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The Ascendancy of Psychotic Knowledge

14 Oct 2011 1 Comment

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By Shunyamurti

We have entered a period of epistemological chaos. The true condition of our world, indeed the very nature of our phenomenal reality, including agreement regarding the meaning of knowledge itself, is completely up for grabs. Not only are we witnessing rapid paradigm shifts and schisms within mainstream science, but also, and more dangerously, the politically motivated suppression of authentic discoveries and insights has led to epistemological blowback on every front. Every established authority has been de-legitimized. This has led to the rise of a new and unprecedented kind of discourse, which can be categorized as psychotic knowledge.

To call it psychotic is not to disparage it, but to recognize that such knowledge is produced by ripping apart the fabric of consensual reality. What pours through that tear in the discourse of conventional sanity may be brilliant with lucid transcendental insight and it may equally be speckled with nuggets of paranoid fantasy and archetypal imagery serving the narcissistic ego. It is psychotic from the perspective of the hegemonic paradigm that cannot permit multiple realities that elude the control and deny the legitimacy of the materialist construct. Coping with the accelerating explosion of psychotic knowledge, and the general contamination of the current information deluge with every sort of misinformation and disinformation, will become ever more challenging. It may, therefore, be useful to establish some guidelines that will enable us to maintain our sanity while remaining open to new horizons of possibility.

We can trace this problem back to the period immediately following the Second World War, when the government of the United States created a national security establishment and a general secrecy state. The geostrategic push to gain total hegemony over all global political actors had to remain covert. More and more information became classified as top secret, not only in areas of normal politics, but also in the sciences. Some of this rush to restrict the flow of information was a response to the intrusion of alien spacecraft into our skies. Since the government had no adequate response to this threat, the existence of such entities had to be denied and ridiculed. Many careers of honest observers of such phenomena were destroyed by that disinformation campaign.

The secret levels of government soon overshadowed the public government and turned it into a mere front for the actually ruling powers. This opened the field for conspiracy theories, many with a high level of credibility. Challenges to the secret government occurred from time to time from within Congress or the White House. This led to limited revelations of horrifying criminal acts on the part of the secret government against its own people as well as on a global level. Most of the challenges to the secret government were successfully squelched, however, leaving a wake of assassinations, suspicious deaths, smear campaigns, vindictive prosecutions, and other forms of intimidation.

As time went on, it became clear that not only was the government holding out on the people, but the scientific elites were as well. Mainstream medicine, for example, lost its credibility when it became recognized that many treatments were motivated by profit margins rather than curative efficacy. In an even more general way, the entire system of information distribution, through the major media, lost its credibility when it became recognized that the news media serve the secrecy establishment rather than challenge it. The public’s alienation from the actual conspiracy by mainstream media to prevent the release of true information reached new highs after 9/11. The capitulation of the media, in turn, has led to the use of the internet as an information source inviting ever more independent efforts of whistle-blowing, epitomized by the recent wikileaks phenomenon.

But another pillar of knowledge control that has fallen is that of religion. To understand the import of this epochal change, we must go back in history to the establishment of Christianity as the official state religion of the Roman Empire. We must focus particularly on the year 325 A.D. (and keep in mind that even the calendar and its dating of the years is an artificial political convention that upholds a specific paradigm of knowledge, in this case that of Christendom). In that year, the Council of Nicaea established official orthodox doctrine. Anyone who dared to think differently from then on was subject to being referred to the office of the Inquisition, which had many well-known ways of changing one’s mind, including that of terminating one’s heresy through salvation with extreme prejudice. The current practices of official torture are simply a continuation of the program begun long ago in the name of our God of Love.

Not only was the canon defended by cannon, and the sword of knowledge backed by the sword of steel, that would now go on to convert the heathen to the same narrow line of thought, but more significantly, the new regime of orthodox knowledge suppressed the use of natural psychoactive substances such as psilocybin-containing mushrooms, that had been part of the original Gnostic psycho-technology of awakening. Much of the ideological effort of social control from then on went to criminalizing and demonizing the use of mind-altering substances, as well as even more natural mind-altering processes such as meditation. Mind control efforts invaded the deepest levels of our consciousness, by establishing the very words of the prayers that were allowed to be offered to God in the privacy of our own minds. In fact, the purpose of religion was to eliminate all privacy of mind. People eventually became fearful even of inner silence and peace!

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