Aeolus Kephas - The Lucid View: Investigations in Occultism, Ufology & Paranoid Awareness

The Lucid View

Investigations into Occultism, Ufology,
and Paranoid Awareness

by Aeolus Kephas

Revised and Updated Edition

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For seekers of knowledge everywhere:
There are no big secrets: dont believe what you read.
(Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense)

With special thanks to the Empress of La La land

The essence of reality is not fact but question. There are no facts, only truths.
The Key, by Whitley Strieber

The Magical method is to act as if a theory is correct until it has done its job, and only then to replace it with another theory. A theory only fails if it cannot take hold in the mind and allow one to act as if. As long as this approach is carried out properlywith a Magicians understanding that the theory is being accepted only because it is working, not because it istruethen there is little danger of delusion.
Ramsey Dukes, S.S.O.T.B.M.E: An Essay on Magic

O: Openings

Lunatic Tunes

Science is the first sin, the germ of all sins, original sin. This alone constitutes morality: Thou shalt not know.
Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ

The most essential thing about making a case for the impossible is to discredit all rational associations of cause and effect entirely: the point is there is no point. There are no premises to the argument that paranoid awareness is heightened awareness, save for the premise that the worldand everything in itis and has always been a vast and unfathomably bizarre mystery, a mystery which we will never understand. Another way of saying this is that life, for all its qualitiesor for all its lack of themis simply and wholly what we make of it: a myth-story, ever unfolding. Genesis recurs every day in the matrix of our minds.

The true paranoid is more concerned with the conspiracy of history than the history of conspiracy; he acknowledges that history conspires to make men, not men to make history; that man belongs to life, not life to man. He is determined, above all else, to take no hostages to his meaning.

From the beginning knowledge has been forbidden to Man. This concept that knowledge is something pernicious, harmful, corruptingis central to the Judeo-Christian ideology which we have inherited, and which forms the backbone of our culture and society. It matters little if we accept or even acknowledge this Consensus ideology, we nonetheless belong to it. The Bible begins with the fable of Eden, of Adam, Eve and the Serpent, with the forbidding (and punishing) presence of the Elohim lurking ominously behind the scenes. And yet, even without departing too radically from the text or diving too deeply between the lines, it can also be reasoned from this myth that knowledge is the very thing that makes us men, and that distinguishes us from the other animals (even if it has yet to make us gods).

Perhapsway back when, at the beginning of Timethe Elohim were fully aware of our modern psychological concepts, and by forbidding knowledge, these strange gods thereby made sure that we seek after it? If so, then the Serpent was really Eves conscience speaking plainly, goading her on to the inevitable act. This impulse to rebel resulted from the Elohims words themselves, making the Serpent simply the fulfillment of Their secret will. The archetypes in the fable (God and Satan) are as inseparable as cause and effect, as the twin hemispheres of the brain. Indeed, neither has much meaning to the contemporary reader unless seen in psychological terms, as two apparently conflicting aspects of the human psyche.

What bearing does any of this have on paranoid awareness? In his insatiable thirst for ever more forbidden lore, the paranoid adheres religiously to the tenet that, so far as knowledge goes, too much is just enough. The fact is that although these metaphorsthe warnings and prohibitionshave survived to this day, the knowledge itself still eludes us. Even now that it is acknowledged as in many ways the sine qua non of being humanand the most valued commodity there isknowledge is still, in its own weird way, forbidden to us. Nowadays, we would not dream of submitting meekly to any abstract mandate of a hidden God; yet we are, for all that, coerced and cuckolded into ignorance and slavery.

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Legends, of course, tell the truth in a concealed fashion Their success in concealing the truth rests on mans conviction that they are simply stories. So its been the task of sorcerers for thousands of years to make new legends and to discover the concealed truth of old ones. This is where dreamers come into the picture.
Florinda Donner, Being-In-Dreaming

Consensus Reality is the ultimate secret society. It is a society so secret that even its members are unaware of its existence. Consensus Reality is the conspiracy to uphold the world: the means by which we agree upon the way things are, and the way they must be. So far as it is a functioning model, such a Consensus is valid. Insofar as it is not a functioning model, and is, as in our present case, on the verge of breakdown, then such a Consensus is by definition invalid. It therefore becomes the right and responsibility of every thinking member of such a Consensus to cancel their membership, and option a new, higher or broader concept of reality.

Paranoid awareness is the means to disengaging from Consensus. Paranoid awareness is a leap of the imagination, a leap we are all preparing (or not, as the case may be) to take. Like everything else, however (only more so), paranoid awareness is not what it appears to be to the uninitiated. When I use the word magik, for example, I refer not to spells or incantations, healing balms or lethal broths, night flights or animal transformations; these are no more what define magik than the contents of a laboratory define science. By magik, I refer rather to a shift in perception, a shift from one Consensus to another, a movement of the race assemblage point to a new position. (For a description of the assemblage point, see the Appendix.) This preliminary goal of magik is what was termed by Carlos Castaneda stopping the world. And at this point, there can be little doubt that the world must be stopped.

Still a considerable way from such a shift, we perceive a darkness on the horizon, drawing inexorably closer, and are compelledin our own intereststo rise up and meet it. All that follows herein is a brief and cursory overview of the paranoid perspective, a perspective that insists on every time being the End Time. This is the only point of view that befits the paranoidthat of the eschatologist, or the romanticwhatever shape, size or form the eschaton may assume. For those as yet unenlightened as to the meaning of eschatology, Terence McKenna (in The Archaic Revival) describes it as follows

History is the shock wave of eschatology. Something is at the end of time and it is casting an enormous shadow over human history, drawing all human becoming towards it. All the wars, the philosophies, the rapes, the pillaging, the migrations, the cities, the civilizationsall of this is occupying a microsecond of geological, planetary, and galactic time as the monkeys react to the symbiote, which is in the environment and which is feeding information to humanity about the larger picture