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I to I
What can you do to step closer into the psychic? First realize that the mind is a sense and not an identity, and then realize that you can be selective about your psychic stuff in the same way you are your physical stuff, and you gather psychic stuff for the same reason. Where does our…
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Psychic Touch
When people fall in love aren’t they seeking the “I” in another? Not their own I, because you cannot own an I. You are it. But if they can get out from under the psychic malignancy, you will realize you are seeking contact with your kin, with the real being behind all the substance. Are…
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Method to Madness
Today’s dark topic is divine madness. They say that it is wise to observe moderation in all things. The ancient Romans believed that even strong emotion could bring on mental illness. Yet we, especially in this day and age, also hear the phrase, “There’s method to my madness.” So we mostly live in a more…
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Psychic vs Psychotic
Would you say that modern celebrity spiritual leaders show any sign of madness? Any televangelist, for a start, and how so? I wondered why Hare Krishnas give out carnations and what does it mean when you accept one? It means I have removed part of their motivation to accost people at random, to my point of…
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States of Divine Madness
Here is where I begin to get weird, but first off… All the traits we call psychotic are also naturally present in “normal” people. So what creates these possibilities in consciousness is completely natural, wouldn’t you say? I will offer that they are imprinted on us by the environment. They seem to be what psychiatrists…
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Socially Inspired Divine Madness
First, let’s look at the current state of socially inspired divine madness. Then we can explore what others are like, shall we? Remember I said that the madness is shaped by an inspiring spirit? Well, take humanity as a collective, I mean modern humanity, and then lead the oracle through all their states of being.…
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Going Out of Mind
Shall we explore a different divine madness/frame of mind? I will let you pick. Pick a process in the world or a location in nature. Glaciers melting. Ok, that works. Those who live in the glacial region of our planet once engaged in this process. They would go to the glacier and focus all their…
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Not Returning to Humanity
What about those who don’t have guides to bring them back to the people? Generally one of two things happened. They would become lost and start behaving in ways that people would describe as demon possessed, or they would find it in themselves to fight off much of the influence they gathered and find some…
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Inspiring Spirits
I won’t be speaking specifically of Greek goetia today. The understanding transcends Greek culture and even much of the original Greek lore is lost or unaccounted for. Have you noticed how common references to something being “in the air” are these days? Even more contemporary thinkers have made comments along the lines of ideas coming…
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Minds of their Own
If you were to ask what goetia is, I would have to say it’s working with the spirits of the air, and I don’t mean air elementals which are not known for being super cooperative or generous. Things get around in the shared perceptual and communicative medium, and ideas and stories often seem to take…
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Goetic Beings
The moods associated with the goetic spirits are the source of life energy. They form an “elemental” basis for goetic spirits to arise in. The most common hauntings are goetic elementals. Is this like the elemental energies? Similar, but not sharing the common ground with material existence that elementals do. An earth elemental can empathize with…
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Connection with Goetic Spirits
The Goetic spirits exist under heaven alongside our kind. They consider the cosmos and the meaning of life much as we do. Humans saw them as intermediary beings because often their patterns of thought and symbolism strike humans as unimaginable, strange or complex, mysterious. Yet they exist in our imaginations? It could be argued we…
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Accept the Presence of Night and Day
In the beginning was darkness, and in the fullness of time there came to be both a night and day, and this was necessary, good for the well-being of all life. These elements of natural order haven’t changed and will not, but when humans come to accept the presence of the dark as well as…
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Occult Doctrine
The subject is cabals. The word comes from the more familiar Jewish word kabbalah which translates as secret or occult doctrine. People often dismiss the idea that any sort of doctrine affects them at all. This is to my view a mistaken notion. Ones “story” or internal dialogue is every bit as much a personal…
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Mysteries of How to Govern
There have always been priesthoods of one sort or another, from shamanic medicine societies to the catholic hierarchy so visible today, and each order held principles they believed to be vital “mysteries” or secrets of how the world is thought to work. If you read much of the material behind governmental principles and procedures, they…
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It’s a Hunted World
What is “real life” but a ghost story? Perhaps a holy ghost story? Do we write the ghost stories? Tradition is a ghost story. The future is a ghost story. What the other guy or other nation is doing is a ghost story. Can anyone name others? The horrible disaster that waits because I don’t…
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Adopt Principle
The same principles they founded our institutions and governments on, the same way they arrive at their insights and rules in the first place, we can use for ourselves. A simple example. In some third world countries right now, there have developed whole cities of the homeless that now run on economies that almost rival…
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Exercise Power Together
There will always be people who want to “game” the system no matter what system you have. People who will cheat and manipulate and try to control others. It’s just part of human nature. Yes, and they are unwise. It’s a casino, house rules. You might seem to accomplish a little bit, might even feel…
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