Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness. What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation. Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
The origins of the Tarot are in a Mamluk card game which arrived in Europe sometime around the early 14th century. The major arcana of the Tarot were added to the original game in Italy in the 15th century and it’s in the major arcana, the 22 trump cards, wherein lies the transcendent power of the cards.
Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
"Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable." -Terence McKenna
Robert Bonomo is a film maker, blogger, novelist and esotericist. He has lived and worked in Madrid, San Francisco, Buenos Aires, Kamchatka, Miami, Valencia, Cartagena, New York, Luoyang, China and a few other not so interesting places.
All three of Robert's novels, Twilight Breakout, Cactus Land and his latest release, Your Love Incomplete, are available as free downloads on Smashwords.
Robert has been published in some of the leading alternative media sites including Counterpunch, LewRockwell.com, Global Research.com, Information Clearing House, Activist Post, Business Insider, Pravda, RINF, Astrological News Service, The Mountain Astrologer.
In July of 2018 Robert released his documentary on the major arcana of the tarot, The 21 Faces of God.
You can email him at rfbonomo@gmail.com for any comments, ideas or projects. He has an open mind and an empty wallet, so almost anything goes.
