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| Gnosticism | |
| By: guest55 Date: August 10, 2021, 5:55 pm | |
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| [quote]Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek: | |
| γνωστικός, | |
| romanized: gnōstik�s, Koine Greek: [ɣnostiˈkos], | |
| 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and | |
| systems which originated in the late 1st century AD among Jewish | |
| and early Christian sects.[1] These various groups emphasised | |
| personal spiritual knowledge (gnosis) above the orthodox | |
| teachings, traditions, and authority of the church. Viewing | |
| material existence as flawed or evil, Gnostic cosmogony | |
| generally presents a distinction between a supreme, hidden God | |
| and a malevolent lesser divinity (sometimes associated with the | |
| Yahweh of the Old Testament)[2] who is responsible for creating | |
| the material universe.[3] Gnostics considered the principal | |
| element of salvation to be direct knowledge of the supreme | |
| divinity in the form of mystical or esoteric insight. Many | |
| Gnostic texts deal not in concepts of sin and repentance, but | |
| with illusion and enlightenment.[3] [/quote] | |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism | |
| https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Abraxas_gem_scan.svg/… | |
| The WHOLE WORLD Is Trying To ENSLAVE You! | |
| [quote]The truth isn't always easy to accept. But for those of | |
| us who are determined to live free it's important to know just | |
| how deep the brainwashing goes. Almost all of what we take in on | |
| a daily basis for most of our lives are just lies designed to | |
| control us and get us to live our lives in manner that benefits | |
| other people. Physical slavery is horrible. Mental slavery may | |
| be even worse... | |
| Now is the time to get out of debt, lower your bills, find | |
| meaningful work you enjoy, let go of chemical dependencies and | |
| addictions, and live life on your own terms![/quote] | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWe_lxk-6QE | |
| https://i.pinimg.com/originals/96/7a/f2/967af208279e840c27f857b3105f8ec4.jpg | |
| #Post#: 8003-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Gnosticism | |
| By: guest55 Date: August 10, 2021, 7:16 pm | |
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| The Illusion of MONEY, TIME & EGO - Alan Watts | |
| [quote]Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 � 16 November 1973) was | |
| a well-known British philosopher, writer and speaker, best known | |
| for his interpretation of Eastern philosophy for Western | |
| audiences. He left behind more than 25 books and an audio | |
| library of nearly 400 talks, which are still in great | |
| demand.[/quote] | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYSQ1NF1hvw | |
| See also: | |
| https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/leftists-against-prog… | |
| #Post#: 8565-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Gnosticism | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 3, 2021, 3:03 am | |
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| https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-ban-abortion-goes-effect-122338993.html | |
| [quote]According to the Christian text titled the Acts and | |
| Martyrdom of Eugenia, Eugenia rejected marriage and led a male | |
| monastery for a time. Afterward, she discouraged Alexandrian | |
| women from having children, but this advice angered their | |
| husbands. These men convinced the emperor Gallienus that | |
| Eugenia�s teachings about women�s reproductive choice endangered | |
| Rome�s military power by reducing the �supply� of future | |
| soldiers. Eugenia was executed in the year 258. | |
| Even as the Roman Empire became increasingly Christian, women | |
| still received praise for avoiding marriage. For example, the | |
| bishop Gregorios of Nyssa, an ancient city near Harmandali, | |
| Turkey, wrote the beautiful text Life of Makrina to celebrate | |
| his beloved sister and teacher, who died in 379. In this text, | |
| Gregorios admires Makrina for wittily rejecting suitors by | |
| claiming that she owed faithfulness to her dead fianc�. | |
| To sum up, while early Christian texts did not exactly encourage | |
| women to explore sexual experiences, neither did they encourage | |
| marriage, reproduction and family life.[/quote] | |
| Judaism, on the other hand: | |
| https://dailybiblememe.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/genesis1-28.jpg | |
| #Post#: 8693-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Right-left (Judeo-)Christian divergence | |
| By: guest55 Date: September 10, 2021, 5:01 pm | |
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| Evidence that YHWH was a Dragon | |
| [quote]YHWH (Yahweh), the God of the ancient Israelites, was a | |
| flying, fire-breathing dragon, and I can prove it. In this | |
| investigative documentary, biblical evidence is cross-examined | |
| with traditional dragon folklore, presenting what has come to be | |
| known as the #YHWHTheory. There's some really weird stuff in the | |
| Old Testament that no one talks about... and absolutely raises | |
| eyebrows. Consider it with an open mind. [/quote] | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XogaHpV5oUs | |
| Well, we know for a fact Yahweh loves the smell of burnt flesh, | |
| so Yahweh being a fire breathing dragon sounds plausible to me. | |
| It is also interesting to note that dragons in many folktales | |
| also love gold above all else. | |
| Dragons are often also very cunning.... | |
| #Post#: 8726-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Gnosticism | |
| By: guest55 Date: September 11, 2021, 1:03 pm | |
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| My 10 Gram Magic Mushroom Experience! A Double Heroic Dose. | |
| [quote]In this video I tell the story of the 1st time I ever ate | |
| dried Psilocybe Cubensis, or "Magic Mushrooms." I talk about the | |
| timeline of effects, and what I experienced. (Skip to 6:35 for | |
| the timeline of effects) I hope my story can provide good | |
| information for anybody curious about what an extremely high | |
| dose of Psychedelic Mushrooms is like.[/quote] | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLA4SfloOmU | |
| I believe it would benefit all life and humans immensely if | |
| every human experienced full "ego death" once in their live's. | |
| (Quentin's smile says it all! :D) | |
| My First Bad Trip On Mushrooms | Heroic Dose Trip Report | |
| [quote]This video is for educational purposes and I do not | |
| condone the use of illegal substances. In this video I talk | |
| about my most recent magic mushroom trip, a dose of 5.5 dried | |
| grams, which was what most would call, "A Bad Trip". I hope this | |
| video can serve to educate others about what a bad trip feels | |
| like, and how to break out of it. | |
| I describe in detail what the negative emotional state is like | |
| on a bad trip, and more importantly, how I overcame it. I talk | |
| about my failed attempt to record this trip, and include some | |
| clips from the botched attempt. | |
| Topics include anxiety, loneliness, and feelings of | |
| worthlessness. I also speak about the healing properties of | |
| these types of psychedelic trips, and describe how I broke | |
| myself out of my negative thought loop.[/quote] | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbzTblWLupM | |
| I also agree with Quentin here, there really is no such thing as | |
| a "bad trip". A person can learn more about themselves from a | |
| "bad trip" than a good one. I also agree that magic mushrooms | |
| give you the trip you need, not the trip you want. If a person | |
| has a "bad trip" it is because their subconscious is trying to | |
| teach them something important concerning their mental and | |
| spiritual well-being. I believe everyone should experience | |
| "mushroom hell" atleast once in their lifetime's. Mushroom hell | |
| also teaches you that hell could be very real and you do not | |
| want your consciousness\soul getting trapped there after your | |
| physical death.... | |
| I think a lot of people are afraid of psychedelics because they | |
| do not trust themselves and they are afraid of seeing themselves | |
| truly naked and with no ego. Magic Mushrooms also destroy time | |
| completely for the duration of the experience. This is when you | |
| realize that a thought pattern of your consciousness that | |
| literally only lasts 1 second in reality could feel like it | |
| stretches on for an eternity in other states of consciousness. | |
| This is when you also realize that the concepts of heaven and | |
| hell could be very real. | |
| Sacred Plants and the Gnostic Church: Speculations on | |
| Entheogen-Use in Early Christian Ritual | |
| https://psychedelicgospels.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/jah-2014-0010.pdf | |
| Magic Mushrooms for Early Christians? | |
| [quote]New Book �The Psychedelic Gospels� Explores Possibility | |
| of Holy Hallucinogens [/quote] | |
| https://www.independent.com/2016/12/22/magic-mushrooms-for-early-christians/ | |
| See also: | |
| https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/re-psychological-decolonization/?messa… | |
| https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/consciousness-cannot-have-evo… | |
| #Post#: 8800-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Gnosticism | |
| By: guest60 Date: September 15, 2021, 11:01 am | |
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| Okay, this issue of psychedelics is enough of a social issue to | |
| be addressed as well as a potential X-factor.. The two questions | |
| being, do they have anything to do with Gnosticism really, and | |
| would they even be allowed in True Left culture? If I recall the | |
| Aryanist Code of Ethics involves an absolute teetotalism. | |
| Leftists overwhelmingly use psychedelics in comparison to | |
| Rightists, and spiritual types tend to be drawn towards them. | |
| [quote] The Mixtec culture of central Mexico worshipped many | |
| gods, one known as Piltzintecuhtli, or 7 Flower (his name | |
| presented in the pictoral language as seven circles and a | |
| flower) who was the god for hallucinatory plants, especially the | |
| divine mushroom. The Vienna Codex (or Codex Vindobonensis) (ca | |
| 13th-15th century) depicts the ritual use of mushrooms by the | |
| Mixtec gods, showing Piltzintecuhtli and 7 other gods holding | |
| mushrooms in their hands.1[/quote] | |
| https://erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms_faq.shtml | |
| [quote] | |
| Xochipilli, The Prince of Flowers, is the Aztec god of flowers, | |
| maize, love, games, beauty, song and dance. (Xochi is from the | |
| Nahuatl xochitl or 'flower', while pilli means either Prince or | |
| child.) He is the husband of Mayahuel and the twin brother of | |
| Xochiquetzal. He is also referred to as Macuilxochitl, which | |
| means "five flowers". | |
| In the mid-1800's, a 16th century Aztec statue of Xochipilli was | |
| unearthed on the side of the volcano Popocatapetl near | |
| Tlamanalco. The statue is of a single figure seated upon a | |
| temple-like base. Both the statue and the base upon which it | |
| sits are covered in carvings of sacred and psychoactive flowers | |
| including mushrooms (Psilocybe aztecorum), tobacco (Nicotiana | |
| tabacum), morning glory (Turbina corymbosa), sinicuichi (Heimia | |
| salicifolia), possibly cacahuaxochitl (Quararibea funebris), and | |
| one unidentified flower. The figure itself sits crosslegged on | |
| the base, head tilted up, eyes open, jaw tensed, with his mouth | |
| half open. The statue is currently housed in the Museo Nacional | |
| de Antropologia of Mexico. | |
| It has been presented by Wasson, Schultes, and Hofmann that | |
| Xochipilli represents a figure in the throes of entheogenic | |
| ecstasy. The position and expression of the body, in combination | |
| with the very clear representations of hallucinogenic plants | |
| which are known to have been used in sacred contexts by the | |
| Aztec support this interpretation.[/quote] | |
| https://erowid.org/entheogens/xochi/xochi.shtml | |
| https://i.imgur.com/GxmXejD.png | |
| Source: The Wondrous Mushroom, R. Gordon Wasson | |
| I don't know of any other links between mushrooms and Aryan | |
| history. Serrano mentions LSD briefly: | |
| [quote]Everything passes as a hallucinating phantasmagoria | |
| destined to dissolve and exploit the Aryan universe, its | |
| Weltanschauung, its cosmos. It is robbery and witchcraft, like | |
| the monetarist consumerist economic theory of the Jew Milton | |
| Friedman. It is also like the drug LSD, invented in Switzerland, | |
| in laboratories that were also Jewish, to poison the new | |
| generations of young Aryans.[/quote] | |
| [quote]Rudolf Hess would become the sacrificial | |
| scapegoat....they treated him with drugs and poisons to | |
| disintegrate his personality. [/quote] | |
| Source: The Ultimate Avatar, Miguel Serrano | |
| He is not so supportive of them, though this was during the | |
| MK-Ultra era. Nor was Jung: | |
| https://carljungdepthpsychologysite.blo | |
| g/2020/05/26/carl-jung-on-lsd-and-mescaline/ | |
| https://carljungdepthpsychologysite.blo | |
| g/2020/10/02/carl-jung-on-drugs-lsd-mescalin-anthology/ | |
| I am, however, a bit more hopeful of their potential: | |
| https://www.google.com/search?q=magic+mushrooms+made+me+vegetarian+site:www.red… | |
| As far as the experience itself goes, my personal encounters | |
| have left me puzzled. It is bizarre and I don't really know what | |
| to make of it. If you read trip reports many people come out | |
| with healed trauma, a new stance on life, but also having their | |
| eyes awoken to injustices in the world and their own evil | |
| actions. | |
| #Post#: 8801-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Gnosticism | |
| By: guest55 Date: September 15, 2021, 12:46 pm | |
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| As a general rule of thumb I try and stay away from man-made | |
| compounds as much as possible, especially of the mind-altering | |
| variety. Note almost every drug manipulated by man can become | |
| highly addictive and dangerous, whether it be alcohol, meth, | |
| ****, etc. In comparison all one need do to cannabis or | |
| mushrooms is dry them and cure them. I've never tried LSD myself | |
| nor do I feel the need to. Having said that I did find Quentin's | |
| first LSD trip report very interesting also. Even though Quentin | |
| is not a "religious person" he sees a tapestry in the forest | |
| behind him filled with archetypal religious imagery. Then | |
| Quentin becomes absolutely fascinated by the image of the Virgin | |
| Mary he keeps seeing in the tapestry. Awestruck by the imagery | |
| of Mary he is left to ask: "what were those Christians up | |
| too!?". | |
| My First LSD Trip | Intense Hallucinations On 300 ug | Live Trip | |
| Report In The Forest | |
| [quote]I do not condone or advocate the use of illegal | |
| substances. This video is strictly for educational purposes. | |
| This is a live trip report of my first time taking LSD, or | |
| "Acid". I took 300 micro grams in a forest and did my best to | |
| record the effects as they occurred. At 3:35 the intensity | |
| increases dramatically. I experienced extremely powerful | |
| archetypal/symbolic/religious visual hallucinations and | |
| described them in as best of detail as possible. I hope this | |
| video provides some informative value to anybody considering | |
| taking LSD, or wanting to watch the real-time effects that it | |
| has. [/quote] | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uDQmp4Fu64 | |
| If you listen to Quentin's trip report on his double heroic | |
| mushroom trip dose he explains how he felt like he wanted to be | |
| close as possible to the ground and how he had realizations that | |
| he was no different than the plants around him. He also explains | |
| how he lost all respect for "people in costumes", especially | |
| when he saw two police officers across the way from where he was | |
| laying. | |
| I believe mushrooms can break people out of certain life cycles | |
| they have been trapped in through repetition and thoughtless | |
| living. Changing ones perspective in this world can be very | |
| helpful and enlightening, especially with compounds that can | |
| often highlight the absurdity of this material realm. It becomes | |
| increasingly difficult to remain a materialist after a | |
| psychedelic mushroom experience. I see this as a very positive | |
| effect of magic mushrooms. | |
| Too bad Jung did not investigate mushrooms more because many | |
| people see archetypal imagery when under the effects of | |
| psychedelic mushrooms.... | |
| In one video Quentin also discusses how before he took mushrooms | |
| he was a "science head" and had no spiritual or mystical beliefs | |
| at all. He believed we are all just molecules and atoms. After | |
| his mushroom experience Quentin gained a deep respect for the | |
| spiritual realm. I see this as a positive as well. | |
| #Post#: 8806-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Gnosticism | |
| By: SirGalahad Date: September 15, 2021, 3:44 pm | |
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| I stay away from mind altering substances. The Buddha explicitly | |
| spoke out against it, and I assume that Jesus felt similarly. | |
| There are no shortcuts to salvation or enlightenment, and most | |
| drugs are merely distractions. Only by our own will can we hope | |
| to achieve transcendence. If I had to point out any sort of | |
| political correlation with the drugs discussed, I would classify | |
| them more as false leftist than true leftist. That doesn't mean | |
| that they can't lead people towards the right path as in | |
| Quentin's anecdote that Mazda described, but I would advise such | |
| people who've already extracted all the use that they can out of | |
| these drugs, to stop using them. | |
| #Post#: 8811-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Gnosticism | |
| By: guest55 Date: September 15, 2021, 8:07 pm | |
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| [quote author=SirGalahad link=topic=890.msg8806#msg8806 | |
| date=1631738699] | |
| I stay away from mind altering substances. The Buddha explicitly | |
| spoke out against it, and I assume that Jesus felt similarly. | |
| There are no shortcuts to salvation or enlightenment, and most | |
| drugs are merely distractions. Only by our own will can we hope | |
| to achieve transcendence. If I had to point out any sort of | |
| political correlation with the drugs discussed, I would classify | |
| them more as false leftist than true leftist. That doesn't mean | |
| that they can't lead people towards the right path as in | |
| Quentin's anecdote that Mazda described, but I would advise such | |
| people who've already extracted all the use that they can out of | |
| these drugs, to stop using them. | |
| [/quote] | |
| Most of the people I know that use shrooms usually only do so 3 | |
| or 4 times a year at the most. I do agree that transcendence | |
| should be worked on sober and I have never meditated on | |
| psychedelics as many recommend. I only meditate sober. I think | |
| for many people mushrooms can add an element of magic, wonder, | |
| curiosity, and romanticism, back into their lives that they may | |
| have lost since their childhood, (or at the least these senses | |
| have been severely hampered and dulled down by the material | |
| world) this is why I wouldn't necessarily agree that these | |
| compounds are false-left. | |
| Lest we also forget what eventually became humans was fungi 650 | |
| million years ago. I believe there is a connection to fungal | |
| consciousness and human consciousness. Just remember that we are | |
| all born with THC receptors and Psilocybin receptors already | |
| hardwired into our brains. These plants have been with us so | |
| long they have become part of us and who we are.... | |
| #Post#: 8812-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Gnosticism | |
| By: guest55 Date: September 15, 2021, 8:28 pm | |
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| I think this is probably a good question too while we're on the | |
| topic: Would there have been a counter-culture had it not been | |
| for some of these compounds? | |
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