“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the
present controls the past.”
George Orwell
The last night of the Sacred Owl ceremony at Bohemian Grove
was met with a howling wind. Seats kept blowing over and the owl effigy was in
danger of toppling. This event is always a swanky affair. Every year hundreds
of world leaders and corporate entities lazily congregate and discuss where and
how reality will shaped. This year was no different. The customary dinner
before the ritual theatre was a mash-up of blood red steaks, liver, and of
course hummus. It was a fine set-up; perfectly attuned to meet the needs of the
big-wigs in attendance. CEO’s and political leaders laughed jovially and
mingled. Midgets were chased by half-baked executives donning terrifying masks
and carrying wands. Otherwise straight laced corporate leaders danced like
babes and ran naked.
That was until the maniacal child-star and holy soldier Kirk
Cameron appeared like a phantasm and began to exorcise everything in sight. He began
with trees and rocks spouting obscenities and thrusting a wooden cross into the
face of all in attendance. It was like watching a snake handler on the brink of
being bitten in the face. The terrified world leaders squealed and were seized
with a fight or flight response. Some ran blindly into the woods, others
grabbed eating utensils and stood in defensive postures. All while Cameron
hooted and wrung his hands-crazily running up and down the aisle seats
shrieking about rapture and openly invoking Michele Bachmann. It was
heartbreaking.
The cord was cut. I personally heard Cameron whisper to Ray Comfort,
“We’ve got to be careful with this lot. They’re heathen. This is the only thing they care about or really believe
in. They’ll tie us to that goddamn owl before they burn it.” Comfort laughed
nervously but his face betrayed thoughts that were clearly, Oh God, we’re in real trouble. He
managed a half-choked sob and pleaded, “Maybe we shouldn’t be filming? What if
they find the camera in your glasses?” Cameron soothed, “They’re just Druids.
They’re savage. I’d be surprised if they even know what it is. We’ll run them
down like dogs. It’s pre-ordained.”
This effectively killed the mojo of the weekend but that’s the
growing trend as occultists all over the United States are being herded into
underground shipping containers and tanker trucks like lepers. It’s not a myth.
We are now “One Generation Away” from all-out occult persecution. We will
witness in our children’s lifetimes the streets run red with the blood of
occult martyrs. According to the Coalition for Occult Conservatives, 57% of
practicing Pagans and Thelemites will be interred in underground communities by
the year 2070. The Subterranean Occult Society (S.O.S.) have been frantically
trying to stem the ebb and flow of occult persecution by throwing tens of
millions of dollars into occult ‘think tanks’ in hopes of enticing diversity in
local law-makers, media outlets, and other shapers of consensus reality. But the
fear of ‘filthy superstition’ has stirred up a host of enemies to religious
pluralism. Anti-occult mouthpieces such as Jeff Harshbarger have remarked, “Our
society is submerged in the occult; Harry Potter has filled the minds of our
children for a decade and vampirism meets our teens with the illusions of
grandeur. Witchcraft went mainstream decades ago and Wicca is its offspring.” Other
persecutors such as T. Franklin from the ‘Objective Ministries’ has stated
that, “If there is one thing that Satanists, Goths, and Pagans of all stripes
fear, it is ‘light’; this is why they hold their coven meetings at night, skulk
around in the shadows, and wear dark clothing instead of bright, cheerful
colors.”
This is the common perception toward esoteric schools of
thought. And it’s working folks. On the surface, occultism is just an
irritating religious minority. But the debris of this all-out assault yields a
far more systemic evil if one only has the will to dig. The problem lays in anthropocentric
autonomy. Modern religious autonomy is anthropocentric. In other words, it is
organized by reference to human beings alone. But occult interaction doesn’t necessarily
denote an anthropocentric perspective of the godhead. There are a myriad of
entities and creatures accepted by occult ritualization that isn’t necessarily
human but literally alien.
It’s this anthropocentric point of view that is the
foundation for modern rule. For example, imagine if UFOs on earth were proved
to be actual extraterrestrials from another dimension. This reality would
threaten anthropocentric sovereignty of the power structure and is why the
reality of UFOs isn’t so much denied but the question not even asked. Or what about the second coming of Jesus
Christ? Again, an event of this caliber would be a real problem for existing
paradigms of anthropocentric rule. The occult suffers from the same system of ‘consensus
reality’. It’s not that occult ritual is refuted or that esoteric thought is
critically found to be ineffective. Oh no, occult study much like UFO reality
is taboo. It threatens the anthropocentric metaphysics of sovereignty. In so
doing, it also violates what is accepted in consensus reality.
When occult evidence comes to the fore, what is needed is an
‘autonomous agnosticism’. A temporary
suspension of consensus reality (i.e norms and laws of spiritual belief) so
that occult reality has the opportunity to affect rational belief. All that is
needed is the perspective that occult goals and esoteric reality is reachable
and knowable. Having a potential materialization of the metaphysical is at
least asking the question. It’s not hard to see how this point of view would
also benefit UFO discussion. In the potential to be knowable epistemologically,
we also grant it an autonomy based on ontological foundations.
But consensus reality will push back not because of the
irrational or illogical. Most religious systems including Christianity have
elements of the illogical. That’s just the ride. Autonomous agnosticism will be
denied because the regime of truth becomes threatened if what is accepted as metaphysically
possible violates what is already established as real. And so the possibilities are unthinkable. If it seems that
the problem is as much politic as religious than your already seeing reality in
a form of agnostic autonomy and questioning the norms and laws of rational
belief. Structures of power are anthropocentric and anything that trespasses
this trespasses what is truth and must be made taboo. I’m not saying give world
power over to the risen Christ or Extraterrestrials but the possibility of
invoking daimons or entities or aliens certainly places a burden on current sovereignty
of power. Perhaps what is needed is a new consensus reality where occultism doesn’t
threaten power structures but contributes to what can be known and attained. It’s
at least asking the question.
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