Hints of a greater reality - Part 1

Hints of a greater reality

Let’s take the claims of mystics and religion-forming revelators at their words, accept that they are being divinely inspired but that the inspiration comes not from multiple divine and seemingly competing point but from a single point catering to individual’s beliefs and customs in different times and places, the wisdom imparted sometimes amazing and true while at other times being quantifiably erroneous.  The goal of this is to encourage us humans to keep and keeping on.

Is this coming from helpers who genuinely try to help but ultimately are not perfect – their revelations do not cohere to a set morality and their predictions not coming to pass or do come to pass as described only at the wrong time?

Is this coming from a programmed intelligence that is tasked with overseeing man continue as some experiment, the helpers helping men to overcome existential ennui?

There seems to be a supernatural source that is interacting with people – their purpose: they give people a purpose and unify groups.  The inspiration may occur at the individual level and remain there – the revelation being important to that person to the extent that it becomes a guiding light if not raison d’etre.  But this person does not tell many others.  Another situation is the individual revelation that is shared.  If given to the individual, and kept at that solitary level, the purpose is to spur them on, to give them a chuck on the shoulder and an affirmation.  If given to the individual and then shared the purpose is still an affirmation only at a group level.

On the one hand you have the mystic in the cave.  On the other you have Mohammed or Joseph Smith.

And then there are the cases – call them “holy spirit” cases – where a group is contacted.  The results are the convulsionnairist Janesists of France who would engage in group glossolalia and would all see the same miraculous apparitions.  They would also balance their bodies on sword points without being driven through.

 

“Stab in the throat Monsieur? – it has no effect on me.”

 

Also in this category are the possessed dancers of the medieval ages.  From the 14^th through 17^th centuries people would at times dance uncontrollably, even to the point of death.  The famous Dancing Plague of 1518 occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace and at its peak had 400 dancers.  To this day only theories exist as to the cause.

“Dancin' in the streets”

 

 

Why do we keep on keeping on?

In our daily affairs – in our collective and individual day-to-day lives – I am struck by what motivates us all.  We all respond to challenges and what other challenge can meet the one that we all respond to, namely the will to keep living each day?  The French existentialist philosopher/author Albert Camus (1913-1960) posited that the only question is why not commit suicide?  (fyi: while he died young it was in a car wreck.)  While this makes sense to someone immersed, however cursorily, in existentialist thought, it otherwise seems an absurd thing to say.  If this is a question everyone must face then the overwhelming response is to affirm life.  Though not many delve into the worlds of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, et al. – or for that matter any level of philosophical examination of their lives – I think people do form fairly comprehensive narratives of their lives and their place and role in the world.  People keep on keepin’ on.
 

 

 

"Oh, Meursault!"

 

Beginnings

Listening to John Lash may be the primary inspiration for this work.  Sure, with our perfect hindsight history makes sense – trends, influences, demographic shifts having effects that last millennia are mapped out, correlated.  But I still find the idea of Archonic influence, which I first heard from Lash, to be intriguing.

Perhaps I’m falling prey to scare tactics or maybe there really are grave concerns – either way I think there are some (dare I say?) evil influences out there.  The quest for money is something anyone can understand whether you are trying to just survive or if you are trying to out-do your competition in the billionaires’ club.  There is also a drive for control by those that have a vested interest in keeping things going down the same track – in the directions that most benefit them.  Who are “they”, anyway?  Are they the members of the billionaire’s club?  Not necessarily – I think here in America we make personal decisions sometimes in a manner that (to me) makes us little fascists in our own right.

Is the overcompensations of an evolved psychological need solely to blame?  Can it be chalked up to a base greed?  I would say that incremental changes  may develop an inertia.  Take for instance the history of the lobbying industry presented by Robert g. Kaiser – lobbyists outnumber our congressmen now but it didn’t use to be that way.  The data show votes can be bought and the will of non-paying citizen constituents is sold out.

But before I explain the Archons as presented by Lash I must take a step and continue giving credit where credit is due and acknowledge David Icke.  A figure of no small fame/notoriety, I have appreciated much of what he has said, especially his critiques of corporate culture.  However, when he starts getting into describing how elites of a certain bloodline are really reptilians and ritual-based pedophiles my mind is forced into metaphor-mode.  Metaphorically or in a spiritual sense the actions that , say, take a nation to war which subsequently kills million while simultaneously lines the pockets of those that make the weapons – those are the base actions of people that behave like animals, whether their actions are due to viciousness, fear or whatever else.

With that concept in mind I listened to John Lash on Red Ice Radio and the influences that Icke was citing soon become more realistic.  Lash is working from Gnostic texts that describe entities called Archons.  Only able to live on a spiritual plane, they envy man-the-kind . . .

This entity which may actually lurk behind something as simple as a negative thought is terrifying.  That something like this goes out its way to contact and manipulate those in power is even more terrifying.  If these Gnostics where writing allegorically then these fears morph malignly into paranoia.

Is this something to just pause and think about, trying it for a theory one day and then moving on the next?  Say it is true, 100% correct and not metaphor.  Well, first – phew!  Bye-bye paranoia and yea! I’m not crazy.  But secondly and most importantly you are presented with a radically different way of understanding the world and your place in it.  A different understanding of a different way of life is called for.

Having come to similar conclusions via social science/dissatisfaction with the way the world is I can at least (healthily) entertain Lash’s ideas.  And when our take history/social science and combine it with the work of John Keel, Archons start to sound more and more real.

 

This is only a test

Are men in black Archonic agents?  Is every Channeler just a mouthpiece for a manipulative Archon even if what is spoken seems benign and helpful?  If we knew out of the gate they are evil then we could say all their actions are therefore evil – even seemingly pleasant , affirmative guidance.  Let’s discuss this a minute.  Some folks perhaps do not actively channel but may have heard a voice that, say, guides then on a career path that proved enlightening and rewarding.  Or a channeler may speak to as an alien who is concerned with detrimental human activities such a nuclear weaponry and environmental degradation.  How are these bad?  The one answer that I’ve heard others like Jim Marrs discuss is that some entities are simply tasked with a job keeping an experiment running with humans as the test subject.

Here that metaphysics of this argument get murky – however we can still partially hang on the Occam’s sharpened implement.  The Gnostics have done our spiritual homework for us in the sense that now we have the concept of a spiritual entity with their own interests intertwined with and put in front our ours.  From there it easy to come to various perhaps evil conclusions.  Actually the evil intent may be partially removed as some of these entities could be considered simply nothing more than elaborate recording put in place to keep humanity thinking there is mystery and purpose in the world. 

Take the case of the individual who maybe goes into a trance while a child and hears a spirit guide offer them advice.  No matter how specific or vague – “become a pilot,” say, versus “be a force for good” – the power of suggestion may put their plans successfully into action.  The subject carries forth and their behavior monitored and measured.  The anomalous suicide is duly measured and perhaps expected.  Overall though, the influence of these being provides an environmental stimulus that meets either a control condition or, conversely, adds a bit of cocaine to the lab rat’s water beaker: just to see what the results are.

 

 

The eloquent and far-out Terence Kemp McKenna

 

I admire graham Hancock and Terrence McKenna but when they see “machine-elves” while on their DMT trips the idea of a recorded message is something at least Hancock says is a possibility.

 

The experiment idea nets all kinds of theories.   Perhaps a Deistic God exists who set up creation and then left, letting things run on their own (with Archon-like stimuli?)  Or, perhaps regardless of his fudged translations, Zechariah Sitchin was right and we are genetically modified slaves created to mine gold.  Or rather yet, we are one alien student’s creation, his entry among others in some difficult to imagine science fair.