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Evolutionary Pressures
Alchemists were very much students of life, and as much as they revered what appeared to them to be a naturally self perpetuating order in the world, they also observed what we now would call evolutionary pressures as is certainly in evidence. What is now commonly thought of as evolution can go to some very…
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Alchemical Life
Life is a strange thing. Even today we have yet to establish a clear definition of life from inanimate matter. We know life to experience it, but there is no concrete physical trait that identifies it for what it is. There is one theory, though, that says that life is identifiable as a system of…
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Applications of Bast
So applications of the way of Bast in modern life? Well, one would be simple as the citizens of Per-Bast did share their life with a cat. In Egyptian spirituality there wasn’t as much devotionalism as there was in other religions. People saw themselves as living with their gods, alongside them, and living in good faith…
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Associations of Bast
The best way to understand the Egyptian gods is to understand the culture they lived in. Egyptian spirituality was a living and changing thing so over time the roles of the gods changed as both the politics and the culture of the various Egyptian nomes changed. When Egypt was unified, eventually the city states expanded…
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Egyptian Reverence for the Gods
My applied theurgy classes are about ways understanding and reverence for the gods can have practical benefits in life. Recently, they have been examining closely how the brain works in many different cases, and one thing that is proving universally true is everything about brain function seems to be dependent on context. In Egyptian metaphysics,…
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Weird and Crazy
I’m pleased I kept my chest trouble under control during class. Your chest trouble? In my efforts to integrate the function of my hippocampus with my more conscious brain, I accidentally cross wired my attentional control with my autonomic rhythms. So when I concentrate, my bodies natural rhythms go into overdrive and it feels like…
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Portal Based Consciousness
Brain wave frequencies are temporal frequencies, and when you drop down into the theta band, you sync up with the geomagnetic field around us. This opens a portal, and your consciousness shifts into an atemporal space which is where most of the deceased linger for a time, the Buddhist bardo. They are more deeply embedded…
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This also seems descriptive for a type 3 indigo. I do have many of these traits that alternate but know…