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Courage to Express
Women have lost their traditions of power, and men have lost the principles of control over their own power. They now do things, without really knowing why, just because they are “supposed to.” Should this continue? Time to raise a generation of women who own their power. Yes, but you do that by being that.…
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Kami are Everywhere
I won’t be speaking of a specific pantheon of spirits. Even to enumerate the traditional magatsuhi -no-kami would be a futile effort, but the concept behind the kami in general, and the dark kami in particular, is helpful for understanding the world of spirits in any culture. Anyone here familiar with Shintoism? It’s a syncretic…
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What Goes Around Comes Around
Shintoism did involve something like karma as well. Kami did more than just cause acts of nature. They also observed humans in the world, and they exist on all levels of the spiritual. For one who showed active disrespect for their ancestors, this would give those departed spirits a grievance that would be heard out…
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To End Things
Can kami’s be touched like chakras? They are touched at the same time you touch a chakra. The chakra is its way of incarnating. It’s the house of the kami. The saying, “An angel just visited me.” It’s an interesting notion, and has some unspoken implications that maybe should be questioned. Dark kami dwell in…
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Be Respectful
Normally in Shinto belief, a family heirloom is the spiritual equivalent of a sacred relic. A family sword comes to be a kami of service and sacrifice for the betterment of the community. A family mirror comes to be a kami of reflection and awareness of both the present and the past, a keeper of…
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Reality has a Threshold
Today, we are talking about something you may have heard about elsewhere. So I will ask, what do you think of when you think of the word “abyss”? The void? A deep dark hole. An unexplored, dark place. Dark endless emptiness. Home of demons. The abyss, as I will be discussing it today, is something…
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Abyssal Threshold
Everyone familiar with the principle of entropy? Decay. Things always fall apart. They don’t normally fall together. Take any system and make it operate full force constantly, and it will reach a point where the order it depends on to function smoothly will break down. This happens for stars, happens for human minds as well,…
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Fuel for Life
If everything goes the way people would prefer it to go, their energy, instead of pushing the abyssal threshold, rebounds off the web of life creating a sort of fuel for life’s growth itself. Some souls serve to empower a spiritual breeder reaction. Light begets more light. You uplift someone. That uplifts you. The person…
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Feeling the Abyss
The difference between the feeling of an abyssal presence and the presence of one of the lost is really fairly different. A ghost feels sort of cold, like a life vacuum, and you get a sort of echoing sensation like the presence is trying to share in or reproduce your own awareness. Ever feel this…
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Abyssal Criminals
What attacks? The abyss has criminals just like our reality does. It also has its version of animals. If you seem to be aware of one of them and you present yourself in passive or fearful way, you will feel a surge of contempt most commonly. But in rare cases they will take an interest…
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Abyssal Guardians
About the dark arts as they relate to the abyss, and why you so often hear about it going terribly wrong. Most of the nonsense people practice in the name of demon summoning is just that. It can raise a big noise. It may even draw some attention from an abyssal entity which usually just…
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Everything has Memory
Perhaps the heart of today’s topic of Dark Relics can be summed up with a phrase, “A place for everything, and everything in its place.” The world itself and the things in it have memory. Even much of science implies this even if they don’t fully endorse it. Houses, cars, landmarks, many things we don’t…
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Variety of Dark Relics
We can start with any of a variety of dark relics. Any preferences? Castles? Ah, castles. Very interesting relics often having the touch of some of the darker pagan practices included in their very construction. Two issues tend to darken a castle, actually three. First is they arose from a militant era. They only existed…
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Permanent Fingerprint on Reality
Let’s bring it a bit more down to earth. Perhaps a metaphor from physics to explain the science behind this stuff on Dark Relics. Even hard line materialist science requires that one thing remain consistent, and that one thing is information cannot be lost. Distinctions between observable things must be conserved. They describe the medium…
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Charging Relics
Relics aren’t necessarily haunted or are they? They aren’t necessarily haunted, though they can be. Houses take on the energy of their owners, good and bad. Yes, and places of crisis build charge faster than places of relative peace. This is why spiritual rituals were originally performed, to speed up the charge time of a…
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Deconstruct Energy
In contrast to cathedrals, which serve to clear the flow of energy and empower it, there are relics that appear to consume it. Though they don’t really deplete energy, they de-construct it, sort of like a mulch pit. They pull in and trap energies and then bleed them back into the environment. This is the basic mechanic…
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Natural Dark Relics
Do trees transmute the dark energy? Ah, generally they do, yes. Most of the time, but let’s start with naturally occurring dark relics, then move to human. Landmarks are not a human idea. The contour of the land registers on the consciousness of everything that lives there, and there is a bond or possession, in…
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Human Parallel of Dark Relics
Why do humans get negative? So yes, the human parallel of dark relics is the human attitude that they are entitled to subdue nature. It goes deeper than interpersonal abuse. The history of the world is written in your flesh and blood. DNA. Yes, the pax natura is there written upon the human heart. The…
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