"Spiritual evolution is not always a fun ride. The work required to “wake up” is not an easy path by far. There are many traps, distractions and temptations steering us away from ourselves. There are tests and lessons everywhere. But as long as we align ourselves with truth and are sincere in our work, even if we fail at times, screw up and take a step backwards, we are also being supported by the “universe”, guiding us to new opportunities and lessons, connecting us with others who we can learn from as they too can learn from us as we help each other and help make this world a better place"

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By Bernhard Guenther, April 23rd, 2014 at https://veilofreality.com/2014/04/23/reflections-on-ayahuasca-psychedelics-marijuana-and-a-critical-look-at-the-psychedelic-movement/

In December of 2013 I visited the Peruvian jungle with two of my best friends. Spending time away from modern civilization deep in the rainforest has been healing and beautiful on one hand but also eye-opening and disturbing on the other hand. It’s the fourth time I’ve been to Peru. The last time was in 2007. The ponerization of society has reached even the most remote corners where the virus of “modern progress” has also infected that part of the world. Many people have this romantic view of exotic places like the Amazon and the natives who live there. The issue is not only the pathology of the modern world with its globalization, greed, and capitalism, but that many natives themselves actually want that life style in so many ways. It’s a bit ironic, some of us are trying to escape the modern world and the people living in what we see as “paradise” yearn for what we are trying to get away from. But it’s a clash and doesn’t fit. 

Anyone who looks into the information presented here sincerely in more depth and unbiased can clearly see the COINTELPRO and Mind Control aspect throughout the history of the psychedelic movement. Some people dismiss this as “paranoia” or “conspiracy theory” but that view, based on lack of critical thinking, works in favor of certain forces who do not wish humanity to awaken for their own interests. And that is exactly their intention in this Stockholm Syndrome set-up.

“There are a thousand things which prevent a man from awakening, which keep him in the power of his dreams. In order to act consciously with the intention of awakening, it is necessary to know the nature of the forces which keep man in a state of sleep. First of all it must be realized that the sleep in which man exists is not normal but hypnotic sleep. Man is hypnotized and this hypnotic state is continually maintained and strengthened in him. One would think that there are forces for whom it is useful and profitable to keep man in a hypnotic state and prevent him from seeing the truth and understanding his position.”

– G. I. Gurdjieff

I have written about COINTELPRO, the corruption of spirituality and the fallacies of popular “New Age” ideas before. Most of it has been summarized in these two films:

• Know Thyself 
• Love, Reality, and the Time of Transition

“What’s next is the manipulation of spiritual values and tendencies. It is no accident that in the last few years we’ve seen a new religious thought. The religion of acquiescence and passivity: trusting in the process; whatever happens is what needs to happen; everyone is right where they need to be; you don’t resist; you acquiesce; to resist is to be negative, is to be fearful, is to be unconscious. A great prescription for convincing the natives to give over the keys to the kingdom, a very good, clever form of manipulation.”

– M.V. Summers

Truth is mixed with lies, so I’m not throwing out the baby with the bath water as I have mentioned before. However, the best way to swallow a lie is to sandwich it between some truth, and that is the how COINTELPRO works. Psychedelics and marijuana may help certain people in certain circumstances at one point in their lives, but they can also be detrimental and steer people away from truth and healing. I have seen it in myself. It’s all about context and depends on the individual. However, I certainly do not promote the use of them. In fact, I feel it is better to engage in sincere self-work without any substances and if one is drawn to use them, one should be aware of the dangers, especially from an energetic perspective which seems not to be acknowledged by many people who promote the use of them.

There is still much more to be said about this topic. I hope this article encourages people to be more discerning and that they question the official history of the “psychedelic movement” and how it has been created and infiltrated via COINTELPRO. It would be very naive to simply dismiss it. We need to be aware of our emotional attachment and bias around this topic without falling into black and white thinking. In this day and age it becomes ever more apparent that nothing is as it seems and never has been.

We also need to remember that we all are “screwed up” in our own ways. Everyone is a bit whacky. No one is perfect. We all make mistakes, and have our blind spots and lessons to learn. That’s when all our theoretical memorized spiritual and psychological understanding is being put to the test, not when things are going well, but when shit is going down. Everyone has a shadow. And some of us don’t even know how wounded and unconscious we really are, escaping it through drugs, distractions, food, sex, work, partying, or even relationships because being alone simply brings up too much. The endless pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain.

“There is no coming to consciousness without pain…People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.”

– Carl G. Jung

As I wrote before, there is a spiritual war going on a physical and nonphysical level and this war is being fought through us. Spiritual evolution is not always a fun ride. The work required to “wake up” is not an easy path by far. There are many traps, distractions and temptations steering us away from ourselves. There are tests and lessons everywhere. But as long as we align ourselves with truth and are sincere in our work, even if we fail at times, screw up and take a step backwards, we are also being supported by the “universe”, guiding us to new opportunities and lessons, connecting us with others who we can learn from as they too can learn from us as we help each other and help make this world a better place. However, as we all know, truth is a tricky thing, and “aligning ourselves with truth” also entails facing the lies we are telling ourselves about why we do or have done certain things, all along justifying our own blindness.

“The moment of true initiation. It seems that, as the great masters teach us, it is not a moment of “great enlightenment.” It is not someone who comes to “show us reality.” It is not a “seeing all the world as a oneness.” It is seeing the self as a liar and a feeder on others. It is measuring the self with TRUTH. It is seeing that the predator has been feeding on the self, that the self has been feeding on others and propagating the infection on to all those who one claims to love and wish to help. Initiation is not a glorious inpouring of life and love and tears for the beauty and oneness of the world.

It is sheer terror.

It is a descent into Hell. It is the Shamanic descent into the underworld to do battle with demons. It is the dismemberment of the body, the flaying of the flesh from the bones, and the subsequent rebuilding of the self on a different foundation – a foundation of spiritual verity.

And if I could convey to you that Hell, that sensation, that solitary test in which the soul is weighed, BY THE SELF, finally and completely and seen for what it has truly done, you would see how little truth there is because of all the beliefs of the Matrix that have been inculcated and promulgate and tended so carefully by our emotions and by the deceptions of the predator within who convinces us that we are “good” and “pure” and there is “oneness.” Indeed, one sees that there is “oneness,” but one sees that the aspect of God that is experienced at this level is the black, sucking, feeding maw of STS (Service to Self).

One sees how little true Love is actually manifested at this level of being. One sees that all of our illusions about “goodness” and truth and beauty are LIES. They are masks for more feeding. And that is so horrifying an initiation that few survive. That is “paying everything.”

Now, re-read what Gurdjieff had to say about the matter; how he pointed out that a person has to “pay in advance,” that the key is to accept the idea that one is not what one thinks, that there is a different reality from which our own is projected, and that developing this idea in the realm of pure thought, and then using it as the platform by which one can observe and analyze, is the key to being able to see for a moment, and then again.

One must be able to see the interactions of the Petty Tyrants in our lives, the Predators who prey on us in the Theological Reality. And then, one must be willing to act. It is only after action that the true nature of the Predator reveals itself just as the Vampire reacts with violence to being exposed by the presence of a mirror. Because, it must be kept always in mind that there ARE predators who are predators by choice – even if that choice is made at some level, in some part of themselves that is not available to even their own conscious awareness. They, too, are part of the Matrix, and they wouldn’t be able to play their roles if they were not consciously convinced that they are right, that they are “good,” that they are righteous and long-suffering.”

– Laura Knight-Jadczyk, “Petty Tyrants and Facing the Unknown”

On a closing note: Over the past year I have seen more and more people look through much New Age disinformation. More people see also through the ever more apparent corruption of government and institutions. There is also an increasing awareness of the topic of psychopaths in power. Some of it may be related to the fact that 2012 has not brought the collective awakening or “UFO disclosure” many “New Age” influenced people have hoped for. Because of this they were forced to question it all and what they believed around the 2012 hype. Well, at least some of them. We still have a long way to go.

Many people have opened up themselves to me over the past years who were and are going through much disillusionment regarding much of what they believed in. Thank you to those for your humility, courage, and vulnerability. It gives me hope on so many levels and I have learned from you as well. These are not easy times for any of us. We are literally being “forced” to start looking at the world as it is and confront the lies we’ve been told and we tell ourselves. Also thank you to all the renegades who are not afraid to speak out and challenge people’s beliefs and world views. Renegades who use social media not for their own narcissistic tendencies but share vital information, spreading seeds of awareness to help make this world a better place by making the darkness conscious, even if it’s a thorn in the eye of others who get triggered and disturbed by what you have to say. Don’t ever become silent. Keep speaking out.

“This is the hardest time to live, but it is also the greatest honor to be alive now, and to be allowed to see this time. There is no other time like now. We should be thankful, for creation did not make weak spirits to live during this time. The old ones say ‘this is the time when the strongest spirits will live through and those who are empty shells, those who have lost the connection will not survive.’ We have become masters of survival -we will survive- it is our prophecy to do so.”

– Tiokasin Ghosthorse