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Preserving the Balance
The Books of the Dead are many and varied and they have their roots in prehistoric culture taking newer incarnations as time went by. The Books of the Dead are not actually about death. Are we talking magical Books or photographs of people that have died? Magickal traditions. Magickal. Spiritual. In the oldest traditions the…
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What Means Anything?
Our science is advancing at a rapid pace, and if Doctor Penrose’s theories of consciousness are correct, our budding quantum computers themselves may become modern Books of the Dead. What do you think of this? How so? Consciousness is a quantum pattern, yes? Created by self replicating quantum entanglement? Thus you remain perpetually conscious. Otherwise,…
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Place of All Fears
Perhaps a little bit of science here… We all have more nightmares than we do peaceful dreams. This is true across the board. They figure it’s a survival mechanism. The ancient word for the Land of the Dead in a South American nation was Xibalba which meant the place of all fears. I would prefer…
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Fear God
There is a theory about how the modern brain evolved, and I don’t mean from prehistory, I mean within it’s own era, that suggests that we were all originally more or less schizophrenic. This would make a lot of the old stories and historical behaviour make more sense wouldn’t it? Were the old stories of…
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What are you waiting for?
Does this image inspire fear? Do you know why I identify with this form? And I do, more than the previous one. Because I love you. This is how I identify with my fellow man. “I want! I want! You scare me! Shut up! Go away! It’s over. It means nothing … Life ends so…
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World’s Biggest Killer is Stress
I cover a wide range of metaphysical and spiritual topics in these classes. Some range a little into the questionable, but no intent to offend is ever involved. Today, we are talking about swearing. The mind runs constantly, but we don’t consciously direct it for large portions of that time. We tend to dismiss strange…
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Desperate for Control
They have recently identified a reflex in the brain that when stimulated triggers a drive to persist. It’s located in a space roughly between the frontal lobe and the upper part of the amygdala which means it’s directly linked to our conscious thinking and our emotions at the same time, and it’s on a circuit…
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Swearing is Natural
Traditionally, there is a difference between swearing and vulgarity, but just a quick back track… They now theorize that swearing reduces sensitivity to pain, because it brings up negative emotion and triggers the fight or flight response which speeds up the heart rate – one thing they detected – as well as dulling pain sensitivity.…
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Bragging Works
So far I have described the nonconstructive side of swearing. Another related behaviour is bragging and these are all part of the same phenomenon. What do you think of bragging? I disliked bragging before it was cool to dislike bragging. I do that to convince the other side that he is wrong. The culture that…
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Healing Instinct to Swear
The instinct to swear, the drive to dis-inhibit the heart and instincts from the oppressive filters and projections of the mind, is fundamental, necessary for our well being. Studies have shown that a picture of a guy just holding a guitar is more attractive to women than the same guy without it. And a guy…
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Practice of Bragging
So, has everyone heard of priming? This is a scientific practice. By introducing key words or concepts, either deliberately or even subliminally, they can alter how ready your brain circuits are to fire. They can set up specific trains of thought to be more likely to occur. Like if they get you to read off…
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Duty of Death
To understand much of the thinking of the old world, you have to look at the metaphysics they subscribed to. For them, metaphysics was physics, no difference. Now there were two schools of general thought on the big picture around the world. One held that god remained present and continued to participate in the workings…
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Gate Keepers
No single agency is responsible for reaping. Each is specialized to a narrower range of regulatory influence. The exercise of the role of reaper in the spirit world is often tied to the emergent time pattern we sometimes call fate, or karma. The reaper keeps things tidy like scavengers in a forest? Indeed. The horned…
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Heaven or Hell?
Since I’ve stopped believing in heaven and hell, I don’t fear death so much. You should believe in heaven and hell, but they are not punishments or rewards. They are domains of order and not destinations for the soul. Like two roads running in the same direction though to different destinations, heaven and hell exist…
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Power of the Soul
So, how does the power of the soul impact your normal every day life? Well, everyone familiar with wave interference? You can watch it along the sea side. Waves can be regular for a time, even and orderly, but when the right conditions arise, they will begin not breaking against the shore, but against each…
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Pattern of Death
I’d love nothing more than to never have to work for food or shelter again. It has always been necessary to seek shelter and food and always will be, just the nature of the seeking will change. This seeking is sacred. We seek these things too rarely. We have lost much of our ability to…
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Reap in Natural Ways
There is no enemy in nature, and there is only an enemy in man because they fear the reaper. They fear the one who takes, who can take more and faster than they do. This displays ignorance. As much as it may seem the reaper is the ultimate power, the ultimate master of life, it…
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Observation in the Observed
Let’s look at the mind… how they have discovered the brain itself works and specifically memory. Memory is mortal. Ultimately, the traces of memory in the brain will be extinguished, modified and recycled beyond recognition. Those memories that seem to persist a life time… If memory is mortal, then how do we sometimes get traces…
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