Theme: Agency

ON SPIRITUALITY AND TRANSCENDENCE

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You know, when you use the word spiritual you mean ‘non-rational’. You mean submission of human reason to animal free association. By animal free association to instinct and impulse. And by doing so enjoy the feelings that freedom from reason and exploration of our animal instincts provide us. You can restore the ‘security of the tribe and pack’.

You can achieve that experience through action discipline (stoic discipline), buddhist mental discipline, contemplative prayer, or ritualistic (repetition) prayer, asian ritualistic discipline, Or any of the nonsense new age drivel by which the weak escape reality rather than defeat it.

You can obtain the collective experience of submission to the will of the pack, and the production of reciprocal trust, through sport, festival, feast, group observation (dramatic play), group ritual or ceremony, group ritual prayer.

You can obtain the collective development of reciprocal trust through military service, emergency service, and civic service in the production and maintenance of commons, and demonstrated civic virtues.

Now of those three sets of impulses we can abandon reality, we can tolerate reality, or we can change reality. We can embrace our current condition, we can tolerate our current condition, or we can change our current condition.

Now of those sets of choices, which are transcendent-in-fact, and which claim transcendence but are just chemical rewards no different from taking drugs, producing ends that are no different from taking drugs?

There are those of us who are fully human and have transcended the beast. There are those who are less fully transcendent and need to retreat to the beast now and then to burn off the frustrations of insufficient transcendence. There are those of us who constantly struggle to demonstrate transcendence and who must retreat to the beast at every opportunity in order to continue their charade, and there are those who have little ability to transcend and merely imitate the various stages of transcendence to the best of their abilities.

One can make moral rational choices because one has transcended and therefore possesses agency. One can recognize moral rational choices despite one’s lack of full transcendence, and still demonstrate agency most of the time. One can make rational choices if trained and exercises his reason in at least those matters political. One can imitate rational choices made by one’s betters out of desire for moral membership. Or one cannot make such choices because one lacks the agency to do so.

So one can appeal to spirituality out of genetic, emotional, or intellectual weakness, and still choose a moral decision by non rational means. But one cannot defend or advocate that decision as rational unless he can state it rationally.

I have no problem with weakness. But the weak cannot rule, and the number of weak, who lack agency due to their failure to transcend must be reduced. And we must never take seriously those who speak in ideal, spiritual, religious or occult terms.

The stoics invented the only un-religion. We can restore it.

a) Aryan Sovereignty for the industrialization of the production of agency.

b) Stoic Personal Discipline that maximizes agency.

c) Stoic Natural Law that maximizes agency.

d) Stoic Aesthetics that maximize excellence

e) Deflationary myths: the use of the Monomyth, the plots, the Archetypes, and the Virtues to teach wisdom by narrative explanations of our psychology of acquisitionism.

END THE LIE OF MONOPOLY. Restore paganism: the market for personalities, the market for specialties, the market for ages, the market for classes. Markets in everything by which we calculate transcendence one generation at a time.

Curt Doolittle

THe Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine

(TIP: do you see how I use series to eliminate the ability to weasel word through imprecision? Testimonialism=series rather than ideal types, operational definitions rather than experiential or intentional descriptions or ideal definitions; Full accounting rather than cherry picking.)