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Activation of Dormant Genes
Today, we are talking about atavism. Magickal and spiritual practice often seeks to cultivate altered states of awareness. Some are considered more acceptable than others. In the case of some of the more backwoods practices, one narrow set in particular, we have methods and rituals designed not to supposedly advance the human consciousness, but to…
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Atavistic Ritual
Atavistic ritual all relies on triggering the mirroring nervous system in one way or another, through ceremonial dance, meditation, even costume. The purpose being to create a link with and even a sort of identification with another species. This is the oldest form of ritual on the entire planet. Is the virtual world of Second…
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Repurposing Adaptations
Anthropomorphising animals is so natural as to be instinctive, but rather than dismiss it as irrationality, as hard nose materialists do, the reason is that our mirroring nervous system can imitate and recognize the states of living things that are even remotely like ourselves. I myself don’t think this is accidental as so many people…
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One Living World
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Act As Though
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All Daemons
Category: Atavism
An atavism is an activation of genes that are still present and intact in another organism that seem to have gone inactive. And in the case of some of the more backwoods magickal and spiritual practices, we have methods and rituals designed not to supposedly advance the human consciousness, but to regress it. Atavistic ritual relies on triggering the mirroring nervous system through ceremonial dance, meditation, even costume. The purpose being to create a sort of identification with another species.
We all draw from the same pool of physical and thus metaphysical potential. But in the modern attitude of species supremacy, we blind ourselves not only to big parts of our own psychology, but to whole domains of experience. We operate in a deep seated domain that humanity has avoided becoming aware of by pure conceit as far as I can tell. Your instincts tell you more than you may have experienced before. You know more of the way of the wolf than your thinking tells you.
“What a time experiences as evil is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good-the atavism of a more ancient ideal.” Friedrich Nietzsche (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)