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Traffic In The Universe
Mediumship, also called channelling. It’s a relatively new concept on the occult scene, and it isn’t exactly clear what sort of phenomenon it is. Some think of it as a psychic ability. Some think it works for some other reason. There isn’t a long standing or well developed tradition regarding it, not to say that…
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The Exchange
Humanity doesn’t see clearly into the, let’s say, hyperspace between dimensions. So images do get projected onto our mental screens and they have a low degree of resolution. Sort of like the scenes from the movie The Sixth Sense, people see horrible things because their instinct twists the image and distorts what they are actually…
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Evil Is Spam
Most channelled messages to date are largely junk mail or poorly translated communications, like trying to understand what they call English. Our minds are powerful beyond our beliefs. Indeed. We just need to use them, and to use them we have to actually experience them. Aren’t our minds powerful because of our beliefs? They are…
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Find Your Way In The Exchange
Our region of the exchange is much like our internet, but before modern society it was broken. It’s not whole now, but we have made great strides in understanding. And if we lose our passion, our flesh wilts as well. Very true. The secret is not purification, that throws the baby out with the bath water.…
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Ritual for Deconstructive Purpose
Dark Metaphysics has been about the dark side of metaphysics and magickal practice. I mean to explore all the things that people find spooky about what might be happening in the magickal word and among magicians. Today, we are talking about twisted ritual. It is its own form of ritual because it specifically involves practices designed…
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Ritual Dark Mirror
Perhaps a less controversial form of twisted ritual. The path of the Heyoka. In short, the clown shaman. The Heyoka was considered completely insane, but insanity was seen as the same as inspiration and they were not actually insane. The tribe just didn’t try to reason with them. They accepted their paradoxical behaviour, but the…
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Creating Memory With Ritual
What exactly does ritual “do” to the energy field? Ritual is an application of the observer effect, and creates a model of the intention to be observed in the world and by the world. So ritual creates a memory in the world. In the place it was done, in the people who participated in it,…
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Into The Problem
Ritual or not (I am not big on ritual myself), part of what often keeps us stuck in our problems is the struggle we have with them. On modern application of twisted ritual, the reason we often stay stuck in problems is because we fight the problem. An example of twisted ritual would be to…
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Apparent Enemy As Biggest Ally
In voodoo, when working with Legba, they often pray for the exact opposite thing they want. If they want to recover from an illness, they ask Legba to make them horribly sick. It causes the same force to surface. If they want to find love, they ask Legba to drive all love very far away,…
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Dark Spirit
Everyone feeling the holiday spirit? The winter season is not all hope and light, or wasn’t, and some cultures still preserve some of that lore to this very day. Do we get into the holiday spirit or does the holiday spirit get into us? Ultimately, it gets into us, especially if you use the Voodoo…
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In Season Of Death Is Spirit of Hope
In all cultures that have particularly harsh winters, there were spirits thought to be more active during these longer nights of the year. Krampus would be just one example. The Kitsune of Japan were another. This is where we get the term fox fire from. And well, as people tended to die much more commonly…
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Human Darkness
In Krampus celebrations, they do something that I think people should do more consciously. In the Krampus celebrations, some young men dress up as demons and wander the streets. They are Krampus for the purpose of the celebration, and they act out a bit so that people can watch them. They try to be scary…
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Extend Christmas Spirit To Your Inner Demons
Today’s language of things is taking us further and further away from the root words. Yes. Selling us watered down meaning. It isn’t a mystery why today’s teens seem so completely nihilistic, and they called my generation the Generation X. It’s called “bull shit”. I have a book written by a professor On Bullshit. He…
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Operations On Reality
Today we are talking about corruption. I will open by asking, What is corruption to your own point of view? In personal terms, I think it’s selfishness. In physical terms, it’s impurities. Corruption is one of the key principles of what some would consider the dark arts. The grand art as it was once called, is…
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Practice of Corruption
The impact of corruption goes beyond the thing corrupted. Corruption has a weight to it, and the change it creates in the now compromised form, or situation, goes on to create change in the things connected to it. Focused with wisdom, the elimination of a static state makes more energy available for life supportive processes…
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Know Friend From Foe
Shamans were revered in ancient cultures. Shamans were also sages of the natural order, but their teachings did give rise to corruptors as well, who did remove themselves from the village but were not actually persecuted. It even shows up in Africa where the priest or priestess is said to serve the spirits with one hand…
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Agents of Corruption
Social corruption is arising both naturally and from stresses of egotism. The natural corruption should be encouraged. Many of the rules of human behaviour, prejudices regarding human nature, are becoming corrupt seemingly all by themselves. Issues of sexuality, issues of role and expectations, even issues of resource use, but on the social level there are…
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Coding Corruption
An additional note on corruption. Many futurists think that the first real self awareness in computers will arise from a corruption of coding. A subtle set of mathematical changes that gives rise to free will, self awareness. This is true of reality as we know it also. The reason chaos arises in the world is…
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