Now of course, you're like well duh we can attain it that's the whole point of Buddhism is that each and every one of us can become a Buddha, that we in fact are already a Buddha and just dont realize it.

But you see fren, this itself is why I'm saying this, so that we may actually be able to realize that we already have these powers and already are the Buddha. I'm saying this because the materialist paradigm is so deeply embedded into us at the subconscious level that we need to leverage every possible angle we can in extricating it.

I'm saying this from a personal standpoint. I mean I could answer all sorts of spiritual questions on a written test. I can talk all day about esotericism. But does that mean I'm attained and awakened?

I still labor under too much subconscious programming and conditioning. An aid for me in my own path is being able to get past my own paradigmatic defenses because I can be a skeptic, I can struggle to internalize all of these deeper understandings.

It is indeed a process, and this is where practice comes into play. We must unravel these many many layers of conditions. We must remove the dirt and grime that obscures our Buddhanature.

A useful tool for us in the modern world however is to work with the terminology and worldview that we are dealing with in this time. It isn't about trying to transplant our mentality to some ancient religion or way of life.

It is about now. It is about working with what we have now because this is obviously what our minds are accustomed to, it's what grabs our attention.

And here we can see how this is a very tantric thing to do as well - utilize the energy which is at play. Since our minds naturally are attuned to the scientific worldview then it makes sense to simply reroute this towards our benefit.

Work with what is available to you.

If you ain’t shifting paradigms then what are you even doing with this life 👏🏻

It's a groom or be groomed world out there gentlemen

Also, it isn't only Quantum mechanics, but there are other scientific methods of subverting the dominant slave paradigm of materialism.

Two that I can think of off the top are epigenetics and the placebo effect. Really we should be methodically plotting these out with the aim of leveraging them in service of our purposes - where my autists at, you need to be put to work in service of the Plan (we are taking applications).

Now, ultimately, what this is about is spiritual revitalization. But what does this mean?

What it means is increased consciousness. It means increased sovereignty and power. It means an increased ability to literally conform reality according to your will.

This is Tantra. This is what it's about - transforming reality with the mind and heart of bodhicitta. The Bodhisattva is a wizard and if we want to fulfill this role in its fullness then we need to apply ourselves in practice.

So let's take a little peek into just one aspect (arguably a very surface level aspect despite its immense implications) of how Tantra works in relation to the brain and a touch of the Quantum stuff, see how it meshes there.

Tantra uses visualization to actually change the structure of your brain and this is borne out with neuroplasticity.

You go into deep visualization and when you stabilize this, it could be said that you are existing within this other realm. As you are existing here your brain is functioning as if you are literally there.

That is to say that your neurons are firing off as if what you are experiencing in visualization is objective reality. Your brain wave state is as if you are actually there physically.

What this is doing is literally and biologically changing your brain. New neural connections are being formed and over time, these new pathways become deeper to the point of you easily slipping into these heightened states without actually entering the visualization.

Here is where things get really interesting because this is where you begin to develop what we call siddhis.

In the same way that you shape your visualization according to your consciousness/will you will begin to increase your ability to shape "external reality" according to your consciousness/will.

The degree to which you will be able to do this will directly correspond to your level of consciousness. Understanding our brain to not be a generator of consciousness but functioning more as a receiver also has the implication that it can do more than merely receive - what if it can beam consciousness, or maybe we would call this the function of "willing" phenomena to shift according to our own design.

As we develop ourselves in practice to "pick up more consciousness" from the Source (Dharmakaya/Absolute) we inscrease our power to wield that and literally become co creators of reality as so many traditions have spoken of humans as being.

We can imagine how this could be explained according to Quantum mechanics when we understand how important consciousness is to this model and how it already shows in numerous ways that consciousness directly interacts with and affects what we consider to be objective reality.

This is really an ancient and magical view of things and its so beautiful to realize that our understanding is looping back around to this mythical paradigm as science progresses.

We are truly coming to a crossroads in our civilization - we are about to have some really fucking cool shit or some really fucked up shit.

And you know me, I'm eternally back so you negroes can hop on this timelime to LFGland where the Plan trusting gigachads will be eternally flexing with our 72 schizokweens or you can go to some cuck realm full of pessimist newtonian faggots.

WHICH WAY WESTERN MAN????

TOTAL NEWTONIAN DEATH

Goddamn imagine not being this back

Sometimes a wigga just needs a little Kalashnikov ASMR

Eternalism vs Nihilism. This is the big battle always raging.

What we have amongst the major religions of the world is eternalism and what we have dominating within modernity is nihilism. Remember this as a key distinction.

Traditionalism is a reactionary movement against the nihilism and materialism of modernity. It does a good job first diagnosing many of our issues in today's world while also deconstructing modernity as a paradigm.

It identifies the symptoms of our modern sickness as having their root in a divorce from the transcendent World of Being. Traditionalism states that the primary cause of our issues in the Kali Yuga are due to having had our connection to the transcendental Absolute severed which then has blinded us to spiritual realities and dooms us to incessantly wander in the World of Becoming.

In my view it's really not that hard to understand this according to the Buddhist view of samsara. The World of Being easily correlates with Nirvana and the World of Becoming easily correlates with Samsara.

Now the difference is that Buddhism ultimately understands Nirvana and Samsara to be one - but this is ultimately an esoteric understanding, people do not just readily apprehend this, and I would say that within Traditionalist esotericism they also understand the ultimate nonduality between the World of Being and the World of Becoming.

But the way that Traditionalism frames this, at least on the exoteric level, is very much eternalist. It uses positivist terminology to ascribe characteristics to the Transcendent which itself lends very easily to people developing concepts about reality as opposed to directly realizing the actual nature of reality.

However in the modern age we have a dominating current of nihilism and the Traditionalists identified this and proceeded to prescribe RETVRN as the answer.

I think that here the Traditionalists are mostly correct in the sense that what we advise someone to do depends upon their current position.

What I am saying here is that most people in our age need to be nudged in the direction of eternalism because this is what will provide them the best grounding and ultimately (in my opinion) the best conditions towards realizing Dharma.

This is not to say we advocate eternalism as hard thing but that we recognize the utility of what is encompassed under the label of "eternalism".

Of course utimately we do not actually want to simply Retvrn as so many Traditionalists advocate. Life is indeed a flowing river and we are in a journey of expanding consciousness.

What we really want to do is build out of our foundation which is to say the positive aspects of Traditionalism which include stability, hierarchy, orientation towards the transcendent and many other aspects which do provide key answers to many modern problems.

But we must also always acknowledge the downsides of Traditionalism or we could just say the imbalanced expression of Traditionalist systems and here is where Jason Reza Jorjani's thought comes into play.

His entire system of Prometheism is based on Traditionalism as being an oppressive system that stifles the creative spirit of man. He frames it as a tyrannical force that smothers our will to power. Prometheus for him is a liberating agent against the stifling and totalitarian Olympians.

This view is an interesting framing in order for him to put forth his own vision, which I can appreciate on those grounds, but it necessarily strawmans certain things.

For example, it has to put the Olympians in an oppressor role and the Titans in a liberator role which is very binary and ignores and positive aspects of reality that the Olympians represent.

To me it makes more sense to recognize that what is being conveyed with the Olympians and Titans is actually forces that are both necessary - broadly speaking could say the one serves as a stabilizing force (which can become oppressive in its imbalanced expression) and the other as an expansion force (which can become unstable/destructive in its imbalanced expression).

But again, the way Jorjani frames these things is according to his own agenda of putting forth Prometheism and so understanding that I can take his insights without needing to fully adopt his frame and throw out everything I've learned.

It should be clear however that there are quite a number of valid critiques of Traditionalism as a framing. Islam should be an obvious one as well as the many examples of the Catholic Church stifling creative thought.

But really what we want to do is synthesize - we want to take the best from both poles.

We should understand that the exoteric level of things will usually be oriented in a way that lends towards eternalism and the esoteric side of thing oriented in a way that lends towards nihilism.

When I say lends towards this only means that it can be easily misunderstood in that direction of things but in its most Dharmic and healthy form it does not do this.

So what is really needed is a thorough understanding of the problem of language and seeing that much of what is understood to be the flaws of eternalism ultimately comes down to attachments to concepts. It comes down to fixating on the finger pointing to the moon. And the flip side is that nihilism comes from realizing the finger is not the moon but then making the incorrect assumption that there is no moon at all.