The Right-Brain God

By Michael Faust

One of the great secrets of human existence is that everyone has an in-built kit for communicating with their soul. The problem for most people is that they don’t know what the protocol is. In times of crisis, great stress or exceptional circumstances, they can inadvertently stumble on the right protocol for a few moments and enjoy the astonishing experience of encountering their soul. These are “epiphanies” and often they become the centerpiece of people’s lives.

So will you be one of the rare few who can enjoy the infinite good fortune of being able to make full soul contact, the greatest experience of all?

Where is the soul? The first place to look for it is in fact inside our head. There is very good evidence that the right hemisphere of our brain is our link to the soul dimension, and to God himself.

This is a book by the Pythagorean Illuminati.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Oct 23, 2011
• ISBN: 9781447888383

Michael Faust

Michael Faust invites you to explore the divine order, with its most astonishing secret - that you are part of it. You always have been. But you have forgotten. That's the nature of the created world - to make us forget that we are all the Creators. Isn't it time to remember who you truly are?

Book preview

The Right-Brain God

The Right-Brain God

by

Michael Faust

Published by Hyperreality Books

Copyright © Michael Faust 2011

The right of Michael Faust to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the author, except in the case of a reviewer, who may quote brief passages embodied in critical articles or in a review.

ISBN: 978-1-4478-8838-3

Quotation

The preposterous hypothesis we have come to…is that at one time human nature was split in two, an executive part called a god, and a follower part called a man. -- Julian Jaynes

Table of Contents

The Right-Brain God

Quotation

Table of Contents

The Illuminati

Soul Contact

The Right-Brain God?

The Voice of God

Enhanced Darwinism

Meme Evolution

Living Archetypes

Selling Your Soul

The Faustian Pact

Which Historical Figures Provide the Basis of Goethe’s Faust?

The Magic Religion

The Ignavi

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Not Chosen Ones

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

The Superman

The Divine Vacuum

Golgonooza

William Blake, the Prophet of Energy

William Blake’s Religion

Blake’s Later Religion

The City of Imagination

Becoming God

The Creation Myth

The Divine Suicide

The Science Myth

The Second Degree

There is no God.

The Illuminati

THIS IS ONE OF A SERIES OF BOOKS outlining the religion, politics and philosophy of the ancient and controversial secret society known as the Illuminati, of which the Greek polymath Pythagoras was the first official Grand Master. The society exists to this day and the author is a member, working under a pseudonym.

The Illuminati’s religion is the most highly developed expression of Gnosticism and is called Illumination (alternatively, Illuminism). Dedicated to the pursuit of enlightenment, it has many parallels with the Eastern religions of Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism. It rejects the Abrahamic religions of faith: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, considering these the work of the Demiurge; an inferior, cruel and wicked deity who deludes himself that he is the True God, and who has inflicted endless horrors on humanity.

If you wish to judge for yourself how deranged the Demiurge is, you need only read the Old Testament, the story of the Demiurge’s involvement with his Chosen People, the Hebrews. You may wonder why the God of All entered into an exclusive and partisan Covenant with a tribe in the Middle East several thousand years ago, why he promised them a land (Canaan) that belonged to others, and why he then actively participated with them in a genocidal war against the Canaanites. Even more bizarrely, according to Christian theology, he then despatched all of those Hebrews, whom he had supported so fanatically, to Limbo – the edge of Hell – when they died. They couldn’t go to Heaven because they were indelibly marked by the Original Sin of Adam and Eve. Only the atonement provided by the agonising death of God’s son, Jesus Christ, could wipe the slate clean and allow the Hebrews to be released from Limbo. But there was a catch. Only those who accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour were eligible for Paradise.

Of course, the Chosen People of God have almost entirely rejected Jesus Christ. Therefore, from the Christian perspective, nearly all of the Chosen People are now in hell proper. Don’t you find God’s behaviour distinctly odd? Indeed, unbelievable? Don’t alarm bells start ringing? Doesn’t the behaviour of this God sound rather more like what would be expected of Satan?

Remember that this same God ordered Abraham to perform human sacrifice on his own son, Isaac. Abraham, rather than rejecting this monstrous command, rather than denouncing the creature that gave it as evil incarnate, agreed to butcher his own flesh and blood to demonstrate how slavishly and mindlessly obedient he was – the prototype of all psychopathic, fanatical believers.

Does God’s command to Abraham sound like something that would ever pass the lips of the True God? We pity you if you think it does because you are surely a creature of the Demiurge and one of the legions of the damned. If, however, you doubt the credentials of the Abrahamic God, you may be receptive to the message of the Illuminati and our future-oriented, rational, scientific, mathematical and dialectical religion of light – Illumination.

Soul Contact

One of the great secrets of human existence is that everyone has an in-built kit for communicating with their soul. The problem for most people is that they don’t know what the protocol is. Computers on the internet can’t communicate if they don’t obey the TCP/IP protocols. No messages can be passed, browsers won’t locate web pages, nothing will work. In times of crisis, great stress or exceptional circumstances, people can inadvertently stumble on the right protocol for a few moments and enjoy the astonishing experience of encountering their soul. These are epiphanies and often they become the centrepiece of people’s lives.

They can lead to religious conversions (e.g. St Paul on the road to Damascus), great spiritual revelations (in the case of prophets), bursts of immense creativity (artists), and great intuition and insight into intractable problems (scientists). Those who have such encounters with the soul are often desperate to make them happen again, and search in vain for them for the rest of their lives. Some particularly intuitive people, often labelled as psychics, can make more regular contact, but again they have no conscious idea of what they are doing and the contact is unreliable. And in some people who are not properly prepared soul contact can lead to psychosis. The experience simply overwhelms them.

A central figure outside the world of esoteric societies who has managed to gain a profound insight into establishing meaningful contact with the soul is Carl Jung. Raised as a Christian, Jung was keen to establish a credible yet transcendent psychological basis for Christian teachings. He said, Christ is in us, and we are in him! Why should the activity of God and the presence of the Son of Man within us not be real and observable? Every day I am thankful to God that I have been allowed to experience the reality of the Divine Image within me. Had this not been granted me, I should indeed have been a bitter enemy of Christianity, and of the Church especially. But thanks to this act of grace, my life has meaning, and my inward eye has been opened to the beauty and the greatness of dogma. I am enabled to see that the Church is my Mother, but that the Spirit of my Father draws me away from her into the wide world and into its battlefields. There I find, day in and day out, that the light is threatened with extinction by the ‘prince of this world’, the suffocating darkness of unconsciousness.

Jung was heavily influenced by Gnosticism and alchemy, so it should not be imagined that his ideas concerning Christianity were those of an orthodox believer: he would certainly have been burned at the stake as a heretic if he had espoused his ideas in earlier ages.

When Jung’s ideas and added to those of Sigmund Freud and American psychologist Julian Jaynes, they produce a scheme for allowing people to better understand themselves and where they fit in, psychologically speaking, with their soul.

Soul contact, even for those who know the right protocol, is still the most challenging and difficult activity to undertake. There are no guarantees. Each of us is on a personal journey. Each of us has our own monsters to face, our own demons to confront, our own trials and tribulations to overcome. It’s a fact that most of those who embark on the quest for the Holy Grail fail. So there’s no point in making any promises to anyone. Saying the magic words, I believe won’t solve your problems, despite what Christians say. The world is far more complicated than that. You can be steered in the right direction, that’s all. The rest is up to you. You can’t leave it to God to bestow grace upon you. There’s no divine intervention. Anyone who says differently is a liar.

So will you be one of the rare few who can enjoy the infinite good fortune of being able to make full soul contact, the greatest experience of all?

Where is the soul? The first place to look for it is in fact inside our head. There is very good evidence that the right hemisphere of our brain is our link to the soul dimension, and to God himself.

The Right-Brain God?

Many people are perplexed by the concept that God is within them. One book that might radically alter their view is one of the most extraordinary books of the twentieth century: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes. This book is written from a scientific, atheistic, materialistic viewpoint, and treats God as a product of neuroscience: our religious beliefs derive ultimately from the way the brain is wired. But it leaves scope for an entirely different interpretation, one that furnishes potential evidence for the existence of the soul, reincarnation and direct contact with the mind of God.

The Voice of God

The human brain consists of two hemispheres linked by a thick band of connective tissue called the corpus callosum. The two hemispheres are not identical. In right-handed people (the vast majority of the population), the left hemisphere is dominant and controls the right side of the body, while the right hemisphere controls the generally weaker left side of the body. Bicameral means two chambered and provides a good way of describing the human brain with its two distinct but connected hemispheres.

The left hemisphere is normally considered the seat of language and logic while the right hemisphere is the province of art, mathematics and music. Autistic savants can show bewildering technical expertise in a specific area of art, mathematics or music while often being regarded as retarded in relation to language, logic and empathy. It has been speculated that these individuals suffered left-brain trauma in the womb due to an abnormal response to testosterone, leading to right-brain dominance. People who suffer strokes in the left brain sometimes undergo remarkable transformations and discover high-level artistic, musical or mathematical skills that were in no way evident previously.

The left brain is characterised as selective, focused, methodical. It filters information to allow the big picture to be seen. The right brain, on the other hand, deals with all of the detail ignored and filtered by the left brain. Ours is a left-brain, big picture society, but that doesn’t mean it was always so. Julian Jaynes’s radical hypothesis is that what we regard as modern consciousness is intimately connected to the evolving dominance of the left brain and, particularly, to the development of language and writing. Before that, the right brain was in charge and what we regard as consciousness simply didn’t exist. In fact, Jaynes speculates that human consciousness as we now understand it has existed for only about 3,000 years.

What existed before consciousness was the bicameral mind. Jaynes argues that human beings, as they started to learn rudimentary language, began to undergo a form of auditory hallucination when they were in stressful situations. They would hear a voice in their head commanding them what to do: fight, run, drink, rest, hunt, shelter etc. The hallucinated voice was that of the tribal chief or some authority figure. The person carried out the command unquestioningly. No consciousness existed to allow the command to be pondered, challenged or contemplated. It was simply executed robotically. Even when the tribal chief died, his hallucinated voice would still be heard for a long time after. In this way, it would seem that he wasn’t actually dead. So, was the tribal chief promoted to the status of god at this time? (This was the origin, Jaynes suggests, of the belief in life-after-death and therefore the human religious sensibility.) As society grew more complex, additional voices arose to reflect a variety of chiefs and gods. But as it grew more complex still, this system became unwieldy and gradually gave way to modern consciousness.

The bicameral human mind had an inbuilt master-slave structure: one part of the brain barked orders, and another part carried them out immediately. This permitted a rapid and decisive response in crisis situations. It is a more sophisticated form of animal behaviour, most of