I really think any culture founded on atheism is unsustainable. The vision which works to (in Hayek’s sense) build paradise is founded on a beautiful melody amenable to endless personal improvisation. Life is beautiful when we all learn to express our individual essences openly. We all merge and separate in an endless dance which makes life feel GOOD.
I think there is an easy step from atheism to Satanism. I think Satanists are able to deliver concrete results, in terms of feelings, and perhaps in terms of extra-ordinary phenomena. You go from endless oblivion to SOMETHING, even if that something is dark and awful in important ways.
Perhaps I have mentioned this, but I have only known in my life one person who had personally participated in a Satanic ritual, that admitted it. She would not talk about it, but she saw something she could not explain, which frightened her. This was in a German speaking space, and I want to say she called it Unheimlich.
We, all of us, are forced–every time we allow our thoughts to wander too much–to think about the end of the world. We have robots and AI, and perhaps even advanced alien technology that exists among us, making our worlds “The Truman Show”, as Stephen Greer has alleged. Certainly, “The Day after Roswell” was plausible, and its author credible. We have disease and we have nuclear war. We have automation and elites and economic devastation.
All of us need hope. If you read stories about NDE’s and people able to Astral Travel, there ARE miracles happening among the good people of the world too. This world is an illusion, and an unpleasant one at that. Our pain is not an illusion, but our pain is brought on by our habits of mind. Change those, and you change your experience. This is what every religion teaches.
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I have no special insight. I have no idea what will happen. But I can say that I have moments where everything feels good, and all of this feels fascinating, and that I would not want to miss this show for the world. And my worse moments are becoming fewer and farther between. I think my drinking is done. I no longer have positive associations with it, and I am sleeping at night reasonably well.