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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: gnōstikós, 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]
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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]
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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]
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See also:
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Re: Gnosticism
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 3, 2021, 3:03 am
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[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 fiancé.
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:
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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]
HTML 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....
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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]
HTML 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]
HTML 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
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Magic Mushrooms for Early Christians?
[quote]New Book ‘The Psychedelic Gospels’ Explores Possibility
of Holy Hallucinogens [/quote]
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See also:
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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]
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[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]
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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:
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g/2020/05/26/carl-jung-on-lsd-and-mescaline/
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g/2020/10/02/carl-jung-on-drugs-lsd-mescalin-anthology/
I am, however, a bit more hopeful of their potential:
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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.
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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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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....
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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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