The Ascendancy of Psychotic Knowledge (cont.)
By Shunyamurti

But another pillar of knowledge control that has fallen is that of religion. To understand the import of this epochal change, we must go back in history to the establishment of Christianity as the official state religion of the Roman Empire. We must focus particularly on the year 325 A.D. (and keep in mind that even the calendar and its dating of the years is an artificial political convention that upholds a specific paradigm of knowledge, in this case that of Christendom). In that year, the Council of Nicaea established official orthodox doctrine. Anyone who dared to think differently from then on was subject to being referred to the office of the Inquisition, which had many well-known ways of changing one’s mind, including that of terminating one’s heresy through salvation with extreme prejudice. The current practices of official torture are simply a continuation of the program begun long ago in the name of our God of Love.

Not only was the canon defended by cannon, and the sword of knowledge backed by the sword of steel, that would now go on to convert the heathen to the same narrow line of thought, but more significantly, the new regime of orthodox knowledge suppressed the use of natural psychoactive substances such as psilocybin-containing mushrooms, that had been part of the original Gnostic psycho-technology of awakening. Much of the ideological effort of social control from then on went to criminalizing and demonizing the use of mind-altering substances, as well as even more natural mind-altering processes such as meditation. Mind control efforts invaded the deepest levels of our consciousness, by establishing the very words of the prayers that were allowed to be offered to God in the privacy of our own minds. In fact, the purpose of religion was to eliminate all privacy of mind. People eventually became fearful even of inner silence and peace!