SICESCA - 10/10/2022

Before we begin, I have a confession to make; I am enthralled by petty youtuber drama. It is indulgent of me, but there is something captivating about the meaninglessness of it all, like a dionysian play writ large upon the blogosphere. I am a temperate person, but sometimes I cannot help but drink deep. So please, dear reader, have no illusions about my excitement going forward. As a fan of boisterous youtuber bullshit, and an occultist, learning that Onision attempted to start a cult back in 2003 and that the scripture was still available in an archived format, was akin to knocking a hole in the wall of my home for renovation, and discovering a wall safe with a perfectly preserved vintage bottle of Caves Jean Bourdy Chateau-Chalon. Trinquons.

You may not know Gregory James Daniel, better known as Onision, but you know the mold he was cast from. You know the archetypical form of Onision. Like a dead and rotting tree, a single prod against the bark of early 2000s quirky internet softboy humor, and your finger sinks into a moldering hollow of alleged predation and abuse. Dear reader I will spare you of the details. The internet is full of Greg-ologists that can recount his history better than I ever could. I am an occultist. My work lies with Sicesca. 

My work is that of reverse-engineering. Occult texts are blueprints. They describe a sort of metaphysical system that serves some purpose or another. It could be a tool for analysis, a vehicle to salvation, a sort of internal regulator for the difficulties of life, whatever the author so desires. Applying a critical lense to occult texts can be tricky, as it can be easy to mistake the blueprint for the machine. My goal for this review is to deconstruct not only Onision’s blueprint, but the machine it represents. 

THE SCRIPTURE

First, let us describe the lay of the land, the shape of the scripture in general. At just shy of 4000 words, the body of Sicescan scripture is one of the shortest sacred texts I’ve read. Our corpus is ninefold, divided into three sections, each with three subsections. I will get this out of the way early: Greg’s command of language is poor, that is to say; typical of any seventeen year old. I will not hold this against him, as I have read worse occult texts. 

SECTION ONE - THE ANSWERS

The Answers is our foundation, our Genesis, Semiotics, and Teleology. The Answers deals with the nature of life, where humans come from, and what the purpose of a human is in the broader cosmology. The Sicescan cosmology is delightfully strange, a chimera of Randian individualism and Gaia cult environmentalism held together by a heaping of secret-history racial theory. 

Sicesca is centered around The Earth, as in the planet earth, which Sicesca conceptualizes as a conscious, defied, high-dimensional will. The earth created humans through a process of cons

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We begin in the first subsection, titled The Meaning of Life. Here, greg draws attention to the overwhelming mystery of the universe, the plethora of unanswered questions that he has the answers to. There is some interesting dualism here. Greg makes it clear that our reality is not the only one. He refers to it as insignificant, but also “remarkable before many other creatures dwelling beyond our eye's reach.”

This defines two new concepts, our distinct organs in the machine: [Multiple Realities], and [Unseen Intelligences]. 

Reading the Sicescan corpus is a balancing act. I find myself struggling to separate the Sicescan ideals from what I suspect are frankly bizarre assumptions that Greg already holds about the world. Let us take these three lines from The Answers - The Meaning of Life at the same time: 

“Stories are made to represent what many of us wish to do but simply believe ourselves to not have the ability, or strength to take part in.”

“Decisions are made by those who seek out a future absent of other humans controlling it” 

“The value of life is decided by the individual ability to change ones surroundings as they see fit.”

Already we construct a deeply [individualistic] worldview. Here, we see personal agency and power directly linked with ones value as a person. Those who control others are of greater value, thus those being controlled are of lesser value. Already we have a system that valorizes the dominant, the controlling, and the dictatorial. Which is deeply humorous considering the very next line in the sub-section: 

“We were all created to nurture our planet and each other, ultimately in mission of optimizing our earth and inhabitants for the best results on course to an extended survival.”

A TIMELINE:

1997 - Greg claims to have followed Sicesca since 1997. In 1997, Greg was 11 years old. 

2003 - Sicesca.com was created. Greg was 17. 

2005 - Greg regularly attempts to promote Sicesca on other websites he created, most notably Ziogi.com, an “Evolutionary Psychology” forum. 

2006 - Greg rennovates the Sicesca website into “Sicesca 2.0” significantly scaling back the scripture, and leaving only simplified definitions, as well as demoting it from a Religion to a Personal Belief system.