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Psychic Paths: Part 1
There are more paths than this. You may find in your practice that the reflective work is not clicking. There are common elements of the mind, but there are notable deviations also. Mine is one such. The Greeks used to seek out those who suffered from the condition I had as a juvenile to serve…
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Psychic Paths: Part 2
There is a force in the world that makes the frogs stay in their ponds and guides the birds in their flights. Makes all things seek their place. It is not outside of you, but has a connection to things outside. In magick, it’s the law of affinity. The animals themselves need not normally seek…
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Dark Side Of Metaphysics
In the virtual world of Second Life and across the internet, you can find plenty of sources for the rainbows and unicorns style of metaphysics, and you can find almost as much that falls in the grey area, that being heavily sponsored by corporate interests. But there are very few frank and well reasoned discussions…
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World Between
I would like to hear more about facing yourself, and I’m thinking about what I’ve read and heard about the Tibetan Book of the Dead and the Bardo. They are sort of like theurgic necromancy, though there are non-theurgic types as well. Perhaps one of the most fearful aspects of the dark side is the…
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Region Of Darkness
The dark side is the realm of the dead or angry spirits? Actually, only connects to it. It is the realm of ghosts, and is actually the mirrored possibilities of the world made manifest. No potential can exist without becoming actualized. So for every positive way we feel called to, there is a part of…
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Left Handed
On the subject of seduction, everyone experiences some pull from the dark. Every time something happens, “Save for the grace of God, there go I.” Light lovers worry too much about what is fair. They worry about it and fail to find it. They bury it even deeper in trying to defend it. Every time…
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Enlightened Self Interest
I promise that this series on Dark Metaphysics is not for indulging anyone’s morbidity. Nor will I advocate the egotistical behaviour associated with many posers to the dark side. It may mirror for you your own path, and thus teach you more about your own way, and you may discover that it is your personal…
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The Natives Of Dark
I still wonder why I find dark mirrors so hard to be near, but the dark itself I love. The mirror is a nexus, but it isn’t any more of an open door than your house door is. I used to play Bloody Mary but she never showed up. And she won’t ever. The things…
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Everything Has Practices
The subject of ‘Practices’ sort of arises from recent difficulties I have been having with events. I seem to have lost my stride as they say, lost some inspiration. You imply you have goals, is this so? I have pictures, experiences that at one time I was asked to share. As far as an agenda…
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Practice Has a Form
Our inner most nature might be a higher self? One behind the day to day belief systems, and one of a core belief or path? Yes exactly. Chinese philosophy goes into that. They say, “That which goes against the Tao cannot stand.” The Tao is an all-encompassing harmony of the universe itself. They also say…
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Practice to Synchrony
Perhaps further elaboration will better serve. I have done a lot of teaching on a lot of different practices. They come in all colors and forms, and we each share our own special gift with the world. Someone who brings red is ill served and negated when they try to conform to a standard of…
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What are Your Practices?
There are people who don’t believe they have a practice. They are mistaken. In fact, they believe they don’t have a practice because they don’t have what they consider special experiences, spiritual epiphanies, paranormal contacts, things like that. Seeking these things is what creates the confusion. These people actually have the most powerful magick in…
Category: Dark Practice
Whenever you have something that you can clearly define, you also have something that is not, that exists by way of negative definition. Nature abhors a void, but it embraces darkness. The logic of the darkness does seem to stand in defiance of the normal world, but it exists by way of extension.
Dark souls that are whole and healthy have a star in them. Light souls that are whole and healthy have a shadowed spot in them. But both gardens have paths, and they both meet in the street of the whole universe itself.
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” Helen Keller (American Author and Educator who was blind and deaf. 1880-1968)
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” Edgar Allan Poe (American short-story Writer, Editor, Poet and Critic, 1809-1849)