The Church of the Free Mind: Anti-Messiah

By Azazel Rama

Azazel Rama is a poet and artist from the San Francisco Bay Area who has been tapped into the spirit realm for the past 20 years. After dropping out of the Bay Area underground, he has finally decided to share with the world his unique understanding of the astral plane and the curious inhabitants therein. This large volume presents a poetic and lively take on magical theory and modern Occult philosophies, while disclosing some of the authors more personal experiences with aliens and other denizens of the spirit world. The text gets deep into the symbolisms of our collective unconscious, revealing a truly interconnected understanding of 'natural morals', while at the same time delivering tongue-in-cheek anti-theist arguments sprinkled with a dark and sometimes satanic sense of humor.

In the spirit of Ragnar Redbeard's 'Might Is Right', (the legendary text aptly quoted in Anton LaVey's 'The Satanic Bible') these encoded grimoires are a wild and winding map of a deeper conscious nature. Sometimes ranting, and often a bit mad (were all a bit mad), the information is sprinkled with esoteric poetry and symbolic illustrations, building into a climax that might come as a bit of a surprise! Chaos magician, urban shaman, synchromystic, or perhaps a member of a secret orders or sect? Azazel Rama remains a mystery to the modern spiritual community, and a rebel against many popular and accepted ideals. Come inside and join The Church Of The Free Mind where you will be taken on a wondrous ride through the multiverse of our collective lives!

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Welcome to a world of subversive literature filled with magical wisdom and the decoding of the occult. In this volume, author Azazel Rama explores the ancient secrets of astral travel and reveals a doorway to the multiverse of endless potential. He then reveals how the heretical views of science and nature can slay the dragon of religion with common sense. This is not a self-help seminar filled with happy sunshine, nonsense codes, and false rainbows; this is a journey into the forbidden. The Church of the Free Mind has opened its gates, and within this Holy Temple no messiah shall be said to exist.

Written as a diatribe against words, this is the true philosophy of a snake swallowing its own tail. Behold the self-consuming god that exists within the flesh and souls of all living beings. Embark upon a spiritual exploration of a higher order of freedom as it relates to an unconsciously connected society of human animals, and learn the moral codes of Mother Nature as she echoes a sense of natural law through the depths of our collective being. This collection of essays proposes a way to enter a new cycle of human understanding.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Apr 10, 2014
• ISBN: 9781491729519

Azazel Rama

Azazel Rama is a practicing chaos magician from the San Francisco Bay Area, currently living a Mile High and out of his mind. A self proclaimed Multipantheist (the belief that god is the Multiverse), he tapped into the collective unconscious in the early '90s and has studied magic and synchronicity ever since. As the creator of The Church Of The Free Mind, he has dedicated himself to the emancipation of human spirit from the trappings of defined thought. He believes in a natural sense of morality, often stating that "Unified Freedom is the basis for the development of all natural laws." This author is a blasphemous heretic and has no remorse or social concern for the upstanding and morally conscious human being. This eccentric scoundrel claims to have sex with spirits while traveling through the magical astral planes. If you see this lunatic on the streets, please contact the authorities immediately!

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THE CHURCH OF THE FREE MIND

Anti-Messiah

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ISBN: 978-1-4917-2950-2 (sc)

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iUniverse rev. date: 04/07/2014

WARNING:

FOR ADULTS ONLY!!!

(BEST WHEN READ IN A STATE

OF NAKED INEBRIATION)

"The following is a

one-a-day cure-all

that will enhance

your animal magnetism

and dissolve your

spiritual woes! Take

one dose daily for a

prescribed month and

watch as your spirits

soar to new heights!!!"

~ lio ekans

Table Of Alchemical Concoctions

1.   A PROLOGUE FOR MULTIPANTHEISM

2.   ARCHETYPES

3.   THE NAME OF GOD?

4.   SATANISTS AND ATHEISTS UNITE!

5.   THE MAGIC OF WORDS

6.   SPIRITS… CAN YOU SEE THEM?

7.   PERSONAL POWER AND SYNCHRONICITY

8.   THE EVIL OF LAUGHTER

9.   THE GRAND SCALE (ANIMALS IN MATHEMATICS LAND)

10.   THE DWELLING: PART 1 (HOW NOT TO DWELL)

11.   THE DWELLING: PART 2 (WHERE TO DWELL)

12.   LAND OF THE FREE

13.   YHWH, THE GOD OF WAR

14.   LIGHT, DARKNESS, AND ABSOLUTE SELFISHNESS

15.   MAGIC SPELLS, MANTRAS, PRAYERS,

AND PSYCHIC BUBBLES

16.   THE PSYCHIC MIND (VISUAL EYES)

17.   DARK LOGIC

18.   EXPLORING THE IMPROBABLE

19.   WELCOME TO THE MACHINE

20.   A TRAIN OF THOUGHT TO SUICIDE

21.   IS THIS SCIENCE FICTION?

22.   A Treatise On Reincarnation

23.   BEAUTIFUL BRUTAL TRUTH

24.   PARANORMAL PHENOMENA

25.   WIN, LOSE, OR DRAW

26.   BODY OF KNOWLEDGE

27.   EMPIRE

28.   DREAMS DO EXIST

29.   SKELETON KEY

30.   THE END

KNOWLEDGE

In my mind nothing is clear

Visions I taste, colors I hear

Twisting and turning to form a whole

A whole lot of nothing inside my skull

I see millions of colors in black and white

In a dark mind I still see the light

To know is to lie but confusion is cruel

If you do not lie are you but a fool?

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A PROLOGUE FOR MULTIPANTHEISM

This is how it ends. You have been fed ancient and withering ideals since your birth. You have been warned to play along. They say that the great books have already been written, that the play is set in motion, and perhaps you will have an important part. Learn your lines and follow the script (their scriptures) . . . and you think, Why not? since this is the status quo. They say that the majority rules, that we have free will and democracy, and we should all feel happy with the way the story is unfolding. Heaven is waiting for the humble and the low. You feel the lie in your heart as you gaze towards your feet and shuffle in line. You know that the few rule. You know you’re unhappy with the part they’ve assigned to you. The script is boring and predictable, laced with poison and ignorance that should be insulting to your artistic sensibilities. The important parts have been cast by men of great breeding (heiresses and trust-fund whelps), and when you walk onto their luxurious stages, you are an extra… nothing more than a prop or a red-shirt, expected to die if you’re noticed at all!

If you have opened this book then you probably want something more than the status quo… perhaps a new script and permission to expound upon it with a sense of free will and artistry? You will be damned by the croaking old voices of the saintly and sane ruling class, even while we watch the grand curtain fall on their uninspired and poorly acted parody of fear-driven wordplay and spiritual tidings. The great author Jehovah has been driven away by the hisses and boos of the dissatisfied and the bored. The cast has been pelted with the rotten food given to us as our worthy portion. Look around you… the great pageantry is over and the old scriptures are kindling the flames for the final act, a vast and burning ignorant Hell! And now we exit stage left and peer into the void as we search for a new direction and an outlet for our aching and abused sense of self worth. This is how the old world will end. This is how the new world will begin. Do you feel the stage-fright as you stare into the beautiful and mysterious stage-sets now spreading endlessly before your newly opened eyes? The first step is hard to take alone. I can show you paths that will broaden your horizons…

And why should you listen… who is this madman with a voice echoing from the dark abyss? Though perhaps the who is not as important as the why? Why do we long to understand each other? Why do we go onwards in life? We have a need in this modern era to free our minds from bigotry and greed. We have a need to share our information and to find our bliss. We have become too powerful to ignore. I have excluded certain identifying information in regards to myself and other mentioned entities in examples throughout the following, as I believe that the information herein should not be swayed from the perceptions of the now. This book was given by legions upon legions to those who would spy upon the world! This is our journey through the thoughts of the people all around us, not an index book full of rigid forms and standards… let me show you a point of view that begins to move beyond explanation.

This is a world of Urban Shamanism. Here we do not hide in caves and deep jungles rubbing mud upon our empathetic wounds. Here we live in the trenches of societal idealisms and accepted illusions, ready to battle the ignorance of defined thought! To learn to travel like water through our manmade chaos and sooth it into a more cohesive and artistic form… this is the quest of the modern day warrior. I believe that I am uniquely qualified to be your guide through the more ambiguous parts of our collective lives. I have had many visions, out-of-body experiences (OOBEs), and encounters with the supernatural, and I have measured the world with an artistic license and an open mind free from dogma and religious fear. To Hell with acceptance and assumption, to Hell with fearful people trying to analyze structured thought… this is an account of firsthand information with an attempt to view our extrasensory experience from multiple avenues of explanation. My past is of little consequence, though here is a tiny window into my soul:

I have studied Fine Art at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, Poetry and Philosophy at a low level college in San Leandro, and various energy-running practices at the Berkeley Psychic Institute, all while coming of age in the Bay Area of California, though my own personal studies I feel have enriched my life far beyond the spectrum of academic arts. The convoluted mainstream could not satisfy my cravings for clear water, so in my later years I began to devour all manner of magical texts and religious doctrine… and this is where my true education begins. I have dropped out of mainstream society to explore the forbidden secrets and bring the world back something new… a variation of the never-ending desire to live… a piece of universal history infused with renewing waters… a reflection of the thoughts that are allowing our collective to grow healthy and strong. This is a mosaic of human intelligence gathered from the people around me, and a testament to our potential as artistic conduits of the one true source of life. All creative powers exist around, within, and beyond our perceptions… they are a part of us… as I am a part of you. I will be your guide… let me take you for a look inside… let us heal our ancient wounds!

It is time to overcome the unnatural fears ingrained within us by our superstitious ancestors and those who wish to keep us under their control. What is there truly to remain afraid of besides our physical peril and the peril of those whom we rely upon (or who might rely upon us)? Do you fear some man-made and outdated spiritual law? Do you fear within you the idea that there are some thoughts which are forbidden? Truly the mind is the place to explore all things and the world is the place to use your discretion. All things previously forbidden and all dark corners of consciousness shall be revealed! Our primal darkness will add to our knowledge when explored thoroughly and brought to its logical conclusion. No religion shall forbid that we come to understand ourselves and the nature of the Multiverse around us. No dogma will keep us safe from the unknown; only through the experience of trial and error shall we better protect ourselves and our inner well being… and we will only succeed through courage and self-perpetuating might!

I do not believe in a philosophy that saves… I believe in a philosophy that lives and fights for freedom at all cost. The foundation of the following rests in the knowledge and application of a spiritually unified freedom and understanding towards our place in the nature of creation. I believe in the truth of the happenings of life in polar comparison with the illusions of thought… the truth that is and the thought that is not. Our church is physical existence… our altar the rocks on mountain tops… our God is the action of primal force… and our illusion is the mind. We are illusions becoming organic. We are the combination of polar opposites on every level and in every way.

You will learn to understand true freedom when you have allowed yourself to seek out your happiness while at the same time respecting and protecting the freedoms of the ones you love. We are dedicated to protecting the freedom of the individual so long as that freedom does not take away from the freedom of the whole. We are not free to restrict others without just cause. This is the highest ideal of manmade law. Dogma is no just cause! We should decide as individuals between right and wrong and refrain from giving too much power to the select few who we allow to govern over us. We should place our judgments as if they were upon ourselves as we try to understand what exists before our very eyes! We expect freedom inasmuch as we let each other be free. Unified freedom should be the reason behind the formation of every manmade law.

We should strive to represent the truth of life as it happens, not set our ideals in stone. Nothing could have possibly happened without being imprinted upon the energy of the life all around us. Time becomes meaningless next to the raw experience of existence… the actual energies involved in a said event will make each point in time unique and beyond our ability to perfectly judge. Immutable law is manmade and does not exist in nature, be it mandated by state or by priesthood. Perhaps we could believe in the possibility of accessing multi-spiritual memory instead of clinging to a biased interpretation of past events? Perhaps we could access any point in time and watch a happening from any point of view that we desire if we are looking with perfectly free and divinely open eyes? In any case, with our current level of understanding there is no event that we can perfectly judge.

What does it mean to believe that you can look past the energies of our current physical existence? What does it mean to believe that there are limits to what we now know? Perhaps it means that we are more magical than we are willing to admit? Truth be told, words seem to be wholly inadequate when describing our spiritual or extra sensory experiences in life. Let us try to find a philosophical term that best defines our existence without falling upon the need for an unknown quantity or a proper noun… here is an exercise in defining the indefinable:

Pantheism—The belief that God is the universe.

Panentheism—The belief that the universe is a part of God, but that God is more than the universe.

Multiverse—The belief that other universes besides our own exist simultaneously, also called multiple realities, alternate planes, otherworldly happenings, parallel worlds, etc.

While you can argue that pantheism is the universe and all of the forces working within it, therefore the definition should include the experience of alternate realities and such… the truth is that people never really use the word universe in this way. We should not settle upon a word that can be misconstrued so easily (people assuming that you are only talking about the physical manifestation of the universe).

While panentheism seems to fix this problem by stating that God is more than the universe, people could misconstrue this by assuming that God is an anthropomorphic being or an unknowable force existing outside of knowable life. This term is too vague and mysterious to use as a religious term in this era. It can fix us as separate from God and doom us to except our ignorance and avoid trying to improve our understanding of the forces conspiring within our infinite reality.

Multipantheism—The belief that God is the multiverse (that would include our universe and every other universe and form of reality imaginable). This is what I am leaning towards when asked for a philosophical term, a word that almost makes sense.

Multipanentheism—This would appear to be a redundant theme, saying that God is more than just this universe twice, plus the vague unknowable factor still exists. You know everything you experience… to say that you can’t experience something doesn’t make sense. God is all of existence, everything that is… how could it live in a place beyond existence or experience? God exists, doesn’t that equate as an experience? You exist, and by definition existence is something experienced. Placing God beyond our realm of experience is a redundant thought; it is like saying that nowhere exists somewhere when by definition it does not. Saying that God is the multiverse and more is redundant since the multiverse should cover all possible realities. God is the Multiverse… all inclusive… there is no traditional or separate entity of God.

The word multipantheistic is sometimes used to describe the belief in more than one God, not the belief in God being more than one reality. I am not strictly multipantheistic… I believe that many creatures could hold a vast amount of creative power and exist far beyond our current understanding of reality, call them Demi-Gods if you will. I am a Multipantheist… I believe that God is everything possible, therefore God is a redundant and useless word! I think this distinction should be made, that God is the Multiverse, but the Multiverse is more than any traditional interpretation or definition of God. We should do away with one word or the other, and the word God has been poisoned by zealots, unimaginative sages, and tricksters, not to mention in-and-of itself it lacks true meaning. At least the word Multiverse is definable… it is Omni-present and Omni-potent… and it is open to include every interpretation of God imaginable. I believe that the idea of one God that is fixed as separate from us is both frightening and harmful to our natural design. I find the belief in multiple realities to be much more enlightening than a rigid ideal of a Deity when introduced to a searching mind. I would like to point out that if the Hebrew Jehovah created our Earth, then he should be considered a Demi-God as he seems to be an entity with a personality and a chosen form (male with white hair and a beard seeking a perfect son), and thus he has limitations. I would also thank him for this nice planet to live on for a while.

I find that many words and terms can be interchangeable when describing paranormal phenomena with our limited language and experience. The collective unconscious is very similar to the astral plane, the spirit realm, the psychic reality, the dream world, etc. It is an image of our being alive beyond the knowledge of this 3rd dimensional universe… being alive in the Multiverse… the consciousness of all beings combined (combining).

The subconscious is a blending between the unconscious mind and the conscious mind, there seems to be no better definition for this. The closer you get to your unconscious the more conscious of it you will become. Subconscious is the communication (communion) from here to there… the shallow end of the pool.

The dream world can be a personal experience, or it can be accessed through various images that pass by in your mind’s eye while traveling the imaginative realms of our collective selves. It seems to exist on a plane of its own, though when you’re conscious of the dream world you can influence those images with your thoughts and desires. In the astral realm, a dream is much like a close-up upon a certain area of thought containing 3rd dimensional sensations in which an ability for you to bend the rules exists. If you are looking at the workings of your mind, then you will see the various windows leading into various dream scenarios that you might find your way into. Many forces help to create these windows, including your own personality and desires.

The Dream Body should be viewed in the same way as your astral body, your energy body, your unconscious self, your second self, your spirit body, your imagined body, your holographic projection, your connected mind, your third eye, your mind’s eye, etc. It is the part of you that travels through the life existing beyond this physical universe.

Magic—1) The art that purports to control or forecast natural events, effects, or forces by invoking the supernatural 2) Possessing distinctive qualities that produce unaccountable or baffling effects 3) Controlling forces beyond our understanding in order to affect the material world of physical existence

Supernatural—Of, pertaining to, or being above or beyond what is natural; unexplainable by natural law or phenomena; abnormal

Esoteric—Understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest. Similar to abstruse, arcane, cryptic, enigmatic, etc.

Cognoscente—A person with special knowledge

Magic Spell—A curse or bewitchment… causing the forces at work in the astral realms to conform to your desires and manifest results in the 3rd dimensional world. These forces cannot yet be explained by science, which is why we consider them magical in nature

Magician—The same as a sorcerer/sorceress, a witch, a witch doctor, a shaman, a psychic, a prophet, a spiritual healer, an illusionist, or anyone purported to have control over various forces beyond our physical realm

Malediction—A magical word or phrase uttered with the intention of bringing about evil or destruction; a curse

Oneiric—Pertaining to, similar to, or suggestive of dreams

Eldritch—Unearthly; weird; eerie

Numinous—Of or pertaining to numen; supernatural; inspiring awe and reverence; spiritual

Numen—Divine power or spirit; deity

Jnana—Absolute insight acquired through study

Diatribe—A bitter verbal attack

Language is not quite adequate when we can’t agree on the feelings behind our definitions.

All words aside, it is time to become spiritual warriors of the highest cause. That cause will always be summed up in one word… FREEDOM! To add to the strength of our collective, you have only to think, talk or write about your desire for freedom and to relate any new or unusual information you have acquired through the experience of life with an open-minded and dogmatically free point of view. When you view any event while being free from comparing it to previous events and information, then you have added to the spirit of the freedom of thought, you have considered the truth of the event and have given the Multiverse your unique point of view unclouded by your mind’s illusion-creating intellect. When you reflect upon your moments of knowledge, then the illusions of life will worm their way back inside. The difference between living in your imagination and learning to understand freedom is that you can do one in blissful ignorance, though the other requires that you see things for what they truly are while defying the insistence of popular thought. Nature, the Multiverse, and God inside and out are one and the same. God says, I AM. with an infinite variety of mouths… who will listen?

To examine the universe using the freedom of many viewpoints will give us more information and understanding than restricting our views on the said subject to a limited few. This is an obvious truth… the more points of view on a subject the more information we acquire. The opposite of freedom is confinement… thoughts are the essence of confinement. Don’t be confined by definitions… be limited and defined by free will, a paradox in truth. Ignorance is our pain, though pain points us towards the correct path as we strive to turn away from our ignorance. If taking the fruit of knowledge from a snake was forbidden, then it was also the only logical thing to do… humans will always be lured by the forbidden, humans need a mystery to solve to keep them interested in life. Tell the woman that she was right by offering her man a taste of Godly fruit. Tell the Multiverse that men want the sin of knowledge and the beauty of uncertainty within their hearts! Learn to value a woman inasmuch as you value a man or a god! We are all wearing one limited face in the endless potential of ever-changing expressions. It is our destiny to learn of the magic permeating throughout the Multiverse within and around our bodies and minds… to learn to live and coexist with the hidden forces of nature, including those forces which we have yet to understand… the spiritual forces that are the undercurrent of all existence and thought.

I am Anti-Messiah. For me, Anti-Messiah means choosing to be against the idea that one man can effectively save us from ourselves… I am against the idea that a Messiah can or will exist! Anti-Messiah does not mean what we might commonly consider Anti-Christ to mean… Anti-Messiah means you are against the idea that one man can save the whole of humanity. It will take many people to save us as we spread out far through the world. People can only be credited for saving multitudes by a trickling down of concepts. The ones that truly save us are the ones that calm down our insecurities and our fears; the ones that slay our ignorance with a flaming sword! The trickling effect will take hold of people by proximity, the feelings of the strong and worthy catalysts growing around them and helping people to begin to help others live free and healthy lives. The whole chain of information and self-contentment permeating through existence might just lead to a man in a high security office deciding not to press a shiny red button that sets off a chain of events that could destroy the world!

You never really save someone directly, we are never truly safe, but you can help to save the world by making people feel like the free and healthy beings that we were meant to be. We must challenge unnecessary authority and fight for our freedom and life! To allow each other freedom will require a leap of faith, not in some jealous god, but in our fellow man. We must learn to trust each other with our sacred ideals as we depersonalize the religious dogmas around us. Have courage and fight for your sense of right!

One key in understanding what humans have considered as magical or religious knowledge is in understanding the symbols that we have used to raise ourselves out of the mud and muck as we first decided to reflect upon and evaluate the essence of life. Symbols of light and darkness, of health and decay, of masculine and feminine, of order and chaos, and of all primal forces, have been the foundations for spiritual thinking and have held meaning for human beings as far back as any proof of our existence can reach. These symbols are understandable to every human regardless of their race or creed, they are the archetypes of our understanding and the cornerstones of our communication through pictures and words… we shall examine some of these archetypes and learn to free ourselves from their power over us through understanding that they are just another way of communicating or comparing ideals which are illusions made by our minds, not absolute truths. Symbols for animals, symbols for Gods, symbols for sex, and symbols for death, etc. have been scrawled upon cave walls from times before written language, and even today we can look at them and understand them. Why was there a need for this in the first place? We will examine this question as well.

To see and to understand is to overcome unnecessary fear, so in this book I will attempt to shed some light upon how to open your inner eye and see without fear. This is not a book for the common life and the everyday mindset. This is a journey into the forbidden! We will start with the heretically mundane and move on to a basic symbolic knowledge. Our blasphemous goal will gear towards a removal of the value of common thinking in order to see our energies more clearly within our inner eye. We will examine thinking with intentions in order to feel internal life, the necessities of balance and duality, and the courage it takes to be free in an ever-changing Multiverse.

We will always be thinking… but what you will think about thinking might begin to change. Our enemies are the ideals that damned us with forbidden places in their short sighted attempts to control and define our complex natures. We will battle idealistic ignorance using its own illusions against it! I will show tendencies towards examining the darkness of our collective past (and our collective present) and I will relish in choosing unpopular positions of thought in order to help rebalance our natural and spiritual collective futures. This is an anti-religion of real living, a human religion of the exploration into what was once considered to be divine, but what I believe will eventually become a part of our everyday lives. This is not a religion at all, but a reclaiming of the magic of actuality. The time has come for a change in consciousness… the time has come to join THE CHURCH OF THE FREE MIND and protect the freedoms of your fellow man. If you do not believe in magic then open up to the forces of the unknown. If you do not believe in spirit then open up your third eye. The great vistas of the Multiverse are awaiting you. We are the explorers of the final frontier spinning logic into rhythmic sound. Taste the forbidden parts of your mind… it is natural and beautiful on the other side. Let me show you what I have found inside of me. It is time to seek out your pleasure and health, and to free your will and try to survive while seeing with a new level of inner clarity! Are you ready to believe? Have a nice day.

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ARCHETYPES

In the beginning, there was the word… and the word created separation. Here we shall explore some of our first symbolic endeavors… some of our most recognizable hopes and fears… and we shall create with our definitions religious archetypes and sacred impressions. What is an archetype? An archetype is like a prototype… it is the original idea or image that other images branch off from. It is a universal symbol or pattern of thought inherent in nature and easily identifiable within the base of our unconscious minds. Since we do not know of our beginnings and we do not dine with our Demi-Gods on a regular basis, we will think of an archetype as a symbol created by man to convey the most basic and primal elements of life.

An archetype is a symbol that all humans can understand; it is a picture worth a thousand words and an image that brings our deepest hopes and fears to light. Our spirituality exists through a creative combination of understandable imagery. When we think of a God with six arms, we think of a highly capable being… when we think of a God with many eyes, we think of a being that can see more than a normal human can… when we think of a God with a long white beard that can throw lightning-bolts and crack thunder, we think of a being with great wisdom and strength over nature… when we think of a God with human and animal parts combined, we think of a more than human personification having special abilities greater than our own. Our images of the Gods are imaginative archetypes depicting more capable than human forms of intelligent life. Their human offspring (if they have any) are usually pictured as extremely fit and beautiful creatures, the archetypes of perfect human beings in their healthiest state of majesty.

We have symbolically drawn humans, animals, and higher beings engaged in acts of sex, communion, and death since the beginnings of our communicative minds. We understand symbols for the elements of nature such as fire, water, vegetation, mountains, wind, etc. A stick figure with a penis next to a stick figure with breasts would be easy to understand as a male and female duality… this is the simplistic nature of an archetype, the revealing of symbols that we all can identify without explanation.

Monsters and demons are also very strong archetypical creations. They are usually in human form equipped with more than human attributes that scare us. Horns, sharp teeth, claws, poison, and perhaps the ugly brutality of an insect with mandibles and black cold eyes, or perhaps covered in filth suggestive of disease and decay. They are the more than humanly capable side of life that we find as dangerous or repulsive, not noble like the head of an eagle that is reminiscent of our desire to fly, but predatory like the head of a wolf… a large mouth filled with sharp teeth and cunning for bringing down its prey. Demons are imaginative archetypes of human creatures with the greater than human attributes that we fear; they resemble super-predators and are the image of the animal overcoming the man, while Gods are the archetypes of our higher selves with greater than human attributes that we admire or wish to understand.

Satan in the modern world is a symbol for our fear of nature. He is made up of all the animal parts that we fear most… horns for goring, hooves for trampling, sharp teeth, claws, a long swishy tail… sometimes barbed like a stinger, a hairy or scaly muscular body for strength and a tough hide, sometimes with wings so that we can’t even escape him when we fly, and his lies are poison to our very being. Why is Satan no more than an animal-man; and the most dangerous one imaginable at that? Lustful, powerful, King of the Earth… the mighty Satan is the archetype for our animal selves, the totality of our fear and awe towards the creatures of our planet, and shaped like a man, the most feared beast of all… he is worthy of our respect!

Most religions hold that the world is a bad place, that our animal instincts are loathsome, that worldly gain is for naught, and that all which we see before us is illusion and lie. The afterlife is the focus of religion, not being glad that you’re alive… but to long for your death so that you might escape this world of empty pleasures and barbaric desires, and finally get your just rewards by reaching Heaven or Nirvana or some other such state of being. Since the goal of religion is to overcome our base animal desires, this reduces the majesty and awe of our animal archetype to something evil and wrong… thus animal-man is evil, and evil is Satan… because he gets in the way of our wanting to die… because he is a representation of healthy strong life on Earth… did he not offer Jesus the whole world in one of our many storybooks, and was not the Christ child cherished for his willingness to deny the world and die into spiritual eternity? It is believed that Jesus Christ was beyond the need for food and water, beyond the need for warmth and shelter, and still he would not lift a finger to save his own life! One is an archetype for this world and the other is an archetype for the next… though keep in mind that we live in both worlds, and symbols are not the totality of life.

Evil lives down (below) and the Heavens are up (above), two very solid symbols in religious belief… remember though, up and down are a function of gravity. If Heaven is up, that means to defy physical gravity or to travel away from the Earth. If Hell is down, that means to be oppressed by the Earth’s gravity, attracted to it, or held down (maybe even six feet under), and the epitome of down from every location on Earth points straight towards the Earth’s heart. Here we can draw a parallel with another symbol… Hell being a pit of fire and the heart of the Earth containing molten liquid iron churning around an iron core. Once again we are making clear that being down on Earth is to live in our evil dirt and temptation, and we look up to the skies for a way off of this evil planet… it’s no wonder that we’re destroying the Earth while we wait, we hate the Earth because it scares us. But it scares us because it can kill us, so we seek an alternate life in our minds and begin to convince ourselves that death will be great. We end up worshiping death and the very fabric of spiritual life, though hating our physical lives because we live in a dangerous world! How can we worship the afterlife and despise the mortal life that will send us there in due course? Does anyone truly believe that this makes perfect sense? Let’s look at a second archetype; the one that many believe is the superior and good symbol of our light-bearing souls…

If you read the Old Testament, you can’t help but feel that Moses was led through the desert by a spacecraft, a fire in the sky by night, smoke by day… that perhaps a spacecraft rained sulphurous fire down on Sodom and Gomorrah, and maybe even had some kind of force-field or propulsion device strong enough to part the waters of a sea? After all, something met Moses on top of Mount Sinai making him glow with light, and later flew above his head commanding him to look away. You might conclude that perhaps the God of Israel was a powerful alien entity that wanted to get a part of our human culture under its wing, show us the strength of their technology, and give us some guidelines to follow… this alien imagery fits the archetype for enlightened beings to be able to defy the gravity of planets and live in the Heavens above, and what can exist inside the vacuum of space without a spacecraft or some other gravity-point to identify with?

You might wish to conclude that the spirit realm exists everywhere, though as a symbol, Heaven has always been considered as a location up and away from our Earth. If so called angels are not from our planet, but indeed are from the heavens above, then by definition they are alien to our current understanding of physical terrestrial existence. Were we created by an alien race, or did we simply evolve from some primal cosmic slop and receive contact when we came of age? You might wish to conclude that this alien faction planted us here, as a social experiment perhaps, designing our DNA to fit in this world, or maybe even altering a monkey’s DNA? Perhaps we didn’t need the help… but maybe? That would make them our Gods in a way… and that would explain the way we often feel alien ourselves, and perhaps even why we look up to the skies for salvation? Or at least answers? We will get back to the good archetype in a bit, but there is a whole other belief system that I find very intriguing. Reincarnation…

Certain people believe that in our quest to overcome our Earthly bonds we are reincarnated again and again, bound to the Earth until a perfect life comes to fruition… then if we succeed, we are off with the universal mind and endless bliss. A romantic notion, not so glum as the Christian ‘one chance only’ point of view, but still the goal is to break our Earthly bonds and leave behind our fleshy instincts… but why? Would we be happy anywhere if we were stuck in an unchallenging situation? The prospects of coming down will make us exult in our highs. The pain we all feel will make us treasure our happy times. It is the balance that keeps us interested, so why not believe in a never-ending cycle of life?

People who talk to spirits believe that the dead are jealous of us because we have fleshy lives… what sense does this make if our flesh is a detriment to our spiritual path? Why would spirits envy our bodies if our physical desires are a test blinding us to eternal life? Maybe we should rejoice that it is our time to live! Put away our fear that we are apart from God, and recognize the essence of God in our very flesh! Maybe we do reincarnate… on different planets, at random points in time, in an alternate universe… why should it ever end? What good would eternal bliss do us? Why not enjoy our evil little planet as a great place and time? We’re gonna die in the end, so why worry about being stuck here in the meantime? This planet is gonna die… this universe is gonna die! Have a little faith in enjoyment, you fear mongers! Or try a little faith in no need for faith… I am not saying to deny your spirituality, far from it, but that we need to reincorporate our animal selves into our spiritual framework in order to free ourselves from hating our own physical lives!

Now, back to spacecrafts… the ultimate in gravity-defying machines and a relatively enlightened archetype for humankind. It seems to be a general consensus that while alien spacecrafts can have physical properties they extend beyond the physical… I would imagine them as transdimensional machines, slipping in and out of our perceived realities… bending space, defying time, and traveling through spectrums of light which we haven’t even fathomed yet… and this would lead me to believe that their creators are beings who can understand these yet unknown energies and manipulate them to their design. I believe that the alien of today is the angel of yesterday… coming to us in visions and dreams, and imparting knowledge to the curious as they pass on by. Pure fantasy… ? I don’t know… but I would think that the two are very similar. Angels, spirit friends, and wise ancient aliens all seem to be cut from the same fabric of life.

Let’s sneak inside a mental spaceship and take a look at a typical Grey Alien… they often have weak limbs to show no need for physical force, big eyes to show compassion and trust, a big head to show intelligence and/or mental power, no teeth, nor ears or nose to show that they go beyond our physical senses and needs, no genitalia, and overall… just small hairless unnatural looking creatures. This is a combination of symbols that we could attribute to very wise intellectual creatures that do not threaten us with the needs and desires of physical life, the very archetype of what we might consider as good, or a higher being, or against our animal lives. Another interesting point… angels are often humans depicted with wings to show that they can defy the Earth’s gravity and yet are akin to ourselves through the size and shape of their bodies. Sometimes they have halos to insinuate some sort of superior wisdom which we have yet to understand. Angels are most often androgynous… not hairy like a man or curvy like a woman, but unassuming yet pretty to look upon. This is as much the opposite from our animal selves as can be considered when keeping to a strictly human form. Both aliens and angels are symbols of higher knowledge and the denial of our animal desires.

The alien is perhaps the opposite image of the devil, one bound to Earth, and one to cruise the Heavens above… one a beautiful though scary physical specimen, and one an ethereal mental giant. These are archetypes for our animal nature and our intellect; though perhaps they are just spirits that choose how we see them due to our own symbolic natures? Never-the-less, a spacecraft is the work of a superior intellect, almost magical, and arguably a bit spiritual. Our science today is beginning to sound a bit magical and spiritual; perhaps our days of traveling in spacecrafts of our very own aren’t too far away?

When our collective intellect becomes honed enough to perceive the spiritual energies at work throughout the universe, perhaps we will build giant paradox machines that can work in union with the magic of all life… though to travel is to have a destination… and what could be more perfect than to find another planet and do it all again? Bring out the mind erasing machine, we’re going in blind and it’s gonna be fun! Grope your way through the mud and create another epic story for the endless volumes of The Book of All Life! If you ask a fellow traveler how we might be able to remain a species within the Multiverse in the prospects of forever, often interdimensional space travel is considered as our true salvation and our final frontier… a way to outlive our planet, and maybe even our universe, which leads back to my other point… the bad reputation of the Devil…

The Devil is the fear of our nature and our death, the fear of the animals of Mother Earth and our desire towards her dangerous beauty. What could be more frightening to us than the animals on this planet that could easily kill us? And in our minds Satan has taken the deadliest qualities of them all. In our eagerness to grow up, (there’s that gravity directional thing again) we strive to detest our animal selves… more and more people are shaving the hair off of their bodies and trying various cosmetic alterations in an attempt to escape their animal limitations. We want to be the aliens/angels, though in our haste we should not neglect our planet, or our instincts! We have neglected them for too long, not trying to understand them with our imaginative intellects, but dashing them with insults, and running from them in fear. Look at the state of Mother Earth, a direct reflection of how we view the animal inside of us… we hold our very lives in contempt!

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Reviews for The Church of the Free Mind

[Frank Lato · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book is awesome. It aims to destroy your trained thinking and open the door to experience. I had to read this book slowly, and sometimes it gets under your skin. The pictures irk a lot of people, and so do some abrasive parts, but the information is very dense and the overall packaging admirable. The prose style here is almost like poetry, it flows and sings of the end to corrupted "knowing", and I loved every minute of it. Not for kids or most adults. Get enlightened fast!