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by Michael A Aquino


  practical, and proposes a constructive and ethical telos

  for such an application.

  Indeed it is precisely the telos-basis of MindWar

  which illustrates and exemplifies why telos is the

  essential key to evolution and exaltation of human

  consciousness towards MS divinity and immortality.

  Absent such telos, the human race has nothing in its

  future, as in its past, but Mechanistic suffering, futility,

  and eventual, inexorable extinction.

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  Chapter 7: “Death” Demystified

  To die, to be really dead: that must be glorious!

  - Count Dracula

  A. From Terror to Transformation

  The obvious fulcrum of the concepts and processes

  addressed throughout MindStar is the phenomenon of

  transition from physical to metaphysical human

  existence: what is commonly called “death”.

  Since “death” is not in fact death (in the sense of a

  cessation of self-conscious existence), this chapter shines

  a harsher, more explicit light upon it, to explode and

  vanquish the conventional, ignorant fear-conditioning so

  deeply and constantly ingrained in human beings

  throughout their incarnate phase of self-aware existence.

  “Deathfear” is physical-body-instinctive, easily the

  strongest and most unrelenting of all such emotions.

  Invalidating and rejecting it is one thing intellectually,

  but quite another viscerally. Even the most advanced and

  enlightened initiates can suddenly find themselves

  stricken and terrified by it.

  So this is not a read/enjoy/relax chapter of MindStar:

  It is a rude-awakening, a shock that will accompany you

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  henceforth, very much a “Matrix red pill”. 41 Its discourse

  ranges from the conventional to the extraordinary,

  pushing the limits of the reader’s coherence [and/or

  confidence in that of the author].

  We’re going out on some limbs here, but you won’t

  need a saw. As with other supra-rational concepts in

  MindStar, which thereby are not reconcilable by OU-

  exclusive laws of logic42, you will need to apply the

  analytical tool of anamnesis, the dialectic precision of

  which will enable you to recognize truth when you

  see it - an exercise not of faith or trust, but Nœsis.

  Non-initiate humanity habitually regards “life” as

  being either a purely physical OU-function, or as a two-

  layered physical body with a non-physical “soul”. which

  may or may not survive the body’s cessation of

  metabolism and subsequent decomposition.

  The “blue-pill”-former is termed materialism, the

  “red-pill”-latter idealism. 43

  B. Who Owns Your Body:

  The protagonist of The Matrix assumed he did, until

  he awakened to discover it attached to a variety of

  parasitical mechanisms. Let’s find out to what you might

  be hooked-up ...

  41 In the 1999 science-notsofiction movie The Matrix, a human

  sensing “something wrong” with his environment was told that it was

  an artificially-conditioned illusion. He was offered a blue pill to

  restore it, or a red pill to shatter it. He chose the latter, and

  experienced something rather like this chapter.

  42 The principles and applications of strict logic are reviewed in

  FindFar. Deductive and inductive logic operate exclusively within

  the OU.

  43 These terms for human life are used differently for the political

  processes discussed in Chapter #6.

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  1. State?

  Externally in society you know who you are by

  documentary credentials: birth-certificate, passport,

  licenses, diplomas, marriage/divorce certificates, and

  eventually death-certificate. All these are issued by

  various levels of the nation-state of which you are a

  “citizen”, in other words to which you belong. It is the

  state that recognizes and validates you, and it legally

  claims both the responsibility to protect you and the

  prerogative to kill you.

  You and others may call yourself by many names, but

  it is the state which records and authenticates your

  “official”, permanent name.

  The state stipulates what officials, agencies,

  physicians, teachers, parents, and morticians can do to/

  with your body. It can punish you if you try to escape its

  control, as well as deny your attempt to enter it. From

  birth to death you are enveloped in a “matrix” of its laws

  and customs conditioning, controlling, and limiting your

  freedom of communication and action.

  Despite all-of-the-above, an individual would

  probably argue that consciousness is untouched &

  unreachable by the state, and that this is the final,

  decisive establishment of bodily-ownership. 44

  2. Religion?

  Life is a divine gift, conventional religions all

  maintain, and in “intelligent” humans especially so,

  giving them dominion over the “lesser” flora, fauna, &

  features of God’s creation. Thus functions like mating,

  44 In 1984 George Orwell argued that in fact one’s “soul” could be

  destroyed by unendurable torture (Room #101). But all that was

  actually demonstrated was that self-preservation can be terrorized to

  preempt selfless love.

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  sex, and birthing are held to be sacred, and any

  interference with them sinful. The killing of non-human

  life is permissible precisely because it highlights the

  “special” status of human life.

  The killing of other humans is usually endorsed as

  self-serving collaboration with religion-hosting states, but

  once again individual, non-state “murder” is not. 45 Most

  significantly, killing oneself is condemned as the “greatest

  of all sins”. It is the ultimate insult to God to reject his gift

  of life to you, since it is a life, an “image”, that emulates

  his own. Killing yourself is killing God “by proxy”, as

  illustrated by humans’ crucifying/killing God-as-Christ.

  As Judæo/Christianity lost its literal hold on educated

  humanity ca. the European Enlightenment, social-

  contract theorists contended more cynically that the

  Church frightened adherents into continuing their

  miserable lives simply to extract tribute and toil from

  them. All disobedience, heresy, infidelity led inevitably to

  eternal damnation in Hell; only the most abject surrender

  of oneself throughout life might possibly result in Christ’s

  mercy - certainly not owed by personal effort.

  3. Profession?

  Some professions expect the individual to subordinate

  his life to their success, mission, or image. The most

  obvious of these is military service, whether state,

  mercenary, or revolutionary. You are expected to risk,

  45 In the United States, for instance, the military forces all include

  chaplains from all the profane religious institutions, as

  commissioned officers with government-provided/funded facilities
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  [in bald disregard of the Constitution’s establishment-of-religion

  prohibition]. The principal mission of chaplains is to convince

  soldiers that human injury and murder ordered by the state is not a

  sin in the eyes of God. Religions providing such chaplains include

  Judaism, Catholic & Protestant Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, &

  Hinduism.

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  and if necessary sacrifice your life for the mission or

  cause. Decorations for valor are awarded as much for

  such personal risk and injury/death as for killing the

  enemy.

  In other professions, including religions, martyrdom

  is not only permitted but admired and rewarded. If a

  minister kills himself, he’s damned to Hell. But if he is

  killed ex officio, he might well be canonized a saint.

  4. Psychiatry?

  The “medical” avocation of Psychiatry has as its

  central article of faith that any continuation of physical

  life, no matter how painful or restrictive, is preferable to

  death. If a sufferer contemplates suicide, this is “mental

  illness” and must be enticed, argued, threatened,

  drugged, or padded-cell-imprisoned away. Your body

  ceases to be your property the moment you want to get

  rid of it.

  5. Family?

  If you are a member of a family, other members of it

  will claim all or part of your body according to your and

  their position. As a minor your body is controlled by your

  parents, who are subject to state punishment if they don’t

  control it as prescribed. If you marry as a husband, your

  wife and relatives expect you to procreate as well as

  provide. If you marry as a wife, your body is instantly

  subordinate to reproduction and care of children.

  Suicide within a family is traditionally regarded as a

  betrayal of “family obligations”, a social shame to the

  family name, and even criminal culpability of other

  members who didn’t prevent it.

  Exclusive of self-serving exploitation, of course, there

  may also be the factor of sincere romantic and/or familial

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  love. Of course persons genuinely and purely in love

  characteristically don’t think of it in “property” terms.

  But if one is contemplating personal incarnation options,

  love for other incarnates is certainly going to be of

  critical, even determinant importance.

  6. Familiars?

  If your family extends to members who are furred,

  feathered, finned, or scaled, what you do with your body

  must take what happens to theirs into special

  consideration. Implicitly neither they nor you would see

  this as a question of “ownership”, but certainly of a bond

  and obligation that goes beyond verbiage.

  7. Yourself!

  What the above recitation highlights is that, as

  intuitively as you assume your body to be “yours

  exclusively”, this is true only insofar as you’re the only

  one inside it.

  Indeed even this is a bit of a broad-brush: Biological

  science estimates that each human body contains about

  39 trillion living bacterial cells, so where the OU is

  concerned, it’s more accurate to visualize a very large

  crowd of critters who’ve somehow all decided to be “you”

  for awhile. 46

  At least in the metaphysical realm of the MS, there

  are, as the Egyptians detected and identified, only eight of

  You. 47

  46 Nor do these remain the same 39T cells: The body’s Life-Field (LF)

  dictates the disintegration and regeneration of all proteins in the

  body about every 160 days. Cf. C#5.B.2.

  47 Cf. Chapter #5.C.

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  C. Materialism - “The Big Black Sack”

  Since materialism holds that a human being is

  nothing more than a haphazard, temporary coagulation

  of physical matter/energy 48, “consciousness of self” is

  nothing more than an illusion which ceases the moment

  the body stops functioning and decomposes. 49

  Hence whether this “illusion” is completely accidental

  or constructed and emplaced by prior/super-nature

  intelligence/s is also a nontopic of permissible discussion.

  The only respectable assumptions are atheism and

  agnosticism.

  1. The Conceit of Atheism

  Some materialists are so fanatic in their certainty that

  since “they” are only freak, persistent electrochemical

  accidents, everything else in the entire OU must be too.

  Thus they confidently deny not just any creative genius

  behind the subatomic, interfunctional complexity of the

  OU/“Nature”, but the uniform and continuous

  enforcement of this “Natural Law” (NL) everywhere

  from millisecond to millisecond.

  The odds against the entirety of this are prima facie

  impossible, so atheists handle this annoyance by refusing

  to discuss it. Questions as to why, if one’s personal

  consciousness is nothing more than a freak electrical

  collision in the brain, this “illusion” should continue with

  consistent memory for the individual’s lifetime - and why

  48 Prior to Dr. Harold Saxon Burr’s 1972 discovery of LFs (C#5.B.2),

  conventional materialism had no way to explain the extraordinary

  organization, integration, & replacement of the human body’s

  cellular & molecular structure. Materialists grappled with this crucial

  problem by simply ignoring it.

  49 Cf. C#2.C.

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  such a “freak electrical accident” coincidentally occurs in

  every other human brain.

  Insistent that “he” is nothing more than this electrical

  illusion, the atheist has nothing but nothing to anticipate

  when the electrical switch is turned off: the proverbial Big

  Black Sack (BBS) of extinction, of nothingness.

  The absence of any supernatural morality, including

  of posthumous reward/punishment for incarnate

  behavior, makes sincere atheists that much more

  dangerous to others, as they are motivated only by

  sensual gratification. Some may of course derive pleasure

  from kindness, but others just as whimsically may enjoy

  depravity, torture, murder. Indeed the entire spectrum of

  sensual gratification has nowhere a moral governor; the

  overriding goal is relief from boredom, of being forced to

  confront the futility of a meaningless consciousness.

  Emperor Ming the Merciless: Klytus, I’m bored! What

  play thing can you offer me today?

  Klytus: An obscure body in the S-K System, Your Majesty.

  The inhabitants refer to it as the planet ... Uurth.

  Ming: How peaceful it looks. [He activates a console, and

  watches as earthquakes, floods, etc. start to occur.

  They both laugh.]

  Klytus: Most effective, Your Majesty! Will you destroy

  this ... Uurth?

  Ming: Later. I like to play with thing awhile before

  annihilation.

  - Flash Gordon (1980)

  H.P. Lovecraft, himself an exceptionally reflective

  atheist, was only too aware of this plight, hig
hlighting it

  in his story The Hound (1922):

  Wearied with the commonplaces of a prosaic world,

  where even the joys of romance and adventure soon grow

  stale, St. John and I had followed enthusiastically every

  æsthetic and intellectual movement which promised

  respite from our devastating ennui.

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  The enigmas of the Symbolists and the ecstasies of

  the pre-Raphaelites all were ours in their time, but each

  new mood was drained too soon of its diverting novelty

  and appeal.

  Only the sombre philosophy of the Decadents could

  hold us, and this we found potent only by increasing

  gradually the depth and diabolism of our penetrations.

  Baudelaire and Huysmans were soon exhausted of thrills,

  till finally there remained for us only the more direct

  stimuli of unnatural personal experiences and adventures.

  It was this frightful emotional need which led us

  eventually to that detestable course which even in my

  present fear I mention with shame and timidity - that

  hideous extremity of human outrage, the abhorred practice

  of grave-robbing. 50

  Fortunately for Earth’s climatologists, as well as the

  tranquillity of cemeteries and mausoleums, today’s

  atheists sublimate their ghoulish desperation for ultimate

  boredom-relief by the ongoing catharsis of multimedia

  zombie-orgies, wherein the absence of a higher life-after-

  death is replaced by a decidedly lower one. At least, the

  extinction-fearful atheist consoles himself, continuation

  as a rotting, cannibalistic cadaver is better than the BBS!

  An ambulance responds to a 911-call at a cemetery

  overrun by cannibalistic zombies. The paramedics are

  instantly attacked and devoured.

  Rotting zombie on the ambulance radio:

  “Send ... more ... paramedics ...”

  Instead a few minutes later a police car responds to

  investigate. The two policemen are also attacked and

  eaten.

  Rotting zombie on the police car radio:

  “Send ... more ... cops ...”

  - Return of the Living Dead (1985)

  50 Lovecraft, H.P., Dagon and Other Macabre Tales. Sauk City:

 

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