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When you think about religion and the universe, what's the first thing that comes to mind?
When you think about religion, you're most likely thinking about things like Christianity, Judiasm, Islam, Buddism, all that stuff, and the multiverse might be something similar to those crappy panderverse movies that have came out in the last couple of years or so, or maybe you might even have your own beliefs about the multiverse. Some people even try to transcend into other dimensions though practicies like manifestation and even drugs like psycedelics and DMT in shamanistic rituals (which, as a stoner myself, i find pretty cool honestly).
Regardless of your beliefs, you've most likely heard of it all before. it's all been in our collective subconsiouses for as long as humanity has been around, and religion has been practiced for thousands of years now, even dating back to pre-history.
However, I don't think many people think about how chaos plays a role into this. When the idea of chaos in these topics comes up, most people are usually frightened by it.
But what if there was some peace to all that chaos? What if it's what makes us human in a sense?
Laidies and Gentlemen, let me introduce you to the Galdrux Network.
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Galdrux
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As I stated in the title of this page, Galdrux is the "eye of the Anitcosm" (which I will explain later), the Theos-Para-Theos ("God-Beyond-God"). He's essensitially the embodiment/manifestation of all thing chaos, so much so that he's essentially difficult to describe in just a few words alone. Infact, according to the offical website at least, that's kind of the point, as they state "The Galdrux that can be defined is not the true Galdrux. Every symbol is a Galdrux temple.". From what I understand, he seems to be a representation of the unexplainable and the lawless nature of all things that have yet to be understood, and because there are many things not yet understood, it's allowed for a community of some pretty creative people to thrive and therefore, create religion and (more importantly) culture. The "religion" itself is actually based off of Discordianism, which is a belief system based around Eris, the Greek goddess of strife and discord.
The cult behind Galdrux originated from the aforementioned official site, and while the site itself is agreed to be fictional both by observers and members of the cult, it's also said to be up to interpretation. All in all, Galdrux is basically like a religion/supernatural conspiracy theorist's wet dream.
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TheGame23
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TheGame23 is the rabbit hole most commonly associated with Galdrux and it's beliefs. It refers to itself as a "Meta Game" and "creative discord", which for what it is, that name seems fitting honestly.
From what I understand, it essentially takes the existing beliefs of Galdrux and expands on them a little further. I don't know if this is the origin of Galdrux or if it's the other way around, but they do often go hand in hand with one another. TheGame23 mostly seems to focus on the rabbit hole/meta aspect of this odd intenternet phenomenon and "Operation MindFuck", which originated from Dsicordianism
It even has it's own parody of Operation MindFuck called "Operation D.I.S.T.A.N.C.E", which mostly focuses on the AI aspect of the internet's current culture and technological development as a whole (unfortunately no, they don't seem to be developing any sentient mecha fighting robots like in the movies as far as I'm aware, but it'd be dope as hell honestly), and also "Project D.O.O.M/Ouroboros", which seems to focus on contributions to TheGame23's evergrowing community and further expansion of the Galdruxist beliefs.
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The Anticosm
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Remember that Anticosm thing I mentioned earlier? Well, here's a little more about it.
The anticosm is another one of those things not originating from Galdrux, but is a core part of the belief system. The anticosm refers to a specific, extreme form of Gnostic Satanism that believes the material universe (the "Cosmos") is an evil, limiting prison created by a malevolent entity (the Demiurge). It's essentially the belief that there is no true order in the universe and that in everything within it, there's chaos.
Although I myself have since strayed from being a satanist (specifically an agnostic satanist, or at least what tiktok taught me was that), I do see where people with this belief are coming from, and I can't necessarily say they're wrong about it honestly.Quantum fluctuations are random changes in the amount of energy at any point in space, and these random changes happen completely unprovoked. Quantum Tunneling is the ability for an object to pass through a barrier it shouldn't be able to, like when you throw a tennis ball at a wall, and instead of bouncing back it just goes through and onto the other side of the wall. That's just one example of the kind of natural chaos that happens in the universe, but there's also chaos here on earth too, in nature, in society (seriously, the news is practically unbareable to watch at this point just because shit's so fucked up it's not even funny), on the vast internet landscape, it's even in our everyday lives, though for most people, it's in the little things.
When you truly think about it, there's no real "order" to anything, as fucked up as that sounds. The Anticosm is a unique belief in it of itself that's kind of a mind opener when you really start to look at the world as an adult in the modern day; In other words, it basically teaches you that rules are stupid and conformoty is nonexistent, so it's no suprise that a group like the Galdruxists would incorporate it into their belief system.
"Your life is Chaos already. Everything is Chaos. Chaos is freedom, infinite possibilities. The difference will be that we will reach pandimensionality, we will be free from the chains of linearity of the laws of physics."~Galdrux.com
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KSTXI
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This is where the rabbit hole starts to get a little confusing, at least for me. I'm not entirely sure on what exactly it's supposed to be, it just seems like a random group of members of the cult that focus on sharing content about everything on various social media platforms like Reddit and Youtube (which coincidentally are the two places where niche internet content thrives on the most from what I've seen, mostly on internet mystery subreddits and horror channels like Farrell McGuire, who makes pretty good horror stuff if you asked me. :D). There's ove video implying that they might be doing something outside of what's already on the internet, but this video might also be fiction too. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything really explaining what exactly it is, but hopefully someone else in the cult might know a thing or two about it.
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Virus23
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Also reffered to as "Quantum Schizophrenia" or "Divine Madness" in some sources, it's another one of those things that just has so much unorganized information about it that it's hard to exactly pinpoint what it is, but from what I'm seeing on almost all the sites that mention it, it seems to be what they call the side effects of the Anticosm's "influence" on an individual via the sheer amount of information that gets blasted towards you when researching Gladrux, TheGame23, and it's other associated projects. For outsiders who recently discovered any of those projects, this doesn't seem to affect them much, but it's when you research it for prolonged periods of time that it really starts to get to you.
It's like an edible in a sense: you take one, and then after a few minutes, you think to yourself "man, these edibles ain't shit.", so you take a bit more, and the next thing you know, you're lagging in real life, staring at the microwave for like 20 minutes straight, and questioning your very existence and crap before eventually going into the kush coma (basically when you're so high you pass out and end up asleep for a long time, usually hours.)
On the other hand, it could also be reffering to the chaotic nature of an individual themselves.
When you really stop to think about it, there's always going to be some form of chaos in a human being, wether it's the passing thought thar lingers in your head, or something as extreme as mental illness--it's even in the baterial ecosystems that exist in our bodies. (hope I didn't piss off any hypocondriacts there.)
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Conclusion
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Okay, that was all a bit of a mouthful there.
Obviously, there's still way more I haven't yet spoken about, like "#infinity23" and "fnordmaze", but the sheer amount of content associated with all of this makes it difficult to sift through--it makes me kinda feel like i'm a little web crawler looking for as much information as i can so i can organize it and share to anyone looking for it. (seriously, the way search engines work nowadays is pretty impressive now that I think about it, tech really is evolving quickly honestly.)
It's all messy and chaotic, but then again, that's the point. It's supposed to feel chatoc and messy, because in turn, that's just how nature kinda works in a sense. That chaos also is pretty freeing, as it allows for individuality and creativity to flourish in our world. I guess maybe in the end, that's the beauty about these kinds of niche things, they're chaotic in their own little ways, and maybe one day we can all learn to appreciate that chaos and maybe use it to understand ourselves and our universe a little more.
If you happen to like hearing about this, I highly reccomend checking out the offical social media accounts behind the project, and maybe even making your own contributions if you like. They're always open to contributions and new members, and the project is evergrowing by the day. I also reccomend checking out the discord server and the offical forum to meet other members too, they're a pretty chill community for a religion about a spider chaos god.
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