it isn’t obvious why one should keep living in a world with as much suffering in it as this one.

3. The approach of most other religions is to say that committing suicide will cause you to reincarnate in the Hell Realms.

4. This is a crude and superstitious explanation, and as such is not convincing to most adults.

5. Elementalism offers a much more coherent and persuasive admonition: to commit suicide is to cause oneself to be reincarnated in a world where people commit suicide.

6. A distinction needs to be drawn between tragic suicides and understandable suicides.

7. A tragic suicide is one that increases the net amount of suffering in the world.

8. The vast majority of suicides of young people are tragic ones, on account of that young people usually have a number of family and friends who care for them and who would be upset by their death.

9. An understandable suicide is one that does not increase the net amount of suffering in the world.

10. An example is when a person is so old that their life is no longer worth living on account of the pain and humiliation of physical and mental decrepitude.

11. If a person has outlived all their friends, their brothers and sisters, and their wife or husband, they might not be causing more suffering by ending their life.

12. Elementalists believe in the Law of Assortative Reincarnation. This is the belief that the consciousness of individuals and the consciousness of worlds are matched by a process of metaphysical assortment that occurs after the death of each individual’s physical body.

13. It doesn’t ultimately matter if a suicide is tragic or understandable, because determining which realm one reincarnates in is not based on categorical variables such as suicide or natural death, believer or non-believer, but on a continuous variable, namely one’s frequency of consciousness.

14. A person reincarnates into a particular world because the frequency of that person’s consciousness matches the frequency of that world.

15. Thus, the frequencies of the beings in the next world one reincarnates into will be reflective of one’s actions here in this world.

16. If one’s actions here are violent, reckless and indifferent to human suffering, then the actions of the beings in the next world will be similar.

17. A suicide might reincarnate into the next world, and start to live in the hope and expectation that they can wring some joy out of their life, only to have a loved one of theirs kill themselves at a vulnerable moment.

18. Or they might reincarnate into the next world and be left orphaned by a parent’s suicide.

19. The extremely callous and violent nature of a tragic suicide means that their being confronted with callous violence in the next life is extremely likely.

20. It is not possible to say that simply because one performs a particular behaviour in this world that one will encounter that precise behaviour in the next world, therefore it’s not as simple as saying that suicide leads to suicide.

21. But if one lives a life on a frequency of murderous self-hatred that leads to suicide, one will manifest in the company of beings on a similar frequency, and suffering will almost inevitably follow.

22. Someone who struggles with depression or despair and overcomes it will find that their frequency of consciousness changes to reflect that.

23. Therefore, the sort of people they will attract, both in this life and the next, will be the sort of person who suffers and then overcomes it: men and women of gold.

24. If a person can suffer and yet transmute that energy into something positive, so that the initial suffering eventually leads to a net reduction of suffering, then they have successfully practised gold magic.

25. The ability to transmute suffering into its opposite is the highest of all arts, and, commensurately, the transmutation of suicidal ideation into the will to live is among the greatest of all achievements.

26. An Elementalist who properly understands Elementalist doctrine will be extremely disinclined to kill themselves.

27. The true path of liberation is to not kill oneself, and to instead take the opportunity presented by the difficulties of life in this realm to raise one’s frequency of consciousness through transmuting suffering into joy.

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The Elementalist Conception Of Death (redux)

1. Foreknowledge of one’s inevitable demise can seem to make all of our actions in this world meaningless.

2. The greatest test of merit of any spiritual tradition is that it assuages a person’s fear of death.

3. Death is naturally both terrifying and inevitable, and all the more terrifying because it is inevitable. The fact that we cannot escape it casts a shadow over every single action – and inaction – we take in this realm.

4. The inevitability of death means that nothing we achieve or acquire here can ever be permanent.

5. It means that no matter how many billions we collect, or how many children we produce, or how many awards and honours we attain, all is rendered null upon the expiration of our physical bodies. Death will separate us from all.

6. The Elementalist doesn’t take this fact as cause for despair, but rather as cause for quiet rejoicing.

7. Socrates said that the purpose of philosophy was to prepare oneself for death, and, to this end, Elementalism has specific, defined teachings about death and the nature of death.

8. Central to Elementalism is the knowledge that consciousness is the prima materia, and the physical world merely a set of sensory impressions within that consciousness, in the same way that dream worlds are.

9. The physical bodies of each of us are also merely sets of impressions within consciousness, and these perceptions will come and go like any other.

10. Consciousness is more fundamental than space and time, and therefore is not affected by whatever part of the Great Fractal it happens to be perceiving.

11. To the contrary – the Great Fractal comes alive when it is perceived by consciousness.

12. This means that our physical bodies can never really die, because consciousness will always dream them up again.

13. The Elementalist conception of death accords with the line in the Bhagavad Gita which states: “Never have you existed not.”

14. The true self is the consciousness that endures through all the changing perceptions; the false self is the physical body currently ensouled by that consciousness and the identity that goes with that body.

15. Understanding that consciousness is the prima materia, the Elementalist’s faith in reincarnation is absolute.

16. As such, the death of one’s current physical form is not to be feared.

17. It may even be something to look forward to – the death of one’s physical body in this realm might allow one to attain a higher form in another realm.

18. In any case, the Elementalist knows that they will get what they deserve, in accordance with the Law of Associative Reincarnation.

19. Elementalists know that all things existing in this realm are just shadows of eternal forms that exist elsewhere in the Great Fractal.

20. There are countless dimensions of existence both above and below the one in which we find ourselves now.

21. One’s physical death in this realm might cause one’s consciousness to ascend to a higher realm, in which case it will incarnate into a less flawed form of the same body.

22. Elementalists, therefore, have a different conception of grief.

23. Our friends and family members, when they die, are only gone from us in the most immediate and most physical sense. Their consciousness, their vibration and their frequency still exist in the Great Fractal – and always will.

24. All possible aspects of every possible life are being experienced in every moment by God. As such, all of the consciousnesses, vibrations and frequencies that we engaged with in this life will reunite with us after death, as we reunite with God.

25. In the same way that white light contains all other frequencies of light, God contains all frequencies of consciousness.

26. Even if a friend or family member should die young, their consciousness, their vibration and their frequency still exists within God – and even in forms which did not die young.

27. A person might lose their attachment to a particular physical form when that form dies, but then, being freed from that form and reunited with God, that person will also become reunited with all the other consciousnesses, vibrations and frequencies that were encountered during that person’s previous life – or lives.

28. The easiest way to conceptualise the Elementalist understanding of death is to imagine climbing an arduous mountain trail and, after several decades, coming to the top, whereupon one reunites with all the friends and family that one ever had, in every previous life.

29. Death is much like arriving at this rest space on top of this mountain. From this vantage point, it’s possible to see, stretching off into the distance, all of your previous lives, represented as other mountains and valleys.

30. Every time the trail descends and then rises again represents another life. With the right vision, it’s possible to see previous lives stretching off into infinity.

31. After an unknown length of time on this mountaintop (in reality a higher dimension serving as a rest space) another descent into a valley is made, and that will be experienced as another life, wherein the true nature of reality will again be forgotten – and then again be remembered.

32. The cycle of existence is to be one with God, and one with all the frequencies that resonate in harmony with your own, and then to separate from this state of congregated bliss and to enter into an illusionary world of suffering, only to awaken and return to God again.

33. Elementalists call this pattern the Cosmic Dance, and we all dance it, even if we’re not very good at it, and even if we’re unwilling.

34. The purpose of the Cosmic Dance is to entertain the gods.

35. The correct approach to death is to live with the highest possible frequency of consciousness: one that values life, but at the same time does not forego rectitude on account of the inevitability of physical death.

36. Such an approach will lead to reincarnation among the highest possible frequency of beings.

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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.

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The Elementalist Conception Of The Meaning Of Life (redux)

1. Elementalists believe that every person is entirely free to choose what the meaning of their life is.

2. Broadly speaking, the meaning of life that a person chooses will fall into one of four categories, each corresponding to one of the feminine elements.

3. Some people choose domination. This corresponds to fire. These people are the most masculine and have the most energy to expend.

4. People in this group are likely to become professional sportsmen, business tycoons, politicians or military/law enforcement/security.

5. If someone chooses domination as the meaning of life, they are likely to see other people as weak.

6. Some people choose exploration. This corresponds to air. These people are masculine, and like to go forward, but they are more subtle about it than the dominators.

7. People in this group are likely to become backpackers, scientists or psychonauts.

8. If someone chooses exploration as the meaning of life, they are likely to see other people as boring.

9. Some people choose pleasure. This corresponds to water. These people are feminine, because they will shy away from adversity, but they are also attracted to the possibility of pleasure.

10. People in this category are likely to become epicureans, hedonists and artists.

11. If someone chooses pleasure as the meaning of life, they are likely to see other people as masochistic.

12. Some choose survival. This corresponds to earth. These people are the most feminine, and are prone to retreating.

13. People in this category are likely to become hermits, homebodies or fitness and health enthusiasts.

14. If someone chooses survival as the meaning of life, they are likely to see other people as foolish.

15. In principle, every person could be assigned to one of these four groups based on how they choose or desire to live, even if they haven’t consciously chosen that group themselves.

16. This is because every person who chooses to go forwards – in other words, every person who chooses to live – must have a reason to do so, and the potential range of those reasons is finite.

17. However, all of these reasons can only ever provide a secondary meaning to a life.

18. The primary meaning of every life is to entertain the gods.

19. Elementalists believe in higher dimensions that are populated by beings of higher frequencies. These beings are capable of observing us without our being aware of it, much like we might observe a creature under a microscope.

20. To us, they are the gods: higher frequencies in higher realms of the Great Fractal. It is to entertain these gods that our lives have meaning.

21. If our futile struggles to dominate, or to explore, or to enjoy, or to survive the Great Fractal entertain the gods, then our lives have meaning despite being finite.

22. All of us are mortal, therefore every meaning that we could ourselves give to life is ultimately futile and pointless.

23. Most never overcome this dilemma, withdrawing from life and saying No to it. Such people appall, disgust and bore the gods.

24. Some others do overcome this dilemma, engaging with life and saying Yes to it. Such people delight and entertain the gods.

25. In the Elementalist conception, we live so that the gods might regard us as they once regarded Alexander.

26. Overcoming evil cannot possibly be the meaning of life, because evil will always be a part of the world as long as it’s possible for God to will it.

27. Neither can purifying one’s soul (understood by the Elementalist as raising the frequency of one’s consciousness) be the meaning of life. If it was, then life would be no longer possible once this had been achieved.

28. Nor can escaping the Great Fractal be the meaning of life. There’s ultimately nowhere for consciousness to escape to, other than reunion with God, and in such a case there’s no going forward without re-entering the world again.

29. Alexander understood the overwhelming importance of behaving heroically for the sake of the gods’ attention. He understood that the gods and goddesses watch over us from a higher place.

30. This knowledge has mostly been lost today, which is one reason why most people today live in such a pitiful manner, struggling for purpose and meaning.

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