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neofight wrote:Its a terrible thing that the wise are told to hold their tongue. Its even more terrible that when they speak we condemn them.

and yet the wisest of the wise, know that they are not wise.

Realism and Experience I do also like the suggestion that understanding psychology is important. Gnothi Seauton, know thee thyself.... need I say more? I might also add that a firm grasp of logical thinking, and lateral thinking skills, are both immensely useful. but realism and experience are the m...

in the oldest lore, incubus and sukkubus are the same entity. It all depends on what winds your clock so to speak

100% objectivity is a fantasy, at least it is this side of divine infinite consciousness. that said, i'm a fan of objectivity, insomuch as we can channel it. though I'm realistic about just how objective we can be, which in itself is a kind of meta-objectivity. as for manifesting wounds... hard to s...

RHP/LHP are based on religious ideologies, and a background believe in some black & white universal morality which is absurd. in simplest terms, one is reliant on traditional paradigmatic framing, and external factors. while the other is more self reliant, and paradigmatically explorative. inste...

As for the basic question though... was there a question? or was it more a treatise on the subjective nature of reality perception? I mean i see several sentences ending in ?, but i'm not sure any of them are entirely answerable. Here's a concise question: why do you perceive being you, and not ano...

I apologize for saying so, but the above comment is simply an ignorant assessment. It's no fault of the Poster as most do not have knowledge of these Paradigms sufficient enough to see beyond the Number Ten(which is actually 11) which is understandable :-) These two Paradigms are not "Wildly A...

Interestingly, people will see objects as different colors based on an "impression" of the color of the lighting and it's effects. For example, if i show you a green pair of shoes, but then i give you the impression of yellow-ish sodium vapor lighting... then you will likely regard the sho...

re-reading this thread, i am more this time struck now by the idea of applying oneself to leveraging rapid advancement. I mean, I've done stuff like that in the past, but it's just right now striking me as particularly insightful. also the part about reaching lofty goals before we die of old age... ...

I think the comment about the dots might have been for me, since i abuse the hell out of dots... but for the life of me, i can't recall what i might have posted. anyway, when it comes to drawing connections like there's 10 spheres in the kab, and 10 dimensions in m-theory... i mean... that's so wild...

"perception" does not require doing anything TO you per se. The only thing being done TO you, is comments which let you know you've been observed. In this sense, it's harmless aside from the privacy concern. That said, there are likely some connections... If you break off all communication...

Erzabet Bathory did some pretty classically graphic dark magick. Although things didn't go that well for her in the end. I guess most define 'unhealthy' magick as any which involves truly harmful things in it's ritual, or in it's effect (or both). I think Bathory's murdering of 600-700 people was so...

Dear all, I'd like to know the differences in objectives and type of practices (Theoretical vs. practical ) (strategic vs. tactical) between ceremonial magick, chaos magick, and hermeticism. Thanks. There are numerous approaches to categorizing, grouping, and labeling magical practice methods and i...

May i submit that while the idea of "doing, not thinking" and the idea of avoiding being a reactionary simpleton, may SEEM contradictory, there are multiple levels of consciousness... I think the "doing, not thinking" speaks more to something along the lines of 'mushin' no mind, ...

Aside from all the spooky fear mongering that a lot of people put on darkness... absolute void is actually a truly excellent mirror, reflecting the formless self. no idea if this is in any way helpful to your query though. In my experience, among entities, ones which possess an object (like his bone...

gnothi se auton and to know thyself, you must first amputate all sense of fear, and judgement. accept and embrace all that you find within. only then will you penetrate deeply within, and be able to approach the whole. There will be dichotomies, allow them. the paradox is that you cannot accept the ...

Frater U.: D.: is pretty good.

I think the problem is that we lack the fundamentals. When we go from walking to taking a train... a critical step is to have Tools... but i don't think a ritual robe or a candle or a symbol, etc. are really Tools in the literal sense that we need. what we need are tools that impact the etheral real...

Nope, nothing really matters a whole lot. Even the idea of something 'mattering' is a "beholder's viewpoint" sort of idea, it's placing value or the lack thereof on things which *really* have no value, until we make it so by way of audience. I did draw the attention of an infinite consciou...

What is it that drives you to study? I could probably list a lot of reasons, but really if i want to express the original core of it all... It's like an itch I can't scratch. I have this 'feeling' of "almost remembering" something very important, like it's on the tip of my tongue, but jus...

short answer: "all the way down" long answer: actually the long answer would be about a hundred lengthy discussions focusing on the deconstruction of the paradigms which your human experience has impaled your psyche with. So yeah, just "all the way down". If that sounds ominous, ...

Defining love would be enormously problematic. I'd argue that the term really describes about a dozen or more wildly different emotions. Most of which are delusional or ill advised. I'm a fan of "compassion", and of unconditional positive regard (like a familial or parental love, or the lo...

I'd probably qualify as a spiritual atheist. I know a divine being very intimately, but her nature, and the nature of our relationship is so far from any religious concept of deities, or deity/human interaction that I may as well be classified as atheist, as an organized religion would define theism...

Have you ever walked into a Baskin Robins and stood on the counter and asked the people there to rape you with ice cream?
Cuz that's exactly how you sound.

Our rights include the right to not do anything with them.
There's no implicit guilt to be had.