The Church of the Free Mind

1. A PROLOGUE FOR MULTIPANTHEISM This is how it ends. You have been fed ancient and withering ideals since your birth. You have been warned to play along. They say that the great books have already been written, that the play is set in motion, and perhaps you will have an important part. Learn your lines and follow the script (their scriptures)… and you think, “Why not?” since this is the status quo. They say that the majority rules, that we have free will and democracy, and we should all feel happy with the way the story is unfolding. Heaven is waiting for the humble and the low. You feel the lie in your heart as you gaze towards your feet and shuffle in line. You know that the few rule. You know you’re unhappy with the part they’ve assigned to you. The script is boring and predictable, laced with poison and ignorance that should be insulting to your artistic sensibilities. The important parts have been cast by men of “great breeding” (heiresses and trust-fund whelps), and when you walk onto their luxurious stages, you are an extra… nothing more than a prop or a red-shirt, expected to die if you’re noticed at all! If you have opened this book then you probably want something more than the status quo… perhaps a new script and permission to expound upon it with a sense of free will and artistry? You will be damned by the croaking old voices of the “saintly and sane” ruling class, even while we watch the grand curtain fall on their uninspired and poorly acted parody of fear-driven wordplay and spiritual tidings. The great author Jehovah has been driven away by the hisses and boos of the dissatisfied and the bored. The cast has been pelted with the rotten food given to us as our worthy portion. Look around you… the great pageantry is over and the old scriptures are kindling the flames for the final act, a vast and burning ignorant Hell! And now we exit stage left and peer into the void as we search for a new direction and an outlet for our aching and abused sense of self worth. This is how the old world will end. This is how the new world will begin. Do you feel the stage-fright as you stare into the beautiful and mysterious stage-sets now spreading endlessly before your newly opened eyes? The first step is hard to take alone. I can show you paths that will broaden your horizons… And why should you listen… who is this madman with a voice echoing from the dark abyss? Though perhaps the “who” is not as important as the why? Why do we long to understand each other? Why do we go onwards in life? We have a need in this modern era to free our minds from bigotry and greed. We have a need to share our information and to find our bliss. We have become too powerful to ignore. I have excluded certain identifying information in regards to myself and other mentioned entities in examples throughout the following, as I believe that the information herein should not be swayed from the perceptions of the now. This book was given by legions upon legions to those who would spy upon the world! This is our journey through the thoughts of the people all around us, not an index book full of rigid forms and standards… let me show you a point of view that begins to move beyond explanation. This is a world of Urban Shamanism. Here we do not hide in caves and deep jungles rubbing mud upon our empathetic wounds. Here we live in the trenches of societal idealisms and accepted illusions, ready to battle the ignorance of defined thought! To learn to travel like water through our manmade chaos and sooth it into a more cohesive and artistic form… this is the quest of the modern day warrior. I believe that I am uniquely qualified to be your guide through the more ambiguous parts of our collective lives. I have had many visions, out-of-body experiences (OOBEs), and encounters with the supernatural, and I have measured the world with an artistic license and an open mind free from dogma and religious fear. To Hell with acceptance and assumption, to Hell with fearful people trying to analyze structured thought… this is an account of firsthand information with an attempt to view our extrasensory experience from multiple avenues of explanation. My past is of little consequence, though here is a tiny window into my soul: I have studied Fine Art at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, Poetry and Philosophy at a low level college in San Leandro, and various energy-running practices at the Berkeley Psychic Institute, all while coming of age in the Bay Area of California, though my own personal studies I feel have enriched my life far beyond the spectrum of academic arts. The convoluted mainstream could not satisfy my cravings for clear water, so in my later years I began to devour all manner of magical texts and religious doctrine… and this is where my true education begins. I have dropped out of mainstream society to explore the forbidden secrets and bring the world back something new… a variation of the never-ending desire to live… a piece of universal history infused with renewing waters… a reflection of the thoughts that are allowing our collective to grow healthy and strong. This is a mosaic of human intelligence gathered from the people around me, and a testament to our potential as artistic conduits of the one true source of life. All creative powers exist around, within, and beyond our perceptions… they are a part of us… as I am a part of you. I will be your guide… let me take you for a look inside… let us heal our ancient wounds! It is time to overcome the unnatural fears ingrained within us by our superstitious ancestors and those who wish to keep us under their control. What is there truly to remain afraid of besides our physical peril and the peril of those whom we rely upon (or who might rely upon us)? Do you fear some man-made and outdated spiritual law? Do you fear within you the idea that there are some thoughts which are forbidden? Truly the mind is the place to explore all things and the world is the place to use your discretion. All things previously forbidden and all dark corners of consciousness shall be revealed! Our primal darkness will add to our knowledge when explored thoroughly and brought to its logical conclusion. No religion shall forbid that we come to understand ourselves and the nature of the Multiverse around us. No dogma will keep us safe from the unknown; only through the experience of trial and error shall we better protect ourselves and our inner well being… and we will only succeed through courage and self-perpetuating might! I do not believe in a philosophy that saves… I believe in a philosophy that lives and fights for freedom at all cost. The foundation of the following rests in the knowledge and application of a spiritually unified freedom and understanding towards our place in the nature of creation. I believe in the truth of the happenings of life in polar comparison with the illusions of thought… the truth that is and the thought that is not. Our church is physical existence… our altar the rocks on mountain tops… our God is the action of primal force… and our illusion is the mind. We are illusions becoming organic. We are the combination of polar opposites on every level and in every way. You will learn to understand true freedom when you have allowed yourself to seek out your happiness while at the same time respecting and protecting the freedoms of the ones you love. We are dedicated to protecting the freedom of the individual so long as that freedom does not take away from the freedom of the whole. We are not free to restrict others without just cause. This is the highest ideal of manmade law. Dogma is no just cause! We should decide as individuals between right and wrong and refrain from giving too much power to the select few who we allow to govern over us. We should place our judgments as if they were upon ourselves as we try to understand what exists before our very eyes!