Fun Exercises In Cultural Deprogramming, Part 1

1. Spell God backwards, remove necessary capitalization.

2. Use your search engine prowess to locate the star associated with said word, (Hint: The name of the star starts with S). Read about said star as much as possible.

3. Read about the Dogan tribe, and how said star worked into their mythology. Locate an image of their traditional headdress.

Fun Side Exercise #1: Google search Aleister Crowley and LAM, find a picture of the portrait of LAM, then look up a portrait of the modern day "grey" on any popular UFOlogy website. Read about the star system that LAM was apparently a "gateway" from.

Fun Side Exercise #2: Read "The Cosmic Trigger" by Robert Anton Wilson...good book.

4. Search up the word "Nommo", read about what that is - pay particular attention to the phrases "The Nommo divided his body among men to feed them", particularly the word divided, and how the men would "drink of his body". Also pay attention to the story of the Nommo being crucified on a tree. Take pause for a moment and consider the similarity of this to popular bible stories. Take pause for yet another moment, strain your powers of imagination take some time to think about what eating a part of the body of some lesser diety might look like.

5. Read about the growing and sporing habbits of psilocybin mushrooms, read about some locations where they are most likely to grow (Hint: it has to do with trees).

6. Look up a picture of the pope-hat. Ponder why the pope is wearing a fishhead.

7. Walk down the street, until you find a car owned by some poor misguided Christian displaying the Jesus fish - ponder this symbol.

8. Read about the zodiacal age of pisces. Take note of when it beings and when it ends.

9. Read about the astrological sign of pisces and the 12th astrological house, and what it means esoterically in regards to the unconscious mind and states of intoxication.

10. And lastly, in the spirit of being festive, look up "Amanita muscaria", read about it, notice its colors. Read about its tie in to Siberian shamanism, contrast the myths that you find with the modern myth of a jolly fat man dressed in red and white who leaves presents under the christmas tree, on the definitive Christian holiday.

Fun Side Exercise #3: Think of the formal name of a popular recreational drug derived from a green plant. Extrapolate from that word a synonym for the word that you get in step 1, pontificate on the strangeness of this.


More fun exercises in cultural deprogramming to follow on a (hopefully) regular basis.

-Paul