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Perception
I’ve been in a few religions. Or at least that’s how we say it in Khmer: to “Jol [go into/inside] Sasana [“religion”]. Like you go into a supermarket to go shopping. Sasana doesn’t really mean a religion. It means “Command,” “Instructions,” or “Orders to be followed or Observed,” or a “way of practice.” The American Constitution is more a Sasana because it is a list of instructions to be observed for certain reasons [End Results]. Most of the time you don’t morally “believe” in a constitutional amendment. You observe it and uphold it for an End Purpose. And from the observance of such instructions, a Culture of some sort evolves over time you see? Whereas with religion such as Christianity, beliefs are believed in with no real purpose in mind. And instead of culture, a mode of blind faith and existence just to uphold the religion and propagate it comes into being.
My first religion was of course Buddhism, which I was borne into. There really is no such feeling as “growing up Buddhist.” Sure we had statutes of Buddhas at home, and sometimes on the full moon or special days you burn incense and offer fruits and stuff. Then on those few holidays you go to the Wat and you burn incense to a bigger statue of the Buddha for a second, then you go outside the Wat to hang out with family and friends and mingle with the hundreds of other people. That was it.
The only thing about Buddhism that was constant in my life growing up was the ivory Buddha pendent around my neck which I still have. Otherwise there was nothing “there” that looked or felt like religion growing up. Nobody read me any Buddhist books. Nobody sat me down to even teach me what a Buddhist actually believed in. Nobody even talked about it on a day to day basis at home.
Then there was that time when I remember studying with a Jehovah’s Witness study buddy when I was around 12 and 13. Every Sunday my study buddy would come over for an hour, have lunch and we’d read out of their bible together and our of these books of different colors. That was when I first actually learned about God or a God of some type. At that time I suppose the Jehovah’s Witness stuff explained things for me. So I went to my favorite bhikkhu grandpa and told him about my new religion I found that explained everything in a neat book called the bible!
I said something like: “So grandpa, I learned from the study buddy and the bible that Jehovah – who is God – made the universe in 6 days, and that soon we’ll all live forever in paradise and if you worship Jehovah, you can live in his paradise.” And my grandpa said something like: “That’s wonderful grand daughter. What exactly is the Nature of this bible? Where did it come from?”
That question set me off on a long quest to figure out where the bible came from. I eventually stopped studying with the study buddy. And after I learned that people wrote the bible, and that there were many Christian denominations, and many interpretations of the bible, I figured that if God inspired it, he didn’t do a great job, because everybody is getting something different.
The second religion I ever had was Satanism. My friends in junior high school got me into it. I read the Satanic Bible and it made better sense to me at the time. I was 14 at the time. I stopped believing a god existed and thought the idea that I was my own god was nice. So I went to my favorite bhikkhu grandpa to tell him about my new Satanic religion!
I explained to my grandpa that I was now smarter enough to know that Jehovah isn’t real, that the Christian religion is based on blind faith, and that I now worship myself as my own god. And my grandpas said to me: “Before I was a monk, I did many bad and illegal things as a young man. As I grew older the way I see things changed. Because how I see and understand things changed I am now a monk. Do you understand?” I said: “No, I don’t.” And he explained: “You have only gone from one god to another. One worship to another. One blindness to another. And you believe this to be change and growth. If you are not blind, then what is the Nature of this Self you now worship? Where is it? What does it look like? How did it come to be?”
Being a Satanist to me was kind of dumb. There really wasn’t anything to do with it in real life. It was just something you believe, and a label or identity tag you carry around. Other then that I was just me for most of the day. And after a year of contemplating on my grandpa’s question on the Nature of my Self, I figured out I really was clueless about its nature and I was as blind to its nature as I was to the nature of god, and everything. I figured out that beneath the trinkets of beliefs I had, I actually knew nothing about the Nature of anything.
That’s when I began to seriously study Buddhism. But in a Buddhist culture, with monks in your family, studying Buddhism isn’t like having a Buddhist study buddy indoctrinate you with superficial beliefs. It’s frustrating because there seems to be nothing to believe in, and when you ask a question, the answer is given in the form of a question and you’re suppose to figure things out on your own.
So I spent most of my time as a Buddhist not learning any teachings or doctrines, but learning how to see things. Which was totally bizarre if you compare it to the act of learning and being a Christian or Satanist where you believed in different things but you see things in the same essential way.
And there were other odd things I did as a Buddhist like Sati [mindfulness]. It’s a form of “meditation” which eventually helps you see things. You can sati with anything, like eating and walking. For example with eating it goes like this for me: [There is a fork in my left hand. There are muscles in my left hand holding the fork. My left hand moves the fork to the plate. There is a piece of meat on the end of my fork. There is a brain in my head that moved my left hand to the plate. My left hand moves the fork to my mouth. I am chewing the meat which used to be a cow. There is a reason why I am eating the cow. The cow probably came from Texas. I wonder how far into the past its DNA goes? I swallowed the cow meat. My stomach will break it down. My intestines will absorb it into my blood stream. The cow will become a part of me.]
So from something so simple as eating, when you become mindful of the act of eating, you gain new vantage points of seeing things that you would not have taken notice of before. For example I know that my hand moved to the plate because that movement was initiated by an impulse from my brain. But now I can ask myself: What initiated the brain to initiate the impulse in the first place? Or after being mindfully aware that the cow’s protein is used by my body to rebuild its parts, and that the cow ate grass and that the grass ate sunlight, I now see that there is a real interconnection between me, the cow, grass, and the sun.
So that’s how I “studied” Buddhism. What I am trying to say is that Buddhism – as I learned it – was never a holy book, or teachings, or a prefabricated set of beliefs you blanket over some reality you lack an understanding of. It wasn’t some label I wore or some label I identified with. It wasn’t some ritual or ceremony I perform occasionally here and there. It was just a way of seeing things, and gaining better vantage points, and thus greater insight, and as you progress in vantage points and insight you develop what Buddhism called Sambuddhi: Self Enlightenment. And it’s this mode or function of Mind that I grew to value and appreciate above religion, facts, truths, and conventional knowledge.
Nobody teaches you anything. If I had a question, my bhikkhu grandpa would just grin a toothless smile and answer me with a question, which forced me to go learn to think for myself and go find my own answers. And to find those answers to questions I had, I only had two sources to go to: Nature or the World of Phenomena; and the experiences in my own Life. There is no belief involved in all of it. There is nothing to believe. There are only things perceived, and that can change later with a change in mental capacity, level of understanding, and angle of perception.
The Nature Of Truth
I dislike the English word “truth.” No such term or idea exists in Khmer or Buddhism. The closest Khmer word to “truth” we have is “Bhidt.” Bhidt is the etymological opposite of “Krohawk” which means a Lie or Fib. Bhidt basically means “Honest,” “Authentic,” “Accurate.” For example my mom went to a psychic fortuneteller once [many times] and when the readings were very accurate she’d gossip about it to her sisters and my aunts would say: “Wow, bhidt [Accurate] main [Indeed]!” It didn’t mean that what the psychic was saying was absolute fact or spiritual truth. It just meant she was pretty accurate. So an idea or belief that is Bhidt doesn’t mean it is absolute fact and cosmically true. It just means that such idea or belief is your Honest Opinion or your Honest Belief or knowledge you believe to be accurate.
In Buddhism [Pali] the word most often mistranslated as “truth” or “fact” is Sacca [pronounced Saccha or Sajhak]. Saccha actually means: “That which you have come to know to be accurate,” or “knowledge which is assumed to be accurate.” The Accuracy of saccha actually depends on how you see and understand things. Truth or Fact in English seems to suggest that it is so truly true that it is beyond doubt and absolute and anything else is false.
For example, there was a time when Europeans believed that the entire universe was a flat Europe. It was truth and anything else was just poppycock. But then Africa and Asian came into the picture due to trade. So the Truth changed to the whole universe beings Europe, Africa, and Asia, but everything was still flat, and anything else was uneducated. But then Columbus came and messed the Truth up. So then the whole universe was a whole round world, but the Truth was this round world was the center of the universe and anything else was heretical!
But then Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton came and messed things up. So the Fact was now changed to the round world was going around the sun which was in some galaxy, that came about by gravity, but the galaxy was it! And anything else was just unscientific. But then somebody discovered there were billions of galaxies. So now the Fact is that the universe is really big, filled with many galaxies yes, but surely we’re the only intelligent anythings in the whole universe: and anything beyond this is ludicrous. It’s almost as if the mundane mind never really learns that Truth doesn’t really exist. Or that when some authority figure sets a limit to Truth, that these mundane minds lacks the intelligence and wit to go beyond such limits to see what’s on the other side. But for the sake of convenience, I’ll use the word truth anyways.
From a daily mindfulness of Life: from the mindful awareness of Nature, and the Vantage Points gained, there arises the understanding that there exists two sets of understandings [or facts, or truths]: 1) conventional/relative; and 2) “supra-conventional.” This also isn’t a belief. It’s just that when you are in the business of seeing the Nature of things [Physis] you eventually will make these two categories to stick your insights into.
For example to me the idea or fact, or theory, or belief, or truth that men and women are different is real and true [accurate]: conventionally. Guys and girls are very different from one another in mind and body. But ultimately or “supra-conventionally” they are both expressions of the same Humanness or Humanity you see?
So it can be said that this supra-conventional way of understanding something is the state in which that something is apprehended in its Complete, or Whole state. Whereas the conventional way of seeing things is when one sees instead that same Wholeness in its separate parts or pieces. And it is when Mind or Consciousness is attached to or fixated on a certain aspect of these separate parts or pieces – oblivious or blind to the Whole – that problems arises. It’s like you were looking through a peek hole in a wooden fence and you base your entire worldview and belief system on the limited things you can see through that peek hole, never realizing that there could be more; or sometimes actually passionately denying and fighting the possibility of there being more then your peek hole perspective.
I have this expensive watch I wear sometimes. To me the most important parts about this watch are its face and the battery inside. One day my watch stopped working. I assumed it stopped working because the hands stopped moving. So I figured it that the battery was dead. I took it to the repair guy to change my battery for me. He puts on one of those eye pieces and looks around inside and said that it wasn’t the battery, but that a little gear needed to be replaced. Which was when I actually realized in Heart that there was more to the Nature of a watch then just its face and battery.
So in my Buddhist way I asked the repair guy how he sees a watch. My repair guy said to me that a watch and a clock or something as big as Big Ben were all the same: the intricate system of gears and parts working together as a single system. So all that time my perception of that watch was Limited to a mere two parts: a face and a battery. That’s called ignorance. Ignorant because I was unaware of the bigger picture: the Complete Perception of the Total Nature of that watch.
It’s easy for us to understand this watch example, because it’s easy to step back and see the bigger picture in which the watch is actually made of many, many little gears and sprockets that all work together as a single system. But it’s hard to maintain this mindfulness of the Wholeness of things regarding the many aspects of life. And that’s where many of our human problems come from.
For example, the Belief in Moral Absolutes or Moral Truths. Many of us have this idea that evil exists in the world, and we Believe that the existence of such evil is fact and truth and universal. So we invent religions and worldviews based on such Beliefs. But such people never realize that such beliefs are relative and conventional. What one social group of people judge and valuate to be evil may not be perceived as such in other social groups [cultures, nations].
For instance in America is it wrong, and a crime for a grown man to have sex with a 13 year old girl. Lawmakers right now have this idea of locking up men that do this in prison for life and chemically castrating them. But on the other side of the world in Yemen, Muslim Clerics are pressuring the government to maintain laws that allow grown men to marry child brides as young as 13. Or even in the same social group of people such as Christians, evils and morals are not quite absolute. It’s morally heinous and evil from a Christian perspective and worldview to abort babies, because killing is evil. But these same people see nothing wrong with supporting capital punishment and wars that kills millions of Iraqis and Afghans.
A better example for us is something I personally experience. When I was in my early teens and more ignorant, I had read the Satanic Bible and believed that Might Is Right was a Fact of Nature. Only because I thought Darwin’s theory of evolutions stated something like: “survival of the fittest.” I never personally seen or witnessed any species fight and compete with anything to survive, but that didn’t matter. The idea itself made sense to me at the time. Only so because of my limited perspective of things. But as I started being more mindful of Life, and trying to gain new and higher vantage points to see the Wholer side of the Nature of things, I started to disagree with this Might Is Right idea.
Nothing in Nature competes or fights to survive. Everything co-exists in a symbiotic interconnectedness with everything else. Which is why it’s called an ecosystem. We now know that even if one part of Nature – an ecosystem – is removed or goes extinct, that the System is upset and can have catastrophic end results. So after I gained this more Wholer perspective of the Nature of Nature, I realized that I had based my identity and entire worldview and understanding of who and what I was on a very limited perception or interpretation of Life which was not accurate: not Bhidt, not Saccha. When I did realize this, I was Free and Liberated from my fixation or attachment to that limited understanding. And from that Liberation of Mind, I was able to grow and progress to different vantage points.
And these aren’t “Buddhist” perspectives I am sharing. Any fool with half a brain that works, who takes the time to go beyond their limits of conventional mundane perception will eventually See this. But it takes mental discipline. I use this mental discipline on a daily basis, and it’s this Discipline of Mind that I find hard to compromise, so that it is near impossible for me to devolve back to some Materialistic-Atheistic Satanist or some Theistic Christian.
The Crime Of Perception
It used to be – not to long ago – that belief was a crime. Meaning that when a sectarian regime or political regime has set a standard of belief and truth, that if you deviated from such beliefs and truths you were a heretic, shunned by society, and punished by the law, often with death.
We assume that because we have the freedom today to believe and worship what we want that things have changed with our ruling regimes, society, and the law but have things changed? If there was a standard perception of things, what would happen if you deviated from this established standard?
During the 70’s it was believed – or the standard perception of things were – that being Human was unique, and that as a zoologist or biologist studying animals you cannot see in animal life Human nature. This was sometimes called Anthropomorphication or Anthropomorphic Interpretation/Projectionism. If you did See Humanness in animals such as “Culture” you were ridiculed by your peers, shunned from your scientific community, and lost your job. But today, we now know that animals have culture. The easiest example on I can give on the fly are chimps who have a culture of inserting twigs in termite mounds to fish for termites. This cultural meme is something they are instinctively born with. It is learned and acquired via observation and trial.
Not to long ago there lived a mad scientist named Wilhelm Reich who had unorthodox modes of perception that deviated from established views. Mr. Reich for one, observed under his microscope that under certain conditions – when orgone was present – dead matter, or decomposed biomatter produced these little life forms he called “Bions.” He had this unorthodox idea that some kind of naturally present life force in the ether he called “Orgone” was the difference between dead matter and living matter. Mr. Reich started to invent a technology based on this Orgone energy.
But he had been studying his Bions and how these bions came to life from dead matter. And from this observation he theorized that perhaps these things were the agents of disease. That perhaps when cells in a body dies and decomposes [which happens every second in your body] that if negative orgone affected this dead matter, those harmful bions would be produced, which caused diseases. This theory of his lead him to study a relatively new disease during his time called Cancer.
Wilhelm Reich’s unorthodox perception of what cancer was did not go well with the authorities. Especially when Mr. Reich was stating that Cancer can be cured based on his research. Nobody knows what his research discovered or if his theories were accurate. But what is known is that his government arrested him, seized all of his books and research papers, and burned everything. He was shunned and rejected by mundane society, and died a poor and forgotten man.
Are you free as an individual to deviate from a standard way of perceiving something which your government has established? For example, if you were living in a Capitalist nation during a Cold War, and you deviated from this standard Capitalist worldview, what would happen to you? Or if you were a doctor and you challenged the views of the FDA and pharmaceutical corporations? Or if you were a scientist and you challenged the views of mainstream Gravity-Cosmology and Big-Bangers?
Gods, Truths, and beliefs these days are cheap. It affects the government and state and status quo very little what gods and religious beliefs you have. What is important these days is perception, views, and established Facts.
We laugh at the idea of the stupidity of people back then in the “Dark Ages” who were dumb enough to follow religious laws and belief in their religious perceptions. Some group of men can just interpret some bible and make laws to govern, gain wealth, and power over the lives of people from cradle to grave and all they have to do is wave their bibles and writs in the air and those olden day morons believed every world of it didn’t they?
Now we have these guys in bureaucracies and scientific institutions, and pharmaceutical industries making laws that run your life, get rich from you, and gain power over you from cradle to grave, waving their writs and research papers based on Facts in the air and ain’t nobody morons anymore huh? Some of you mundanes just believe every word and writ and suck it all up like gay boys to a dick don’t you?
Mundane Perception
Mundanes can be understood as “Extremophiles.” They just love extremes; you can say they suffer from Extremophilia. There attention and eyes only see extreme views. It’s like their visual cortex in the back of their brain has only two Reality Color Cones and Rods: one for “This Extreme,” and the other for “That Extreme,” ain’t nothing in between. Things gotta be either black or white. If it’s grey or some other shade, it just don’t make any sense to them. If you want to find Mundanes, all you have to do is go to an extreme views point: Materialist-Atheists or Spiritual-Theists, they’re all there, the billions of them; can’t miss them. They’re the people that actually passionately believe the peek hole perception of reality they are fixated on is the only thing real.
They see the whole world and universe with their half brained, crosseyed, halfassed binary perception. There’s a Good god and an Evil god, nothing in between or nothing more. The universe is either finite or infinite. It’s either got to be one universe or an infinity number of multiverses. Some invisible god either made them miraculously or some swamp gas made them miraculously; there just exist no other possible option for them. Human civilization either has to be capitalist or communist; totalitarian or democratic; no other possibility or potential exists for them. They go to sleep and dream and then they wake up, and from that mundane experience they interpret life as being either real like waking life or an illusion like dream life.
Mundanes are also perceptually lazy. They have no views of their own. You have to spoon feed shit to them, and if it isn’t an extreme view then it won’t stimulate their two brain cones to fire so they can make any sense of it. Your views you spoon feed these mental cripples either have to make them feel like cosmically miserable self-loathing sinful creatures or like they are their own supergods with cosmic powers to control the universe and hordes of lesser spirit gods and demons.
Their eyeballs work; they see stuff; but they don’t know what they are looking at. You have to tell them. That’s why religion has been the best selling business in human history.
It doesn’t even matter if they never seen the shit you sell them: heaven, hell, paradise with 72 virgins. Whatever, as long as it’s extreme: Live Forever in the Highest heaven at the most tippy toppest place or burn for eternity in the lowest pits of hell. Not 1 or 2 virgins, 72 virgins! These people are so limited in their power of perception that if you’re a Jew then so is God. If you’re black, then you worship a Black Jesus. If you’re Chinese, you’re gods got slanty eyes too.
If you’re a materialist then you god is a symbol. If you’re a spiritualist then your god is a spirit human. But your religion has to be extreme. It must either be extremely restrictive or the whole opposite and be extreme mindlessly liberal. And your religion must have an exciting extreme plot. Like a good looking good god battling an ugly evil god, with angels with nice teeth warring with demons with bad teeth, all fighting for the souls of humans, because we’re so special, and because gods just have nothing else better to do with their eternity. And there needs to be at least a cataclysmic end of the world at the turn of every century because mundanes love to fret over extreme scenarios. Or your religion isn’t going to attract adherents. Which is why things like Zen Buddhism isn’t all that popular with Mundanes, because zazen is just sitting still in an unexciting way.
They see a sun, and they grass, but they’re too stupid and lazy to perceive the bigger picture of there being a causal connection of some sort. Things they see in their barely functioning brains are permanently separated. If there is no wire or tether connecting anything, then it ain’t connected and have nothing to do with each other. Nature isn’t an integrated system of symbiotic co-dependent life forms and parts. It’s a war zone where everything is out for itself, and where it doesn’t matter if you use just one or two species into extinction.
Most of these Mundanes today are born, bred, raised, and conditions in industrialized cities. Like chickens born, bred, raised, and conditioned their entire lives inside industrial chicken coops: Used for their meat and eggs. So they know of no other “reality” but what urban “stuff” their minds are born and conditioned to see. So you have these idiot urbanite Satanists who invent some “law of the jungle” to follow and believe in as fact when the closest thing to a jungle they’ve experienced is a city park or the local zoo. Most have ADD so they can’t even sit through a nature show on PBS to learn shit.
They take their chicken coop perspective and superimpose it onto everything. It’s a struggle and a fight to survive in the city. Every other human begin in a city is competition. You gotta compete for food, for jobs, for houses, for wives, for retirement pension plans. Only the strong survive. So they project that chicken coop conditioning onto Nature and either worship and follow some Darwinian Struggle law or some god figure that will somehow save them from the fucked up chicken coop they made for themselves.
They project their chicken coop worldview onto the whole universe. Just watch their stupid science fiction movies. Every alien creature is ugly and is out to kill and use humans or compete with humans for the earth, like the whole universe with its billions of galaxies lacks an uninhabited habitable planet, so they just have to come to this one and bug us. The whole universe to these stupid idiots is a big Darwinian chicken coop. No wonder 6 billion of them believe in some God! You need to have a saviour to save your ass if you believe you live in a cut throat evil filled chicken coop.
They move from one extreme to another in life. From one god to another. From one belief to another. From one set of abstractions to another. From one set of authority figures to another. And they think this movement is change and evolution. It’s about as evolutionary as a mental institute resident being moved from one room on one end of the asylum to the other end. Nothing changed because you’re still in the same fucked up building! You still got the same delusional worldviews, you’re still in the same paradigm, you still see things in extremes and opposites.
Pigeon Brains
Most mundandes hate B.F. Skinner and those weird guys into Behavioural Science; who make them feel like dumb machines with pigeon brains that are easily manipulated and programmed.
So basically you have a pigeon in a cage, and you give the dumb pigeon two buttons to peck at: a red one and a green one. You make the red one do something negative like shock the bird, and the green one dispenses food. After a while the pigeon will “learn” to avoid the red button and peck only the green one. This is significant because when you looks closely, you see that the pigeon was incapable of making for itself a “third” option or it’s own option. It made its choice of which button to peck at based only on what options were given to it. But Mundanes are smarter than pigeons right?
Mundanes don’t have their own views of anything. They are incapable of figuring out things for themselves. As Kayla says: “The Market does not have opinions of its own.” If the Market had their own opinions, or if Mundanes actually had the ability to formulate their own views, then marketing and advertising would not be a multi-trillion dollar business; and religion and politics would not work or exist. You give these people their opinions and views. They are incapable of thinking for themselves or determining their own wyrd.
Nowhere do Mundane’s express their inherent stupidity and lack of view then in marketing and advertising. You have companies that come out with new products. New product meaning nobody has ever seen it or tried it. The company hired a company that specializes in marketing and advertising to sell their new product. If the advertisement for the new product is Convincing enough, the people will buy the product. In other words, they trust whoever is Convincing enough as an authority figure and even though they have never directly tried or experienced that new product before, they will buy. If your product lacks the quality to sell by a Convincing argument, then you do a smear campaign on the product’s nearest competition, and if your smear campaign is Convincing enough, then the new product sells.
The same pigeon brain game is used in religion. You give the Market to buttons to peck: Red Button = Burn in hell forever; Green Button = Go to heaven. If your religion lacks attributes that makes it sellable, you bring in a competing religion as the second option and make that second option look negative. In this scenario the Mundane – the billions of them – all lack the ability to create for themselves a “third” button to peck, or they lack the power to make themselves their own option. The less options you give to these pigeon brained Mundanes, the easier it is to manipulate them. You give them their opinions and their views, but you make it appear as if they have some free will to choose what they like and want to do. Just like the government gives you the free will to choose to pay taxes or go to jail, but you give wonderful reasons why taxation is good.
Politics uses the same pigeon brained game. Give these people as few options as possible. Make the options you do not want them to choose sound bad, and make the option you want them to pick sound good. Dictatorship or Democracy? Communism or Capitalism? Anarchy or Statism? These Mundanes lack the ability to invent their own options. They pick what between what options are given. You tell them you do not believe in the State and want to eradicate Nations and governments, and they become confused and ask you what you will live in and what you will replace it with; because they were never given such an option to peck at. They lack the power to create their own ideas and opinions.
Facts and science now unfortunately work in the same way. Science is no longer based on empirical research and experimentation. If your argument and math is most Convincing, it is Fact. Give a smartass materialist Mundane these two options: 1) Pick Creationism and look like a fool; or 2) Darwinian evolution and look smart and which would they choose? If you do a good job ridiculing the first option, and making the second option Convincing, they will predictably pick the second. The less options you give them, the more predictable their choices are; the more predictable they are, the easier it is to control and maneuver them en mass into a direction of your choice.
Facts or Truths don’t exist. Mundanes will Believe in anything as long as the options are few and as long as you can Convince them to agree. Belief and Truth for Mundanes is an agreement. Mundanes go to school, or read books, or listen to authority figures, and if what they read, or hear is agreeable they call it “learning,” and “believing.” They do not learn or believe in things from direct experience and insights gains from experience. The most they will gain from an experience is a pigeon brained approach where they will learn to avoid things and experiences which yields negative [hurtful] results. If the results of an experience does not hurt physically or emotionally they will not learn to avoid it. Which is why such people become easily addicted to drugs, alcohol, and gambling, and not even ever realize that such addiction is harmful or destructive to themselves and their loved ones until it’s too late.
If you were a group of wealthy Oligarchies and some king was getting in your way to power, what would you do? You give the people – who lack a view and opinion of their own – two options: Tyranny under monarchism, or Liberty with Democracy. The worse you make the first choice sound, and the better you make the second one seem, the more they will believe the second choice is their own opinion. And just like pigeons, these Mundanes lack the ability to make for themselves a third option, or their own extra option.
This is what I mean by perception and lack of perception. This is what I mean when I say that problems arises when we base our beliefs and worldviews on limited fields of perception. You cause problems when you cannot see or apprehend the Complete Nature or state of something. You limit not only your own growth and evolution when you limit your perception to only fractions of the Totality of something, but you mess up other people’s lives to, and fuck up the world. Instead of learning to see and understand the nature and way of what is the Totality of Life, you fixate your mind on a single fraction of it blind to everything else.
There is more to Life then just killing and sex, but most of us can only see such extremes, and we make such a big deal out of them in our lives, our religions, our politics, and our worldviews. When there is so much more to Life in its Whole state of being. Most of us can’t even get ourselves to understand that we are not an independent fractional aspect of Nature, but that we are a living indivisible part of what is the Complete state or Totality of Nature. And from that inability to understand our place and relationship to Nature, we abuse it, not understanding what wyrdful results we weave for those generations of people to come after us.
Disciplining your Mind to teach it to see the Whole picture or the Complete nature of something is not exclusive to Buddhist, or to any single culture. Those people who have the natural ability to ascend above Mundanity and Mundane Perception have created countless methods of coming to a higher or greater understanding of the nature of things. There are many names and methods. Sometimes it’s called dialectics, sometimes mindful analysis, sometimes the method is Vibhajjavada, other times the Socratic Method, and yet other times the Hegelian Dialectics. Some may work better for different people. Whatever the method, this is something that the ONA and its Initiates cannot do without for many reasons. The first and obvious reason being to transcend Mundaneness. The second most relevant reason being that the study and understanding of Nature and the nature of things is an integral aspect of the ONA Way.
The ONA Way
“The epistemology of the Esoteric Philosophy of the ONA asserts that there are two distinct types of knowing – causal and acausal – and that:
“A) knowledge of the causal continuum can be obtained by causal Science which is based on the following foundations:
“(i) the causal, phenomenal, universe exists independently of us and our consciousness, and thus independent of our senses; (ii) our limited understanding of this causal ‘external world’ depends for the most part upon our senses – that is, on what we can see, hear or touch; that is, on what we can observe or come to know via our senses and by practical scientific experiments; (iii) logical argument, or reason, is the basic means to knowledge and understanding of and about this ‘external world’; (iv) the cosmos is, of itself, a reasoned order subject to rational laws; (v) that, in competing explanations of events or observations, the simplest and most logical explanation is to be preferred.” – Guide To The Esoteric Philosophy Of The ONA
Before an epistemological anything can be “knowledged” or extracted from this causal, phenomenal universe, by logical argument or reason, certain basic and causal things must first be understood. The first Question is where does that “logic” or “reason” come from in the first place? Or another way to ask this question is: Where does what we know come from or what are we reasoning?
I think one of the most frustrating things is getting into an argument about the existence of other Gods or the “trueness” of other religions with a Christian. So you ask them to explain to give to you the logical reasons why they believe their god is real and why their religion is the right one. They will start to name things out of the bible to logically back their argument up. Then you present your argument to explain how another religion or god may be better and truer. And these Christians will usually invalidate your argument by saying: “But the bible says […]” Which is to suggest that they use, and they want you to use Ideas from the bible to measure things with.
So the notion that we dislike Mundanes and Mundane perception and Mundane worldviews, the idea that we should ascend above such Mundane understandings, and the implication that we use Mundane logic and Mundane facts, and Mundane reason to measure and figure out the mysteries of the universe is the same deal. Wherever a Mundane gets their logic and reason from, it is where we do not want to go shopping for tools to measure the world with.
Usually a Mundane will read a text book for their logic and reason. And if an argument or idea is in agreement with their worldviews and level of understanding they will Believe it and use it as a means to see and understand their world, and we already know how they see and understand the world.
And understanding this world is an important aspect of the ONA because it is restated again in different manuscripts in different ways. Such as the following ONA MSS which provides a clue as to where the Dreccian will get their understandings, logic, and reason from:
“The essence of the Traditional Satanism perspective about our origins in the causal Universe is reason – or rather, what used to be called Natural Philosophy: through observation, experiment and the use of reason, or logic, we can understand our world, the causal Cosmos, and ourselves. Thus, Traditional Satanism is, in one important respect, a rationalist Way of Life which accepts: (1) that the Causal Universe (or Causal Reality) exists independently of us and our consciousness, and thus independent of our senses; (2) our limited understanding of this causal ‘external world’ depends for the most part upon our senses – that is, on what we can see, hear or touch; that is, on what we can observe or come to know via our senses; (3) logical argument – reason – and experiment are the best means to knowledge and understanding of and about this ‘external world’; (4) the Causal Universe is, of itself, a reasoned order subject to rational laws; (5) our faculty of acausal-empathy is a means for us to know the nexion we are, and how we can discover our correct relationship to all other life. Thus, practical reason – Natural Philosophy – enables us to comprehend the external, physical, causal, Universe.” – Ontology and Theology of Traditional Satanism
It’s from Natural Philosophy that what we know comes from, or it is this that we are reasoning. Natural Philosophy is essentially the study of Nature and the physical universe. Most importantly via Observation of Nature and the Causal Universe. So we come to the very opening subject of this essay: Perception.
Our Perception – how we see things – is the foundation of our beliefs and worldviews. How we see things, or what our consciousness if fixated on, influences how we see and understand the world. For example, if you were hiking in a forest along a trail with the intent on coming to an understanding of the Nature of that forest, and your Mind becomes fixated on a bear or a snake obstructing your path, the forest you are in suddenly vanishes out of your awareness doesn’t it? And this is what extreme views or attention grabbing aspects of Life does to us. It distracts consciousness so that you are only aware of that which has attracted your mind’s fixation [attention].
Your Conscious Mind is a tool of limited power. It is like a magnifying glass. It brings into clear detail only what it fixates on and blurs everything else. It is like holding your hand in front of a painting. If you fixate your conscious awareness on a line on your hand, you lose perspective and a clear – detailed – of the painting. Except on our Human level of things, that painting is Reality, and the hand in front is literally what we are fixated on that is most often in front of our face. The Mundane – Anariya – thing is to turn what you fixate your Mind on and see clearly as a factual conviction, and use it to measure reality with oblivious to every other potential and possibility: the rest of the 99% of reality your Mind has blurred.
So back to our forest analogy. On your left side of your trail their was a big pine tree with a sign on it that said “atheism,” and on your right side there was a pine tree with a sign that said “theism” on it. If your mind – mindful awareness – is fixated on one of these trees, it cannot see the other. But when you train your mind to be mindful of its surroundings and you learn to shift your mind around so that it mindfully apprehends both trees and the forest such that you Realize inside that both trees are only a fraction of what is the Complete forest.
For the sake of convenient we will call the first form of perception in which consciousness is fixated on a single tree “Relative Perception,” since it is fixated on a single relative aspect of a Complete whole. The second form of higher perception can be called “Epirelative Perception,” where the Mind has ascended above all relative parts or aspects of a Complete whole and is aware of the Whole in its Complete state.
Aside from Observation of Nature and the Causal Universe, Experimentation is also a practical method for extracting insight from Nature. To this category of apprehension of knowledge belongs Pathei-Mathos because there is an aspect relative to Causal Reality called Life where Direct Experience works best to extract insight and a deeper understanding of things.
As Dreccians, we either trouble ourselves with the struggle of gaining a deeper and clearer apprehension of Nature, and our Reality, by our own direct observation of Nature, experimentation in Nature, and direct experience of Life to gain insights. Or we do it the lazy way mundanes do it by just reading some text book, or going to some authority figure and asking questions, and agreeing with the most convincing text or argument. One way actually involves logic and reason, while the other involves only agreement to other people’s ideas and opinions about something they have no direct apprehension or experience of.
Sinister Exetasis
Sinister Exetasis is essentially the process of using Epirelative Perception to explicate inner insight regarding Nature, Reality, Life, and ourselves in relation to everything. By the word “Sinister” we mean to say that there is a Mundane way of coming to know something which is either conventional or based on peek hole relative perception. The actually meaning of the word “Conventional” is the enememe of “Sinister.” A Conventional “something” is a “something” that has been established as a standard, model, truth, or fact. In the general case with Mundanes, they will read or be told a conventional fact, such as the Big Bang theory, and when the conventional idea is accepted, their thinking stops. But there was no thinking on their part in the first place. There was just agreement to a conventional idea.
By the word “Exetasis” we mean to say that there are certain methods of Examination and Logical Analysis used to get from Relative Perception and conscious fixation of relative articles of perception to a higher state of understanding of the Complete Nature of things via an Epirelative Awareness and Perception which includes reason, Doubt and Questioning of conventional models, and critical thinking, but also intuition, and inner insight. We can say that to go through the process of apprehending a higher state of understanding the Nature of things is to “Exetize” conventional relative articles of perception such that a bigger picture – Epiretative Perception – is obtained.
There are three steps or landmarks to Sinister Exetasis thus are as follows:
- Complete Mindfulness
- Complete Apprehension
- Complete Understanding
By “Complete Mindfulness” we mean the process where the Mind of the Dreccian acts to transcend or ascend above Mundane fixation of an extreme view, or fixation of a single relative article of perception by striving and training or disciplining the Mind to become Mindfully Aware of all relative articles of perception or all aspects of the Totality of a subject being observed.
It’s harder then it sounds to become consciously mindful of something, and it’s even harder to be mindful of many somethings together. But it’s this struggle of becoming mindfully aware of things in life that causes one to ascend Mundane awareness. Most Mundanes spend their entire existence numb to Life, and are only aware of a minute fraction of what is the Totality of Life; such as American Idol, the latest teen heart throb, the latest celebrity gossip, their car, random girls with big breasts, their favorite music band; you know: stuff that are very important in Mundanity.
Becoming Mindfully Aware of the Complete Nature of things is difficult and takes discipline. It is much harder then reading a text book for pre-fabricated answers. Answers and insights come from within. But from my own experience, the Mind is highly adaptable and when you have trained your Mind to become mindfully aware of the Complete picture of something, it will Naturally go through its process of generating inner insights to come to a deeper understanding. And it is that insight generated from within that we want to cultivate. Because in such a condition where insights comes from within based on direct and personal observation, nothing or nobody comes int between you and reality as some interpreter or middle man.
Complete mindfulness suggests that there is an Incomplete Mindfulness of things. Incomplete Mindfulness is the usual process by which a Mundane comes to know something. Generally a Mundane will fixate its awareness on the first attention grabbing thing and construct an entire worldview and cosmology on it. For example if Materialism jumps out at a Mundane and is convincing or in agreement with this Mundane’s level of perception and understanding, he will hold onto this single conventional mode of relative perception, fixate his Mind onto it, and become oblivious or passionately reject anything else. By the word “Relative” we mean to suggest that there exists in such or all cases multiple models or articles of conventional perception relative to the one a Mundane has lost itself in.
Complete Apprehension is the state in which when you have learned to become mindfully aware of your surroundings, minute details, causation and interconnection of things, the various relative articles perception, are pieced together like pieces of a puzzle so that one becomes Aware that there does indeed exist a bigger or Complete state of Nature of something.
To obtain Complete Apprehension we first have to examine things closely for their Epirelative nature [Physis]. This act of mindfully analyzing and examining things for their Epirelative essential nature depends of Reason and Insight. Complete Apprehension does not demand or depend on conjecture or supposition; it demands that we Reason and Think in accord with our own inner insights, rather than take another’s word for it. Direct apprehension and direct experience are crucial. The practice of Sinister Exetasis is designed to reveal to us how things really are. To see things in complete clarity is to attain Complete Understanding.
Complete Understanding of the Nature of something is more a Realization than a learning. By “learning” I mean how a Mundane acquires new “knowledge,” which is from an act of agreeing to an outside source or opinion or some sort: books or experts.
Coming to a Complete Understanding of a subject matter isn’t just a different view of something. It is the act of the Mind Liberating itself from a prison of delusion. And we already have explained above the many problems and consequences a Mundane experiences and causes when its Mind is captivates and imprisoned in delusions brought about by a total fixation of relative perception. By “Liberation” we mean the act of Mind overcoming or going beyond limitations and becoming Self Enlightened. You do not need books or some exert to tell you what is real or true. You have the potential to figure things out on your own.
A quick example of coming to a more complete understanding of something is being straight or gay. Mundanes really make a big deal out of sex when its just one aspect of what is the Totality of Life. They will grab hold of the most agreeable attention grabbing model: being straight, and from that fixation of relative perception, they incriminate everything else that does not fit into their little box of conventionally “accepted sex.”
These Mundanes lack the ability to step back to gain a greater understanding of things to ever realize that on a Human level – considering all 7 billion Humans – being straight is just one mere point in a much wholer or completer spectrum of human sexual expression. So that we see that such a fixation and glorification of a mere single pint of a spectrum not only causes limitations but also generates very real problems that are experienced. How many gay people have been murdered just for a mode of human sexual expression? How much money and time and energy does the conservative establishment spend on this subject as if it’s a matter of life and death to a nation?
One other example of Sinister Exetasis is when I observe my Self aeonically. When I step back and become aware of my whole existence thus far. I see that in my beginning I began as a very primitive and helpless baby and as I grew, my awareness, and conscious mind grew sharper and more sophisticated. And I realize that like a flowing river, I am never the same thing twice. As I flow, everything about me changes: my memories, my opinions, my perception, my thoughts, my feelings, my age, my body, and my cells of my body. So when I “Exetize” all this together, the insight that there exists a process in which consciousness is in a state of evolution is explicated you see. And this knowing, or insight, did not come from any book or from some expert. It came from inside myself.
Another example of Exetizing relative articles of perception is when I step back to become mindfully aware on an aeonic level causal life from it’s earliest beginnings to the present. I don’t know where life came from. All I know is that over the course of time causal life evolves or changes in spurts collectively to become more advanced and sophisticated, such that we humans have come into existence as very unique organisms.
And when I consider our level of intelligence, and our technological advancements, and the near future possibility of our species colonizing space in relation to other causal life on earth, I see or understand a greater picture or vision in which Humanity will one day not just colonize space, but will spread the germ of Earthly causal Life across the vast expanse of the galaxy.
From being able to see a greater perception of something, you are then able to see greater potential and to actually work to actualize that higher potential, which is what I mean when I say that Complete Understanding is the Liberation – and evolution – of Mind. It is via the willed effort and struggle for higher potential that we and all things evolve and become new things. His evolution can’t happen when you are blind to such greater possibilities because your Mundane mind is mired in peek hole delusions. Small Minds become lost in small things.
This Sinister Exetasis and the cultivation of it along with Pathei-Mathos are two things which the Dreccian can actually use and practice in daily life in the real world that is uniquely ONA and Sinister, in the sense that it helps the Dreccian evolve in Mind and Being from the state of mind and state of being of Mundane conventionalism. Sinister Exetasis, Pathei-Mathos, The Sinister Method, Natural Philosophy, The Dark Tradition, and the Seven Fold Way together as a Complete System becomes not only the ONA Way of Life, but the ONA Science – the Knowledge of the Nature of – Mind and Life as well. Mind is a central and fundamental element of Reality. Without it there can be no perception or experience. Yet, we often leave this quintessential element out of the equation when we do study Nature, Life, and Reality.
As Time passes, the more we learn about the nature of things on a quantum physical level, the more we will realize this: that Mind wyrdfully determines what is Real to us. The ONA’s main objectives is the evolution of humanity and human civilization to its highest wyrd and potential. The evolution of both begins with Mind. You cannot neglect Mind, and hope to genuinely change anything ignorant of the Nature of Mind and its Role it plays on Reality. Sinister Exetasis is not the final solution to the Science of Mind; but it’s a good place to start. It adds a new dimension and level of understanding things to the ONA. With Sinister Exetasis, an epistemology that ascends above the conventionalism of Mundanity becomes possible.
~C/ONA
