Newsletter #94

Dear Friends and Benefactors, 

As the month of January is specially dedicated to the Holy Family of Nazareth – Saint Joseph, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Child Jesus – it is fitting that we recognize the accelerating dangerous attacks on the Catholic family by the devil through the science community, particularly transhumanism, 3D artificial reality “Metaverse”, and DMT.
Connecting the human brain to computers is a goal of the New World Order and the minions of the Synagogue of Satan. Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum are overjoyed with the recent news that transhumanist Elon Musk will begin testing brain implants in human beings this year, 2023.
What exactly is Metaverse, and DMT?

I. METAVERSE AND ITS HARM

In the current cyber-revolution, we have the so-called metaverse, a powerful computing platform that goes beyond anything seen to date. It is marketed, as John Horvat explains, as the next generation of the Internet, facilitating intense experiences and opening new markets. Some fear this metaverse will make present social media addictions worse. Others see it as a much more harmful distraction, especially among youth.
However, no one considers the implications of the project against the doctrine. The metaverse will harm souls. Tragically, people see no reason to involve God and morality in a technological invention seemingly outside the private realm of religion.
The metaverse is a metaphysical attack on the Church’s view of the world. It obliterates the nature of a God-created universe. It will make possible immoral acts that will gravely offend God.

A PROCESS OF IMAGINING AND DESTRUCTION

The metaverse must be understood in the context of a process of modernity’s continuous effort to put humanity, not God, at the center of all things.
Indeed, modernity has an obsession with imagining new worlds without God. The Enlightenment introduced ways to stretch reality to its limits by developing new technologies, philosophies and lifestyles.
Modern times have ushered in the glorification of the individual. Society became a collection of persons, Hobbes’ “sandheap of individuals,” each guided by self-interest and kept in order by a strong rule of law found in his Leviathan.
Thus, modern individualism tended to destroy the external structures—tradition, custom, or community—that encumbered self-interest. It destroyed many moral mechanisms that facilitated the practice of virtue in common. It created a fast-paced order in which man became the center of everything, and religion was relegated to being a private matter.

POSTMODERNITY SHATTERS SOCIETY

Modernity’s order was shattered by the postmodernity of the sixties, which proposed freeing the imagination and removing all moral restraints. Postmodernism took individualism to an extreme through the use of new technologies, philosophies and lifestyles. Society was turned upside down by psychedelic drugs, rock music and the sexual revolution.
By the same logic in which modernity idolized self-interest, the postmodern individualist makes the “right” of self-gratification the only absolute right—even when such behavior is self-destructive. The postmodern individualist seeks to destroy those internal structures—logic, identity, or unity—that impede instant gratification. Postmodernity’s “deconstructed” narratives isolated individuals even more and drove them to create their own realities outside of God and His morality.
However, modernity and postmodernity were still somehow anchored to an external reality that people could not escape entirely. There were physical and ontological limitations that kept the imagination in check. A man might self-identify as something he was not, but the desire did not alter the reality. Further, his imaginings were not evident to all around him.

NEW PHASE OF PERCEIVING REALITY

The introduction of the metaverse is now changing this difficulty of altering reality. It is part of what many futurists call a ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’.
Following the footsteps of modernity and postmodernity, the next step in the process is self-imagining outside reality. The obstacles that stand in the way are the present manner of perceiving nature, existence and being.
This next wave of innovation and technology will allow individuals to immerse themselves in a world of their own creation. People will become avatars, that is, cyber-representations of men, women, animals or things that “live” in the cybersphere. They will be capable of being wherever they want—be it on the moon, on top of buildings or “in a field of unicorns.” This platform can be inhabited by extraterrestrials, angels, demons or anything following the fantasies involved.
People will do superhuman things where acts will seemingly have no consequences. While it will not change what exists, it powerfully creates the lie that one’s imaginings are more real than reality.
This massive virtual platform is much more than an extension of the Internet, which allows people to look into the world wide web. This phase will “embody the Internet by putting people in the middle of it.” In this new realm, imagination rules.

NOT SCIENCE FICTION

This project is not the stuff of science fiction anymore. It is discussed in establishment media like ‘The Wall Street Journal’. All the social media companies are putting the pieces in place. Mark Zuckerberg recently renamed Facebook, calling it Meta. He will be investing $10 billion and hiring 10,000 new employees to build this new world.
“The metaverse is going to be the biggest revolution in computing platforms the world has seen—bigger than the mobile revolution, bigger than the web revolution,” says Marc Whitten of Unity Software in a ‘Wall Street Journal’ feature article.
It proposes a three-dimension parallel universe of virtual and augmented reality where digital avatars will meet together in unlimited numbers. People will be fitted with specialized glasses and even advanced haptic gear, which will allow them to feel and touch remote things in real-time. They can even mix the real world with the imaginary one.
Daren Tsui, chief executive of Together Labs Inc., says: “The avatar experience will feel so real that you can hardly tell the difference between a virtual meeting and a physical meeting. And the virtual experience will be better.”

CREATING A WORLD OF ILLUSION

There are three major problems with the metaverse.
The first one is that it encourages people to detach themselves from reality by creating a delusional world without consequences or meaning. People are free to defy nature by doing impossible things. The most absurd things become possible inside an imagined world unmoored from reality.
People are no longer bound by time and can travel what they imagine is the past or future. Even death is overcome with avatars and algorithms conspiring to bring back what will appear to be deceased relatives or historical figures with which one can converse and interact.
People are free to do things to others (who may or may not exist) or even cut off their arms without consequences. Every fantasy, even the most macabre, can become a reality in the metaverse. It will thus open up dark and sinister spaces that will facilitate sinful acts or their simulations.
Such a lonely world disconnected from reality and the nature of things can feed the unfettered passions that hate all moral restraint. The frenetic intemperance of the present Internet and social media are already causing psychological and social problems. How much more exponential will be the metaverse’s abilities to drown people in their frenzies and depressions?

IDENTITY CHANGES

The second reason to be concerned about the metaverse is that it equates identity with choice. The postmodern paradigm already allows a person to self-identify as something else. However, that identification exists only in the mind of the deluded person. The public can generally perceive the illusion.
However, the metaverse changes that perception. The person becomes the perfect model of that which is desired and cannot be. The person need not be a person but can be an animal, plant or thing. A person need not be a single being but a cacophony of beings without unity in this world of fantasy.
This lie of identifying the self with freedom is made possible by the metaverse. Existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre wrote that “man is freedom,” which makes people essentially limitless. In his book, ‘Being and Nothingness’, Sartre said that “Freedom is nothing other than a choice that creates for itself its own possibilities.”
The metaverse is the realization of this distorted idea of freedom that revolts against the contingent limitations of human nature. It seeks to turn individuals into the gods of their fantasies.

THE DESTRUCTION OF METAPHYSICS OF SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS

However, the most dangerous aspect of the metaverse is its demolition of the metaphysical vision of life that leads the soul to the Creator.
Everyone, even children, engages in metaphysics. Human nature and especially the soul demands a rational understanding of self and the universe. Thus, a classical definition of metaphysics is a philosophical inquiry into ultimate principles and causes. By engaging in metaphysics, individuals seek out the nature of things that exist and fit them into a coherent vision.
A true vision of things makes painfully clear the finite and contingent nature of every human being. However, through an understanding of the designs of Creation, people see that the goal of existence transcends physical and social limitations. They pursue this path to the Creator as reflected in nature. This process confers meaning and purpose on life as souls strive toward their final end in God.

THE TRANSHUMAN REVOLUTION

The philosophies that inform the metaverse are contrary to this classical metaphysical vision. There is no attempt to understand the nature of things but only the limitless experience of random events. This “transhuman” notion of the world understands humanity as a process in constant evolution. “Great Reset” engineer Klaus Schwab describes this next phase as the coming “fusion of the digital, biological and physical worlds.”
The idea of the metaverse is consistent with the outlook of New York Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari. A frequent writer on these subjects, he openly envisions a future without the soul, free will, a unified self or God. His is an algorithmic world of random experiences where one is whatever one comes to be. He holds there are no religions but only powerful fictions, like the metaverse, where people will “create entire virtual worlds complete with hells and heavens.”
The author is not alone in believing in this chilling future. He speaks for a progressive class of scientists, businessmen and scholars from Big Data and Silicon Valley, who are all on board with the task of changing human nature and reality through artifices like the metaverse. They make no secret of their rejection of God’s Creation and moral order.

MUST BE REJECTED

These are urgent concerns in the face of the coming metaverse. Not all its applications will contain the full dose of these destructive plans for man. However, the general direction is leading to a new world without God. Such conclusions do not come from conspiracy theories but are openly revealed the metaverse’s promoters.
Thus, the metaverse must be rejected because it is contrary to that of the doctrine and morals of the True Catholic Faith. The modernist clergy of the Vatican II church have so little to say about it, since they support the New World Order agenda, as is obvious from the reaction to the fake Covid-19 pandemic (closing church buildings, wearing masks during church services with social distancing, accepting the wicked vaccinations). In today’s godless society, the apostasy from the practice of the true Faith is caused both by the heresies and the bad fruits of Vatican II, and assisted by the technological inventions of the world.
Equally afflictive is that people do not wish to see where this will lead, especially mortal sin and loss of one’s soul. History shows that when people give free rein to their passions, it ultimately ends in nihilistic despair. The overwhelmingly intemperate experience of metaverse pleasure will eventually demand the more intense sensations of existentialist pain. Thus, modernity’s process of decay will run its full course: From self-interest to self-gratification to self-imagining to self-annihilation.
Indeed, a world dominated by delusions, absurdity and the denial of being, where meaning and purpose are obliterated and bizarre fantasy rules must be called by another name. The secular visionaries of the metaverse are designing a virtual Hell on earth.

II. DMT AND ITS DANGERS

On the outer limits of unreality, some individuals are exploring new frontiers that they hope will take them beyond a fleeting state of drugged ecstasy. These pioneers, as John Horvat explains, seek mind-altering experiences that might last for days, using a nascent technology known as extended-state DMT.
Things are still not in place, but the day is fast approaching when such trips might happen.
They call themselves “psychonauts” and claim to find value in extended stays in the drug netherworld. The leftist website, ‘The New Republic’, reports on the use of the hallucinogenic molecule known as N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), which can be coursed through the body via intravenous infusion. Instead of the minutes-long highs caused by smoking DMT-tainted substances, the new system can be regulated to last hours or even days. The psychonauts are launched into not outer but psychedelic space to test the limits of the imagination.

VOYAGES INTO THE VOID

Such voyages into the void are only in the beginning phase of development since they require state-approved processes and monitors to serve as a sort of mission control to keep the lengthy trips from going awry. However, recent changes to state drug laws have encouraged “research,” therapy or treatment centers to pop up like magic mushrooms.
Colorado and Oregon are the leading states that classify such potential use as “natural medicine.” Colorado voters just approved psychedelic “therapy” at state-approved “healing centers” that will eventually include DMT treatments.
Currently, psychonauts are “training” with shorter cannabis and ketamine-assisted sessions. They must bring back their experiences by writing detailed accounts of what happens during these short trips that usually fade quickly from memory. In Boulder, one center claims that such exercises are part of FDA-approved clinical research following the most stringent safety protocols to serve the area’s extensive “psychedelic community.”
Of course, those involved in the research make largely unverified claims that extended-state DMT programs will help treat trauma, depression or general feelings of meaninglessness. The short trips provide users with stimulating experiences often described as “more real than real.” The research does little to address the causes of the psychological problems.

VENTURE INTO THE UNKNOWN

The extended state DMT experiments are ventures into the unknown. The detailed accounts of these drug trips are of questionable scientific value. Until recently, the scientific community looked upon the whole field as something on the lunatic fringe of medicine.
Thus, the new experiments are taking place in a Wild-West climate that is messy and unregulated. While DMT infusion is a logical platform for longer drug trips, no one knows about the additional risks involved in long sessions. Moreover, many believe hallucinogens can cause mental disorders like psychosis, and longer trips will make things much worse.
Many of those working as DMT facilitators are not even medical doctors. Professionals involved tend to keep their names hidden for now. Oregon and Colorado are still working out the details of how the process can be administered as “natural medicine.”
Experiments with this “natural medicine” are still shady. Thus, DMT promoters are considering setting up a center in Jamaica, where drug laws are lax enough to minimize the legal risks. Facilitators are still looking into how to deal with bodily functions during multi-day drug stupors, with some suggesting astronaut diapers.
Everything about the project suggests an excuse for addicts to take their drug use to yet more potent and prolonged highs.

A DARK SIDE

However, there is a sinister side behind the extended DMT “research.” The modern use of hallucinogenic drugs has always been about escaping reality. The explosion of the sixties drug culture unleashed the desire to explore the irrational fantasies of the imagination and escape from the restraints of reason, morality and consciousness. Its overtones are anti-Western, anti-rational and liberating despite the obvious health risks.
Pre-modern use of drugs in tribal contexts induced dream states, transcendental experiences and hallucinations. Drugs served as a gateway to the spirit world, involving superstitions, witchcraft, magic and the occult. Tribal societies also found that these processes can induce a state of pseudo-mysticism that substitutes the human need for spiritual fulfillment.
The new extended DMT experience returns to these past images to escape a brutal world that causes the mental disorders it seeks to remedy. It introduces a macabre world of fantasy that aims to substitute the real world. It invokes new and dangerous spirits.

A TRIBAL UNDERGROUND

The psychedelic community embraces the tribal connection in the new DMT efforts by masquerading as natural medicine. One popular experience is drinking ayahuasca, a primitive brew of plants containing DMT, used in pagan religious and healing ceremonies among Peruvian Indians.
Over the years, Peruvian shamans have instructed Westerners on the ceremonial use of the drugged drink. Today, underground networks exist in the United States and Europe in which postmodern shamans—usually not South Americans—serve ayahuasca brew and guide people through the hours-long vomit-inducing ceremony seeking DMT ecstasy.
The DMT experience does not exclude connections with the spirit world. Rick Strassman, a clinical psychiatrist specializing in psychedelic studies, claims that prolonged DMT experiences will facilitate a “more stable and fulsome communication with the beings.” Many DMT trippers repeatedly report that strange and intelligent creatures appear in semi-mystical encounters.

GOING MAINSTREAM

The ability of DMT to catapult a person out of depression has not escaped the notice of Big Pharma. Laws have long forbidden pharmaceutical firms to dabble in psychedelics. Now, it appears the path is as wide as the Amazon.
The new legal opportunities are prompting corporate research to open up a global psychedelic drug market that might be worth billions of dollars. Future projects already include an ayahuasca pill and a DMT injection.
The optimists see DMT as a creative problem-solving tool to find mind-boggling solutions to problems. More pragmatic yet woke corporate leaders see a change to cash in an ESG-friendly line of products that look good in their portfolios.
One thing is clear. With the support of Big Pharma, DMT is going mainstream. Soon prolonged stays in psychedelic space will be open to anyone.

SELF-DESTRUCTIVE PATH

The appearance of the psychonauts is an indication of where all society is going. The extended DMT trip is just one of many experiences (like the metaverse) that lead to a return to dark pagan times supercharged by new mind-altering technologies. It is a step in an absurd process of total escape from the restraints of reality, identity, morality and even consciousness.
The result can only be self-destruction and illusion. Such counterfeit methods cannot address the spiritual yearnings of the human soul.
Indeed, the true Catholic Faith (not the Vatican II church) liberates the pagan world from the oppression of superstition, magic and the occult. She teaches man how to face reality and bear the suffering caused by fallen nature. Above all, a true and rational Christian spirituality allows a union with a loving God and a connection with all that is good, true and beautiful.
The psychonaut’s quest must be denounced for what it is—a hellish and macabre journey into unreality.
God created man to live in the real world. All of man’s mind faculties are oriented in this direction so that reality serves as a means to know, love and serve God. Anything else only serves to distort and deform the mind, wounding our rational nature – a rational nature made “to the image and likeness of God” (Genesis I: 26,27).

AVE MARIA!
Father Joseph Poisson

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