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

  • Real Demons

    Real Demons

    Whenever there is a “demonic” sighting they dismiss it as mass hysteria, and they are right in a sense. Mass hysteria is a great deal of stressful psychic energy, and this has been proven even scientifically. In patches of desert with heavy quartz and granite deposits many reported “hallucinations.” In the presence of intense energy…

  • Born of Hate

    Born of Hate

    Are you familiar with the term synchronicity? We protect our inner demons because they have meaning for us. This is why we created them, and they do indeed manifest both as a social shift due to scapegoating, and as weird synchronicities if they are heavily charged.  There are meaningful events linked to the meaning of the inner…

  • From Obsession

    From Obsession

    A Buddhist story. The monk says there are two wolves inside me. One is angry and fighting, the other is kind and gentle. He was asked which one will live, and his answer was the one I feed. The metaphor is apt. If your inner demon is a hateful wolf, you need not feed it.…

  • Master Your Demons

    Master Your Demons

    Can inner demons be channelled a good way? Yes. In eastern beliefs, the Oni, a.k.a. demons, were crude, sort of dim witted and very violent. But they existed to enact the justice of heaven. They were moved when heaven recognized a wrong, and they were the active agents of correction. Now keep in mind they aren’t…

  • Geography Of Reality

    Geography Of Reality

    The subject is shadow people, but first, I think it’s necessary to describe the “geography” of reality. I don’t mean lands and landscape as we know it, but rather the truer shape of any of this. There will be a little science involved, and feel free to ask questions. Every “solid” object is just a…

  • Nature Of Shadow People

    Nature Of Shadow People

    Why do so many things appear to us in ways we perceive as frightening? Well, two reasons. One is that some of the more “remote” arms of reality can only present themselves to us in a very bad analog of the forms we are familiar with. They can only show a “finger” rather than their…

  • Psychology Of Shadow People

    Psychology Of Shadow People

    Now, I will go into the psychology of shadow people. They are often perceived as evil/malevolent, and this echoes human psychic reactions. They aren’t friendly, nor are they dangerous. You may perceive that they don’t like you, and you would be correct. They don’t like you, but it’s more for the same reason you might…

  • Shadow State

    Shadow State

    I’ve never heard of the state of “shadow person.” Shadow person is what humans call it. It was at one point believed that all of the dead went on to live in the shadow state. This was maybe even true at one point, but the psychic atmosphere of our world has changed and is changing. It’s…

  • Chaos At Play

    Chaos At Play

    I will not be giving a scholarly discussion of chaos. The mathematics would be meaningless to most, and the theoretical ramification pointlessly obtuse. So I will focus more on what it might mean to those with a metaphysical view or practice. We can see chaos at play every day. It isn’t hard. It’s really just…

  • Doing It Wrong

    Doing It Wrong

    My interest is in postulating what personal benefits might be expected in a given framework by purposefully introducing the seed of chaos into an otherwise stable system? Doing it wrong? I help my wife “do it wrong”. It goes surprisingly well. I do things wrong all the time, which leads into your area of interest.…

  • Chaotic Forces

    Chaotic Forces

    You cannot generate the chaotic forces, these “strange attractors”, but you can merge with them. A strange attractor is an observable repeating pattern that might even seem acausal, but is enduring despite our failure to see causes for it. Thus all idealism seems to fail, and “how it should work” never seems to match up…

  • Using Chaos

    Using Chaos

    How to use chaos? Feel ready for that? Chaotically. Excellent. Chaos is a dialogue. Just because it hasn’t made sense to you yet, doesn’t mean it can’t. In fact, chaos is the reason why two people can report success in their practices and not seem to agree at all on how it is done, like…

  • Chaos Mage

    Chaos Mage

    Now the actual application of chaos, instead of theory. I will paint a big picture. It’s just an allegory, so don’t take it literally. But it will explain what I mean to explain. Every being in the universe is standing in a huge hall of mirrors. Each looking at various mirrors in turn, and all…

  • Root Of All Things

    Root Of All Things

    We are going to talk about the Necronomicon. I will start with a bit of orientation. With everything in reality being as changeable as it is, what does it all have in common? Everything dies, and yet nothing does. That is the mystery of the Necronomicon. Now the one Necronomicon that you may have heard of…

  • Mind Origination

    Mind Origination

    Where does the mind originate from? The beyond? Yes, but let’s not jump ahead. If the mind has material reality as its single source, then why does it have such a poor grasp on it? Wouldn’t it be the perfect computer for analyzing the machine of material reality if that is the real context behind…

  • The Beyond

    The Beyond

    The Buddhist texts on the Tibetan Book of the Dead and the lessons on the bardo states, are these a kind of Necronomicon? They are part of the body in lore and insight that we are calling the Necronomicon, yes. They are the Necronomicon, and Buddhist mysticism even teaches how to achieve states that have…

  • Transition To The Beyond

    Transition To The Beyond

    Does study of a Necronomicon help us develop and prepare for the transition to the beyond, in it’s proper time? Potentially, but the Necronomicon describes the transition as hazardous for a reason. People will even create an artificial oblivion to avoid moving beyond. Even hell, if it means they get to stay in reality. It’s…

  • Traveling The Multiverse

    Traveling The Multiverse

    In the between state, what happens if one chooses outside? Oh, if one chooses outside, you move into what passes for “incarnation” in that realm. But our realm is nested in that one, and your new form can move into and out of this reality, and you will see it very clearly. You may take…