Thread: The Theory of the Beast

for one,
the ego does not shield us from psychic harm, dopamine is the seat of amphetamine or elemental amplifiers and is where the ego exists. lsd is the best soul shield there will ever be, as hoffmann based it on (lsd still being a whole differant drug than) mescaline and heroin, and the ego is the worst thing wthat will ever exist. I hate the cocaine argument. it is still a poison dopamine gun.


*On the contrary - an ability to explain away your (or anyone elses) point of view in many of the ways people treat what others say as nonsense, sense but not for them, sensible and thus validates their own sense, or insensible and the product of an idiot; is what shields (my ego) from psychic harm. According to what your ego translates or accepts from its LSD infusions - it may lessen or weaken its position regarding certain things - but it will never be eradicated, in is more likely to accept that everyone is mad, full of nonsense, and be oblivious to its own short-comings. That is the nature of blame. That is what blame is for. You, use blame - so, you have an ego. Perhaps your hypocrisy is evident to you and you hate it - hate your bigotry and project it elsewhere, somewhere that can't defend itself - like society, or god, or some other abstract... perhaps not.


i don't see how the glorification of base desires has ever stopped in the arts.

*The essay was written in 2003, I think I was 22. I'm 30 now. My opinions have changed considerably. But I would contend that while Repetition of base desires has always been a staple of the Arts, there has always been a desire to transcend what came before.

there are definite authorities and there will always be people who know more than you about something.

I guess you are obviously just talking about proto-animal-man.

*No. Authority is an interesting thing. People give it and take it - esp during the engagement of logic, memory or experience. I believe that it is a law that someone will always know more - but this applies largely to semantics and shared meanings, not occult or subjective knowledge.

we still don't have the collective concious made at all. it doesn't work right.

*You don't think so? I think from what I've seen the last 20 years, and from what I've gathered from reading, learning, writing - with the birthpangs of say such things as the concept of Political Correctness**, that, while still a very long way off - the human race is slowly trying to pull its vast continents separated by race, space (and time) together into a unified collective voice. As much of it as will participate, anyhow.

I also don't see how the primal instincts have anything to do with religion, politics, chaos, the existance of satan , or demons or anything else you said besides mass psychology, something you did talk about, which is th basest of all science.

*That's fine. I can't touch every base and miraculously come up with a pefect argument. Humans augment chaos and I was and still am learning about my own views. However - the primal instincts, such as they were vs such as they are, represent the mode of being I believe existed before religion, chaos, satan, meaning, interpretation etc. They are the other side of the coin - wherein Chaos is only a convenient way to say, I don't know, stacked up against Form, which is another convenient way to say, I don't know. Really, being able to say, "I don't know" is the only progress I've made

**Now, I don't believe being PC is any more than just another way for people to channel control and condemn other people - and really just another form of slavery - but its an effort to do the 'right thing' (wherein I believe these clumsy outward collective efforts mirror the individual quest to unite our psyche - and moreover that individual/collective are one and the same) and unify. But that a lot of work, much more pain and suffering is required before we get close to a empathy with one another. But with these messy beginnings, perhaps we will try enough stuff and get it wrong so many more times before finally getting it right.