Aion

Aion (αἰών) - an experiential or transcendent state in which an individual steps outside the normal flow of time, often through altered states of consciousness. It is a timeless, mystical realm or condition where the individual gains access to knowledge or wisdom beyond the limitations of ordinary perception. Aion in this sense is not just a period of time (like an age or era) but a realm of existence that transcends chronological time. It represents a divine or otherworldly experience, where one can receive visions, insights, or revelations from outside the constraints of normal time. In the context of a pharmakomantis (drug seer), to be “in the Aion” is to enter a state of heightened perception or spiritual ecstasy, where one may perceive visions of the past, present, or future, often with the guidance or influence of substances that alter the mind. This state is seen as being outside of normal, linear time and offers a broader, cosmic perspective on existence. Aion is a key concept in mystical and prophetic traditions, where time becomes fluid, and the individual attains access to divine or cosmic wisdom, often experienced as a direct, non-linear insight into the nature of existence.

• see also The Bible describes Aionic Life - Not Eternal Life

Aionic Life

Stabilized aionic life, is non-reactive continuity and sustained mental presence.

Many ways to enter the Aion

• Everyone: view a beautiful human across the grocery store, imaging new life together with that stranger. Time stops or gets very slow in the brain, as it considers the new universe.
• Hellenic: attested in many Ancient Greek language sources describing the oracular rites, using visionary pharmakon with The Purple with venoms and guidance invoking imagery through song and music and herbal fumigation to evoke trance, this guidance brought the initiate's salvation, to consider death and ressurection and the kosmic order of inner self and of nature.
• Christian: Aionic Life attested in John 3:16 and other books, early mystery cult used the pharmakon along with their imagery to guide the initiate in a similar salvation practice centered around death and resurrection and to communicate with voices or visions heard/seen while in the aion state of mind
• Buddhist: meditation enlightenment practice
• Shamanic: ceremony with guidance
• generally: Elevated Consciousness Methods induced by visionary ancient pharmakon, modern psychotropics, or other means, e.g. meditation, prolonged darkness or silence.

Proof that Aionion (timeless perception) is not Adion (eternal time)

In Plotinus (Enneads III.7.3), aionios (αἰώνιος) and aidios (ἀΐδιος) must be distinct because Plotinus deliberately uses them side-by-side in the same sentence and then immediately asks whether they are identical or not. If αἰώνιος already meant ἀΐδιος, the question would be meaningless. Instead, Plotinus treats ἀϊδιότης as everlastingness—unbroken duration—while aion (αἰών) (and thus aionios αἰώνιος) names a mode of perception being outside duration altogether, the timeless perception from "presence" (which is a mentality), of the intelligible realm. The very grammar forces the distinction: aionios (αἰώνιος) describes how the intelligible world is present (perceived timelessly), while aidios (ἀΐδιος) describes that it does not cease (endlessly). Plotinus would not pose the problem unless the terms carried different ontological work, proving that αἰώνιος ≠ ἀΐδιος by usage, not assertion.

See Also

• see also Cosmic Egg - aion, gaia, ouranos are all parts of the egg, and initiation mental ordering.
• see also Mystery