Down the rabbit hole. . .

A reader describes his eventful journey in search of Truth

Guest article by Greg Wade

Introduction by Occult Mysteries

The response to our article 'A word to those who lurk' greatly exceeded our expectations. So much so that we created a new webpage devoted to comments from our readers, which we previously only quoted highlights from on our About page. We hope this will encourage more readers to write to us, as well as bring comfort and support to those who feel they are utterly alone in their journey. As this heart warming letter from Greg Wade shows, we are never alone if we reach out in thought to our fellow travellers on the path to the Light.

I discovered your website over two years ago, and have been a regular visitor ever since. I can honestly say I believe I have read every article you have published at least once and some many more times than that, such is the value I place on the many enlightening subjects which you have chosen to write about. Upon first stumbling across your website I instantly recognised in it the Truth for which I had been searching for many years. Although—if I am really honest—I never knew exactly what I was looking for, I just knew there was something deep inside me which was driving me on to search for a deeper meaning and purpose to mine and everyone else's present existence.

I watched a documentary back in 2007 and had what I believe some people in the New Age Movement would term an awakening! Up until that point, I had always been interested in history and in particular the possible existence of advanced ancient civilisations stretching back into remote pre-history. But after watching the above-mentioned documentary I got led down a very deep rabbit hole, and after a few years spent reading many books, watching documentaries and YouTube videos and trawling through many websites and blogs I was entirely convinced that:

A) We lived on some kind of prison planet which was covertly ruled by elite groups/families who just loved to practice satanic worship and blood sacrifices and that their main objective was total control and world domination by culling off 90% of the world's population with the rest left to totally serve the needs of their sadistic masters.

B) That there are untold numbers of advanced extraterrestrial civilisations existing within our own Milky Way galaxy and beyond, and that many of these civilisations were actively involved in trying to liberate planet earth from the iron grip of negative groups of ETs which have been occupying this planet for a great period of time and who were the real controllers behind the above mentioned Cabal, Illuminati, New World Order or whatever name the conspiracy theorists have dreamt up this week.

C) I completely believed that a great planetary ascension process was currently taking place with the aid of positive ET groups and that in a mere short few years we would all be living in a technologically advanced utopia that was also completely at one with nature, courtesy of help from our new ET buddies and the release of suppressed free energy devices which have been withheld from mankind for the last 100 years or so.

In 2014 I even went as far as creating my own website which I gleefully emailed off to friends, family members or anyone who I thought might be remotely interested in the Great Awakening that was currently taking place. Thankfully it was also around this time that for some inexplicable reason I typed into Google the words Occult and Mystery or something to that effect and up popped your website and since then I can honestly say I have never looked back.

What then followed was a slow process of re-evaluation, whereby I had to cast aside a lot of what I firmly believed to be the truth at that time so that I could actually make room for the real seeds of Knowledge and Wisdom to be planted in my mind.

Having gone through the above journey it is easy to see why such a large portion of your site is dedicated to dispelling the many fallacies, falsehoods, and inconsistencies that cloud the mind of the average seeker. The Astral Conversations series, in particular, was a real eye-opener for me. For example, I used to regularly pay attention and give consideration to a large amount of so-called 'channelled' messages, and I was almost fully committed to travelling to South America to take part in some Ayahuasca ceremonies until I read Part 6 of the Astral Conversations series, so for this fact alone I am eternally grateful.

I don't regret the above-mentioned excursion down said rabbit hole for as has been stated on your website it is only by walking through the darkness/twilight that one can appreciate and dwell in the divine radiance of the one true Light should one be able to recognize it as such.

In fact, it was by assimilating the many ancient facts and truths so clearly and expertly presented in your many articles over the past couple of years which inspired me to pursue a more formal and hopefully life long study of Occult Science through the Mystery School that you mention in your "Why study Occult Science" article.

I had thought many times previously since discovering Occult Mysteries of contacting you directly but it wasn't till I read "What it means to be a fool" and most recently "A word to those who lurk" that I finally built up courage so to speak, and convinced myself that I had possibly something worthwhile to say, and that a lot of other men and women are the same as me and have had similar searches for Truth, even though I have never met any personally. Yet it is reassuring to know that I am not alone in this search.

So finally I would just like to express my sincere gratitude to the authors for the great service you are providing to all genuine seekers and I pray that many more men and women will be led to one of the few safe harbours in a sea of uncertainty, confusion, and delusion which is rife within the current age of disinformation. I have tried to play some small part in dissipating the above-described errors in material thinking by recommending your website to others so they might also benefit from the sublime teachings of Occult Science.

I thank you for your time and I look forward to reading and studying any future articles which I have no doubt will be as interesting and uplifting as all the other great subjects you have chosen to research and write about thus far and I wish you all long life and good health so that your many loyal readers including me may benefit for many future years to come from the fruits of your labour.

If you have enjoyed this article you may also like the others the author has written for us. These are, in order of publication, oldest first:

The Art of Dying. Thoughts on the subject of death and dying.
The Power of Forgiveness. Personal proofs of the power of Forgiveness.
The Mirror of Accountability. How to unlock the hidden potential we all possess.
The Gift of Nature. The power of Nature to comfort, calm and inspire us.
How to study The Secret Doctrine. A helpful road map for those daunted by the sheer size and complexity of Madame Blavatsky's masterwork.

Article © Greg Wade. Commentary © Copyright occult-mysteries.org. All worldwide rights reserved. Published 3 June 2017. Updated 22 October 2023.

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Afterword by Occult Mysteries

In this afterword we would like to address some of the themes mentioned by the author of 'Down the rabbit hole'—an apt and revealing metaphor for the phantasmagorical journey which is the search for Truth. We ourselves went down many an alluring tunnel before climbing out and up into 'Wonderland'—by which we mean the true wonders of the material and spiritual to be discovered through the serious, disciplined study of Occult Science.

The misconceptions and fallacies mentioned by the author which he lists as 'A', 'B, and 'C' are so prevalent that we devoted several Astral Conversations to them, as well as discussing them in our articles on the '21 December 2012' non-event. The reasons for the persistence and popularity of such beliefs are legion. We tackled a number of them in the afterword to the third of our Astral Conversations in which we explained why fantasy exerts such a strong appeal over the minds of otherwise sane and rational human beings. In the second article in this series—Cosmic conspiracies—we discussed the reasons why fantasy will always be preferred to facts. All these articles are well worth reading.

Greg Wade's warning about the use of psychoactive drugs such as Ayahuasca is urgently needed. For as we explain in our article on Shamanism, they can irreparably damage the delicate mechanisms within the brain through which consciousness acts, such as the pineal and pituitary glands, and by so doing prevent any real spiritual progress for the whole of one's lifetime. Despite our warnings, every day we receive emails from people who either are, or wish to experiment with such drugs. We cannot emphasise strongly enough the grave dangers this poses to their mental, physical and spiritual well-being.

The process of re-evaluation the author mentions is one that every sincere seeker goes through at many stages in their journey. There are two main reasons why this is considerably more difficult today than it was in the past. Firstly, because the contemporary seeker is almost entirely ignorant of the spiritual philosophies we discuss in several of our articles. Nor does he know much—and cares even less—about true religion, such as we find in the esoteric teachings of Jesus, Krishna and Gautama Buddha, whilst the rich field of metaphysical philosophy is a closed book to him. These things are simply not taught in our schools or universities, nor is he generally aware that there is anything of value in them for him.

Secondly, as the author learnt, nowadays most people obtain almost all their information in 'bite-sized' morsels at third-hand from sources such as YouTube, and the many pseudo-mystical websites that infest the Internet like poisonous weeds. Rarely does the modern seeker question the plausibility, logic or accuracy of what he reads and watches.

Another point we would like to pick up on is the modern fascination with ETs and the notion that they will rescue us from the results of our own folly, greed and selfishness. If ETs were to arrive on earth tomorrow and miraculously solve all our problems the day after humanity would re-create them all over again. If we are thinking seekers we must admit that there are very few families on this earth that are not riven by disharmony, jealousy and selfishness. If this is true of families, how much more true must it be of nations, which are only families on a larger scale? One cannot impose morality, harmony and kindness from outside, one can only encourage these virtues by example through changing ourselves for the better from inside. This should be evident to every right-minded individual.

Perhaps the most important lesson Greg Wade teaches us is that it is only by dwelling in the twilight that we can recognize and appreciate the divine radiance of the One Light of Truth. Even truly great souls such as Gautama Buddha were misled by the illusions of this world. We all need, in some way or other, to fall into the rabbit hole to learn to differentiate the false from the true and the nearly-true from fantasy. If this article helps just one reader to do that both we and the author will be amply rewarded for our labours.

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