Let the dead bury their dead
I discovered the Nag Hammadi texts when I was twenty five and they burrowed into my brain and left me unhinged. I have been living with this material for a decade now and always had a strong vision of what it meant to me, which left me feeling isolated.
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With this most recent foray into new pathways of web communication however I am discovering that there are others who see things the way I do, which means I am not so isolated. I am not crazy. Other people see things the same way I do too.
Dark Science and Infernal Art spake thusly:
We do not identify as “Gnostic,” at least not in the White Light-Xian style. Demons, Loa, drives, logotypes, primal letters, greys, and other manner of invisible thing participate in our universe too much for us to adopt a simple Neo-Platonist monotheism.
Same here. Mushrooms, DMT, and brujeria have shown me things that I cannot unsee. I can’t pretend that certain things and beings and places don’t exist when I’ve been there, seen them, spoken with and communed with them.
We are not crazy, insane, or schizophrenic any more than anyone else on this fevered planet. We are, however, willing to be honest about experiences common to everyone that many people simply gloss over or ignore. A few quotes will elucidate this: “Our way of dealing with things is not to deal with them”; “Ours is the culture of uncomfortable smiles”; “Business as usual”. Strange things happen when we sleep, our rulers perform strange actions, and all our lives are so filled with coincidence and luck that to ignore these things amounts to rank dishonesty writ large.
Preach it brother! Even sleepers move and work in the world.. or something like that. I dunno. Go ask your weird old uncle Heraclitus.
One of the greatest frustrations we have encountered stems from the extreme split between theory and practice, between analysis and execution’it has been suggested that this stems from our false body-mind split’that seems to plague our society, most particularly in academia.
FUCKIN’ A! Knowledge is meant to be lived not daydreamed about. Put it into practice or don’t!
On a similar tip - in The Funeral of the Real, Jospehus Chippus writes :
The problem with modern gnosticism is that it lacks the spirit of ancient gnosticism, which gleefully and mercilessly inverted the symbol-systems of the ancient tribes in its general vicinity in order to truly liberate people from their oppressive cultural programming’all of this with, of course, a heaping dose of gnosis. Modern gnosticism is, indeed, more of a revival of the relatively tame Valentinian strain than the wild antinomianism of the Sethians, Barbelites, Ophites, Carpocratians, Cainites, spermognostics, and all those crazy sects with their crazy sex.
EXHIBIT A: Both libertine and ascetic gnostics had off-color sexual programs for their initiates. This was a reimprinting of Leary’s circuit IV, the socio-sexual circuit, the one that governs morality. Reimprinting of this circuit thus brings about freedom from conventional morality, the idea behind gnostic antinomianism. Modern Gnostics seem to favor a hands-off approach to sexual morality that more or less agrees with liberal mores. You sure won’t see any orgies happening at the Ecclesia Gnostica.
EXHIBIT B: Ancient gnostics completely inverted, cut up, and pasted old myths back together in a way that was subversive, shocking, and outright offensive. Modern gnostics just borrow myths from the ancient ones, or repackage them in new ways. As far as I can tell, they offend only the stuffiest conservative Christians who scoff at the reemergence of an ancient heresy… Modern gnostics use ancient gnostic myths mainly to strengthen their bond to the modern gnostic tribe. This usage is antithetical to the anarchic spirit of ancient gnosticism, IMHO.
I’m looking and looking for something I disagree with here but can’t find it.
If you hang around for long enough you run across people with similar ideas and sympthies - maybe that’s whats going on here.
Or else some critical mass is starting to build where the wild, fierce and unassimilable elements of gnosticism are starting to assert their presence along certain cultural faultlines. I dunno.
What I do know is that I don’t want modern gnostics to become tame like the wiccans - struggling so hard to distance themselves from anything that might offend anyone that gnosticism becomes neutered and domesticated.
Magic is dangerous. Heresy is dangerous. Liberation is dangerous. These things are not supposed to be palatable, they are supposed to be disturbing.
Occultists and psychonauts and would-be-liberators who try too hard to be safe and inoffensive lose touch with the dark side and lose balance and are finshed beforethey even start. The knowledge of the tree is the knowledge of good and EVIL, not good and things we would rather not talk about.
Check it out. There is a huge cultural push going on right now - god knows why but there does appear to be - on the part of the media and the brokers of cultural influence to inject gnostic ideas into the public sphere, to legitimize them and to pronounce them worthy of acceptance and assimilation.
So. The deal is already inked folks. Meanwhile it can still be what you want it to be. An idea that is not dangerous is an idea that is not worthy. If the time is here then now is no time to hold back.
Especially - especially - if we really are in the middle of a Full Spectrum Catastrophe. I mean hell, if you can’t live up and freak out a little in the Kali Yuga, when can you?
THE KALI YUGA STILL has 200,000 or so years to play–good news for advocates & avatars of CHAOS, bad news for Brahmins, Yahwists, bureaucrat-gods & their runningdogs.
STOP asking for the bathroom pass and let it rip instead!
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“You sure won’t see any orgies happening at the Ecclesia Gnostica.”
That depends…in the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica you do. But according to the former, the latter aren’t ‘real’ gnostics. LOL
I don’t identify as Gnostic anymore. I don’t know what to call myself. Any time I try to apply a label it feels like a betrayal. Don’t ask me of what.
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