So we're going to say something in this in which there is no going back from. When the light side of the force is on your side, you have the benefit to just be upfront and honest, shoot straight, rather than trying to speak in dog whistles or codes. We've said plenty of things, which since we're in low cell phone bar signal consciousness at this time space vector for many, are perceived as contentious and controversial, when in reality they shouldn't even be considered such and, to be stoic about it, the fact that they would be considered contentious or controversial says more about the people interpreting them than anything else. So to say this straight, we'll speak on an obvious pattern which has been prevalent in our work that we're sure you've noticed and has long ago purged theocrats from listening to our outputs... which is Niles, as an American, when you do speak of the political, why are you always shitting on The American right wing, and rarely ever on the American left wing? Because what is labeled, in a modern context, the right wing, is the core of the American Empire.
Does that mean what's considered the left in the US is totally free of empire? Of course not. We would never claim that or say that or give the left a full pass. Unless you're an indigenous person, we are all operating in nations which were built on settler colonialism. And in the US, we have two political parties, one has gone batshit theo-fash crazy, and the other is not very left but typically more a centrist, still corporatized, neo-liberal party which is interested generally in maintaining the status quo through outdated procedures and not rocking the boat of foundationally oppressive structures and is thus... often... frustrating and we need more electable parties. But these two sides are far from symmetrical. They are 85/15 asymmetrical. When Kamala Harris, who would have been orders of magnitude a superior president than the kakistocracy clown show we're now dealing with is, says during a presidential campaign, "we need the most lethal fighting force in the world" that's a signal to announce to the empire that she's also game to play ball.
There are numerous ways to frame the political spectrum, change vs order, liberty vs authority, progress vs regress, collective vs individual, globalism vs nationalism, which have varying levels of accuracy but all of these are binaries and we're going to be in the future discussing some alternate, and superior quaternary ways to frame these worldviews, but in terms of modern times, meaning the last few thousand years, and humans are over a million years old, what has been in a modern context called the left (associated more with liberalism) vs what has been called in a modern context called right associated more with conservatism), and... ready to cross over the yellow striped hazard lines, pierce through the veil, fall into the looking glass, here it goes.... liberal leaning religion is a brighter form of religion, while conservative religion, is a more darker religion of empire.
Even though there is a door #3 called magic which is kept from the masses, which is what Dion Fortune defined as "causing changes in consciousness in accordance with will", religion and science are two primary doors which tend to become foundational operating systems that aim to answer deeper questions of life. Which then have additional systems installed on top of those systems. So one's religion is their basic foundation of the building, which then has additional stories built on top of it. That's why we talk about spirituality so much when you're not supposed to talk about religion and politics. Because in your personal development you gotta reevaluate that foundation before you build anything else up from it. We know someone who is a therapist who had a male patient who requested their therapist at the practice also be a Christian. Why? Because that patient is willing to work on upper floors of their building, which they deserve credit for, but don't want their foundation challenged because it would be too painful for them. As we've said in our pro-democracy series of essays, when someone puts on their social media feeds - Christian, conservative, cross emoji, American flag emoji, in that order, they are announcing that their Christianity is operating system #1, and their conservatism is operating system #2, and the issue on the conservative side of America, is that they are so religious to a cult degree and then so political to a cult degree and you don't see someone say on the opposite side of the isle - scientist, liberal, front and center to nearly the same degree because they are not in as deep of a cult.
Religion can be defined, as any system, of faith, worship, or by far best of all, practice. The way to most differentiate liberal leaning religion vs conservative leaning religion, is through what's called horizontal vs vertical morality. Horizontal morality looks at the whole spectrum of nature, including everything made by the divine - insects, reptiles, mammals, polytheistic deities, all of which are of both sexes, etc... This more mimics nature based hierarchies, such as saying the lion is the King of the jungle, and also is more inclusive allowing for new ideas to come in, including having morality applied to and compassion for elements of the whole ecosystem. This is a truer spiritual system because it more honors nature and doesn't just try to destroy it. Conservative religion is vertical, meaning, only relating to you the selfish individual ego, and your relationship with an extreme, male hierarchy, and has little to no compassion or care for anything else in the spectrum of nature. So the more conservative religious one is, the more it's just about being subservient to and trying to rise up a vertical ladder of authority - your older brother above you, your father above you, your male pastor above that, judges above them, your emperor above them, Jesus above them, and then male sky daddy monotheistic God above them and who gives a flying F about women - they are just for breeding à la Handmaid's Tale. Or nature for that matter. God just put all that there for them to extract and exploit. It's a vertical moral system and under it rape, which is about power, and murder, are not wrong because they incured injury or loss, but because you didnt have the authority within the vertical hiearchy to do them. But the problem there, is if you then have the authority to do it, you can do it and these are always the same people who do the largest red flag of dark religious red flags, which is then claiming to talk on behalf of the higher power. Because then when they consider that they have been given the authority within their vertical patriarchal hierarchy, then they have the authority by God to kill. This is what religions of the empire have been doing for thousands of years. Crusades, holocausts, slavery, settler colonialism, terrorism, are all motivated by foundational conservative religious operating systems... and why a batshit loony scandal plagued televangelist preacher will say "God hates homosexuals" as he steals congregation money and why Osama Bin Laden said "Allah has blessed us" after he arranged the flying of planes into buildings.
Here's the simple thing a more real spiritual system (meaning a nature based system) should teach, you're in the material world to grow and learn, through polarity, which is not going to be a cake walk. But you have the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness while here. And you will return to the divine, your home, which is love and light. Anything outside of that is in name only. Nature has a food chain, which is brutal, but full spectrum nature teaches us that there is a return to the light and love of going home. And that has different names for the different religions throughout the world. And ones with members that have horizontal morality will be more inclusive and less exclusive. Based more in love and not fear. As we will ALL return to the light. Some sooner than others. This is exemplified in a response by Georgetown Law School Dean William Treanor, a constitutional law scholar, to a letter sent to him by dark imperial project 2025 agents, pointing out that Georgetown is the nation’s oldest Catholic and Jesuit university and prides itself on being "founded on the principle that serious and sustained discourse among people of different faiths, cultures, and beliefs promotes intellectual, ethical, and spiritual understanding."
With a horizontal moral system, you know rape and murder are wrong cause you caused harm. Might isn't right. And you would question and criticize a supposed god who would kill, which it of course wouldn't because, the source of all things is unity and love. But within a vertical system, might is said to make right. Which is both theocratic and authoritarian. So the more they incorrectly take this literally the more their religion is authoritarian and their politics is inevitably authoritarian and all they care about is power and control and we recommend the book The Power Worshipers about the imperial Christian Right. And if they then think sky daddy says it should be this way, then it doesn't matter who it harms. Appeals to empathy are meaningless, because they don't get morals from empathy, they get them from a fictional dark hierarchical authority. As agents of the empire.