Portable Shrines

And now another spirited rant from Mr. John Gillanders, here’s his latest installment of “Extra Dimensional”…

If you were to think of our species as united cosmically as one being, which is something that most of our religions and prominent neuronauts have been telling us since the beginning of what we perceive as time – plotlines begin to emerge that don’t necessarily involve self destruction. In not listening to these viewpoints, we’ve separated ourselves from our own eternal nature and the essence of time. We’re kind of like an idiot savant that can program the shit out of a computer but couldn’t get a date if his life depended on it. Another way of putting it is that we’re becoming increasingly and dangerously unbalanced as an individual; a work-a-holic who’s career success has blinded him to the fact that his personal life is in shambles. This unbalance has produced some hilarious and mind blowingly horrific enchantments, but we need to diversify our science now more than ever. Pleasure rather than violence. Cooperation rather than competition. Self love rather than self hatred. Biology rather than synthetics. DMT rather than prozac.

“The dominator culture has led the human species into a blind alley”

The above is a classic quote from the immortal Terence Mckenna, who now thanks to the wonders of the internet, can be beamed into your consciousness whenever’s convenient to help destabilize your reality. You should try it at work. The main reason I bring this up is because recently I’ve had a few fairly clear communications congeal their way into my realm via the hypnagogic sleep state, boldly questioning the way I perceive magick. The drift I got was that while I’ve been experimenting with stretching my imagination in a context that our culture has considered magick or shamanic – conceptualizing it in this way, in this day and age is beyond retarded. Okay, so actually the drift I got was that me thinking about it in this way was exceptionally hilarious to them (and in them I mean, my Holy Guardian Angel, collective Oversoul or whatever you want to call it).

Which is a good point, but I’ll admit it hurt a bit simultaneously. Walking the spiritual path is like waging a war on your own bullshit, which is a difficult war, and why most people avoid it like the plague. It’s fun to think about these things as being mystical or sorcerous, but we only create boundaries with these esoteric avenues of thought because we haven’t yet investigated them thoroughly as a culture. It’s my contention that this area of inquiry has been intentionally repressed, but I’m not going to get into that here because it tends to get complicated. The late Harvard professor John E. Mack (also now immortal via free internet lectures) – really focused on hammering home the point that in his estimation, the most important conclusion to be taken away from his years of research with supposed “alien abductees” is that we need to come up with new models and means to study and conceive of reality – a novel kind of scientific method that incorporates subjective states of consciousness as legitimate rather than imaginary.

As I’ve said many times before, with current information technology, we’re now at a point where we have an insane amount of data regarding those who achieve transpersonal states of consciousness. The primary question raised by this information is basically: if those who attain these states consistently come back with similar stories and themes, over and over and over again, doesn’t this represent a type of objective reality beyond what we’re trained to believe? How do we study this multiverse of consciousness in a way that’s beneficial to the whole of the planet and therefore us as a species?

It’s almost a moot point because this isn’t what we’re putting our resources into, but it’s not all bad.  Millitary spending’s going through the roof. Oh wait, that is pretty bad. It’s nearly doubled since 9/11 (cue the conspiracy theorists); which is especially heinous in the midst of the current class war. This shit is really happening. This is what we’re channeling our collective energies into as a species. A couple weeks back, Aubrey forwarded me a link to this documentary about weird and in my mind somewhat creepy technological advances in fields like robotics and neuroscience called Technocalypse, which I’d recommend to anyone. There’s an essence of beauty in the way we can now seemingly cull anything out of the realm of fantasy into reality, but man, why are we doing some of this odd crap?

In a book I read by one of the military’s pay-rolled psychic’s (it was either Lyn Buchanan or Joseph McMoneagle, I can’t honestly remember), the concept that the majority of our science actually comes from science fiction was discussed at length – the idea that ultimately the science fiction that young researchers grow up reading is what drives the avenues of creation they aspire to – power of suggestion plain and simple. Now, what I find unsettling about this, is that in a lot of the sci fi that’s succeeded in western culture, our creation of robots turns out being spectacularly disastrous to put it mildly. If I were to go out on a limb and theorize as to why, I’d say that our odd compulsion to create synthetic life in the images of beings from our world, represents as far away as we can get from what many refer to as: “source” or “god”. We’re attempting to create life void of spirit, which is just kind of a sketchy concept anyway you look at it. The true purpose to most of this technology will most certainly be to kill brown people and phase the human work force into obsolescence. My friend Ryk recently turned me on to the fact that militarized robotic dogs are now in the works. Militarized robot dogs – no shit! It’s not all doom and gloom though. Video games continue to be awesome, albeit largely more violent than I’d prefer. It’s easy to forget that the military did help create the internet. These advances always have repercussions that benefit humanity if almost by accident. In a way, I think the information technology we’ve only just begun to develop, gives us new ways to shape our interior world that could potentially have wide reaching transformative effects on our society if we were to manipulate them properly. Shortly after I started working a job where I stared at a computer all day, I began to find myself awake in the middle of the night, again in a hynagogic state, with consistent visitations from cybernetic light entities who seemed to be psychically rebuilding my life essence. Seriously strange, like updates being installed on a computer driving my consciousness to move faster and faster towards infinity. This continued for quite some time, and still happens on occasion. I had a dream once where I fell asleep at my desk and a hand reached out of my computer screen and inserted a disc deep into my forehead – which lead to pretty much the same sensation – reality accelerating into a detached informational oblivion.

The concept of a transhuman as laid out in the tehnocalypse feature is completely different than what I would conceive. These dorks are talking about wanting to download their consciousness onto a hard drive as a means to achieve immortality (which is really misguided when our souls are already eternal). I’d envision telepathic sex gods who could play the shit out of the drums and create new, exotic recreational drugs with a mere thought.

In Richard Metzger’s recent two part interview with Genesis P. Orridge (which you can take in here and here) the concept of transhumans being psychick pan sexual beings is thrown out there, which is oddly in tune with what you often read about say, grey aliens. In Genesis’ opinion, anything we can do to promote and experiment with the concept of species unity is of paramount importance. Things like genetic manipulation and eugenics are concepts he supports whole heartedly. Not a popular avenue of thought I know, but just for a minute think about how we liberally tinker with the genetic lines of other species who we deem as beneath us. I personally love watching dog shows, because they’re essentially a genetic trade conference. It gives me kind of an intergalactic feeling inside. It’s pretty arrogant to think that if there was an older, more highly evolved species than us in the universe (or even say, many), it or they wouldn’t be conducting similar experiments on our populace. Just food for thought. He also talks about how he and his late wife, Lady Jane, used to keep each other continually spaced on ketamine (who they refer to as “grandmother” if I’m remembering correctly) for days at a time – even waking up before one another and going all in with some sleep dosing. You should really listen to that if you have time.

Maybe I’ve just been geeking out on Caprica a bit much as of late, but all these things make me wonder if the prime quandary presented to us in creating weirdo synthetic killbots, is truly the very nature of our existence itself. The unfortunate thing about where science has gone is that we’re starting to get a lot of results, which is making us oh so very arrogant about the legitimacy of the philosophy getting these results – hence, we are even more prone to ignore basic limitations like the fact that we don’t even know what we are or why we’re here exactly. We’re starting to understand that our brains are bio computers programmable by chemical stimulation and exterior suggestion, but we refuse to ask the larger questions. Here’s a thought: we have souls, that’s what you science geeks always seem to be missing. We are ultimately, a means to channel psionic energy from the astral plane into a particularly awe inspiring and interwoven network of plotlines, as a means to expand reality. The potentiality is limitless.

If you were to think of our species as united cosmically as one being, which is something that most of our religions and prominent neuronauts have been telling us since the beginning of what we perceive as time – plotlines begin to emerge that don’t necessarily involve self destruction. In not listening to these viewpoints, we’ve separated ourselves from our own eternal nature and the essence of time. We’re kind of like an idiot savant that can program the shit out of a computer but couldn’t get a date if his life depended on it. Another way of putting it is that we’re becoming increasingly and dangerously unbalanced as an individual; a work-a-holic who’s career success has blinded him to the fact that his personal life is in shambles. This unbalance has produced some hilarious and mind blowingly horrific enchantments, but we need to diversify our science now more than ever. Pleasure rather than violence. Cooperation rather than competition. Self love rather than self hatred. Biology rather than synthetics. DMT rather than prozac. In thinking about the concept of transhumanism and contemplating my own version of it, in conjunction with questioning my own perception of magick as commanded by internal forces, I decided I’d start a new field of psychology for my self and anyone else who might actually be prone to listen. While I’ll always refer to my particular psychosis as chaos sorcery, this is merely a reference to the ancient traditions and philosophies that have influenced my worldview. I’m really an experimental psychologist, and since we’re just throwing the prefix trans on everything these days, let’s call my particular field of inquiry transdimensional psychology. This is the field that sees the brain as a bio computer that can be reprogrammed to accept its own multi-dimensional reality and contact those other worlds of imagination in which it currently exists largely unknowingly. The primary and most difficult step to achieving meaningful contact with these unknown worlds is to eliminate the doubt as to your own expansive nature by pursuing transpersonal states of consciousness. This is done to create a behaviorally transformative ontological shock. The thing that mystics, philosophers, magickians, sorcerers and the like have been trying to tell humanity for centuries now, is that while you can’t prove the reality of these matters by conventional scientific method (well, that’s actually debatable), you can prove them to yourself. In fact, you must. A transdimensional psychologist is one who seeks to manipulate what is known as the physical world with information and abilities gained by accessing dimensions of consciousness hitherto unknown, by any means necessary. Transdimensional psychology – you heard it here first.