PSYCHOHAZARD
In case of dizziness, take the following with pinch of salt
PAN pronounced as in what eggs get fried in Means 'Everything', 'All'
DAIMON pronounced as in girl's best friend Means inner (or outer) Genius
AION pronounced as in gadget for pressing clothes Means domain, just like in cyberspace
Hence the Domain of All Genius
Why the confusing spelling? To avoid worse confusion, such as when 'd(a)emon' gets mistaken for 'things Buffy slays' and '(a)eon' gets mistaken for 'a long time', I've gone back to the Greek spelling, just to show off.
1) “We are at the Brink of a New Era, if only …”
In the Cosmic Conversation, humanity heard only the end of the last sentence,
and has been trying to fill in the gaps.
As the latest breaking news, we seem disproportionately important – the (current) end-point of evolution.
Hence aeonic theories, all of which proclaim a turn of the aeons around about now.
The Age of Aquarius,
Crowley’s Aeon of Horus, which he, of course, personified. Then Carroll’s 5th Aeon (see Liber Kaos).
For an unusual aeonic theory, try the Graves model.
And of course, Apocalypse theories.
2) “The End of the World is Nigh- is Nigh- is Nigh?”
Jehovah’s Wet-Nurses keep recalculating it.
Nostradamus never predicted it. He saw the same old same old for 5000 years.
The Mayan calendar marks only the end of the Mayan calendar. Duh!
Or am I supposed to set my affairs in order at the end of my 5-year diary?
The Bible Code &c predict it but their predictions lack detail,
such as the total lack of warning of 9/11.
Only past events can be found within.
This has less to do with the so-called content of these predictions
than with the fact that those who evaluate it
merely impose what they know of history onto the random data,
creating superficially convincing patterns.
We know that the brain, functioning as a pattern-forming device,
creates these scenarios in the minds of people who lean towards them anyway.
So can we please stop this nonsense about the end of the world?
3) “Save the Planet.”
The planet Earth has remained hostile to human life for most of its 5 billion years in existence.
Whether through human incompetence or natural forces, it may well become so again.
We expect it to continue spinning merrily through space for a long time yet, with or without us.
We devised ecology for our own comfort.
Instead of scaring each other with the above stupid stories,
can we get on with ensuring that we don’t make the planet too toxic to support us?
PS. I don’t believe in global warming. See Numberwatch for intriguing info.
4) "I Wanna Live Forever"
Faced with our inevitable future death, our wishful thinking offers alternatives.
The persistence of views of afterlife,
despite the complete lack of reliable evidence to support them,
pays homage to our hardwired survival instincts.
But let's face it.
We come from stardust, and unto stardust we shall return.
Although the things we do may live on after us to some extent, we will not see them.
Let us not allow comforting lies to distract us from the life we live this moment.
THE AION: NOT A TIME BUT A STATE OF MIND
Religious nuts have been bandying around stories of apocalyptic meltdown for thousands of years now,
and despite all the ‘signs of the end’ having come to pass many times over,
such people still don’t realise that the original authors of apocalypses (and they wrote many)
wrote in metaphors for the in-crowd who understood,
rather than literally in order to explain things to the plebs.
Such people have missed the point that we can experience the Apocalypse here and now, in ourselves.
Here. Not at some holy site requiring pilgrimage.
Now. Not in some Golden Age in the past, nor some Big Rescue job in the future.
Take this as the reason why they provided no date.
In ourselves. Not in some authority figure or Hot Line to the Aeon,
nor in anyone who claims they can do it for us.
We spurn discipleship and victimhood.
The Gnostics, as we call them, used the word ‘gnosis’, ‘knowledge’,
in contrast to ‘pistis’, ‘faith’,
by which they meant the faith that their catholic rivals had
in something of which they had no personal experience.
The Gnostics claimed exactly the personal experience which they believed the catholics lacked,
and regarded the inventing of one's own version of Gnostic myth, fable or spin
as evidence that you were indeed interpreting your own experience
rather than copying someone else's.
This knowledge, this gnosis, seems to me a mystical awareness
which as we grow in it not only changes our life but directs it. (see Kite's Credo)
We take hold of our lives, shaking off the mass hypnosis of the Shared Fantasy
and admitting that we cause our experiences.
Here, Now, we lead ourselves in a whole new quality of life,
deeper, richer, more packed with meaning.
This we describe as the Pandaimonaion.
It doesn’t matter that the name means little to others,
because only by living it can we understand it anyway.
The early chaos magicians began to use the word ‘gnosis’ to indicate a state of consciousness so intense that self-reflection and internal dialogue vanished, replaced by something impossible for me to put into words but if you’ve done it you know what I mean.
This state we use as the springboard for our magical activity. See Sorcery.
