Whose transcendent destiny is it, anyway?

"To know that one is a free actor, the 'captain of one's soul' even given the inevitable dissolution of the age, implies a responsibility that unaware people do not have. Almost every thoughtful person comes up against the notion that life is inherently meaningless. It is tempting to try to drown this feeling of self-awareness with drugs, alcohol, or the mass-events typical of the modern age. But once self-awareness starts to make itself known, it doesn't go away, and becomes a challenge that must be faced head-on.

" No amount of money or worldly accomplishment can dull the longing for the transcendent, even though a common wish is that one could just find fulfillment in one-night-stands the way they used to. There really is no way back once the process has started. The mountain that must be climbed is an inner mountain, not an outer one. When the inner mountain is climbed, the path to the outer mountain will become perfectly clear, and will in fact become secondary to the newly aware Self. One will no longer have 'goals,' but just things that must be done.

"There is not one particular path, or one set of concrete actions which one must perform, as this path is by its very nature rarefied, and each individual has a different role to play. However, one thing that always stuck in my head was something that Terence McKenna said at a 1996 lecture in Boulder, Colorado. The most important thing one can do, McKenna said, is to cultivate aesthetics. A truly aesthetic way of life will naturally lead to thoughts and actions which culminate in a connection to the Divine, and will lead one to conclusions that are diametrically opposed to the current 'values' of the present age.

"'Morality,' which states that you shouldn't enjoy certain things because they are 'bad,' is in no way related to a good sense of aesthetics. Rather, the true aesthete will find, through his or her own experiences, that everything that is of true aesthetic value represents the best qualitative aspects of the universe. To understand the true nature of beauty is to understand the mind of God. That which is of no aesthetic virtue is the quantitative; one can have a one-bedroom apartment that contains more aesthetic virtue in a few hundred square feet than [in an estate owned by a] Wall Street tycoon.

"There might not be a 'Reptilian conspiracy,'* but there is certainly an overall system in place that is doing everything possible to prevent us from living a truly virtuous and aesthetic life. This system makes the bad seem good, and the good seem bad. A person who attains self-awareness will come to realize that they are, to borrow Nietzsche's words, 'beyond good and evil,' yet this newfound rejection of 'morality' leads not to the notion that one can engage in unlimited hedonism without the annoying constraints of guilt, but rather to a knowledge of true virtue, which connects to the Divine. One breaks out of the eternal return of the 'time loop' with the knowledge that destruction is only necessary for creation: at the end of the cycle, the Antichrist is thrown into a lake of fire; the new possibilities re-emerge into the Godhead, and the cycle begins anew."

-- The last paragraphs of "Reptilian Imagery and Demonology"
from The Cult of the Dead Cow, who remind you to:
"Save yourself! Go outside! Do something!"


* Readers, or even skeptical skimmers, of David Icke's books will know that phrase. Anyone else can get an overview by reading the CoDC article in full.