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Miguel Conner
@AeonByte
20 hhace 20 horas
Erik Davis, The Electric Chrism Acid Test: The Problem of Psychedelic Gnosis #gnosticamerica
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Miguel Conner
@AeonByte
We are going through psychedelic renaissance, fueled by neuroscience and a more open
society. Ayahuasca has become popular for mysticism and therapy.
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Miguel Conner
@AeonByte
20 hhace 20 horas
Gnosis might not be the best way to describe entheogenic experiences. People used in the 60s
used the language of perennialism (like Huxley), Eastern theology, and secularism (like William
James).
Miguel Conner
@AeonByte
20 hhace 20 horas
But Gnosis is always countercultural and rebellious. There has to be Archons even if you think
the universe is fine. Davis says in ancient times “Archon” was used for specific, human people
as well.
Miguel Conner
@AeonByte
20 hhace 20 horas
Archons always have a double meaning that includes an outside person and an inside spiritual
reality.
Miguel Conner
@AeonByte
20 hhace 20 horas
Unlike demons, Archons aren’t tempting us but are already controlling us. They are stellar
lords that fate. Without Archons, Gnosticism simply becomes perennialism.
Miguel Conner
@AeonByte
20 hhace 20 horas
Alan Watts writes about psychotherapy, saying that the goal is to liberate humans from the
chains of society and condition. Maya isn’t just illusion but world culture. We have to escape it.
Miguel Conner
@AeonByte
20 hhace 20 horas
Timothy Leary in “How to Start Your Own Religion” talks about everyone starting in the Garden
of Eden. Yet each person finds themselves fallen into a restrictive social system. We are turned
to robots. People must actively fight these systems.
Miguel Conner
@AeonByte
20 hhace 20 horas
Leary says Caesar has created a studio where each one of us an actor without free will. The
spiritual life gets you out and what is real. Social and psychological realities are where the
Archons rule.
Miguel Conner
@AeonByte
20 hhace 20 horas
Robert Anton Wilson in The Illuminatus Trilogy interrogates the Gnostic idea of distrusting
reality. Illumination doesn’t get you out of the machine. In it, a priest says Gnosis leads
megalomania and insanity. Gnosis is very bad.
Miguel Conner
@AeonByte
20 hhace 20 horas
Later on, Mamasutra says only the Illuminati, with its promotion of science, is the only solution
to destructive mysticism. Basically, Davis is saying there is a risk in hacking any reality and this
has led to our paranoid modern times.
Miguel Conner
@AeonByte
20 hhace 20 horas