A PROLOGUE FOR MULTIPANTHEISM

This is how it ends. You have been fed ancient and withering ideals since your birth. You have been warned to play along. They say that the great books have already been written, that the play is set in motion, and perhaps you will have an important part. Learn your lines and follow the script (their scriptures) ... and you think, "Why not?" since this is the status quo. They say that the majority rules, that we have free will and democracy, and we should all feel happy with the way the story is unfolding. Heaven is waiting for the humble and the low. You feel the lie in your heart as you gaze towards your feet and shuffle in line. You know that the few rule. You know you're unhappy with the part they've assigned to you. The script is boring and predictable, laced with poison and ignorance that should be insulting to your artistic sensibilities. The important parts have been cast by men of "great breeding" (heiresses and trust-fund whelps), and when you walk onto their luxurious stages, you are an extra ... nothing more than a prop or a red-shirt, expected to die if you're noticed at all!

If you have opened this book then you probably want something more than the status quo ... perhaps a new script and permission to expound upon it with a sense of free will and artistry? You will be damned by the croaking old voices of the "saintly and sane" ruling class, even while we watch the grand curtain fall on their uninspired and poorly acted parody of fear-driven wordplay and spiritual tidings. The great author Jehovah has been driven away by the hisses and boos of the dissatisfied and the bored. The cast has been pelted with the rotten food given to us as our worthy portion. Look around you ... the great pageantry is over and the old scriptures are kindling the flames for the final act, a vast and burning ignorant Hell! And now we exit stage left and peer into the void as we search for a new direction and an outlet for our aching and abused sense of self worth. This is how the old world will end. This is how the new world will begin. Do you feel the stage-fright as you stare into the beautiful and mysterious stage-sets now spreading endlessly before your newly opened eyes? The first step is hard to take alone. I can show you paths that will broaden your horizons ...

And why should you listen ... who is this madman with a voice echoing from the dark abyss? Though perhaps the "who" is not as important as the why? Why do we long to understand each other? Why do we go onwards in life? We have a need in this modern era to free our minds from bigotry and greed. We have a need to share our information and to find our bliss. We have become too powerful to ignore. I have excluded certain identifying information in regards to myself and other mentioned entities in examples throughout the following, as I believe that the information herein should not be swayed from the perceptions of the now. This book was given by legions upon legions to those who would spy upon the world! This is our journey through the thoughts of the people all around us, not an index book full of rigid forms and standards ... let me show you a point of view that begins to move beyond explanation.

This is a world of Urban Shamanism. Here we do not hide in caves and deep jungles rubbing mud upon our empathetic wounds. Here we live in the trenches of societal idealisms and accepted illusions, ready to battle the ignorance of defined thought! To learn to travel like water through our manmade chaos and sooth it into a more cohesive and artistic form ... this is the quest of the modern day warrior. I believe that I am uniquely qualified to be your guide through the more ambiguous parts of our collective lives. I have had many visions, out-of-body experiences (OOBEs), and encounters with the supernatural, and I have measured the world with an artistic license and an open mind free from dogma and religious fear. To Hell with acceptance and assumption, to Hell with fearful people trying to analyze structured thought ... this is an account of firsthand information with an attempt to view our extrasensory experience from multiple avenues of explanation. My past is of little consequence, though here is a tiny window into my soul:

I have studied Fine Art at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, Poetry and Philosophy at a low level college in San Leandro, and various energy- running practices at the Berkeley Psychic Institute, all while coming of age in the Bay Area of California, though my own personal studies I feel have enriched my life far beyond the spectrum of academic arts. The convoluted mainstream could not satisfy my cravings for clear water, so in my later years I began to devour all manner of magical texts and religious doctrine ... and this is where my true education begins. I have dropped out of mainstream society to explore the forbidden secrets and bring the world back something new ... a variation of the never-ending desire to live ... a piece of universal history infused with renewing waters ... a reflection of the thoughts that are allowing our collective to grow healthy and strong. This is a mosaic of human intelligence gathered from the people around me, and a testament to our potential as artistic conduits of the one true source of life. All creative powers exist around, within, and beyond our perceptions ... they are a part of us ... as I am a part of you. I will be your guide ... let me take you for a look inside ... let us heal our ancient wounds!

It is time to overcome the unnatural fears ingrained within us by our superstitious ancestors and those who wish to keep us under their control. What is there truly to remain afraid of besides our physical peril and the peril of those whom we rely upon (or who might rely upon us)? Do you fear some man-made and outdated spiritual law? Do you fear within you the idea that there are some thoughts which are forbidden? Truly the mind is the place to explore all things and the world is the place to use your discretion. All things previously forbidden and all dark corners of consciousness shall be revealed! Our primal darkness will add to our knowledge when explored thoroughly and brought to its logical conclusion. No religion shall forbid that we come to understand ourselves and the nature of the Multiverse around us. No dogma will keep us safe from the unknown; only through the experience of trial and error shall we better protect ourselves and our inner well being ... and we will only succeed through courage and self-perpetuating might!

I do not believe in a philosophy that saves ... I believe in a philosophy that lives and fights for freedom at all cost. The foundation of the following rests in the knowledge and application of a spiritually unified freedom and understanding towards our place in the nature of creation. I believe in the truth of the happenings of life in polar comparison with the illusions of thought ... the truth that is and the thought that is not. Our church is physical existence ... our altar the rocks on mountain tops ... our God is the action of primal force ... and our illusion is the mind. We are illusions becoming organic. We are the combination of polar opposites on every level and in every way.

You will learn to understand true freedom when you have allowed yourself to seek out your happiness while at the same time respecting and protecting the freedoms of the ones you love. We are dedicated to protecting the freedom of the individual so long as that freedom does not take away from the freedom of the whole. We are not free to restrict others without just cause. This is the highest ideal of manmade law. Dogma is no just cause! We should decide as individuals between right and wrong and refrain from giving too much power to the select few who we allow to govern over us. We should place our judgments as if they were upon ourselves as we try to understand what exists before our very eyes! We expect freedom inasmuch as we let each other be free. Unified freedom should be the reason behind the formation of every manmade law.

We should strive to represent the truth of life as it happens, not set our ideals in stone. Nothing could have possibly happened without being imprinted upon the energy of the life all around us. Time becomes meaningless next to the raw experience of existence ... the actual energies involved in a said event will make each point in time unique and beyond our ability to perfectly judge. Immutable law is manmade and does not exist in nature, be it mandated by state or by priesthood. Perhaps we could believe in the possibility of accessing multi-spiritual memory instead of clinging to a biased interpretation of past events? Perhaps we could access any point in time and watch a happening from any point of view that we desire if we are looking with perfectly free and divinely open eyes? In any case, with our current level of understanding there is no event that we can perfectly judge.

What does it mean to believe that you can look past the energies of our current physical existence? What does it mean to believe that there are limits to what we now know? Perhaps it means that we are more magical than we are willing to admit? Truth be told, words seem to be wholly inadequate when describing our spiritual or "extra sensory" experiences in life. Let us try to find a philosophical term that best defines our existence without falling upon the need for an unknown quantity or a proper noun ... here is an exercise in defining the indefinable:

Pantheism—The belief that God is the universe.

Panentheism—The belief that the universe is a part of God, but that God is more than the universe.

Multiverse—The belief that other universes besides our own exist simultaneously, also called multiple realities, alternate planes, otherworldly happenings, parallel worlds, etc.

While you can argue that pantheism is the universe and all of the forces working within it, therefore the definition should include the experience of alternate realities and such ... the truth is that people never really use the word "universe" in this way. We should not settle upon a word that can be misconstrued so easily (people assuming that you are only talking about the physical manifestation of the universe).

While panentheism seems to fix this problem by stating that God is more than the universe, people could misconstrue this by assuming that God is an anthropomorphic being or an unknowable force existing outside of knowable life. This term is too vague and "mysterious" to use as a religious term in this era. It can fix us as separate from God and doom us to except our ignorance and avoid trying to improve our understanding of the forces conspiring within our infinite reality.

Multipantheism—The belief that God is the multiverse (that would include our universe and every other universe and form of reality imaginable). This is what I am leaning towards when asked for a philosophical term, a word that almost makes sense.

Multipanentheism—This would appear to be a redundant theme, saying that God is more than just this universe twice, plus the vague "unknowable" factor still exists. You know everything you experience ... to say that you can't experience something doesn't make sense. God is all of existence, everything that is ... how could it live in a place beyond existence or experience? God exists, doesn't that equate as an experience? You exist, and by definition existence is something experienced. Placing God beyond our realm of experience is a redundant thought; it is like saying that nowhere exists somewhere when by definition it does not. Saying that God is the multiverse and more is redundant since the multiverse should cover all possible realities. God is the Multiverse ... all inclusive ... there is no traditional or separate entity of God.

The word "multipantheistic" is sometimes used to describe the belief in more than one God, not the belief in God being more than one reality. I am not strictly multipantheistic ... I believe that many creatures could hold a vast amount of creative power and exist far beyond our current understanding of reality, call them Demi-Gods if you will. I am a Multipantheist ... I believe that God is everything possible, therefore God is a redundant and useless word! I think this distinction should be made, that God is the Multiverse, but the Multiverse is more than any traditional interpretation or definition of God. We should do away with one word or the other, and the word God has been poisoned by zealots, unimaginative sages, and tricksters, not to mention in-and-of itself it lacks true meaning. At least the word Multiverse is definable ... it is Omni-present and Omni- potent ... and it is open to include every interpretation of God imaginable. I believe that the idea of one God that is fixed as separate from us is both frightening and harmful to our natural design. I find the belief in multiple realities to be much more enlightening than a rigid ideal of a Deity when introduced to a searching mind. I would like to point out that if the Hebrew Jehovah created our Earth, then he should be considered a Demi-God as he seems to be an entity with a personality and a chosen form (male with white hair and a beard seeking a perfect son), and thus he has limitations. I would also thank him for this nice planet to live on for a while.

I find that many words and terms can be interchangeable when describing paranormal phenomena with our limited language and experience. The collective unconscious is very similar to the astral plane, the spirit realm, the psychic reality, the dream world, etc. It is an image of our being alive beyond the knowledge of this 3rd dimensional universe ... being alive in the Multiverse ... the consciousness of all beings combined (combining).

The subconscious is a blending between the unconscious mind and the conscious mind, there seems to be no better definition for this. The closer you get to your unconscious the more conscious of it you will become. Subconscious is the communication (communion) from here to there ... the shallow end of the pool.

The dream world can be a personal experience, or it can be accessed through various images that pass by in your mind's eye while traveling the imaginative realms of our collective selves. It seems to exist on a plane of its own, though when you're conscious of the dream world you can influence those images with your thoughts and desires. In the astral realm, a dream is much like a close-up upon a certain area of thought containing 3rd dimensional sensations in which an ability for you to bend the rules exists. If you are looking at the workings of your mind, then you will see the various windows leading into various dream scenarios that you might find your way into. Many forces help to create these windows, including your own personality and desires.

The Dream Body should be viewed in the same way as your astral body, your energy body, your unconscious self, your second self, your spirit body, your imagined body, your holographic projection, your connected mind, your third eye, your mind's eye, etc. It is the part of you that travels through the life existing beyond this physical universe.

Magic—1) The art that purports to control or forecast natural events, effects, or forces by invoking the supernatural 2) Possessing distinctive qualities that produce unaccountable or baffling effects 3) Controlling forces beyond our understanding in order to affect the material world of physical existence

Supernatural—Of, pertaining to, or being above or beyond what is natural; unexplainable by natural law or phenomena; abnormal

Esoteric—Understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest. Similar to abstruse, arcane, cryptic, enigmatic, etc.

Cognoscente—A person with special knowledge

Magic Spell—A curse or bewitchment ... causing the forces at work in the astral realms to conform to your desires and manifest results in the 3rd dimensional world. These forces cannot yet be explained by science, which is why we consider them magical in nature

Magician—The same as a sorcerer/sorceress, a witch, a witch doctor, a shaman, a psychic, a prophet, a spiritual healer, an illusionist, or anyone purported to have control over various forces beyond our physical realm

Malediction—A magical word or phrase uttered with the intention of bringing about evil or destruction; a curse

Oneiric—Pertaining to, similar to, or suggestive of dreams

Eldritch—Unearthly; weird; eerie

Numinous—Of or pertaining to numen; supernatural; inspiring awe and reverence; spiritual

Numen—Divine power or spirit; deity

Jnana—Absolute insight acquired through study

Diatribe—A bitter verbal attack

Language is not quite adequate when we can't agree on the feelings behind our definitions.