Archons, Assholes, And The Philosophy Of Laziness

Over the last couple years I have received reader emails telling me that they believe much of what I write about deals with Archons and the fact that the physical domain is itself under control of very dark, violent, and sexually aggressive entities that either created humanity as a slave race or simply farm them for a resource necessary for their own existence.  In most of these emails, I am given links to the written works or audio interviews of two men in particular.  One is John Lash and the other is Jay Weidner.  Lash isn’t worth the effort, but Jay Weidner is a somewhat interesting case because he has spread his ideas for mass consumption on the History Channel and others. I strongly suspect that Weidner gets many of his ideas from John Lash whose writing I frankly can’t stomach.  Lash considers Christianity itself an “E.T. Deception” and like Weidner he uses the tired Sitchin annunaki conspiracy theory of a super alien race creating (or at least enslaving) human beings or some similar nonsense.

It soon becomes apparent to me in going over this material that there are major errors in interpretation taking place.  Having studied the Gnostic corpus for many years now and knowing their history fairly well, it becomes clear almost immediately that the interpretation these two men put out is really a “re-telling” through a more modern lens.  They present the Nag Hammadi library as if it were a cohesive teaching containing a set of harmonious spiritual ideas.  This is simply not true.  Both of these writers are clueless in regard to how these writings relate to the inner rather than outer world.  A cursory examination of the Nag Hammadi texts reveals that the very texts themselves contain conflicting ideas on creation and the nature of what is often seen as a ”cosmic error” that being the creation of the present physical domain.  For the record, however, I will state that the Gospel of Thomas does have an authoritative and valid feel to it.  But moving on.

Weidner consistently mucks things up by likening aliens from outer space with Archons.  Having listened to several of his interviews now it is very clear that he also takes many ideas from the fiction of Zecharia Sitchin, who time and again has been debunked.  Weidner on several occassions quite proudly admits that some of his knowledge comes from Sitchin.  Having listened to an interview from 2011 Weidner falsely claims that science fiction writer Arthur Clarke wrote openly about being a pedophile in the London Times.  This is simply not true.  While I do find it suspect that a man thought to be a pedophile would move to Sri Lanka (a pedophiles paradise) the truth is that no such articles were ever written by Arthur Clarke as Weidner claims.  In fact Clarke denied the charges emphatically (as all pedophiles do) when they were brought against him in Sri Lanka shortly before his death.  The audio can be found on this page and was done May 2011 under “Truthquest”.  In this particular interview Weidner even states that human beings aren’t meant to work and that if we somehow change from “Monochronic time” to “Polychronic time” we can get out of the pain the physical world puts on humanity.  He then goes on to state that we should be living a more natural existence in free-love communities and speaks nothing about how a shift from Monochronic to Polychronic time can occur and what the metaphysical implications would be.  Weidner goes on to make a bigger fool of himself with Jeff Rense.

In an interview with Jeff Rense, Jay Weidner states:

“The Nag Hammadi texts are older than the New Testament by 400 years. The New Testament that we have today wasn’t concocted until about 350 AD. “

This is absolutely false.  The Nag Hammadi library dates to around 300-400AD, which means that particular library came into existence nearly 300 years after the death of Christ.  The earliest Christian writings in existence are the writings of the Apostle Paul, which exist in the present day New Testament. These can easily be dated to around 50AD twenty years or more before the destruction of Jerusalem and nearly 300 years before the Nag Hammadi library came to be.  This is even accepted by secular scholars and can no longer be debated.  One of the oldest fragments of the book of James (in the New Testament) can be dated to 120 AD, which is also older than any Gnostic text in existence today.  This is just poor scholarship on the part of Weidner and company.  The New Testament wasn’t “concocted” or written in the fourth century as he claims, it was during that time that the Christian bishops were compiling a canon of already existent texts that were deemed “authoritative”.  The Gnostic texts and teachings were rejected long before Nicea mainly because they negated the importance of the physical domain and promoted very strange ideas.   Before the Council of Nicea all the books of the present New Testament were being circulated throughout the various Christian communities from the time of the first century.  As early as Tatian  it was pretty well understood what books carried “authority” as they related to the original Christian tradition and Gnosticism had no part in that because it presented a completely foreign view of the physical world and the divine.  Even Plotinus, the greatest metaphysician to have ever lived rejected Gnosticism because it represented a degenerated spiritual current.

The reality is that these misconceptions tend to get picked up by those unwilling to check the facts for themselves.  Within time these lies become accepted as truth and those claiming to be Gnostics fall into an illusion themselves.  Even speaking of the Council of Nicea brings images of evil Bishops who were supressing the Gnostics.  Again, this is another misconception.  The Council of Nicea was more about putting together a coherent understanding of God, Christology, and how to standardize religious calendars.  More importantly, it was about Arianism, which had gained a wide following during those times.  What most people today don’t understand, particularly those that buy into the erroneous beliefs being put out en mass today is that most of the Bishops that attended Nicea were feeble.  Many of them had their fingers cut off, hands cut off, eyes plucked out, and worse, due to persecutions that were still taking place.  Again, these are little known facts that can easily be verified.

All of this tends to bring Dannion Brinkley to mind:

Dannion Brinkley continues to spread his lies to every gullibe new age dupe willing to believe whatever he says including myriads of failed prophecies that he continues to put out to this day.  I hardly need to mention his “honorable mention” in the book “Stolen Valor.”  where he lied about his military service even claiming to be an “assassin” with official CIA cover.  Brinkley responded to these accusations, like any snake oil salesman would, by not answering any of the facts brought against him, but telling everyone about all the good things he had done for others in his lifetime.

Now here is the reality: people are outrageously lazy and suffer from profound animosity toward traditional forms.  The erroneous “facts” spouted by the internet and media can never be trusted.  In fact, most new age systems of thought including the pseudo-scientific health and wellness con jobs being promoted, exist only because of the ignorance and laziness of the common man and woman.  The internet is not making people more free, it is making them stupid.  That is the fact.

To be honest, I can understand the need of people to seek out a utopia. I can understand why people feel cheated when they look out into the world to see only suffering.  As my mother was dying I remember seeing her suffer and asking why this type of suffering was necessary.  When I finally had time to contemplate the matter, like a lighting bolt in my mind came the words, “This is how people are created.”

Like many other people I have also experienced suffering.  Some of it has been very trying not to mention life-threatening.  But when I look back to what I was at 15 years old and 30 years old and even now, I realize that without these hardships I never would have come to any degree of maturity.  These trials, as ghastly as they are, forge us into greater beings. The catch is that we need to endure them gracefully without losing hope.  The life of every individual must in some way embrace suffering. We really have no choice. While that may sound barbaric to many people today, our limitations exist to form us and educate us, we are bound to them for however long we are allowed to stay in this world. As John Keats once wrote this world is the “vale of soul-making” thus we are truly “made” or “created” here not at conception, but throughout the duration of our lives.  But to deny the inevitable, which is exactly what suffering and death are, is to enter even further into the delusion of mass produced spiritual ideas which in the end make up the post mortem body.  I would much rather have a body made of clarity than one made up of lie after damnable lie created by the weavers of inner spiritual catastrophe.  This type of denial, fueled by complete fabrications as if I have shown, causes a person to misunderstand their own life in this world making their entrance into the next world far more painful than it has to be.

I remember long ago sitting to watch the movie “Time Machine” (1960) with my Dad.  I was very young then.  In the movie the time traveller George goes far into the future where he comes across a group of people called “the eloi”.  They are all young and indifferent.  The sight of a young woman drowning does nothing to motivate them, whether she lives or dies means nothing.  At one point George goes into a museum(?) only to find that their history books have turned to dust.  I distinctly remember even at that age sharing this internal feeling of rage with George who viewed their culture as both easy and degenerate. I view modern culture through this same lens.  We have in essence forgotten everything that was truly important and replaced it with with spiritual opium meant to make us feel good rather than to mature us or make us stronger.

 As much as it may pain people like Michael Tsarion, John Lash, Jay Weidner, and Joseph Chiappalone all who claim to be “Gnostics”, we are here to be forged in the fires and trials of life so that when the time comes we are able and worthy to behold the face of eternity without turning away in shame.