This is a repost from g+ of my focusing my thoughts on a great big
problem in society, namely the use of strawman arguments by superiority
complex type abusers. To help this process I only copied my own posts
here which are excerpts from the conversation, you can read that if the
thread hasn't been deleted by clicking the link.
"Drug abuse simply stands in as a temporary fix to a much deeper
psychological complex. Had there not already been a problem, they
wouldn't have turned to drugs to begin with."
One day I will find the original source of that quoted opinion.
My ba honours degree specialism is in primitivism in art and shamanic communities.
The
earliest cave paintings on this planet show how by taking psychetropic
drugs, humans developed art, hunting, fire, abstract thought, writing,
well basically it began civilisation. Living shaman the world over share
a common description of using these plants for communication with other
dimensions, in many cases using the same words for the same concepts,
even geographically unconnected tribes of different continents. This is
well recorded historical fact by respected authorities and academic
experts. In the west the attitude is either to deny it and label all
such substances as criminal, or to discreetly explore them and see how
far it gets us.
When I woke up one day and decided to start taking
drugs, and then sought relevant experts for my education in practical
shamanism, this was why. Yes I do come from a far from perfect home
background in many ways but take into account that this is western
culture and I do not know anyone at all who does, it is normal and
mainstream. I have to confess a potential bias though as a qualified
counsellor I do perhaps know a disproportionate amount of abused people.
Most of those who use cannabis agree that it helps, and most of those
can function better with it than without. It is the ones who use only
alcohol who are more problematic. Sadly the people who use
pharmaceutical mental pills (which are mostly fluoride based) I find to
be unreachable.
It was one magic mushroom trip cured me overnight from over a decade of
tobacco, cannabis and alcohol addiction. I have read reports from legit
psychology experiments, apparently this is a common experience with
mushrooms.
Primitivism began when african shamanic tools called fetishes, used for
communion with spirits and deity, were brought to the west by explorers
and slavers and merchants as curios.
As they were wood carvings
and often figurative the westerners put them in an art gallery and
called them sculptures, since shamanisn had been destroyed in western
culture the objects were not recognised as tools but as ornaments.
The
next generation of artists in exploring this, got into perception and
began seeing western tools as ornaments, hence duchamps urinals. This
awareness developed into seeing the world in new ways to reveal how
indoctrinated we are. Duchamps c'est nes pas un pipe (it is a painting
of a pipe, a symbol, not an actual real pipe). Rousseaus noble savage
concept. Art was no longer recording history - the emergance of
photography stepped into that role and liberated the artists to explore
through art psychology and perception, this coming toward the end of the
western age of reason, a time of philosophical breakthrough and worship
of the mind. The industrial revolution and the consequences of science
was underway now the church no longer dominated, many believe that the
church is why shamanism was repressed in the west, famous european
catholic witch murders.
So into the twentieth century developed
abstract expressionism, partly funded by communists seeking to covertly
undermine patriotism but largely because art now expressed emotion as
colour, and optical tricks such as bonnards white tiles (he used no
white to paint them because he painted the colourful refraction of light
which is what he actually saw).
The sixties and seventies
psychedelia and liberation movements, a time of great social change
toward equality as mass perception shifted and forced the laws to be
changed. Picasso was the genius of the twentieth century with regards to
this. Andy Warholes pop art where mass factory produced affordable art
for the Bau Haus home.
Telefuckingvision propaganda brainwashing
machine psychedelia in your living room unifying by distraction a
generation in technicolour ...
and then... postmodernism
internet its all been done before plastic retro clone drone zone
ubiquitous, grafiti and concrete high art for political comedy from
Banksy.
Next step is to address global poverty and inequality,
the end of the social caste 1% elite rulers and usury based money system
vs the 99% consumer slaves. Integration of science in this age of
misinformation super road map star map map map muppet generation who are
too afraid to pull off the necessary political coup because nobody
knows or agrees what to replace the tyranny with yet.
My approach
to primitivism is twofold, there is the necessary return to nature as
lifestyle, permaculture so humans can survive instead of pollute.
Americanadian plains indians, the mayan bloodlines, have much to teach
us about this as well as spirituality and about shamanism.
The
other aspect is to study first hand shamanism, by exploring these fetish
items the way their original creators had intended them to be used, and
by communicating with spirit allies also known as organic drugs. For
twenty years, what I have been doing, how I have been living, as a
shaman, a spiritist, has isolated me from both the mainstream western
media fed consumer society that does not believe shamanism to be real,
and persecutes it when it gets too real for them to cope with; and at
odds with the academic shamen who publish books about dressing up as an
animal to woo your inner spirit animal, and to meditate. I do meditate
it is probably the only necessary if you cut all else away. Perfect ypur
breathing skills, after all you wouldnt last long without breathing.
Slowly and deeply. The published shaman guides do not ever seem to
scratch the surface, with exception of Carlos Casteneda which has a
twist at the end.
There is a lot to be said for art, investing of
creative energy into visionary, to increase access into that visionary
world; it is why computer games, second life and opensim type platforms
are so important. Celtic shaman speak of the Otherworlds, real yet vague
places, whose acute nature is defined by the take on it that the
respective observer projects; and we do this communally. Mushrooms are
used to access the otherworlds.
Then there are the recent
aquarian new age white light healers who we need because society is
sick, but who also up until 2013 at least collectively deny primal
shamanism as relevant, and like the christians they call it the black
arts.
Exopolitics is closer to the mark. And it is not easy. Shamanism is not an easy path.
There
is a reason that decades of drug use is necessary to destroy the ego
and the holy revered programmable, rationalist mind of western dogma.
You have to kill yourself and go insane to cope with regular out of body
experiences. You have to kill the mind and the ego self to see reality
purely without filtering it through programmed symbols or distracted by
desires.
I am a useless shaman or I wouldnt be here, but I am
also a teacher which is necessary part of the 'archaic revivalism'
movement.
That is a little insight into my dedication to
primitivism. We were more advanced before ... by exploration we went
through into a wider reality, and our species was invaded by aliens,
reptilians, operating from outside our normal perceptions, hostile
aliens who altered us so we become host bodies for them to occupy in
their schemes for conquest. We pollute this world because they thrive in
that pollution energy spectrum. Yummy radioactive swamp. We have a
fragmented, divided, hostile society which is easy to conquer; people
look for a leader during crisis so the conquerers engineer crisis after
crisis. 9-11, fukishima, banking collapse etc. At this point, the tool
of the invaders is to label the connection between the dots as a
conspiracy theory and those who know what is happening are labelled as
crazy in attempt to get rid of them. Forget the crazy talk, work to pay
your tv internet entertainment distraction bills or go to jail.
Meanwhile
the shaman deal with a much wider universe in which humans have limited
senses most of the time, and the enemies of our species, for example
one mind made of many bodies is called a hive mind. Shamanic science
from the stone age tells that operating from outside of time, one such
mind can simultaneously occupy different bodies located in different
eras in time. Thats how the invasion.
We are lucky, because we can
shift up above their vibrational range, into the light healers spectrum.
The invaders also have limited senses but of a different type,
different limits.
This is part of what I have been experiencing and observing and coping with, and many others.
The
main part of primitivism as shamanism is voodoo culture, from west
africa, haiti and a religious form of it in america; this is mostly
spiritism and ancestor worship.
Also popular in the west is the
constructing and worship deities (when concepts become autonomous gods,
by investing them with sufficient life force energy, one major form of
which is belief) used by magicians using sigils and the like (from
austin o spare to mtv), christians would call them demons; these
entities affect what we call the lower fourth dimension, by programming
into the higher fifth dimension, so it is ego based powers for the
material realm but not spiritual in the ascension of the soul meaning of
the word.
Why we use the one word spirit to mean so many
different things in this langauge shows how repressed these studies are
by english speaking nations.
Primitivism is about keeping it
simple and obvious. Translating the ancients temple teachings carved in
stone, one remembers that they also were aware the common sense need for
this.