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The Aquarian Conspiracy Sex Drugs and Rock ‘N Roll by Lyndon LaRusche; (first published in
The Aquarian Conspiracy: Fact or Fiction on Bible Believers
Psychedelic Alchemy on the Occult of Personality Blog
Unlike my now departed friend Robert Anton Wilson, I’ve never been a fan of occulture or conspiracy theories (although I think that Wilson was more a dilettante than a believer in such matters.
The reason I do not think much of conspiracy theories is that conspiracy is really not part of human nature. Humans are have too much competitiveness and too little intelligence for elaborate conspiracies. We are lucky enough if two or three people show up for lunch on time.
My opinion of occultism is similarly skeptical. Cults are just miniature religions. Just like religion, they require you adopt a fixed set of beliefs. Timothy Leary in his 1982 book Changing My Mind Among Others
The word religion beautifully defines itself, of course. It means “to bind” from the Latin re(back) and ligare (to tie up).. All religions are straight jackets, jackets for the straight.
The conspiracy theorists forge that nobody has spoken out about the dangers of totalitarian world order than Huxley. Take a look at the this video interview of Huxley my CBS’s Michael Wallace which I posted here.
Alan Watt makes out that everything to do with the psychedelic revolution of the 1960s was stage mamaged by the Illuminati, and a big part was to undermine the family.
Dour-sounding Watt doesn’t realize the irony of that idea apparently, because any good feminist would tell him (but he would believe she was a puppet of the conspiracy because ‘they’ caused the feminist movement) the whole myth of the family with father in control is straight from the patriarchy.
But the main point to dig is that people like Watt undermine our sense of power. In their relentless ‘warnings’ they turn into the very thing that they seek to warn about–propagandaists for the ‘Illuminati’. For if there was a way to make people feel disempowered and lacking natural spontaneity, and joy of life, it would be the constant drone that all our actions are secretly stage-managed by some elite occultist force which is some how omnipresent.
So I say turn off that drone. Which doesn’t mean not be aware of injustice and activist etc, but not to go over the top with paranoia.
Funny, I always thought classic American rugged individualism started poisoning ‘the family’ long before hippies came around.
Anyway, when it comes to paranoia, Philip K. Dick says it best in VALIS: “To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement. This is a paradox: whoever defeats a segment of the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus, imposing its form on its enemies. Thereby it becomes its enemies.”
He even wrote it in the form of scripture, isn’t that cute?
This is all just allegory, VALIS/Empire, Illuminati/Discordians, etc. A style of metaphysical calculus, or sacred geometry (since its trendy these days). Is X a letter or is it a variable? Whats “occulted” are the correct values to be plugged into the equation wherein it provides a useful result, instead of rubbish.
Mapping the symbols to real world politics is quite silly. Don’t judge the fools too harshly though, they may propagate the ideas into more perceptive minds; critique these systems on their utility value and not their aesthetics. For another generation at least