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Core Question of Chaos Magick
So who lives in your head? Under what sea of imagination and concern? Before we talked about chaos theory and philosophy, today we are talking about chaos magick and a meta-paradigm of practice. Who’s on first? You are under a spell, and you are always on first, never on second, and will never experience home…
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Become What You Are Not
We believe what we experience. We either control or are controlled by our experience. Which do you prefer? I prefer to control my experience. Do you know how to control your experience? I only watch movies at home. I never go to the theatre anymore. You are controlled by the experience of holding your new…
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Belief Anchored in Experiences
I need to start believing I’m a playboy millionaire with fancy gadgets. You can’t just spontaneously believe whatever you might arbitrarily choose. Belief has to be anchored in experience. Otherwise, you are just making noise in your head. This is why positive thinking so commonly fails to work, and why books like The Secret are…
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Knowing Your Triggers
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Self Directed Belief
So back to chaos magick… Instead of conforming to a traditional set of practices and symbols that are traditionally seen to have meaning, the practitioner of chaos magick experiments with symbols, both traditional ones and ones that their experience or imagination suggest might be especially meaningful. They might create a ritual dedicated to a pretend…
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Background for Demonolatry
What do you already know about demonolatry? Not much I guess. Movie stuff. Mostly from games and Supernatural. If it sounds like the word idolatry, you are not too far off, or way far off, depending on your point of view. Demonolatry is the study of demons and their behaviour, more akin to naturalism, say…
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Powers of the World
The question for a demonolater is not how to please God, or even how to please themselves either, not necessarily. Demonolatry is primarily Gnostic, seeking to understand the divine in the self, as well as reaching out to the divine in the world. They aren’t just looking to grab power though it’s not something “demonized”…
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Interest in Demons
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Misconceptions of Demonolatry
Common misinformation about demonolatry, misconceptions… Would beings that seek to foster fertility and continued life actually be gratified by the opposite of their intentions? Want to promote and preserve children so do the opposite of that? Sacrifice? No. It would be an insult to the intelligence that has its existence, its embodiment, in the ongoing…
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Demonic Karma
Do demonolators believe in personal responsibility? They do. They parallel satanists in many ways in day to day stuff. They differ in the spiritualism aspect so satanists would deny that demonolators have anything in common with them. To demonolators the consequences of your actions are enacted by the demons, a sort of demonic karma. So…
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Voice of Your Personal Demon
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Insights from Demons
Familiar with Socrates’ demon? I don’t think I am. Socrates attributed his insights, even foresight, to a presence he encountered in his meditative moments that displayed an insight into events and the world around him that he openly said himself that he did not have. (Even though he would have gained had he laid claim…
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Name Your Demon
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Working With Your Demon
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