Why I Am A Kantheist.

[Jonathan Barlow Gee]

In regards to Kantheism, I have to admit to being a bit of a hypocrite in claiming to believe in it. For legal purposes, it is wiser for me to claim the "religious exemption" to the laws of the land that declare consumption of cannabis "illegal," however the fact is that no one's religion can pass the test of objective verifiability through provision of factual material evidence. Religion, being a personal philosophy, is an intangible ideal as well as a unique claim made by each individual. As such, one can only - as most religions stipulate as their basis for the definition of "morality" - attempt to match their behaviors to their beliefs, and through good "works," "deeds" and "karma," earn the rewards in an afterlife promised to those who adhere to any given belief. The reason for this absence of materially solid, tangible evidence to prove the concept of adhering to any given belief is due to the fact that theism (the belief in God) is contrary to all proof possible in objective, solid, material reality. Reality stipulates, "there is no God," however belief remains our naturally endowed "legal" right, and so those who choose to believe in God exercise their right to be wrong. In this regard, my religion is "cantheism" (alternately spelled "kantheism").

 

The archaeological and anthropological evidence indicates our species (homo-sapiens) are the result of interbreeding between the hominid species of cromagnons and neanderthals, resulting in the eventual extinction of the neanderthal species, and ultimately, due to competition with our own species for territory and resources, the extinction of the cromagnon species as well. There is evidence of plant domestication in not only the earliest homo-sapien encampments in caves, but also in the dwelling huts of the later neanderthals as well as the nomadic bone-tents of the cromagnons. However, the anthropic proof of our own species present existence demonstrates that our own brain-chemistry differed sufficiently from these other hominid species to allow our survival and to cause their extinction. All evidence indicates this era was the origin for religious beliefs. Thus, the most logical conclusion is that our earliest ancestors in our modern homo-sapien species found a way to consume the domesticated strains of plant-life that: 1) differed for our species' brain-chemistry's natural reaction to the same method performed by other contemporary hominid species; 2) caused the agrarian revolution; 3) inspired the origins of our species religious mythology. In short, it is entirely likely that modern theist mythology is merely recording a metaphor for our own species first discovery of psychotropic natural drugs. By this reasoning, in the same way we are all descended from "mitochondrial Eve" we are all likewise "kantheists" by the nature of our species; although only religious myths (attempting to prove the false premise of theism) exist as evidence.

 

To sum up briefly: "Kantheism" is the belief that cannabis (or some other, similar, psychotropic plant) is the origin for the human belief in God. This doesn't translate, as many people misinterpret, to "weed is God." Instead, it proves that there is no such thing in reality as "God," or rather, it proves that the only evidence to substantiate the belief in "God" is hallucination induced by natural chemical reaction. In other words, "God is a hallucination." Stated as such, "Kantheism" seems to be the most logical form of "religion" or "theist philosophy" available.

 

I would like to, perhaps later today or else in a later reply, elaborate further on the practices of "magick" as they relate to the "hallucination of religion," and the importance to historical figures such as the fictionalized "Simon Magus" or "Adam Kadmon," no less so than to real human beings like Pythagoras or Aleister Crowley, of the combination of psychotropic drug-use with the practices of "magick" to evoke a kind of "back-door" method of manipulating reality using one's hallucinated beliefs alone, and how this leads to the modern scientific studies of "instantaneous manifestation" of material objects from thin air, or "something form nothing," that form the spine of our present belief in the modern theism of economics. As I say, however, I'll come back to this later. There remains a surplus of time in which to elaborate on these topics.

[Lizzy]

Yay, surplus of time!

[Jonathan Barlow Gee]