Thelema
Thelema is actually a religion that dates back to the sixteenth century. That is when the Book of the Law of Thelema was written. Thelema was popularized by Aleister Crowley. After he found his own occult order, the Fraternity of the Silver Star in 1907,Crowley began to digest the spiritual wisdom of mankind into a coherent system based on the Cabalistic Tree of Life. Crowley's intuition that underlying the enormous variety and diversity of human historical religiosity lies a universal, common spiritual inheritance that has been largely confirmed by the psychological researches into the "archetypes of the collective unconscious" of the followers of the Zurich School of Carl Jung, and contemporary ethnological resources into shamanic spirituality. Crowley integrated the argument of psychologists such as Terrence McKenna who has argued convincingly that the original spiritual intuition and indeed the primary impetus for the first awakening and development of human consciousness resulted from the accidental ingestion of the psychoactive principle of psilocybin mushrooms, DMT, by prehominid ancestors. The basis of this argument is the coincidence that DMT is also manufactured endogenously in the human brain and is found in many different varities of vegetable life. Subsequently, the argument is that prehistoric shamans developed a complete technology of psychospiritual transformation to effect the same result as DMT without the use of any drug, of which eleven essential; consciousness altering techniques have been identified: Concentration. Entrainment, Hypostimulation, Empowerment, Ordeals, Imagination, Purification, Breath Work, Posture, Reversal, and Indoctrination. All spiritual practices wheresover amd whensoever situate, regardless of culture, symbology, or dogmatic orientation, resolve into a combination or permutation, of greater or lesser complexity, of some or all of these essential techniques. All these teachniques have one thing in common: they all induce a transormation of the human psyche which jesus called metanoia, "new mind". it is analogous to the near death exzperience, in which the psyche undergoes a radical disassociation from so-called consensual reality in certain circumstances. Crowley undertook to develop his own system of "scientific illuminism" based on his practical researches into comparative mysticism, the result of years of world travel, documented in Crowley's writings. His writings document a system of mental self-development which includes invocation, self-control, regular ritual empowerment practices, sex magick, devotional worship, four hours of daily meditation, breath control, guided visualizations, the manipulation of concrete symbols, concentration, and other practices designed to develop the true or Magickal Will and disorient and disorganzie the egoic attachment to consensual reality. Since Crowley regarded each person as an absolute individual with their own path to self-realization, he refused to set out a universally applicable regimen of practice. Individuals were required to select the practices that appealed to them personally and ocument and report their progress to their Superior, only on the basis of which further advice was provided. Dogmatic or ideological considerations did not enter, though individuals were required to memorize the Thelemic holy books and pass intellectual examinations in various courses of study.
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