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World of Experience
Neuroscience has discovered some very interesting things. We structure our memory like it was physical spaces. This is why when you walk through a door, you often forget why you were entering that room. Your memory is your house. But what is the difference between sensation and memory? How can you tell the difference? Sensation…
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Include the Whole Picture
Our world has three faces. A dreamy heaven where wishes are fulfilled. A nightmarish hell where guilt is punished and fear is rewarded with its expectations, and the bright and potentially blinding “real world.” Can you have the real world as we know it without the other two? What would happen if humans had no dreams?…
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Things that Scare Us
We have one world with three faces of experience or consciousness. We have one world, but one which can be said to exist at three different levels of awareness, and even if you understand everything and delude yourself about nothing, none of the levels will disappear. The reason being, just as our brain assembles what…
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Nightmare Awareness
Just as your body is an ecosystem, so is your mind, and besides impressions made on you by other organisms, you actually have semi-independent intelligences showing up in your dreaming experience as well. We aren’t as holistic as people convince themselves they are. Various regions of your own nervous system still center themselves and organize…
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Spirit In Spirits
To anyone new to my Dark Metaphysics classes, the topics tend to run darker than you may be accustomed to hearing. No offense is implied or intended and this class is only offered as a way of broadening ones view of things people often otherwise find scary. That being said, shall we begin? Is everyone…
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Human Connection
Let’s throw a little science into this picture. They used to think the concepts that they now call attachment were superficial and unsupported sentiment. They used to think that these relationships were almost strictly biomechanical. The infant bonds to mommy because mommy has milk, bonds to care givers because they are dependent on care givers…
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Patterns of Connection
We all express and develop a pattern of connection like a spiritual web and just as webs can vary in their appearance and even function, so can styles of connection. We filter really all of our experience through these, some more stable, some less, some clear, some heavily mixed up, though perhaps no absolute model…
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Relationship to the Thing
Attachments or bonds can be in two possible states; harmonious or attuned, and disharmonious or disconnected. How do we treat things? As children we tended to treat them like creatures, even people. It depends on the things relationship to us? Actually, it depends on our relationship to the thing. Things are more reasonable than us in…
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Element of Corruption
Now let’s take the human lament out of it just for a moment, because this isn’t a humans suck class. Though some of my classes sometimes sound like that, it is never my intention. I like Dr Who’s message that humans are amazing. We just need time to realise it. Yes, even in their horridness.…
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Spirits Thriving in Conflict
Do our things appear to be fearless? Has it never seemed like the leaf is afraid of falling even though it’s “dead”? Ever have a personal item that though you chronically misplace, it keeps seeming to show up on its own in places you swear you never put it? My daughter lost a pocket knife,…
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Is This My Friend?
The reason the spirits don’t just fix everything for us is they have problems of their own. Worries and concerns that were old before anything like Homo Sapiens showed up. Myths are full of pre human occupation battles, battles of the forces of nature. Yes, and we can still see those struggles playing out even…
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Words are Children of Spirit
People have spoken of a special class of spirit, and this is what we encounter most in the virtual world of Second Life. Why do people hate drama in Second Life? They come here to escape it. But they don’t escape it do they? The reason being is Second Life puts us face to face…
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Everything Lives
All the spirits in the world are most powerful when they work together as a community, and their community is both in you and around you. Isn’t creation what they are making? Creation is what they are being and you are being. How creation looks depends on how you are relating to the others. But…
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Psychic Potential
I will start with a question, as I often do. Why do many people fear the idea of psychic potential? They may be afraid of something that they themselves haven’t experienced or are afraid to tap into. People know how awful their thoughts can be and don’t want others to read them. Strangely, it doesn’t…
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Psychic Tumours
Psychic malignancy is the tendency of something to behave in a viral fashion. Where do viruses breed best on a biological level? In life forms? And when out of life forms in biological waste, either dead and decaying matter, or literal eliminative waste. I think they die out when all their hosts are dead. Oh,…
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Cutting Energy Flow
The reason our minds are in such danger these days is because we have mental structures, ideas and belief systems, that are using up our healthy emotional and spiritual energy, but they aren’t doing the job of that part of the mind they are connected to. They resemble honesty. They look like love. But they…
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Psychic Scrub
When anyone functions from a self-actualized center, does anything to improve their psychic health, they convert the waste energy into healthy energy again. Self-will acted on is liberating not only for you but for everyone around you. Wear white after labor day if you want to, because you want to. There is the idea that…
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Deal Actively with the Mental World
Can you watch TV and listen to what someone says at the same time? Or cook and listen? Mix a drink and listen? Drive and listen? Depends on how much information you want. Well, yes, this is true, and this applies even to the psychic things I am talking about tonight. Just because you aren’t…
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