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Spiritual Police
The core principle behind exorcism is not unlike an animal’s territorial behavior. Some species can tolerate the presence of other species in their territory fairly well, while others are much more aggressive and defensive against any rivals. This is why early exorcists would come to have a whole roster of different kinds of spirits categorized…
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Spirit World Shaped by Connections
Shall we discuss mechanism behind exorcism? As I made mention of earlier, the spirit world is shaped by connections, resonance or sympathy, like affects like, but likewise there is a broader cycle between all pairs, a principle of duality and even a seasonal rotation. If one has fallen into a bad lifestyle, one attracts beings…
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Negative Spirit Behaviour
Anyone ever deal with a situation involving negative spirit behavior? Let’s look at one that does commonly show up in popular accounts. Modern people are typically rather disrespectful of the dead, making land grabs and reclaiming funeral lands for their own profit, and showing serious disregard for the spiritual component of that land. Now modern…
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The Damned
Ever notice how mental illness changes people? Well, growth and evolution happen even among the restless dead. The lost can grow into what Christians might call the damned. With the so called damned, those formerly human spirits who have grown accustomed to being in that dark place, they don’t respond to healthy empathy any more.…
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Fighting The Damned
Fighting the damned. The damned are as prone to influence as they are able to influence others. So though they may scoff at modern religious concepts, mind tricks can disturb them enough to weaken their hold on our world. They are prone to suggestion, can be deceived by illusion, and are even easier to deceive…
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No Separation Between States
We are talking about the ghostly realm. It’s commonly talked about, but perhaps without much clarity. Maybe we can add some. Some think of the ghostly realm as some plane of existence removed from our location in real space, sort of like an alien planet or something. But space has more depth to it than…
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States of Being
The separation between matter and energy is also itself illusory, and everything we experience as having happened in this material realm also happens on these other realms, though there is a discontinuity as involves the issue of time. We think of before and after, present and past, but these things only apply to the material…
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Dreams within Dreams
Shall we venture into the ghostly realm? Incarnating is like treading water. You have to invest a fair amount of your total energy into maintaining the physical state. Fortunately, reality as a whole is rather efficient at using energy, and thus we, for the most part, are unaware of this effort to exist. We are…
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Ghostly State
No state of being is off limits. With sufficient intention, one can exist in the ghost state virtually indefinitely. The passage of time is largely irrelevant, but the state of mind that we typically associate with the lost and confused ghost doesn’t often persist for very long. Eventually, they become accustomed to their struggle. Their…
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Intervention in the Ghostly Realm
From time to time there is intervention in the ghostly realm. Who intervenes? Are there natives there directing the tourists? Yes. There are guides on this level, baby sitters if you will, and even what might be called well-adjusted citizens. Are the jinn there? They exist in a state just between that one and material…
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Relationship to Fear
We are discussing horror, and specifically horror stories. I don’t mean horror literature necessarily, nor horror movies. Stories run deeper than any modern media, and horror stories are perhaps one of the oldest, if not the oldest sort of story ever told. Horror goes back to the start of language, as we have always had…
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Terror and Horror
There is a difference between terror and horror. Terror is an unthinking reflex. We are terrified of loud noises or falling from high places. Certain things trigger instincts in us almost universally that set us off, sudden unexplained noises, that bump in the night, or motion that we can’t link to an observable object. It…
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Daily Horror
We have a sense of what is right and feels safe, even pleasant, but this rarely inspires stories. The root of religious story is horror, those moments when we are made to understand that the world isn’t human hearted, that granny can have hurtful intentions, and that the minister might be willing to force himself…
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Advice on Fear
My advice on fear is not about object choice, or even about control or elimination of fear, it is recognition of how intrinsic it is to your mundane thinking, and discovery of what sort of impact it is having in your life right now. Do you go away unscarred from your personal horror stories? Unmarked?…
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Pick Your Poison
Is it best to be insane or normal? Well, here is something interesting perhaps. Does your life make sense to you? Parts of it. I couldn’t say the entirety The older I get the more sense it makes, because I feel more able to adapt to the changes. It suggests I should make sense of…
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Restless Dead Explanations
The Halloween holiday has more of a traditional link to the undead than monsters in general, as we’ll focus on now. For the purpose of this discussion, we will define the undead as the deceased who have not departed the realm of human experience. Really, for as long as we have recorded stories of any…
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Highly Charged Thought Forms
One model for the possible existence of incorporeal undead might be found in highly charged thought forms. In general, many people have memories of any specific person who might die. As both the memory of the person in life, and the emotions connected to their death might be highly emotionally charged, all of this energy…
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Curse Related Undead and Wailers
I see being undead as a cruelty. Even a thievery of your right to rest in peace. I guess it would be a curse if you really wanted to be mean to someone. Well, regarding curse related undead, as it is a common branch, the process goes like this. You become passionately, even perhaps violently,…
Category: Dark Metaphysics
There are very few frank and well reasoned discussions of the dark side of metaphysics. So I thought a class focused on the darker side of metaphysics might serve a valuable role.
What I classify as dark actually falls into what might be called the “shadowed” real of the already occult. 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 way.
What do you want to know about the dark side?
“The laws and descriptions which make up the literature of occultism can never be a substitute for experience. They indicate directions in which experiment may be made, and in many cases their validity may be known quite promptly to those who will pursue their indications with resolution and energy. They are not intended as a field for … speculation.” Hugh Shearman, An Approach to the Occult