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Experience Brings Clarity
Experience brings clarity. We often just fall into an attraction and aversion cycle. It’s easy and more comfortable than the extremes of experience that life will in time offer us despite our best efforts. One need not engage in any specific practice. I don’t personally endorse any practice in any absolute sense. Especially not my…
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Extreme of Existence
We are living now so we are winners. Suck it dead people. Actually, you live because of the dead people. There is no death. The thing we perceive as death is just an extreme of existence, a defining characteristic of a greater balance of which death itself is only a finite part. As for wrongful…
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Nightmares
Nightmares. I think we’ve all been having intense dreams recently. Perhaps due to the environmental balance as of late, the increased energy brought about from an early spring, and the more radical changes going on in our world. The beings that can enter our dreams, there must be some interesting ones. The oneiroi? They stalk dreams?…
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Prior Consciousness
A bit of warning in advance, this is the dark metaphysics class, and we explore topics that many people might find uncomfortable. No offence is intended. I feel by discussing darker subjects we can dispel much of the sense of fear and mystery around these issues. That being said, today’s topic is Spirits of Madness… How can…
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Consciousness is the Creative Process
To use a metaphor, the primordial ooze lay dreaming, and in its dreaming its sensitivity, to the same chemical exchanges that still play out in our bodies, gave rise to patterns of recognition. The process by which a chemical is recognized by a receptor… How does that differ from our own recognition of the sight…
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Stream of Affect
We have a mind. We all believe we do, and we have mental experience. We have perceptions of mentation that we don’t define as the same thing as our mind proper. What is mentation? Thought, perception and emotion. Perception AND emotion? Indeed, because we can perceive our emotional state as a process in itself. Now…
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Peace and Fear Entities
There is a dependant identity that is created temporarily when people interact? There are even tertiary and semi-independent identities, and on an unconscious level you can detect identities that no single individual lays claim to. Identities that arise because of a collective perception of how even a “fictional” personality would behave, and it also forms…
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Deranged Entities
There is a third point which I meant to speak of today. In extreme distress, the normative process becomes compromised. The two classes of entity cross pollinate to give rise to beings that show neither general quality clearly, and these remain just as active as the rest entities and the distress entities. Each of the…
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Disease Entity Spread
Even in those people who are not themselves mentally diseased, the disease entity can leave an energetic of experiential trace. You can bear the “emotional scar” of the disease, and that can serve as a vector for the disease entities spread. I have experienced it in depression, seeing the world through that particular filter. And…
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Rituals of Consciousness
You have people and the identities that exist between them which can at least appear to behave independently of the people involved. We mostly don’t even take much conscious notice of those identities or entities that serve us while we go about our normal non distressed life. We may perceive a sense of guidance when…
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Subjective Field
In any given day I mostly experience those entities that could be lumped into the business as usual healthy non distressed category. I encounter my experience of my beloved kitten, and in time I encounter my experience of my wonderful wife, and each day I experience the manifestation of my expected behaviours. Things tend to…
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Surreal Real Life
There is a third state. I will relate my experience of visiting a loved one in a low security psyche ward. My first impression was of the staff. They all bore every evidence of being “entrenched”, and they had a blank look in their eyes even as they greeted us. I spoke only minimally to…
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Missing Part of Yourself
It’s always been suspected that anyone who practices anything of the “dark arts” is in danger of losing their soul or spirit. So this is what I intend to talk on as this is the dark metaphysics class. First, we will explore the issue of what it would mean to lose some portion of your…
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Partitions and Patterns in Reality
Reality is structured in a partitioned way. Our brains are, our perception of the passage of time, we even think of life as passing in stages or phases. It’s sort of like living many lives, but in the course of what we think of as a single life. Do we always make it out of…
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Consequence of Spirit Loss
Now the consequence of spirit loss… Ever notice what happens to a television series when it loses its continuity? “Jumping the shark” as it’s described when Fonzie jumped the shark… when a show reaches too far and loses cohesion. They’re desperate for plot lines. It seems like many shows lose their original writers after two…
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Dealing with Spirit Loss
How can spirit loss be used in a metaphysical practice? In spirit retrieval practices, the recognition that you can lose a part of the source energy you draw from, and learning how to recover that. The flip side of this would be deliberate investment techniques, the use of phylacteries and such. The Egyptian hierophants had…
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Basic Concepts for Dark Ascension
To being with a warning of sorts, this is the dark metaphysics class so the subject matter may offend though this is not my intention. With that being said, today we are talking about the dark side of ascension. Normal ascension awareness is about nurturing personal growth and awareness, and if you accelerate that process…
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Absolute Power
For the person on the path of dark ascension, there is no difference between their experience and their being, and it is believed that limitation and rejection of any part of ones being, even the darkest impulses, is what slows or even stops the individual from ultimate ascension. So one setting upon the path of…
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