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In Tune with Natural and Spiritual
Are you all familiar with shamanism? Life centered magic? Not necessarily life centered, but definitely spirit centered, living or otherwise. In our role-play shamans are primarily healers. Is this the case or do they do more? Oh, they certainly do more though some of it is part of what inspired today’s topic on Dark Shamanism.…
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Spiritual Battle
You hear much about the shamans spirit journeys, but their contact with the spirits was by no means limited to their journey rituals. The spirits would overcome them as well. A spontaneous trance is often heralded by a howling sound, sometimes leading to seizures, but often leading to wild outburst or rampaging violent outbursts. So…
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Sense of the Real
The Dark Shamans lose sight of this reality? I offer you this… Can one be said to lose touch with reality and remain able to actually perceive physical reality? This happens to hermetic adepts too, but not as adherence to the dead, but because of a change in frequency. Indeed, it’s easy to lose balance.…
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Dark Shamanic Relationship
Now all is not necessarily peace and bliss in the natural world. Even without the shaman or shamankas human concerns, the part of their life they live in sympathy with the spirits in the wild around them, leave them understanding life and reality in what most would consider very strange ways. Without rituals of grounding…
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Villainized
The dark shamans would often warn of troubles to come for the tribe. They were seen as “fates” and doom sayers. In the Germanic case, they even went underground for a time, opposing the new power for the weakness it would then break in their people. Germanic dark shamans? Oh, there were the followers of…
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Oath Breaker
The term oath breaker was used to refer to a European trouble maker. They broke the peace, forswore their oaths to the church and to the people who sought to live at peace with the church who instead chose to go underground rather than challenge authority. The other word for oath breaker was warlock. They…
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Druid Evolution
Druidism was the European outgrowth of the Indo-Aryan migration and evolved independently of its parent culture over time. Whereas those who migrated southeast into India came to establish the Brahminical tradition as well as the gurus and sadhus and what have you, those tribes that headed northwest brought the same traditions but came to understand…
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First Judges
As followers of the Druids grew in their understanding, they developed special insights into the world and reality in general. Where in the tradition of India, the disciple might manifest one of the siddhis or powers, those gifts that come from deepening intuition and spiritual growth, the students of the Druids would do so likewise,…
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Druid Winter and Summer Courts
There were generally two schools in Druid thought. The summer court focused on harmony and peace, and the majority of Druids embraced a wisdom that reflected this. This is why Druids came to be known predominantly as peace keepers. The lesser known and less adhered to was the winter court, those who tried to get…
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Path of Blood
Some of the Druid winter court did become sort of “shell shocked” if you will. This is why the winter court could also be called the path of blood. This Druid might become so engrossed in the cycle of conflict, life, and death that the wisdom of their judgements might begin to falter, become bloodthirsty…
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Rhythm is Gonna Get You
Today we are talking about the fae and their role in fate. I will do my best to clarify anything as we go along. It’s going to be a twisted walk through the hedges so to speak. The world dreams. It has always dreamed, and like our own dreams differ from our waking life, the…
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Influence the World Dream
You say we don’t dictate the content of our dreams. I do feel as though it is possible to steer our personal dreams and allow them to take shape. My question is: How do we influence the world dream? You have the same ability of self will in dream as you do in the waking…
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Other Side of this Equation
So I will ask you friends… What is fate? Destiny? An influence outside of my control. Fate is encountering the inevitable… a confluence of circumstances meant to be. Combined influences. The product of infinite lines of causation merging at a point in space/time. Fate is self-enforcing pattern. Chaos theory exists not because there is such…
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Touch of the Fae
Anyone hear of the bicameral mind theory? Modern minds have changed. The hemispheres of the brain are actually each potentially self-contained minds, self-contained personalities, and at one time it is theorized that each hemisphere behaved more independently of each other than they do now, one not really being able to sublimate the other. Well, at…
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Fae Relationship with Human
The forms things take here for the fae seem terrifying, unnaturally limited and limiting. They struggle to make sense of presences here as being living things at all. This is part of why their behaviour seems to lack empathy from a human point of view, lack compassion. Our horrors are their walks in the park.…
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The Real 99 Percent
Now don’t get me wrong, there has always been that sector of fae society that is generally disgruntled, are genuinely disinterested in human well-being, even to one degree or another sadistically inclined, and the numbers of that portion of fae society are growing more and more. They’re becoming disgruntled because, in fact, no portion of…
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Psychic Driving
This is our dark metaphysics class, so in it we tend to get into topics some may find questionable. The intent is not to offend as much as it is to inform and perhaps thereby forearm or disarm fears that might not be entirely justified. With that being said, I will begin. In the worlds…
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Control Through Fear
I ponder Behaviour- ist Psychology and B.F. Skinner. And yes, even right now a form of behaviourism is being advocated as the primary way to treat autism in young children. Using “aversives” as well as other behaviour we would see as grossly coercive if it were used on us. Aversives = physical and emotional punishment,…
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