Blog#62: The Nature of Unreality
Part One
Is the reality that we take as real, really that real? Or do we really live in a simulation? Is the 'reality' we inhabit no more real than a computer video game, similar to what's portrayed in the film series 'the Matrix'?
Do we really wake up every morning into what the Gnostics referred to as a 'bad copy' of an original reality that was indeed a true emanation from the Divine? Is the main purpose of this simulated, fake existence no more than the generation of 'loosh', low frequency energy manufactured by emotions such as anxiety, resentment, and fear? And all this as nourishment for the architects, builders, and gatekeepers of this dysfunctional 'world' - the Demiurge/Yaldabaoth and his minions the archons, as they are called in the Gnostic texts.
And what about 'nature'? The natural world, so-called? And the Sun, Moon, planets and stars? Are these all part of the same simulation, the same demon-serving matrix? There are those people who regard the human world as artificial, as divorced from 'nature' and therefore diabolic. It is a plague to be exterminated - we would be better off without humans -, or at least to be blamed for the woes of the world. Nature, by contrast, is precisely that: natural. As such it is good, maintains balance and harmony, and can even be termed 'pure'.
Part Two
For sure there have been periods in my life when I have looked to this natural world for guidance and inspiration. During my late teens I had an allotment, growing my own vegetables organically, and this was followed by residence in a commune with 'back to the land' aspirations. We were very much 'into nature', though I was always rather less so than a couple of my fellow communards, to be totally honest.
Fast forward a few decades, and I decamped from the Big City to the Highlands of Scotland, in large part for the wild places, and especially for the magnificent solitude of the mountains. I gained great solace and inspiration from some of my expeditions into these wild places; they became a true highlight of the year. Having said that, I never quite took this natural world (some of it, study reveals, is less pristine and natural than appears at first sight) as some kind of ideal. My outlook on life has never quite been properly pagan.
Take a closer look at the natural world and it's often not very paradisiac at all. Most animals live in a state of constant apprehension and fear. There's always something just around the corner ready to tear you to pieces and gobble you up. And even if you manage to survive to the end of the day, there is the abiding question of whether you can feed your belly, or whether hunger and starvation will be your miserable lot.
Nature can be beautiful but it is frequently painful, cruel and vicious. Relax your guard at your peril.
I don't always find nature easy. I'm the kind of guy who doesn't like gardening because it involves pulling up plants that have done no harm and chucking them in the compost bin. Or I'll walk along the riverside in spring and see a duck with five babies. I won't want to walk past again next week, because I know there'll probably be four babies, and the week afterwards three. Victims of a big fish, or one of the opportunistic gulls that I've seen swoop on a duck family in the hope of carrying away one of the newborns.
And let's not forget how I seem to spend half the summer catching spiders, woodlice, and assorted other insect-types in the house, and removing them in a glass jar into the garden. Where, I suppose, they'll get eaten by some other bigger insect....
Some people talk about the 'balance of nature'. It's a notion that I find a touch suspect. I see no animals strolling around with mystical, magical scales weighing up the effects of their actions. It is sometimes claimed that humans are rapacious of the planet, while animals only take what they need. Again, I'm wary of this 'animal economy'. Watch a group of gorillas (an animal of which I am very fond) go around getting their lunch. It's not easy to feed their enormous frames, and they will pull to pieces the forest in the quest for adequate sustenance, trampling down and laying to waste whatever is in the way. Their priority is feeding the family, not a degree in environmental studies, and they will do whatever it takes.
It has become more plausible to me that the entire realm of 'nature' is part of a greater simulation trick. Animals and plants undergo great sufferings which have no value for 'learning for the soul', and do not inhabit a world that you would imagine a loving 'god' or infinite consciousness would come up with. The natural world in its original state reflects the nature of Infinity, but this one is a bad copy, part of a larger one which is shared by humans, corrupt and nasty, based on maximum production of loosh.
Part Three
A couple of things which have stayed in my mind related to this theme:
I recall Christianne Van Wijk, film producer currently with Ickonic, saying once how, as a child, she would dream of nature, how beautiful it was, all interconnected. But then she would go out into nature and find it didn't come up to her expectations. It was so-so.
And in his book 'Exit from the Cave', Howdie Mickoski relates a vision that he had in 2009 during a weekend he spent with a Native American Medicine Man. In the core of the vision, nature realises that it is not free, but is caught in a never-ending loop, a kind of trap. It lacks the means to release itself from its prison, however, so Mother Sophia gives humans to nature, as they possess the means to bring an end to all this circling and getting nowhere.
Howdie presents the vision with little comment, leaving us to make of it what we will, but it might explain a number of anomalous things. One is why nature allows humans to exploit and abuse it, which they do. It doesn't seem to fight back. In terms of the vision, this is because nature needs human involvement in the situation in order to have a chance to be free. It will try to guide humans in the right direction, but in the end only human beings can take the steps necessary for freedom for all. It also explains why the dark forces go for humans directly and so hard, but rarely do so in the direction of nature. Interesting....
As for myself, during much of my life I have sensed that there is another world just behind the one that I can see and hear. This is especially so in nature, and especially when walking in trees. I had always ascribed it, if to anything, to the spirit world, the realm of fairies , goblins, and the like. But now I wonder whether it is actually a sense of the Primal Reality shining just behind the muddy reflection, the bad copy, which we are wired to experience. 
The sense world I inhabit appears increasingly to take on a cinematic quality. It seems to be real, and it can be seen, heard, touched, and so on. But there is something weird about it, something off; something manufactured. I recall sitting on some steps in Glasgow just over a year ago, overlooking a park bathed in rich greenery; and it seemed on the verge of crumbling. The Matrix was falling to pieces before my very eyes. For better or for worse, it put itself back together again.
To many, if not most, people, 'the world' is fixed, solid, realer than real, the only thing they know. This I know to be erroneous. This world is actually extremely fragile and flimsy, dependent for its manifestation on our tuning into a narrow bandwidth of frequency according to David Icke. It is easily left behind for another, which happens to inhabit the same space. Experiences with psychedelic substances and with shamanic journeying taught me this lesson. Other realms are just a tiny switch of bandwidth away. So near yet so far.
A couple of short but nice things to look at (the videos, which are a little way down the page):
https://davidicke.com/2023/08/31/how-the-infinite-descends-into-stupid-humanitys-fake-reality/
https://davidicke.com/2023/08/30/delve-into-the-mind-of-david-icke-messengers-series-8-ickonic-com/
I recommend a subscription to Ickonic; they are doing some short subs at good prices at the moment, I believe. It's a bit like an alternative Netflix. Just as with Netflix you wouldn't dream of watching everything there, so with Ickonic there's plenty that I won't look at, but there is more than enough stimulating, and sometimes excellent and/or moving, material to make it hugely worthwhile. I like the vision behind what they are doing. While its name suggests that it's a showpiece for David, that is far from the truth; Ickonic is much more than that.
