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Posted by peter Chamberland
January 15, 2022 -
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I wrote earlier in a different post that I am here to challenge you and encourage you to become the best version of you that you could possibly become.
Nothing has changed about this statement. This is what I think about on a consistent basis, even in regards to my own life and how I can actually systemize a generic process that people can actually apply to themselves in a safe way in all legal manners possible.
One method of becoming a new person is to have an alter ego. Having an alter ego is something that is not hypocritical and does not throw away all your religious spectrums of thought, it is actually an addition to life and provides relief. A definition of ritual used by the church of Satan is cathartic relief. I don't think that people really understand when definitions of ritual are given out about what this actually means. It does not excuse god from the picture for whatever god you choose to follow. God can be included still even with the fact that it is used in abundance to foster atheism, like some type of disclaimer that people are too afraid of Satan to even associate themselves with him/her.
What people typically talk about in this regard is illegal chaotic insane thinking behavior. People are not trying, nor am I, to try to encourage that behavior, and there has been attention on this in the past in various elements of media.
In regards to altar ego it is the case that legality is a consistent factor still. It's a matter of being loosened up and willing to change. It's like when you see an admirable character that you see in a movie that you want to be more like. There are practical standards of life that are unavoidable and elements that you don't really want to be like. For instance, you really don't want to be like Hannibal lecter in silence of the lambs. If you admire to be like him, that shows there is more of a problem than normalcy, and yes, there is normal and abnormal.
The idea I'm more getting at is the idea of fostering things like bravery in making a move. Somebody might be timid and shy and quiet and reserved and actually feel guilty about not taking a chance when the opportunity provides itself. They might kick themselves over and over again and get so sick of it that they realize something needs to change. Maybe somebody was raised in a conservative home with some fallacious logic going on and feel trapped and like everything has to be somehow good little Sunday school boy with button down plaid shirt look and crew cut hair for a returned missionary bible thumper attitude that they are sick and tired of and need relief from.
I've felt that way before. The danger and frustration behind this element is that there is risk involved that can get a person into trouble. Pot is legal in several different states, and less focus in many ways is put on that aspect, but it is still illegal where I live except for cbd oil products. So unless I'm willing to spend time in the legal system, which I'm not, and which the legal system will never go away, so I'm just not willing to sacrifice legal livelihood to fit in with the rest of the country. Regardless of the excuses and that I could get away with it for a time, the simple fact is I'd be risking more than what is worth for the experience.
But why does it always have to go in that direction about loosening up? Why does it always have to be about illegal behavior or to fit everyone else's expectations about what the lifestyle of a minister entails?
I am still me, I am still only human and I'm not even close to taking it to play along. I have a desire to make the world a better place, but in many respects agree with pink Floyd that I don't need no education.
Ask yourself what motivates you for taking a risk? This is a big factor about alter ego. Living a different lifestyle during the day than in the evening. The factor that was a part of irritation for Anton lavey when he developed the church of Satan was that people would go to the strip tents on Friday nights and be in the church tent Sunday mornings fervently repenting of their actions and continue the cycle for the duration. It's not that I am trying to foster the opposite actions of this within the satanic spectrum. It's an entirely different concept that I'm talking about.
It's when you admire both the spiritual elements of things, you want to explore the spiritual side of history as an interest, but you don't want to change other things that you like.
You can explore zen and still attend a strip club without having to wear Buddhist robes to a strip club. You can be a Tyler durden type of character without a care in the world and still solemnize marriages as a minister. Things don't have to measure up to everyone else's expectations to feel trapped in the button down plaid good little nerd boy Sunday school kid of the Christian right. You can loosen up, and it may take an alter ego to do this. You might think Marilyn Manson is interesting but be afraid of being labelled under the difference for listening to his music. Just because you listen to Manson does not mean that you have to forego the beach boys, or forsake the rap music.
In many ways what I say might seem redundant to some. People may think, I already know this! But if that's the case then troll along because I'm not looking to make impressions on people who already know this.
There are people who do not know this. Whether it's short sighted ignorance or innocent mistakes lead by inappropriate influences, whatever the case is it's not known by different people, and those are the ones that need the message in their life.
I hope maybe for those even that do know, to stress the importance of ethics within the field of spirituality. In some ways I wish that ethics would be the new spirituality all together. In a lot of ways they have been foregone and lost, along with a lot of purpose.
You can believe,
You can achieve,
And you can become….
