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What is Death?
No one goes anywhere. There isn’t any need. It’s merely a change of state. A parallel existence, if you want to use the scientific paradigm. There is no such thing as loss. Sometimes, the way someone looses this form entails suffering. It can happen prematurely, and this isn’t good when it does, but there is…
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Way of Death
There is a way of death. There is a way of being out of harmony with death. In this ‘now’, man has forgotten this way. Fear of death is not the way of death. In my own spirituality, the way of death is a cornerstone. Only new cycles. The left hand path of the cycle,…
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Death and Living
Even death as most define it doesn’t really exist. As science says, energy cannot be either created or destroyed and it’s not. It can only change state. It does. When we die we don’t somehow get catapulted to some other planet, some other realm far from earth. The veil is merely the event horizon for…
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Rites of Death
Death rites are perhaps the most universal in there nature and there significance. The lore behind death rites is as big as religion, science and magic itself, and the rites of death are really rites of life. They differ as much as the cultures views on life, from the Haitian “birthday” like celebration to an…
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Death Wish
Id and ego are not the same, quite the opposite. The id is primal and thinks only in concepts, identities, and identifies with everything. To your id you are your mother, you are your brother, you are the world, you are in and of it all, you are a ham sandwich, and you are all…
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Respect Death
Those into what can perhaps most broadly be called “necromantic” practices, are not at odds with Druid thinking. Mediumship, or communing with the dead, and giving the dead place and respect were quite acceptable. Mediumship would have been undertaken by the Ovates. In our modern technological age, not only do we not adequately respect life,…
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Time of Death
Is there really a force that tells you when you can die, or is it the person that makes that call? It’s a mix of things. Most people think of life and the “other side”, but that division doesn’t really exist. Essentially it’s like looking at the world through a one way mirror. God can’t, and…
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Death Of The Mind
During the renaissance, there was a radical backlash against instituted knowledge. What was considered common sense was passionately thrown out the window. Like science? Indeed, but in the renaissance, science was called natural philosophy. It was simply the belief that humanity could learn things by looking at various parts of nature, as well as thinking…
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Life And Death
Dead spots in the life cycle. It’s pretty simple to see really. Life feeds on life though less so in this modern era, and as we have come to feed on synthetics instead of life, where has that lead us? Ingesting synthetics to kill life that threatens us, which also kill life that supports us.…
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In Season Of Death Is Spirit of Hope
In all cultures that have particularly harsh winters, there were spirits thought to be more active during these longer nights of the year. Krampus would be just one example. The Kitsune of Japan were another. This is where we get the term fox fire from. And well, as people tended to die much more commonly…
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Second Life Forms: Death and Wolf
Let’s use our Second Life forms right now, shall we? You might be surprised about how much of the form is real in you, how much of it you know. I will go first, ready? Speaking as this form, I am dead. Everything will be dead, everything is making progress toward death, and no one…
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Major Arcana: Death and Wheel
Now the major arcana. These could be considered the power players in reality, the pervasive forces of the universe. The court cards don’t tell their own stories, and they will stay at home, so to speak, if there is no outside intervention. So shall we begin the major arcana? Perhaps one of the most obvious…
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Life is Death
There is an interesting variant model of the observer effect. It’s called the quantum zeno effect. The quantum zeno effect runs along the lines of “an observed particle never decays.” Which, if taken back to today’s subject of apocalypse, means that we often don’t experience renewal because we continue to intend the existence of the…
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Life and Death Interact
So shall I do life and death? First, life. Life is a force in the world, and often acts in ways we find really rather vexing. Life is the mildew in your bathroom, the spider in your shoe, and the stomach infection you got from that bad burrito. It’s all life. Life by itself behaves…
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Ideas of Death
Being excommunicated from life, never being able to settle, isolated and alone = death? Yes. Death in time did come to be seen as some form of exile. This gave rise to the original concept of lost souls or ghosts, and it’s at this stage that we have things like the Norse model of hell…
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Learn the Lessons of Confronting Death
The purpose, and the surviving power of the death defiance practice and its respective rituals, comes from an unspoken understanding. A modern example would perhaps be the psychedelic counter culture. Neuroscience is making some really meaningful discoveries, and extreme physical experience can trigger in us the same sort of responses that psychedelic trips can, with…
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Better Than Death
There are some accounts of human apotheosis, a sort of reincarnation. Humans ascending to service in the order of angels. This is likely the origin of more than a few angels. Ezra was a human judge in life, and it was said that he passed from the world without the taint of death, becoming then…
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Information Theory of Death
The basic metaphysical concept behind cryonics is the information theory of death. According to the information theory of death, you aren’t dead until the structures responsible for generating or expressing your consciousness are damaged beyond hope of recovery. It is scientifically true that a great many parts of the neuron survive intact well after what…