Guenon applies here, sure, but in the opposite way they are saying. @ابو مريم cited Guenon too. Guenon said that a true synthesis (which is what I'm doing) connects diverse traditions to a shared primordial root but syncretism produces Frankenstein-like hybrids often no less inaccurate in their aim than the traditions that combined to create them. I'm not creating some Frankenstein out of a bunch of parts here. I'm taking science and language, and I'm coupling these things with knowledge of all religious traditions, declassified military intelligence correspondence and reports on the subject of paranormal espionage techniques, and in general the general evidence readily available from our global neighbors on various paranormal and extraordinary experiences from psychedelics to near death experiences to past life memories to sensory deprivation to UAPs and more. When we experience crazy mystical, paranormal, extraordinary things, it is natural that we want to tell everyone else about it, if, for no other reason, because informing them improves their awareness of the set of possible experiences thus preparing them to better contend with whatever may come at them next as they navigate life. Pretty much all religions started with some kind of legitimate mystical, spiritual experience, but due to various limitations, failed to model reality perfectly or satisfactorily explain things. Because of those failures and imperfections, disciples of these pioneers of religion often grew attached to distorted understandings of reality. As time and fallible communicators propagate the message from one generation to the next, there is fidelity loss, like making a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy. The output becomes fuzzier and fuzzier requiring insanely sharp vision to decipher. Well, there's another path. If one becomes adept at implementing the Golden Rule, one may "get inside the heads" of others...essentially profiling like the protagonists of that TV show Criminal Minds. If you can get inside of the head of whoever created the initial document that got photocopied iteratively into oblivion, you can bypass the distortion, go right to the root signal, and, at that point, you can actually see the original photocopy within the Matrix-like blur of the distorted 1000th generation photocopy. The thing is, looking at things from the perspective of others IS THE GOLDEN RULE. You don't want to be treated as anyone other than you, just as I don't want to be treated as a bar code or someone else or as a misrepresentation of who I am. I want to be treated as the me that I am, just as you want to be treated as the you that you are. We are to profile and tailor our interactions lovingly. But, most people do not do this. I know this because the Golden Rule is found in every religious tradition which tells us at least 2 things: 1. It's important 2. Humans suck at it, by and large. It would be unnecessary and redundant for every religion to attempt (in vain, mind you) to teach us all the same lesson if we were already doing a bang up job of abiding that rule. Pretty basic logic. So, by being a Golden Rule adept, I am able to bypass the centuries and millennia of distortion that has crept in through successive iterations of photocopies of photocopies. How? When people experience weird things, they want to tell others about them but if the weird thing is a first time experience for the witness or witnesses, they must invent a way to speak about what they witnessed, often resulting in new words. Understand the words and you will bypass thousands of years of bullshit and get down to the signal in the noise...literally...the noises we utter to communicate contain signal. Who'd have thought? Duh... There is one least distorted, most accurate perspective on the truth which flies in the face of the existence of many religious traditions. But, on the other hand, while we're all some level of retarded, humans have proven to be smart, adaptive, and resilient enough to have flourished to dominate the planet in the manner we have. While people can and for the most part do cling to distortions of reality to varying degrees, we also have a nose for truth. Our noses may not be bloodhound dog sharp, but we can tell when someone's barbecuing in the neighborhood even if we're not quite sure which house. That's what is going on with popular adherence to major religious traditions. People stick to them because they have a sense that there's SOMEthing there, even if they fail to find precisely what and where that something is. And they're right. There IS something of value in each religious tradition. That's why they're all worth studying. But most people are fearful little bitches who are so deficient in wisdom and discernment that they actually are afraid to go explore ideas that oppose their currently held beliefs. I did that many times through out my life, including stepping back around age 20 from the Roman Catholic tradition I was heavily steeped in growing up. It wasn't that I saw no value in it. I just couldn't attach myself dogmatically to their whole belief set. Likewise, I can't attach myself to any tradition's whole belief set. There's baby and bathwater in every tradition but the people who fail to study them all, who fail to polymathically synthesize conclusions drawing from science, philology, etymology, psychology, praxeology, etc will not be able to iron out the wrinkles or distill a well crystallized solute from the solution of truths dissolved in distortions and lies. Guenon has a point. The people wielding Guenon in this conversation are about as adept at applying Guenon to me as Plaxico Burress was at handling his own pistol.

oh ffs... its William Blake.