THE WORLD CULT & YOU: YOUR PLACE IN IT & YOUR WAY OUT OF IT (Excerpt)

The World Cult & You

ALSO BY SOL LUCKMAN

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Introduction: You Might Be a CULT Member If …...................15

Chapter 1: Be Mindful While Cultivating Your Interests That You Don’t Find Yourself in a CULT ............................................21

Chapter 2: Trust the … Séance? (Philosophical CULTism 101)

Chapter 3: More Thoughts on the Nature of the CULT of the Simulacrum......................................................................................

Chapter 4: How to Navigate “Reality” without Becoming Shipwrecked on the Desert Island of a CULT ..........................51

Chapter 5: You Might NOT Be a Freethinker, But a CULT Member Instead, If ... (Take the Quiz to Make Sure Your Spirit Will Survive Your Hardcore Indoctrination) ................61

Chapter 6: The 33 Most Common Categories of CULT Handlers (How to Identify Your Own or Someone Else’s Keepers) ............................................................................................71

Chapter 7: How the Human Ability to Create “Reality” Is Hijacked by the Great Parasite atop the World CULT & What You Can Do about It ..........................................................

Chapter 8: The “Community” Psyop & Other Tall Tales from the CULT of the Simulacrum (“Yay! Let’s Create Doomsday TOGETHER!”)................................................................................95

Chapter 9: How to Engage in Spiritual Guerilla Warfare against the World CULT: Preserve Your Energy by Invoking the “Nu-ku-lar” Option...............................................................109

Chapter 10: How to WIN the Guerilla War against the World CULT: Supercharge Yourself with Tried & True Strategies for Building Up Personal Power .............................129

Chapter 11: Where in the World CULT Do We Go from Here?.................................................................................................151

To all undeterred freethinkers doing their best to break free of the World Cult

Preface

This ebook, an exclusive only available in its entirety with a Free 7-Day Trial or paid subscription at solluckman.substack.com, more or less “wrote itself,” as often happens with my books.

It came about, in its initial form anyway, as a series of interrelated articles on cults and cultism that just sort of came to me while contemplating how the “reality” Gameboard functions and that I decided to publish on my Substack over the summer of 2023.

Let me tell you, those articles dissecting the workings of the World Cult in general and “truther” cults in particular were like a series of hornet’s nests tossed into the managed minds of the cultocracy.

Stung cultists emerged from the shadows like MKUltraactivated trolls defending their unquestioned beliefs (often, it would seem, following direct orders from their cult leaders) with a bewildering barrage of lies, insults, threats, shaming, labeling, libel, slander, scapegoating, and other lowbrow alternativesto thinking.

“Even in human life we have seen the passion to dominate, almost to digest, one’s fellow,” wrote C. S. Lewis, “to make his whole intellectual and emotional life merely an extension of one’s own to hate one’s hatreds and resent one’s grievances and indulge one’s egotism through him as well as through oneself. His own little store of passion must of course be suppressed to make room for ours. If he resists this suppression he is being very selfish.”

My response posted on social media to this sad monster mash of (mostly) messenger attacking mixed with message ignoring was neutral and to the point: “Good or bad, kind or mean, fair or not, any reaction on your part to my recent

article series on the danger of (doomsday) cults means I’M OVER THE TARGET.”

Although I also gained my share of new readers and supporters, rare indeed was it that the indoctrinated took the time to eschew ad hominem insults (even if they read my material, which they hardly ever did thoroughly) and provide thoughtful criticism of my actual words; when they did, I took it to heart and scrutinized their viewpoint, occasionally going so far as to modifymy own.

Throughout this unpleasant and frankly depressing experience, I imagined I felt somewhat like Thoreau marching to the beat of his own drummer even as his revolutionary ideas (which today seem so self-evident they’re hardly even radical) brought down on his own head the foaming at the mouth of his fundamentalist (read: cultified) Concord neighbors.

And like Thoreau, one of America’s (perhaps the world’s) greatest freethinkers and a personal hero of mine, I endeavored to take my own advice as provided herein: I went about divesting my person and energy to the best of my ability from every cult—large and small, obvious and hidden I could before simply, having said my peace and closed the book on the subject in this ebook, turning and walking away.

The result of this summer (when I’d have gladly surfed more and cared less) wasted on today’s prophets of doom and their cult followings is The World Cult & You, where I’ve greatly expanded on my initial article series and also included four additional chapters (two completely new and previously unpublished in any form) for your consideration. I’ve also added a large number of new original memes to further illustrate and nuance this material.

With luck this ebook won’t be wasted on you. May your own mind greet this collection of thought experiments as we’d do well to greet each day: open to the possibility of

learning

something new and changing our lives for the better.

“The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mindmanipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people.”

Aldous Huxley

“A company of believers is like a prison full of criminals; their intimacy and solidarity is based on what they can least justify about themselves.”

John Updike

“You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.”

Flannery O’Connor

Introduction:

You Might Be a CULT Member If …

At the mention of the word “cult,” you might notice a kind of automatic revulsion, a possibly slight kneejerk shiver that just rises up out of you, seemingly out of nowhere.

Alternatively, you might find the word itself off-putting and observe that you’re automatically inclined to dismiss it out of hand.

I wish to start off this ebook of essays on cults and cultism by suggesting that these reactions themselves are evidence of cult programming.

Through deep cultural “hypnosis,” as with the term “conspiracy theory” allegedly introduced by the CIA to cover up their own shenanigans by putting people off the scent of their wrongdoing, “cult” has been cleverly programmed to make you instantly connect the word to the most egregious, nauseating examples of this pervasive social engineering phenomenon that can actually be and indeed, usually is far more nuancedand insidious.

Some would say that society at large is a massive cult, one designed to entrain (through a variety of means both subtle and not so much) its members to restricted expressions of thought,belief, and action.

The more I’ve considered this topic as dispassionately as possible while examining my own cultish connections, the more I’ve come to agree with the perspective that human civilization could be accurately described as, in fact, a World Cult.

If you ask me, it could hardly be more obvious that some kind of powerful mesmeric force is remote-controlling the

vast majority of human beings, including many of those entrenched in so-calledtruther communities.

But even if we take a less wholesale approach to the subject, it’s clear society is at the very least largely made up of innumerable cults: religious ones, social ones, gendered ones, political ones, exopolitical ones, financial ones, ideologicalones, cults of personality.

The list, like Bilbo’s endless road, goes ever on and on and sadly, it just gets slipperier and slipperier.

All cults, textbook or otherwise, cultivate essentially mindless (or other-mind-ness) acceptance of sometimes unproven, often patently absurd and usually selfdestructive ideas and accompanying acts. (See 2020-22 for a, um, pointed lesson in how shockingly effortless it is to induce worldwide cult formation with a staggering range

of disempowering consequences that are continuing to do damage tothe world and its people tothis day.)

To be absolutely clear on this critically important point, the real danger with cults isn’t their leaders, however delusional and/or despicable; it’s their robotic foot soldiers who blindly believe in them and blithely do their dirty work often against other cult members and usually without an iota of self-consciousness as to the inhuman(e) savagery of their behavior.

As I’ve observed by being on the receiving end as the unwelcome messenger to an extended “community” of cultists, the ferocity with which cult minions will defend their leader’s “truth” without so much as considering the “truth” of others is truly barbaric, making such genocides as the Crusades understandable.

This all-too-common sort of reaction in cultists to being called out is a particularly nasty plot twist that has turned into little more than a cliché as lobotomized minions gleefully goto work throwing each other under the cult bus to please their megalomaniacal mind controller(s)—for precious little,except mentalslavery, in return.

To which I respond by quoting Kahlil Gibran, who perfectly characterizes the zombified state of so many hypnotized cultists who seem straight out of The Walking Dead: “Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.”

In addition to these few words, I offer the selection of (darkly) humorous original memes sprinkled throughout this text as possible points of departure for your own exploration of your personal relationship to cults and cultishness in what strikes me as their Golden Age.

I myself have been tricked into ignoring my own eyes and ears in favor of what I wanted to see and hear in what was in retrospect undeniably a “community” with an overwhelmingly cultish vibe.

And believe me when I say I paid the price for my own denial of what was right in front of me the whole time. Bizarrely, we benighted humans tendto learn as we burn …

I flatter myself that my “coming out of the cult closet,” as it were, has been of value at least to some. A number of people with their own cautionary tales of this and other cults have come forward privately with gratitude and further insight, and I wish to thank them in return for their bravery in sharing the wisdom of their painful experiences.

Below are a few questions well worth asking yourself if you’re truly seeking to be sovereign in mind, body, and spirit.

Otherwise, best of luck to you in the Clown Show!

Question #1: How deep does your individual hypnosis run?

Question #2: Where, how and to whom have you given away your power?

Question #3: Are you genuinely trying to break free … or merely waiting around for someone else to break you out?

Be Mindful While Cultivating Your Interests That You Don’t Find Yourself in a CULT

“The only way out is in. Focusing on externals, however noble the intention, is just an intended distraction.” Yours Truly

As a former educator and devoted psychonaut exploring the fringes of consciousness for many years now, part of me resists putting this out there at the get-go, since I know many will resist the very notion, but here goes anyway in theinterest of full disclosure:

Far from being a universally positive characteristic, curiosity doesn’t always lead to healthy outcomes.

Some Context

To contextualize my seemingly antithetical proposition, even though I’ve always had a fairly sensitive BS detector, I’ve nevertheless followed my own curious nose down several paths of “knowledge” (a problematic term at best, as I’ll explain) … only to realize inevitably too late that I’d been lured into the vestibule of a massive CULT EDIFICE. My teenage stint as a Southern Baptist, not because I loved Jesus but because the youth group and choir happened to be a blast, and my leftist indoctrination via prestigious liberal arts universities are two examples with which many probably can identify. There were literal impressive vestibules that ushered one into those beguiling environments.

I don’t know about you, but I have a weakness one I strongly suspect now to be a form of cult indoctrination for large-scale architecture that obviously costs a lot of moneyto construct and maintain.

“The only difference between a cult and a religion,” said a very wise gentleman named Frank Zappa, “is the amount of real estate they own.”

As my eponymous narrator phrases it in my forthcoming novel on the primacy of consciousness in an observer-generated construct such as ours, Beginner’s Luke: Adventure of an Imaginary Lifetime: “FUCK banks and churches united in their displays of power through ostentatiously redundant space.”

In this scene Luke, who has become a slacker in the early Nineties, is beginning to recognize, as many of us “reality researchers” are nowadays, the bedrock of society for what it is: a colossal cult.

My own biographical details aren’t important, but the underlying lesson I eventually harvested from my time spent willingly participating in the giant loosh farm of the earth is potentially of tremendous value to any who would truly break free of the Control Matrix that, like the air we breathe (or don’t, if you ask Morpheus)

is all around us:

In this thoroughly mind-manipulated world, in this realm literally produced by thought installations that create “reality tunnels” (a sad but true term), your own interests can and will be used against you.

Is Education a Solution … or a Problem?

If the foregoing sounds like a warning not to overeducate yourself on any particular topic, perhaps it is, somewhat.

Again, perish the thought. Yet here we are thinking it and for darn good reason.

Over and above the myopia and navel-gazing induced by today’s compartmentalization in “education” followed by soul-suckingly unidimensional career “paths,” too much

focus on a topic or area of “expertise” can lead you whistling all the while straight down the garden path … into a CULT.

I wish to emphasize that cults don’t have to identify themselves as such. In fact, based on outward appearances, most cults don’t act the part at all.

The worst cults are the chameleons in society, the seemingly “natural” groupings of people for seemingly “normal” purposes that no one in their “right mind” should ever question.

And these, I’m sorry to say, as it turns out, are the most diabolically underhanded of all.

At the level of the inhuman(e) Intelligence (the “wrong mind” most people have “downloaded,” as I’ll explain a bit later) scripting so-called collective reality, the disguise is absolutely intentional. It’s part of the honey trap. And you’re the target.

You start, for example, with curiosity a simple, childlike wish to know more about something, anything.

Curiosity seems natural, and I suppose it is, or ought to be, and yet how easily we forget it waswhat killed the cat.

Following your nose, you go deeper and deeper, and meet others with similar mindsets, and before you know it you’re identifying as part of a privileged group and engaging in what should properly be called groupthink.

According to Wikipedia, which I’ll be using throughout this ebook for expediency and accessibility only, not because I trust it, “groupthink” is “sometimes stated to occur … within natural groups within the community, for example to explain the lifelong different mindsets of those with differing political views (such as ‘conservatism’ and ‘liberals’ in the US political context or the purported benefits of team work vs. work conducted in solitude.)

However, this conformity of viewpoints within a group does not mainly involve deliberate group decision-making, and might be better explained by the collective confirmation bias of the individual members of the group.”

This “collective confirmation bias” is the dead weight at the would-be heart and soul of cults large and small. I write “would-be” because deeply indoctrinated cult members have had much of their individuality and sovereignty of thought, word and deed (their “heart and soul”) replaced by you guessed it groupthink.

This can happen in families as easily as in fanbases, in churches as effortlessly as in corporations.

Leaders & Followers

There may or may not be an identifiable leader in such scenarios. A powerful enough IDEA, by itself, can serve as the “leader.” And it often does.

The mere idea of “vaccination,” for example, has created not just one but numerous often competing cults: those for it (vaxxers), those against it (antivaxxers), those

“proving” its effectiveness, those “debunking” it, those claiming it’s “genocidal,” those insisting it’s part of a “transhumanist agenda,” etc.

I don’t mean to suggest I’m against bodily autonomy or that I myself (having been severely, and I mean severely, vaccine-injured in my twenties) would ever willingly opt for another jab.

But I do insist that any emotionally charged position adopted by a group of people on this (or any other hotbutton topic, such as the “virus” question) automatically creates a de factocult.

“Government” is an interesting word to consider in this context. Etymologically, this term can literally be taken to mean “mind control.” Look it up if you don’t believe me.

Cults are all forms of government for controlling what is acceptable to think—and, by extension, say and do.

If you’re emotively connected to any kind of leader, belonging to official government or just the sly cult kind, you’re by definition a follower. And this is where things get reallytricky.

“I never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me as a member” is a sentiment attributed to both Sigmund Freud and Groucho Marx, which is an interesting pairing given what a clown posing as an intellectual Freud was.

I’m criticizing Freud because in light of his student Carl Jung’s later perspectives on the meaning of dreams, to say nothing of that of countless metaphysical and shamanic schools of thought—the insistence that (for instance) a dream cigar typically symbolizes a phallus is ludicrously simplistic. Sometimes, as Freud himself admitted, a cigar is just for smoking.

Yet as these as things tend to happen in Cultilandia, Freud’s overall restrictive interpretation of dreams won out (much like Darwin’s laughable notion of “natural selection”) and dominated discourse (governed thinking) for many decades, spawning as ridiculous a form of “psychotherapy” as the modern biological “science” Darwin’s work launched.

More to the point, the well-known quip about not wishing to belong to a club that would have one as a member would serve perfectly as a universal mantra for all genuine freethinkers and freedom seekers.

Sadly, emotionally charged membership in any type of “club” a team fan base, a political party, a gender affiliation, a gun (for or against) group, etc. is tantamount to cult membership.

Critically, it’s the emotional charge that’s at issue here, not the membership itself. You can get away with looking into anything, until you can’t, and therein lies the rub.

The charge means you’re plugging into the Power of the Cult. In essence, by tacit agreement, you’re connecting with a larger, collective entity. And if you think you’re drawing

power from it, instead of the other way around, you’re tragically mistaken.

Why do you think cults exist inthe first place? Exactly.

They’re there to harvest your loosh, or personal power, for purposes that do anything but serve your own or humanity’s interests.

Anyone denying the existence of loosh is probably it almost goes without saying—a card-carrying, Kool-Aidsipping cult member (such as those on both sides of the debate over the dash, or lack thereof, in “Kool-Aid” that continues to rage between the Mandela Effected and Unaffected).

Unfortunately, some of the biggest cults today are no longer even part of the mainstream, which gives them a certain amount of camouflage that makes it difficult for those wising up to the “reality” game to identify them. These are the petty cults of the “alternative” media specifically, those of the “truther” community.

In the final analysis, it doesn’t even matter if today’s trending little self-important cults make good points about the alleged nature of things—that most of history appears to be falsified, for example, or that modern “science” is just scientism, or that the earth may not be the shape we’re told it is, or that germs may not cause illness, or that cycles seem to repeat ad nauseam in what could only be a “simulacrum.”

These observations may (or may not) be true. That’s not what concerns us at the moment.

But what does or ought to concernus is this:

If you find yourself no longer a relatively objective researcher but suddenly part of a group of emotionally charged people defending a certain worldview while denouncing anyone who disagrees, YOU, MY FRIEND, HAVE LANDED IN A CULT.

Run for the hills. Run for your life.

Trust the … Séance?

(Philosophical CULTism 101)

“No real reality could produce 18 gajillion competing versions of string theory.” Yours Truly

In an observer-based universe like the one we apparently inhabit, “science” itself, as I’ve argued for some time now, is likely an illusion, leaving the very possibility of external knowledge (as opposed to internal gnosis) open to debate.

In coming to terms with the problem of the so-called scientific method, we could easily get lost down the rabbit hole of philosophical skepticism, and yet this school of thought is also potentially an extremely empowering— even unifying vantage from which to view “reality.” From Wikipedia:

Philosophical skepticism is a doubtful attitude toward commonly accepted knowledge claims. Itis an important form of skepticism. Skepticism in general is a questioning attitude toward all kinds of knowledge claims. In this wide sense, it is quite common in everyday life: many people are ordinary skeptics about parapsychology or about astrology because they doubt the claims made by proponents of these fields. But the same people are not skeptical about other knowledge claims like the ones found in regular school books. Philosophical skepticism differs from ordinary skepticism in that it even rejects knowledge claims that belong to basic common sense and seem to be very certain. For this reason, it is sometimes referred to as radical doubt.

We have, for example, among today’s “truthers” an individual claiming that his calendrical information is superior to newer information (such as that found online) simply because it comes from “old books.”

What exactly defines “old” seems to change depending on this individual’s mood; nor is the arbitrariness of the moving line of his delineation ever examined in good faith.

Whether this “old” information is itself problematic, or has perhaps even been “Mandela Effected” and actually changed (as many family bibles have reportedly been), is never likewise allowed to be seriously debated in this person’s “truther” “community” chock-full of blind believers willing to defend their leader to the death without so much as an independent thought of their own. (Recall that cults are designed to controlthemind, or govern-ment.)

Philosophical skepticism allows us to easily see through the logical fallacy of this particular doomsayer’s position, but it alsoworks in other areas.

Starting during the pandemic, plandemic, scamdemic or whatever you wish to call the nightmare that overtook this “reality” beginning in late 2019, it was easy enough to grasp that, on one level, those of us questioning the existence of viruses were engaged in a variety of philosophical skepticism.

But the rabbit hole didn’t stop here. Although there’s some disagreement on this subject, it’s often remarked by educated (whatever that means these days) people that you can’t prove a negative. So to say that viruses per se don’t exist is philosophically anyway already on shaky ground.

Beyond this somewhat sophomoric criticism, however, lay a deeper problem: that of the very existence of knowledge itself.

If we can’t know anything here, wherever this is, it doesn’t matter whether we’re affirming a positive (the “virus” narrative) or attempting to prove a negative (the “no virus” counternarrative).

In this illusory realm in which matter itself appears to disappear despite our best attempts to pin it down in the microcosm, NOTHING is ultimately verifiable even if, in this age dominated by the cult religion of “science” (which resembles a hypnotic séance more than anything rational) we flatterourselves that it is.

As Florinda Donner writes in Being-in-Dreaming about the “place of reason” occupied by today’s society in a section worthquoting at length:

[W]hether we are scholars or laymen, we are nonetheless members and inheritors of our Western intellectual tradition. And that means that regardless of our level of education and sophistication, we are captives of that intellectual tradition and the way itinterpretswhat reality is.

Only superficially ... are we willing to accept that what we call reality is aculturally determined construct.

And what we need is to accept at the deepest level possible that culture isthe product ofa long, cooperative, highly selective, highly developed, and last but not least, highly coercive process that culminates in an agreement that shields us from other possibilities.

[Shamans] actively strive to unmask the fact that reality is dictated and upheld by our reason; that ideas and thoughts stemming from reason becomeregimesofknowledge thatordain how we see and act in the world; and that incredible pressure is put on all of us to make certain ideologies acceptable to ourselves [...]

What is culturally determined is that our personal experiences, plus a shared social agreement on what our senses are capable ofperceiving, dictate whatweperceive.

Take, for example, the cause of bubonic plague, which has been “culturally determined” by “reason” to be one thing and one thing only. Germ theorists smugly know that the bubonic plague was an infectious bacterial disease caused by fleas.

Terrain theorists, on the other hand, offering an alternative explanation, “reasonably” counter that we know no such thing, since various types of potentially diseasecausing pollution in the medieval world would make today’s China look as pristine as Greenland.

And yet, throwing a wrench in both of these “reasonable” explanations, it has been documented that putrefied body parts literally rained down from the sky in various hard-hit locations just before the Black Death ballooned into a tremendoustragedy.

So what really happened? And how could anybody really know?

Obviously, only cultists of one stripe or another think they can and do know for sure.

Seeing Eye to Eye

One issue that has always concerned me in the great Viral Debate (to cite one example of a myriad of parallel ones) is how two groups of ostensibly intelligent people can arrive at such diametrically opposed viewpoints as to utterly disparage each other’s perspectives … based on “science.”

Having interviewed so many in the “no virus” camp during the COVID era, I’m convinced that to a person they’re absolutely genuine in their contrarian assessment of the data showing that pathogenic viruses are a myth of scientism.

Most of these researchers are, in my opinion, compassionate and honorable in their heartfelt desire to get at thetruth for the betterment of humanity.

On the other side of the testy conflict surrounding the proof (or lack thereof) of infectious viruses, we have figures such as Dr. Joseph Mercola, Del Bigtree, Steve Kirsch, and Jeremy Hammond.

For the longest time, like a good little terrain theorist, I considered the majority of such folks who justifiably decry the covax but inexplicably swallow virology whole deluded at best, sellouts at worst, and in somecases jerks to boot.

And like a good little conspiracy theorist, I was perfectly willing to entertain the possibility that such “researchers” might actually be actors playing their slimy bit parts in an elaborate psyop emerging from the bowels of the Deep State to enslaveus all.

But what if there’s another explanation? What if they simply really believe that contagious viruses exist and cause disease?

And what if, in a manner that could only happen in either a wholly quantum (read: magical) universe or a completely simulated dreamscape, in a way they’re right?

What if both sides are right? What if our divine default mode of seeing what we believe (as opposed to believing

what we see) makes the old Newtonian grammar of either/or obsolete?

What if, instead, because we’re all just making shit up anyway, if we’re ever to see eye to eye when it comes to “science” or anything else, we need to start talking in terms of both/and?

And what if this is a way out of groupthink and cultspeak into a remarkably brighter and freer day?

Egregores, Tulpas & Mental Viruses

Some time ago I was being interviewed by “bad boy” Chef Pete Evans from Down Under, when our conversation veered into exactly this kind of extreme-relativity territory in which subjective consciousness reigns supreme.

As someone sitting on the fence of the virology debate, he asked me, a hardcore “no viruser” cultist at the time, whether (I’m paraphrasing from memory) there was any chance something like a “mental virus” might actually be involved in “COVID.”

Specifically, he wondered if we might be looking at something like an egregore, defined byWikipedia as an …

occult concept representing a non-physical entity that arises from the collective thoughts of a distinct group of people. Historically, the concept referred to angelic beings […] In more recent times, the concept has referred to a psychic manifestation, or a thoughtform, which occurs when any group shares a common motivation being made up of, and influencing, the thoughts ofthe group.

Years previously, I’d republished an article titled “Are We Living in a Virtual Simulation” by the legendary Jon Rappoport on the simulation hypothesis in which he described a similar phenomenon:

The ancient Tibetans … were daring adventurers on the edge ofexperimentsin consciousness.

Relying on the teachings of itinerant outcast adepts from India, they developed a practice called, by a few later scholars, “deity visualization.” (See John Blofeld, The Tantric Mysticism of Tibet.)

Perhaps based on an already existing mandala-painting, a teacher would give his student a very detailed and specific “personage” to create in his imagination. This effort, if it was successfulat all, mighttake months oreven years.

The objective was to mentally hold the complex image intact, in every detail, not just for a few seconds or minutes, but indefinitely. If the student was successfulat this arduous task, he would soon find that the personage he created seemed to take on alife ofitsown.

The personage or deity would become the student’s friend and guide and give him valuable advice and counsel. When the teacher sensed this relationship had progressed to a very close

point, he would order the student to get rid of the personage altogether.

This, it was said, was more difficult than the original act of creating it. But if the student was able to perform both aspects (creative and destructive) of the exercise, he would then realize, see, and know, with fullconsciousness, that THE UNIVERSE WAS A PRODUCTOFMIND.

At that crossroad, he would be able to spontaneously take apart pieces of “the hologram” or “the lattice,” and even create (out of nothing) new objects that hadn’t existed before.

Moreover, I’d recently published my novel Cali the Destroyer, which features a major theme involving a related concept called a tulpa, defined by spiritualist Alexandra David-Néel, according to Wikipedia, as a term for “magic formations generated by a powerful concentration of thought.”

But even though I’d done my homework in this controversial area on the fringes of consensus reality and was inclined to entertain the possibility of such extraordinary paranormal entities, I responded in the negative to Pete’s inquiry about a theoretical mental virus in almost as knee-jerk a fashion as any bona fide terrain cultist would.

Now, to be clear, many in the “no virus” cult freely admit the potential for something akin to a nocebo effect where “SARS-CoV-2” and other alleged pathogens are concerned. Fearmongering lathered on 24/7 by an agenda-driven press for years would almost have to produce significant psychosomatic effects in the populace.

But this wasn’t what Pete and I were discussing. We were questioning whether a new thoughtform called “SARSCoV-2” had been introduced into human consciousness, which had then made an imaginary virus effectively real on a mass scale.

In retrospect, my visceral refusal to explore this radical possibility despite my deep knowledge of such mystical terrain should have been a red flag that I’d been forced

into an either/or way of seeing in a both/and world dominated by the divide-and-conquer dynamics common to cult thinking.

Two Sides of the Same Coin

My view is that what passes for reality in this deeply fractured construct is purposely engineered not via a controlled opposition (singular) but by controlled oppositions (plural) pitting an abundance of seemingly logically justified worldviews against each other.

Without going terribly far down yet another rabbit hole (an even deeper one) just yet, we might entertain how a type of etheric parasitic force call it the Great Parasite could have “infected” the dreamscape of this “reality” and now seeks to subjugate humanity, which it can only do, in a digitized or otherwise “unreal” world based in human minds, by controlling human minds, duh.

“Worldview” is a key word in this discussion, as it reminds us that each side of any debate or conflict including the one about alleged viruses or the more recent one over the existence or nonexistence of our very DNA is creating the world it sees.

Specifically, the simulated dreamscape of “reality” feeds to each side data and “facts” that support each side’s beliefs. This literally means that “virus” pushers may actually be seeing and evaluating different evidence from that presented by the simulated dreamscape to team “no virus.”

I realize this may sound preposterous, and it would be in a real-world situation. But I contend that’s not what’s going on here.

Instead, we’re talking about a massively sensitive and complex metaverse in which if I might be permitted to process one of the most famous stories from ancient history through a simplified simulationist lens an entire advanced civilization trying to hack its way out of here was

sent packing to the four winds, no longer even able to understand one another, at thestrokeof a keyboard.

This iconic episode from the (invented) history of the simulacrum is called … the Tower of Babel. I propose that we find ourselves today in an eminently Babelesque scenario in the Great Viral Debate.

Technically, there’s no “wrong” in such a confounding situation; everyone’s right … in their simulated version of the world.

And because they’re absolutely right and they can “prove” it, at least to themselves, they’re absolutely convinced (with good reason)that theother side is wrong.

A helpful concept for understanding how this dynamic might play out in a magical world or simulated dreamscape comes from Itzhak Bentov, Paul LaViolette, Rupert Sheldrake and others theorizing how individual and collective information (or “morphic”) fields might interact to create distinctive and often contradictory experiences of “reality.”

Basically, as I see them, morphic fields are bubbles of consciousness, or arrangements of conscious bioenergy (auras or auric fields), that interact to create interference patterns with the world’s magical, simulated or dreamlike substrate, which then feeds back to us … exactly what we put into it.

In the case of virology, one side has used the massive morphic field of germ theory in the egregoric creation of its “virus.”

Up against this Rockefeller-financed wrecking ball for health and sovereignty, the terrain camp has played the role of underdog in seeking to create a strong enough morphic field for its egregoric “nonexistent virus” to “upset” the dominant narrative.

Certainly, the latter viewpoint which is basically just a choice is a lot more empowering for humanity, but that’s off the subject.

Everyone playing a role in this divine comedy seems to have forgotten that, as with Gertrude Stein’s hometown of Kansas City, either way you go, in the end there’s no there there.

No version of science is “broken” because the “scientific” method, in its purest sense, is a materialistic myth in an immaterial setting.

The only thing real here is our consciousness— specifically, our innate ability to use our imaginative and dreaming capacities to create what feels like a real world full of real experiences.

Seeing what they believe and not what is, neither side sees that this is all just a BIG GAME in which both sides are merely propping each other up in a false dichotomy that keeps the Matrix very much in control of the field of play through the oldest diversionary technique in the world’s oc(cult) history: separateand annihilate.

It’s fascinating to note that even certain key figures in the “no virus” camp with pronounced metaphysical leanings are actually acting more like closet materialists in their focus on lack of physical “proof” of … whatever. As if any of that actuallymeant anything.

Me, I used to think that if people could just wake up to the unreality of viruses, the world would change—and it might, a little.

But compare this to a mass awakening to the unreality of reality. Then the world wouldn’t just change. The dreamscape would transform. And then, no doubt about it, we’d be free.

ABOUT SOL LUCKMAN

A confessed beachaholic and obsessive cultural creative, Sol Luckman has thumbed his nose at mainstream values and society ever since he can remember. Preferring hard play over a so-called honest day’s work, these days in the New Abnormal he spends his time mostly bodysurfing, painting, and writing not necessarily in that order and usually not all at once. How while on permanent vacation he became a multi-award-winning and international bestselling author and prolific professional artist is anyone’s guess. Possessed of a wonderful family, he eschews dogs and admits to his own rejection issues where certain other domestic animals are concerned. Visit his website, follow his blog, etc., at www.CrowRising.com.

Best friends? Check. Illegal lovers? Check. Mythological entities?Check.

Cali and Juice aren’t discovering love; they’re discovering they’ve always been in love since the dawnofcreation.

In this page-turner of a sci-fi tale set in an Orwellian future seeded in the dystopian present, resistance totheArchonsappearsfutile … that is, until the Goddess and herconsortspectacularly reappear straight out of ancient Gnosticism to take on the control matrix of the Fatherland.

Will the Luminous Child awaken in humanity before it’s too late?

“A thought-provoking and absorbing dystopian tale with a New Age touch [that] balances the exploration of human relationships with environmental, social, and political issues ... Cali the Destroyer is an illuminating and deep read, and the result is a must-read tale in tune with contemporary concerns that it dresses up as an Orwellian future.” Readers’ Favorite

“While [Cali the Destroyer] has plenty of laugh-out-loud scenes, it is also a cautionary tale. The Orwellian future Cali and Juice are familiar with may also be what ours looks like in several years. Cali the Destroyer shows readers what can happen when evil is allowed to thrive.” Entrada Publishing

“Like some raconteur alchemist, Luckman comingles ancient mysticism, engaging characters, and social issues to sublimate the alchemical gold that is unique but timeless storytelling. As a dystopia, the work feels like it’s happening right now. As a work of fiction, it feels like the perennial trope of man versus God except it’s hard to tell who the villain or hero is. A simultaneously disturbing and amazing read, you’ll probably end up finding your own Philosopher’s Stone.” Miguel Conner, Author, Voices of Gnosticism & Host, Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio

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Could it be there’s no such thing as the paranormal ... only infinite varieties of normal we’ve yet to understand?

From acclaimed author Sol Luckman comes Snooze, the riveting tale of one extraordinary boy’s awakening to the world-changing reality of his dreams, winner of the 2015 National Indie Excellence Award for New Age Fiction and 2016 Readers’ Favorite International Book Award FinalistintheYoungAdult-ComingofAgecategory.

Join Max Diver, aka “Snooze,” along the razor’s edge of a quest to rescue his astronaut father from a fate stranger than death in the exotic, perilous Otherworld of sleep.

An insightful look at a plethora of paranormal subjects, from Sasquatch and lucid dreaming to time travel via the Bermuda Triangle, Snooze alsoshinesasaworkof literature featuring iconic characters, intense drama and breathless pacing to stir you wideawake!

“Luckman’s dazzling abilities as a novelist abound with lyrical prose … If you enjoy colorful characters, a fastpaced plot and stories that tug at your heart, this novel in eighty-four chapters is anything but a yawn.”

Readers’ Favorite

Snooze is “a multi-dimensional, many-faceted gem of a read. From mysteries to metaphysics, entering the dream world, Bigfoot, high magic and daring feats of courage, this book has it all.”

Lance White, author of Tales of a Zany Mystic

“Snooze is a book for readers ready to awaken from our mass cultural illusion before we selfdestruct. Snooze calls out for readers open to the challenging adventure of opening their minds.”

Merry Hall, Co-Host of Envision This

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The Angel’s Dictionary is like a good joint: slim but potent. This uproariously irreverent “tour de farce” received three major recognitions: Winner of the 2017 National Indie Excellence Award for Humor, Finalist in the Humor category of the 2018 International Book Awards, and Finalist for Humor in the 2018BestBookAwards.

In this knee-slapping dictionary for coming to terms with modern culture (or lack thereof), politics (socalled) and life (such as it is), bestselling author Sol Luckman reinvigorates satire to prove that though we might not be able to change theworld wecanatleasthaveagoodlaughatit.

Thenagain,maybelaughtercantransformtheworld!

entanglement: (n.) quantum physics term for when the sheets wrap aroundtwobodiesinspace.

Taking a page from Ambrose Bierce’s scathing satirical masterpiece, The Devil’s Dictionary, The Angel’s Dictionary updates the genre to include blistering contemporary references and no small sampling of risquéhumortomakeadultsgigglelikemischievousteens.

genetically modified organism (GMO): (n.)memberofthepublicwho has regularly consumed the biotech industry’s food products.

treason: (n.) crime against one’s country and its people punishable by reelection.

shadow side: (n.)selfyouencounterwhenyoudonotlookinthemirror.

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The classic, definitive book on DNA activation, Conscious Healing, now updated and expanded with a wealth of empowering new information, is far more than the inspiring story of the development of a “revolutionary healingscience” (Nexus).

An unparalleled synthesis of modern and ancient healing wisdom, this leading-edge text is essential reading for anyone interested in alternative medicine, energy healing, consciousness research, quantum biology, humanevolution,orpersonalenlightenment

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The first DNA activation in the “revolutionary healing science” (Nexus) oftheRegeneticsMethod,Potentiationemploysspecial linguisticcodes produced vocally and mentally to stimulate a self-healing and transformationalabilityinDNA.

In this masterful exploration of sound healing by bestselling author Sol Luckman, learn how to activateyour genetic potential in a single, thirtyminutesession!

Besides teaching you a leading-edge technique you can perform for your family,friendsandevenpets, Potentiate Your DNA also:

1. Provides a wealth of tried and true supplemental tools for maximizing your results; and

2. Outlines a pioneering theory linking genetics, energy and consciousness that is sure to inspire alternative and traditionalhealersalike.

Potentiate Your DNA “is both fascinating and an astounding, perhaps even world-changing theory.” New Dawn Magazine

“Potentiate Your DNA is brilliant and cutting-edge. Luckman has succinctly and elegantly provided a comprehensible intellectual framework for understanding the profound role of DNA in healing and transformation.”

Brendan D. Murphy, author of The Grand Illusion

“If you love the cutting-edge of the cutting-edge ... read this book!” Dr. David Kamnitzer

“The work defined in this book and Sol Luckman’s previous book, Conscious Healing, should be the starting place of every health practice.” Dr. Julie TwoMoon

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Award-winning author and professional artist Sol Luckman showcases his literary and painterly talents in this one-of-a-kind story of anuncommonlifeonthefair shores of Hilton Head Island, a world-famous vacation destination nestled in the Lowcountry of the DeepSouth.

Combining fascinating memoir, hilarious comedy and inspirational philosophy, Musings from a Small Island is also a stunningly illustrated coffee table book any contemporary art aficionado would be proud to display. You’ve never read a book like this because, until now, there hasn’t been one. Seen from Luckman’s charmingly eccentric perspective, Hilton Head comes aliveinwaysfewplacesdoinliteratureorart.

“Sol Luckman has eloquently written a witty, insightful memoir in Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun. As an art major, I thoroughly enjoyed Sol’s humor and philosophical thoughts on the elusive purpose of art ... I laughed out loud for the first fifty pages. This book is not all humor, though [and] hit a distinct chord with me [...] The art stands alone. I loved his paintings [which fall] somewhere between abstract, modernist, and minimalist. His work is so good that I left the book briefly to research his website, where I found more than five hundred examples of his colorful portrayals of life. It was a joy reading the musings of Sol Luckman. So joyous, I’ll reread it. I may even buy one of his paintings.” Nancy

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