From an Occult Perspective, Atheism is a More Simplistic Belief System Than Christianity

Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m super conflicted about the rise of popular atheism over the last ten years or so. Let’s get that out of the way right off the bat. I truly respect the way people like Richard Dawkins (and the late Christopher Hitchens) challenge the influence of the world’s dominant religions publically. I love Bill Maher and found his movie Religulous quite amusing for the most part. This critical dialogue is incredibly important because I got news for you, religion is still the great fundamental bamboozle driving the war on drugs and terror. I think organized religion can be just as nuts as these guys do. I guess I just also see that it can also be incredibly and most boringly normal. A lot of good things come out of it as well, a sense of community, drug rehabilitation, charity work, etc.

Truth be told, the majority of people I’ve known or hung out with for most of my life have basically considered themselves atheists. It’s become almost a badge of pride for so many teenagers and young people, but I got news for you, it isn’t anything new or subversive. Kind of conformist in all honestly, just like religion. Try being an Occultist, everyone thinks you’re completely batshit. You are and always will be an outsider. People have absolutely no problem insulting your spiritual beliefs publically, so most of the time you don’t even bring it up. Seriously, directly insulting people’s supposed ‘new age’ or mystical practices is seen as absolutely A-OK in pop culture and even in the work place, to this day. I’ve seen it first hand and it’s pretty much why I don’t talk about my writing at my job, ever. Truthfully, I don’t talk about my magickal practice in 99.9% of the conversations I have in actual life (but I do on Facebook, friend me).

The reason is obvious. It’s pointless. People know so little about even basic spiritual shit it’s mind boggling. And here’s where I get weird. You know how I define spirituality? By matters of the spirit. Dreams, hallucinations, etheogen rituals, astral projection encounters, supposed alien contact? Yeah, that’s spirituality to me. Stuff that takes your consciousness out of the material realm and into the realm of the soul. Crazy way of looking at it I know. And that’s the problem I have with atheism. I’ve never known an atheist who knows anything about this sort of thing or has experimented with it at all, outside of maybe trying mushrooms once or twice. But they all have strong opinions as to why they don’t have to. Basically, if that kind of thing was important, our society would have figured it out by now. That’s essentially the argument you get (trust me, I had many of these drunken debates before I turned like 25 and realized how pointless it is).

Funny story on that front, I used to sing (yell) in a metaphysical rant metal band. All of the lyrics in the project were essentially about the spiritual ignorance of humanity, and a lot were about how this ignorance was reflected through me, which I don’t think most people got. No, I wasn’t necessarily ranting bout my how stupid people are, I was ranting about how stupid I am because I’m a person. Actually when looking back, a lot of it had to do with my own non-acceptance of these non-physical realities which is something I didn’t even understand at the time. Anywho, you know who really didn’t get what I was doing? All the other guys in the band. We hung out and drank incredibly heavily together for 4 straight years, and we practiced 3 times a week so that meant a lot of debauched tomfoolery. Amazingly, we sometimes talked about things other than our dicks, but despite being in a band whose lyricist was espousing ideas completely foreign to them, nobody once bothered to read a single book I recommended them so they’d get hip. Then it got even more peculiar because as creative tension began to mount in the project, near the band’s demise, I increasingly caught shit for writing lyrics that “made no sense”. Pretty much sums up my experience with most atheists I’ve known. That song doesn’t make any sense? Yeah, actually it does and it’s fairly coherent I must say, did you read that Rick Strassman book about DMT I leant you 2 years ago? No? Yeah, well, you just answered your question as to why that song doesn’t make any sense to you.

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