from The Meaning of Life: Ascending Jacob’s Ladder by Hazy Notion
Contemporary Number-dominated societies are essentially materialistic in nature and have very little useful knowledge in their cultural frameworks relating to the processes of psycho-social evolution. Traditional sources have been largely purged from the culture and no serious contemporary research is undertaken. The reason for this is simply that understanding knowledge about psycho/social evolutionary processes requires identification with higher levels of consciousness, and identification with higher levels is not culturally recognised.
This situation creates two conditions which are important to solitary travellers. The first is that individuals who are intent on detaching themselves from the collective mind, to seek higher levels of consciousness, must find their inspiration and instruction outside normal cultural sources.
The second is that the culture of collective ignorance does not impede the evolutionary process. Psycho/social evolutionary pressure remains constant regardless of the way in which cultures deal with it. When the process is culturally frustrated it seeks release where it can. In contemporary Number-dominated societies this tends to be through spontaneously tipping vulnerable individuals into an unwanted experience of Mind consciousness.
Individuals who are tipped over the edge in this way usually do not anticipate the experience and the mythological symbolism, hallucinations and intense fear they encounter on the passage into Mind consciousness causes them great distress. This distress often leads to irrational behaviour which is viewed with horror by ordinary people. The normal reaction is to place spontaneous travellers under the control of the psychiatric profession where they are diagnosed with “mental diseases”, usually schizophrenia. Standard psychiatric practice involves forced treatment with powerful drugs that cause minor brain damage and close down the higher thinking centres of the brain.
The best way for intentional solitary travellers to think about the risk of unwanted treatment is to view the existence of psychiatrists as an obstacle test. The test is one of mental and physical nimbleness. The relationship of a matador to a bull might provide a useful analogy.
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