Cosmic Consciousness: Dr. Manhattan & Nietzsche’s Zarathustra
<p>If our species has an objective, it can be summed up in one word: ‘Logos’. In Ancient Greek, it means ‘word’, ‘reason’ or ‘creative order’, but in Christian theology, Logos is another word for God.</p>
<p>One way of conceptualising Logos is as True Perception, or omniscience. We want to expand our knowledge — and our consciousness — across the universe. Know everything, be everywhere. Even when this was far beyond our ability, we put ourselves in league with entities that could (i.e. the gods).</p>
<p>We used the image of God as something to strive towards, and called the process Enlightenment. We found slow ways to achieve such a state (e.g. Asceticism, Science), but as with everything there are also shortcuts to Enlightenment; i.e. psychedelic drugs.</p>
<p>The problem with drug-induced Enlightenment is the problem with all shortcuts, the journey cannot prepare you. As Camille Paglia says of the Sixties generation, ‘drugs remade the Western world-view by shattering conventions of time, space, and personal identity’, but the ‘neurological risks of long-term drug use were denied or underestimated: the most daring Sixties questers lost the ability to articulate and transmit their spiritual legacy to posterity’.</p>
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