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Our Inner Demons
Inner demons. I’m not actually going to talk about what might seem to be implied by the topic, but I will be talking about inner demons. People say demons, and ghosts, and things, are just fantasies. Just in your head. Well, this is the dirty little secret that even your pasts don’t really tell you…
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Real Demons
Whenever there is a “demonic” sighting they dismiss it as mass hysteria, and they are right in a sense. Mass hysteria is a great deal of stressful psychic energy, and this has been proven even scientifically. In patches of desert with heavy quartz and granite deposits many reported “hallucinations.” In the presence of intense energy…
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Born of Hate
Are you familiar with the term synchronicity? We protect our inner demons because they have meaning for us. This is why we created them, and they do indeed manifest both as a social shift due to scapegoating, and as weird synchronicities if they are heavily charged. There are meaningful events linked to the meaning of the inner…
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From Obsession
A Buddhist story. The monk says there are two wolves inside me. One is angry and fighting, the other is kind and gentle. He was asked which one will live, and his answer was the one I feed. The metaphor is apt. If your inner demon is a hateful wolf, you need not feed it.…
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Master Your Demons
Can inner demons be channelled a good way? Yes. In eastern beliefs, the Oni, a.k.a. demons, were crude, sort of dim witted and very violent. But they existed to enact the justice of heaven. They were moved when heaven recognized a wrong, and they were the active agents of correction. Now keep in mind they aren’t…
Category: Inner Demons
We get very busy projecting, and this projection takes on a life of its own. Whenever you become invested in a view, a perception, or a belief, you see what you believe you see. Each demon arises from a perceived meaning. Basically a meaningful threat. They feel most comfortable when their life is recognizable, and our pet inner demons make our life recognizable. Inner demons can be channelled in a good way. To master the inner demon you must see the truth of the “inner heaven”. Meditation or inner peace. Confront your inner demons when at peace.
“We like Batman – we understand him, we suffer with him. On the other hand, we want to be Superman. But they’re conflicting philosophies. Let’s bring them together in one movie and see how we, as an audience, wrestle with our inner demons.” Wolfgang Petersen
“Not necessity, not desire /no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything /health, food, a place to live, entertainment /they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.” Friedrich Nietzsche (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)