What Lavey was trying to say

Materialism spirituality is like the dark side. Not evil but has been known to make some people insane and prideful just like he was discussing about the Jesus prayer. I've gone all the way through dark initiation and back again. The basic principle of dark materialism is that my humanity and human interaction and artistic expression is sacred in itself and that im the most sacred being I can ever have communion with. Not because of pride. Its an act of humility in some cases to acknowledge that i can only be me and thats a logical limitation. As was mentioned pride isnt a light or a dark thing its a pitfall of just being human. The difference is that true dark materialism substitutes friendship at random in place of church and community so as to make normal society a sacred expression of normality freedom and sacredness touching at once. But if youre not charismatic or talented to find random friends who offer genuine advice to guide you then a church is the best place for you. Incidentally i go to church. I attend Episcopalian services. I feel the appeal to mercy is in perfect alignment with ambition and respect and the mercy of friendship. That's perfectly in line with dark materialism spirituality because i arrived at this position as a natural consequence of my journey. But pushing ones self to ones vulnerable limits until one has nothing to lose but ones humanity can be extremely dangerous and isnt always necessary and the proud and ignorant shouldn't do it. But a contradiction between dark materialism spirituality and forms of Christianity is that Christians believe that heaven is possible but i don't think heaven is possible to get too like a place. If it is a place then its already full and so my job is to be centered and grounded. From my perspective the idea of a materialism shortcut is absurd. Nature is what it is and nature won't allow what it isn't. It's the saviors of the world who tend to destroy the earth by trying to make it into something its not for the sake of compassion.