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- Mon Jan 08, 2018 9:35 pm
- Forum: Chaos Magick
- Topic: Telling Real from Parody (and a question on humor)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5306
Re: Telling Real from Parody (and a question on humor)
" I personally do not care what kind of magic you do or do not practice , what you think , or don't , whether you believe in magic or not , or if you want to sit in a corner sucking your thumb , and mentally masturbating about all this for the next thousand years ( if you figure out life exten...
- Mon Jan 08, 2018 8:53 pm
- Forum: Individual Spirituality
- Topic: Are you authentic?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 26826
Re: Are you authentic?
This topic represents the kinds of things I think about. It seems like most occultists are simply non-committal folk that want liberty in a world that has restrictions. It almost feels like wandering around a group of lost souls. Fear of committing to an ideal is not liberty, it is loss. When a per...
- Mon Jan 08, 2018 8:45 pm
- Forum: Individual Spirituality
- Topic: Are you authentic?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 26826
Re: Are you authentic?
Before I begin, I must digress, I do not believe in ethics, in the slightest. You will drive yourself mad trying to decide what is "right" and what is "wrong". The reality is, we are animals in an indifferent world. There are no morals built into the world, and those who abide b...
- Mon Jan 08, 2018 8:14 pm
- Forum: Chaos Magick
- Topic: Telling Real from Parody (and a question on humor)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5306
Re: Telling Real from Parody (and a question on humor)
Reading your post , just shows me , if you don't *get it* , there is no use trying to explain it to you , beginning with , if you are not having fun mentally masturbating about the whole thing , why do it ? Fun , fun , fun , fun , fun , fun , fun , fun , FUN ! I suppose intellectual fun is part of ...
- Mon Jan 08, 2018 6:50 pm
- Forum: Ceremonial Magick
- Topic: The spiritual essence of truth
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2667
Re: The spiritual essence of truth
This is an old-ass post, but I stumbled on it after having a bunch of arguments with people whose occult viewpoints hinge on a kind of nihilism/absurdism, which I tend to view as something to fight against, that spiritual practice can help overcome. There's too much of life to declare it all a stupi...
- Mon Jan 08, 2018 6:32 pm
- Forum: Chaos Magick
- Topic: Telling Real from Parody (and a question on humor)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5306
Re: Telling Real from Parody (and a question on humor)
People tend to take these matters way too seriously. If it's not fun it ain't worth doing it. What does fun have to do with it? And besides - why would you want to waste your time on someone's nonsense that doesn't work? I understand eclecticism, but I guess I'm a little more of a traditionalist in...
- Sun Jan 07, 2018 7:38 pm
- Forum: Chaos Magick
- Topic: Telling Real from Parody (and a question on humor)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5306
Telling Real from Parody (and a question on humor)
There's a lot of Chaos/Discordian "parody" type work out there, and recently I've been wondering how you tell genuine revelation from someone having a laugh; real rituals that work from people parodying ritual, real symbols with significance or mockeries of such. How do you differentiate t...
- Mon Sep 26, 2016 9:08 pm
- Forum: Reason and Unreason
- Topic: "Mind games"
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4151
Re: "Mind games"
I thought I should return to this thread since my mind was going along the similar routes today after listening to some podcasts - mentions of our spiritual selves somehow made the existential dread hit me. We inhabit flesh bodies. Physical forms of meat and fat and blood and sinew. For some reason ...
- Wed Sep 14, 2016 2:00 am
- Forum: Theologies
- Topic: Christian Practice of Mortification
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7117
Re: Christian Practice of Mortification
Normally I get myself in a lot more trouble when I make a bunch of posts in hysterics, but this is pretty useful. Is it really just a Catholic thing - I thought other Christian sects practiced it too?
- Tue Sep 13, 2016 9:31 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic (Occult)
- Topic: Spirituality: Asceticism or Power?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2956
Spirituality: Asceticism or Power?
I admit, I'm torn in how I want to approach my new forays into magickal spirituality: Option one, to use it to gain everything I want in this life, to make myself greater, powerful, worthwhile, everything I want and can do what I want. Option two, to practice as a modern ascetic, to deprive and hurt...
- Tue Sep 13, 2016 9:19 pm
- Forum: Theologies
- Topic: Christian Practice of Mortification
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7117
Christian Practice of Mortification
Does anyone know of some good information about mortification practices throughout history? I've been trying to find information on actual practices, maybe even a "schedule" of actions and can't seem to find any.
- Sun Sep 11, 2016 11:30 pm
- Forum: Reason and Unreason
- Topic: Suggestions derived from magick exp. with humans as object
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8940
Re: Suggestions derived from magick exp. with humans as obje
From such prism other human beings would not be just mental projections nor illusions, but beings more bound to Law than the magus in our example. Maybe it's just my own beliefs that won't allow me to are other humans as objects, and is frankly terrified and disgusted by the notion of manifesting a...
- Sun Sep 11, 2016 4:11 am
- Forum: Reason and Unreason
- Topic: "Mind games"
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4151
"Mind games"
9FoHqBhWDk4 Too often I find myself battling skepticism regarding my inclination towards spirituality, and stuff like this doesn't help as I become more fascinated with magick and psionics. What the video says makes perfect sense - you experience what you expect to and nothing more. It's just biolo...
- Sun Sep 04, 2016 4:18 pm
- Forum: Psychicism
- Topic: Biokinesis
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5354
Biokinesis
Anyone have thoughts or experiences with this? I've been looking into it (and revisiting psionics in general) and wonder if it might be worth experimenting with. Some other sources claim that any serious effects may take years to invoke, which makes sense, but do folks here think it's possible at al...
- Sun Aug 14, 2016 1:08 am
- Forum: Beginners Info
- Topic: Beginner's Luck
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2829
Beginner's Luck
That seems like the best way to describe what's been happening to me lately. I'm the worst meditator ever, can barely focus, and my rituals seem to end up interrupted. I"m also pretty lcearly impatient, as I only allowed myself the courage to dive into magick in the last two months. I've always...