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A poem for us to meditate upon, an unholy canticle dedicated to the Trumpian anti-spirit:

Plot twist: there aren’t going to be any future generations because we’re all going to die in a nuclear holocaust.

I thought the two interviewers were quite boring. Then again, I generally don’t like podcasts nowadays… Maybe because I’m too much of a Truth Psychopath!

Interesting. I haven’t heard this term before but it strikes me as an accurate description of the Western system. Somebody like Tony Blair comes to mind as the embodiment of this. Isn’t that basically the situation in the West too, though? Call me cynical but I don’t believe that any of our politicians care about what is in the national interest. Anyway, I mustn’t talk about politics. The bottom line is it’s all over and we’re all doomed. Hallelujah!

Average American woman: Average American man:

Democracy… Whatever one thinks of it, I don’t think democracy has much of a future. Regimes with stronger leaders like Russia and China are already taking over the effete and decadent West. The capacity for long-term planning and the absence of the whole circus of distractions created by party politics are two of the most obvious benefits. If the West wants to compete with them, it will have to rise to this challenge. Political systems tend to alternate in cycles, though. New forms of democracy might reemerge in the distant future.

The Power of the Powerless by Václav Havel comes to mind. The film Brazil is also a funny depiction of living in a totalitarian regime.

@Carl-Richard I resonate with what you said in that, when I was younger, my interest in spirituality had a more cynical, Buddhistic and Schopenhauerian flavour: the world is suffering, pain outweighs pleasure, most pleasure is just the release of painful tension, free-will is an illusion, and so on. As I have gotten older it has taken on a more worldly, life-affirming and Nietzschean form. Now I hope I can move into the Hegelian synthesis of these two! It reminds of this part of the essay I mentioned above:

I agree with this up to a point. However, the path to God is fraught with obstacles. A degree of paranoia is necessary to avoid falling into the many traps that the adversary has set for you.

I’ve just started using this as well as this forum strains my eyes!

I thought this part about the UFO phenomenon was very interesting: This reminds me very much of Twin Peaks: The Return, especially the 8th episode about the nuclear explosion, a vivid depiction of how dark forces have taken over the world. I know that Mark Frost was interested in Kenneth Grant so that makes sense… This is the water And this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within.

But the age of Anti-Christ is necessary so that the false idol of Christ can be negated and Christ’s true nature as absolute nothingness can be realised. In this way, Trump is an unknowing servant of God!

The very end of this essay felt particularly relevant to the mistakes I have made on my own spiritual journey:

Thanks for improving the forum.

I think this dilemma is common nowadays, especially since it isn’t easy to fully commit one’s life to spirituality anymore. Your approach of trying to integrate the two and make one’s career an expression of spiritual practice seems like the best one available. As a fellow musician it’s something I am also still figuring out.

In this way, the satanic rule of Trump is actually the secret hidden path to supreme liberation and enlightenment!

Feminism is just a symptom of living in a collapsing culture. It’s really that simple. It will end when the new dawn rises, when new civilisations arise to take the place of this one.

Roman emperors feel like more relevant examples since they were at least ruling over an empire. Henry VIII’s corruption seems irrelevant in comparison to Trump because his sphere of influence was much smaller. I also think that corruption in post-modernity has taken on a particularly vulgar, juvenile and moronic streak.

You might be right. If you have some good historical examples I’d be interested. I know that, in the ancient world, Sardanapalus was held up as an example of an extremely corrupt and decadent ruler.

Most spiritual teachers in modernity have been somewhat corrupt: Osho, Chögyam Trungpa, Gurdjieff. Even Sri Aurobindo had a weird fetish for his body surviving after death… You also have the Aleister Crowley and Kenneth Grant variety of occultist who embraces corruption and evil as a path to awakening, reminiscent of freemasonic organisations like the Skull and Bones Society which many of these political perverts are known to be a part of. Given the corruption writ large, the Left-Hand Path might even be more powerful in our time, for those who can take it without falling. Sri Ramana and René Guenon stand out as the purest spiritual teachers in relatively recent times.

In this way, Trump - as an avatar of the Anti-Christ - has been sent by God to destroy the false idol of Christ so that we can realise our true nature as absolute nothingness. “Go ahead! Achieve all your goals! Break all the dams! Faster! You are unbound. Go ahead and fly with faster wings, with an ever greater pride for your achievements, with your conquests, with your empires, with your democracies! The pit must be filled; there is a need for fertiliser for the new tree that will grow out of your collapse.” It is nowadays. Maybe it used to be otherwise… Not on anything like the same level of corruption.

Exactly, I think that’s what a lot of this comes down to. Immature people will seek satisfaction in sex. Mature people will recognise that sex, as a form of lower-chakra jouissance, is inherently unfulfilling and will therefore sublimate that energy into something more profound. Unfortunately I seem to have fallen into the former camp…

Exactly. If you’re married for years and your highest priority is sexual satisfaction, you’re probably doing something wrong. Incidentally, that’s one of the themes which runs through Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut: their eyes are being opened sexually whilst their eyes are closed to their obligations as parents. The times where it feels like the God in you sees the Goddess in her and vice versa. The boundless ocean of death and love, mort and amor, in a unison with the infinite light of pure awareness.