Axioms of Piers Clement - Frequently asked questions
Is the story of the Axioms fact or fantasy?
Completely true, every word. It all happened as described and the texts are in their original
form.
Do you think in terms of a secret society with a hierarchy of initiated people?
Far from it! The Axioms are all about openness and honesty. But it's important that
things don't get into the hands of people who misuse or misunderstand them, or
unwittingly pass them to others who might misuse or misunderstand them. Compare it
with bedroom secrets within a family, or financial secrets within a company. Every
organization needs some area which is not exposed to the outside world.
Why bother to do all this? Why not just relax and enjoy your early retirement?
Definite awareness of a mission, dictated from a higher (cosmic? transpersonal?) source
The Axioms have brought me strength and happiness. If they can help another, so
much the better.
An attempt to communicate with others e.g. those with similar experience or a
professional interest, and thereby increase my own understanding of the situation.
The human spirit isn't made for sitting still. There's always an urge to do something.
Why via the Internet?
The Internet is entirely in tune with the spirit of the Axioms - modern, boundless,
anti-authoritarian. And hypertext is a very congenial way of reading and writing - instead
of starting at the beginning and working towards the end, one follows links according
to one's interest and goes back to see which paths have not yet been trodden.
Why waste so much time on this when there is so much hunger, suffering, violence
and deprivation in the world?
A positive attitude to life and to relations between living beings can help in the long
run to eliminate hunger, suffering, violence and deprivation.
Don't you ever wonder, perhaps the Axioms are merely the product of a damaged
mind?
Of course I considered this possibility and rejected it on several grounds:
The experiences were entirely positive without the expected corresponding negative
elements. Hyperactivity without a time of inactivity, elation without a time of depression,
clarity without a time of confusion.
As mentioned above the Axioms have had a measurable positive effect on my personal
life.
The Axioms include material completely unknown to me at the time, which I've later been able to
find again in various literary sources.
What have the axioms to do with religion?
Everything and nothing. I've not enjoyed/suffered a religious upbringing so am free
from a whole lot of prejudices on that subject (although have developed a whole lot
of others as a result of observing the past horrors perpetrated in the name of authoritarian
religion). You won't find words like "god", "heaven", "love" and "sin" anywhere in the Axioms
because those words have too many traditional associations. But the religious
experience is common property to everyone and that can be found in the Axioms.
The chapter on life style seems ascetic, almost forbidding. How can you talk about
delight?
The Axioms are not authoritarian. Everyone can define the life-style rules appropriate
to his/her particular situation, those quoted are merely an example. But within the limits
of those rules it is perfectly possible to enjoy a complete range of pleasurable
physical and mental experience.
On the one hand you talk of the will to attain ultimate goals and on the other you say the future is
completely determined. How can this be?
This is an old chestnut which has been tossed back and forth over the centuries by
far better minds. Let's put my view: there is for each person a correct, predetermined
path. If we exercise our will to try to progress along this path, all doors will open for us.
If we try to move in a contrary direction it will only lead to trouble of one sort or the other.
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