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Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
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Chthonic: From Beast to Godhead
Found : Chthonic: From Beast to Godhead Of course the Roman Catholic Church could never accept this doctrine of Christ's dark, serpentine half. Yet still the human psyche, in time, developed the concept of the Anti-Christ. This was an inevitability … Continue reading
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Tagged christainity, Found, Jesus, jung, serpent, shadow, subconscious
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Orgonomics, Armoring and the Garden of Eden Myth
Found : Orgonomics, Armoring and the Garden of Eden Myth The "subtil serpent" or, we may say the perceptive penis, where sensation is most acute, tempted man to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Gerhard von … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam, Eden, Eve, Found, orgasm, orgone, psychology, Reich, serpent, sex
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The Eden Experiment: Aliens, Archons & the Associative Universe

Reprint of an article originally published in New Dawn Magazine #110, expanded and revised with original illustrations. A fascinating survey of alternative human origins theories and their links to Gnostic mythology! Continue reading
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Tagged Adam, aliens, annunaki, cavemen, colonization, control-systems, demiurge, DMT, earth-lights, earthquake, Eden, EM, Eve, extraterrestrial, Gnosticism, kundalini, Narby, nephilim, predators, serpent, shamanism, third-eye, UFO, Vallee, visions
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The Lord of the Garden
“CAMPBELL: The serpent, who dies and is resurrected, shedding its skin and renewing its life, is the lord of the central tree, where time and etemity come together. He is the primary god, actually, in the Garden of Eden. Yahweh, … Continue reading
Key Concepts
Cognitive frames of reference informing the design and purpose of this web site: Antinomianism – taboo-breaking as a means to wisdom, e.g., the “transgression” of Georges Bataille, Ikkyu , the “left hand” or “short path” of Tantra and Vamamarga. Animism … Continue reading
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Tagged antinomian, Bataille, Blake, Bostrom, crazy-wisdom, cult, design, earth, extraterrestrial, gnostic, Hell, Jesus, kundalini, Lovecraft, Lucifer, magic, monism, multiverse, religion, serpent, shamanism, simulation, tantra, transgression
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How God created evil
God created Adam 6th day. He took a day off and looked at Eden, and found Adam was jerking off all day. Since God was not wise enough to create Evil yet, he couldn't kick him out of Eden. Instead … Continue reading
Consciousness
"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness." – Max Eastman "…Lucifer the bringer of light in the shape of the serpent of paradise, and Adam, the symbolic first man, [both] suffer for the sake of consciousness." – … Continue reading
Monkeys
"Taken in its deepest sense, the shadow is the invisible saurian tail that man still drags behind him. Carefully amputated, it becomes the healing serpent of the mysteries. Only monkeys parade with it." – Carl Jung, Psychological Reflections, 243, 1953 … Continue reading
Laughter of God
"He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh." – The Koran "Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God." – Karl Barth "I have never made but one prayer to God , a very short one: "O Lord, … Continue reading
Paradise
"Paradise is not a place, but a state of consciousness." – Sri Chimnoy "Paradise is exactly like where you are right now… only much, much better." – Laurie Anderson "Where the tree of knowledge stands, there is always Paradise' : … Continue reading
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Tagged Blake, design, earth, gods, paradise, serpent, tree-of-knowledge
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