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From the traditionalist perspective, I think it's basically the opening of the psyche without opening to spirit.

It's getting distracted by lucid dreaming, Astral projection, channeling, and entities, etc. You get a bigger reality, but it's so new and cool you're too distracted to inquire into the nature of reality.

There's more territory to romp around in, but you don't necessarily get any of the wisdom. Of course you can be enlightened and have those abilities too, but that's why Buddhism has all those warnings about powers.

From external appearances it can look quite spiritual to other uninitiated, which is the danger of it.

I believe that's how Guenon sees it at least.

I also take it to mean spiritual materialism, and other paths that don't lead to awakening but claim to.

It's those nauseating New Age, enlightened egos. It's Sam Harris's book Waking Up and Daniel Ingram's Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha. It's Scientology.

OP, have you read "Operator's and Thing's" ? It's an account of a woman who develops schizophrenia but eventually cures herself. (Her schizophrenia helps cure her, its remarkable) It's a fascinating little book, reads like some sort of 50s sci fi but really gives you insight into the workings of a schizophrenic mind.

It seems schizophrenic patients going back hundreds of years describe this machine, just using technology of the time to describe it. Truthfully, the book I mentioned made me feel like schizophrenia isn't just a mental illness, even though the author is going for that approach.. I really feel like they were getting a glimpse into the underlying mechanisms of reality or our mind but filtering it through their cultural lens.

Here is an Amazon link but there are .pdf's easily findable.

Oh, so you have a problem with the Church, not Christianity. So, you are a True Christian^TM :-). Have you seen /r/RadicalChristianity?

Yeah, my parents don't know the first thing about actual Christianity (they're atheists), they just have a Richard-Dawkins-esque caricature of it.

What is this about Flavius Josephus? I am not well-read in Christianity at all so I don't know the significance of Paul being a pseudonym. My reading of Jesus is also that he was a master sorcerer, which is why he was such a threat to power.

Ranciere doesn't have one specific book on ethics; most of his books are about critical ethical philosophy. A good place to start is The Ignorant Schoolmaster. Then maybe The Politics of Aesthetics or the Emancipated Spectator, or whatever jumps out at you. There's also a great short article about him called "Aesthetics and Politics Revisited: An Interview with Jacques Rancière." Here: I'll just give you my folder of his stuff (found from libgen.org. You can download them from my google drive with File-->Download). Ranciere's analysis of ethics and democracy is mindblowing and eyeopening. I cannot condone categorizing people in any way (even as people!) because every thing is completely unique and irreplaceable. He's extreme white magic, and Nick Land is extreme black magic, and both have similar views on what the reality of the situation is regarding oppression (although Ranciere would prefer to not use the concept/lens at all, and Nick Land glorifies it).

Nice distinction between differentiation and dialectical differentiation. Definitely, schisming is the root of all evil. This is the issue with all illuminati narratives: they are in-group/out-group dehumanizations of the Other, just tribal thinking.

The level of agreement and communication on this subreddit is quite incredible.

For short stories:

Ted Chiang's Understand and Exhalation which are both just excellent.

Weird, where did my comment go? Anyway I said thank you for the translation, it opened a portal in my living room, and your words on abstraction are very helpful.

Here's a link to the Chuang Tzu book. Man I hate scribd, it's a parasite making money off of others' works.

Just a heads up: Curtis is excellent at what he does, but he does have an agenda. He is very closely affiliated with the LM Group. If you have no idea what that is, go here.

> opposing social network

I've looked into that. I understand the concern about Facebook and all that, but the bottom line is that my subjective use of Facebook outweights that objective concerns for me. It's an easy way for me to keep touch with real life people that I never see in real life. Yes, it's just an image but there's still a human intelligent behind it.

For examples of what alt internet-based social network might look, there's ello and diaspora*. I really like the idea of diaspora but it's a bit of drag trying to find like-minded people or people you know because it's still small.

I really like Ranciere because he redefines language in really thought-leveraging ways. Good critical theory is inspiring, radically changes your viewpoint, and contains useful tools and weapons to actually do something about the problems raised. [Here is my collection of Ranciere texts](https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bz4MYv32sIrfSU9UWjRLbGJuVTA&usp=sharing] if you're interested.

I'd be very interested to hear about your phenomenological take on occultism. You should post about it here sometime! "Phenomenological occultism" or something. I think occultism made me into a phenomenologist; at first I was like "SCIENCE! says this CAN'T BE TRUE so it must be FICTION OR DELUSION." But then the more accounts I read the more I was forced to accept that people at least BELIEVED they were having these experiences, then they they must be actually EXPERIENCING them, even if they were delusion. As I kept reading, the accounts started to fit together, until I was forced to accept that these experiences were real and had a certain meaning and usual way of occurring.

Yes, it's an incredible introduction to Whitehead that simultaneously updates him into modern relevance, especially in relation to Deleuze.

Apparently Hubbard mentions AK in some of his early lectures, I'm not suprised to see a connection there because it seems like he's influential among a lot of other folks inventing their own systemz around that time. I know that GS influenced Albert Ellis a lot when he made Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and the NLP guys took a lot from it too. Bucky Fuller, William Burroughs, Robert Anton Wilson, Alan Watts, Abraham Maslow, Robert Heinlein, Neil Postman, and Anatol Rappoport were also all into Korzybski. It's taking me a long time to work through it but I got a copy of Science & Sanity I'm about halfway through and I'm enjoying it a lot even though most of it is going over my head.

I have no idea what any of this xenolinguistic stuff is can you point me in a couple directions? I'm drowning in new music and reading material (even more since I found this place) but I am planning on doing a medical study soon which will put me in lockdown for 30 days and I'm planning to read the whole time. I have this book in my wishlist on amazon for a while, is it any good?

One small thing that's kept me grounded is this app called The Stoic. I was a fan of Epictetus and some of the classical philosophers that he influenced before discovering the app. Having the occasional reminder to keep looking inward has done wonders for facing the mundane.

Among some other more well-known examples, Andreas Rethy tried to do something similar to this. Unfortunately I have not been able to find any second-hand literature on this or any other mention of his project outside of this document.

" Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146"

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche#Human.2C_All_Too_Human_.281878.29

I think there is something to this definitely, though myself ive had trouble really connecting with this kinda stuff, probably due to lack of focus and followthrough. I have quite a few books closely related, one of them The Revolutionary Trauma Release Process by David Bercell. It seemed pretty neat, and it does feel correct but I cant help to think it might be better as you say to actively be trying to bring up memories and follow feelings as one does this sort of exercise..

The other thing I wanted to say is try a Candida diet, or a super clean (low carb (brown rice, quinoa), high green) diet for a couple weeks and likely watch in amazement as not only you realize you have severe sugar cravings, but once youre over it, other addictive behaviors tend to follow suit or seem more distant of a problem

Should you ever decide you don't want to be a defeatist victim anymore, I recommend this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Hero-Mission-Path-Meaningful-Life/dp/1400226945

It has helped many self-described losers I know.

> Mob rule is the entlechy of "natural hierarchy" it seems.

Hmm:

> a realization or actuality as opposed to a potentiality. > > http://www.dictionary.com/browse/entelechy

If I have the right word, then no, I cannot agree. Mob rule is not the actualization of natural hierarchy, but its antithesis.

Why link this short review (on a website which has some very distasteful people), instead of just linking the paper itself? Here:

https://www.academia.edu/422874/Space_is_the_Non_Place_Martians_Marxists_and_the_Outer_Space_of_the_Radical_Imagination

Just to make sure I wasn’t totally bs-ing I googled Girard and gnosticism and found this

> No it's a modality, a peculiar taxonomy that is in contrast to ideogramic, pictographic, hieroglyphic etc. it means words were broken down into their simplest possible sound symbols as opposed to another relational matrix.

Think i may have found where some of this idea, at least the first part, comes from :) https://www.academia.edu/5773803/M._Mc_Luhan_-_Myth_and_Mass_Media

I know this post is old, but I just wanted to say that I enjoyed it as well as some of your other posts that I've come across on this subreddit, zummi.

Have you ever read The Trickster and The Paranormal by George P Hansen? Highly recommended.

Some of these talks on Laruelle - the key figure in NP - may be of interest to you, particularly where it intersects with the mystical and the esoteric:

"Dark Nights of the Universe" https://archive.org/details/DarkNightsOfTheUniverseEtNoxSicutDiesIlluminabitur

Thanks! I downloaded a couple of those and I've saved the names of the other ones.

Here's the podcast. This link is relatively fast -

https://1fichier.com/?nolui2y2pu

I uploaded it to a multiupload site so the link below has the same zip uploaded to other sites

http://www.embedupload.com/?d=9FEZBYBAQ1

I do hope you reach the top I really do. Lord knows I will need a spiritual authority over fallen old me when the time comes. But you are not climbing or at the top.

You are just talking a big game at the base of the mountain.

Reality is an evolutionary process, life is an evolutionary process impressed on the evolutionary process of reality, and consciousness is an evolutionary process impressed on the evolutionary process of life impressed on the evolutionary process of reality. Finally, "evolutionary thought" is an evolutionary process of evolutionary processes impressed on the evolutionary process of reality, and consciousness is an evolutionary process impressed on the evolutionary process of life impressed on the evolutionary process of reality. This is isomorphic to meta-meta-physics. In the linked paper note that the "closure at the fourth level" corresponds to evolutionary thought, which has closure because thoughts about the evolution of evolutionary thought is itself a thought about evolution, so there is no higher level of meta to be found; "evolutionary thought" is the ultimate metagame.

The best introduction to evolutionary thought I've found is "This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution" by David Sloan Wilson.

I haven't tried ProtonVPN but it looks fine. A good VPN has multiple servers around the world, high uptime, and high download/upload speed. These are all expensive things to provide and maintain, which is why VPNs are usually paid services.

It was hard to read with all the Bible stuff and the focus is so narrow too bad more people aren’t looking at the sorcery behind the mask spectacle. Perhaps a [https://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Theory-Magic-Science-Religion/dp/0759110409](cognitive) framework might help

I'm practicing Vispassana meditation as described in the book "Mindfulness in Plain English", which uses the breath as the primary object of meditation. Right now I'm building a habit of doing it only 10 minutes a day, but every single day. Tomorrow will be my third straight week of daily practice.

https://archive.org/details/CrookFrightfulness

amazon description:

>In Crook Frightfulness, an anonymous victim, writing in the 1930s, exposes an international syndicate of mind-reading criminals who used ventriloquism to harass and intimidate him. Their relentless campaign spanned three continents and more than ten years. From Britain to New Zealand, from New Zealand to the West Indies and home again, they followed his every move, read his innermost thoughts. Wherever he turned, he was plagued by murderous stares, lewd insults and deadly threats delivered by subtle ventriloquism. Nowhere was safe, and no one would believe.

https://www.amazon.com/Crook-Frightfulness-Victim/dp/0986403504

Has anyone read this book?

Nail on head. People who have autism thrive in an environment of clear, concise structure, defined rules, and quick response from authority figures to any questions about the rules with zero implication in the answer.

Scientists are driving themselves insane to determine its cause, but I'd wager this isn't helping:

https://www.amazon.com/Train-Child-Child-Training-21st-Century/dp/1616440724

Sorry I haven't listed any articles. I can't think of any good ones off the top of my head. Honestly, from my past research, I don't remember there BEING a lot of good articles on shamanism. You're better off sticking with books for this particular subject matter, and there I do have a few recommendations.

First, start with Eliade's "Shamanism: Archaic Technique of Ecstasy." This is the guy who really galvanized the concept of "shamanism" as we understand it today.

Second, go to your Uni Library and see if they've got a copy of "The Death and Resurrection Show: From Shaman to Superstar." This is, hands down, one of the best books I've read in regards to shamanism and its emergence / practices in contemporary Western milieus. It seems to be a rare book, but hopefully even if your Uni Library doesn't have it, they can help you get your hands on it.

yeah i checked it out. I read Jung's book on ufology a long time ago but dont remember it being revelatory.

https://www.amazon.com/Flying-Saucers-Modern-Things-Skies/dp/0691018227

Here's a decent paragraph on the metaphor of abduction:

http://www.tekgnostics.com/JUNG.HTM

>The symbolism of alien abduction is very different than the old one of colonization dominating much of the nineteenth century. "Unlike metaphors of colonization that presupposes borders to be penetrated and resources to be exploited," Dean notes, "abduction operates with an understanding of the world, of reality, as amorphous and permeable." Dean adds that colonization moreover brings with it the possibility of struggle, of emancipation and independence. Abduction, however, recognizes the futility of resistance even as it points to other possible freedoms. Colonization implies an on-going process with systematic limitations. Yet abduction involves the sense that things are happening behind our backs. A great paradox is perhaps at the end of this symbolism as Dean concludes her book with the following: "To fight colonization, we take control. We don't fight abduction; we simply try to recover our memories, all the while aware that they could be false, that in our very recovery we participate in an alien plan."

I guess the abduction myth seemed to peak at Cold War anxiety. It now seems the common myth is more of surveillance, of aliens coming to watch and monitor us, though UFO culture seems to be more of a pop culture phenomenon nowadays.

>Spectacle is real and in everyone's life. I am typing on a phone. I watch Netflix, I use the Internet. That hardly means I engage in virtue signaling even if you are quick to identify coherent propositions as somehow necessarily political. Why would I care about a leftist goalkeeper or a Rightwing signal recipient? This is ridiculous. Because you are submerged in political inertia therefore everyone is?

i'm not saying you should care. i was just curious as to how you would react to that criticism. I don't care for the established rules myself.

> What are your thoughts?

I am a visual artist. I am interested in the spectacle. I find Marxism interesting but I find it repulsive as a belief system. In my own work I am interested in the possibility of meaning in illegibility, and find it fulfilling to excavate new meaning in the way the (especially global) spectacle corrupts language (of all kinds). My interest in magic mostly goes as far as its relation to art, and how art can be a form of magic.

left field question- Have you ever read The King and the Corpse?

I read a lot of campbell and some jung and kerenyi around ten years ago but abandoned that field of study as I found it too oppressively comprehensive in scope, in a way that felt disingenuous.

reading the review it seems like it might connect too many dots for my taste, but perhaps it's interesting

https://www.amazon.com/King-Corpse-Tales-Souls-Conquest/dp/069101776X

In the deep end?

..or here? (PDF available here)

ZUMMI! BUT, IT IS ALL FUCT!!!

Ebert's book is worth reading if you haven't read it already. It's probably on libgen.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Age-Catastrophe-Disaster-Humanity/dp/0786471425

Hey, you should check out this book. I think you'd be into it. He makes a pretty well researched case that it was the rise of the phonetic alphabet that began our departure from an animistic view of nature.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Spell-Sensuous-Perception-More-Than-Human/dp/0679776397

Yes. I like Stirner mainly because I think he had great vision for his era. But, I don't like, and don't believe in, radical subjective individualism, so I think he's outdated now probably. I don't like the psychologies of present day Stirnerites either because they celebrate and take comfort in degeneracy -- collapse of, traditional (family) values, dynamic hierarchies and elevating cohesive virtue. But, I personally like Stirner, he saw the breakdown of society collapsing into the subject.

Ernst Jünger took Stirner's ideas about sovereignty and developed them in his book <em>Eumeswil</em>.

EDIT: Eumeswil is on the internet in digital format too.

Actually, I was just thinking about Stirner and I can't fault him. I think the basis for the most stable metaphysics (for the West) comprises both spirit and ego, collective unconscious and subject. Stirner said spirit was a spook (God is dead) so that left just the individual ego. However, moving forward from Stirner's time, the Subject/ego has fallen apart too leaving no foundation for metaphysics at all. So, Stirner was the first of the last Western metaphysicans.

Funny. I'm looking in the same direction and i found this earlier. Havent heard of the author before but he seems like gibson meets crit theory. There has to be more besides twitter feminism.

http://www.amazon.com/Body-Drift-Butler-Haraway-Posthumanities/dp/0816679169

have you seen this?

that's definitely not my thing but I ran across it the other day doing some digging on German idealism and the romantics. Of course wilhelm Reichs "mass psychology of fascism" is probably a pretty thorough introduction to the rights appropriation of the collective unconscious. There's also a book called "the politics of myth" which may deal with this idea from the right as well but I've not read it. I find all of that shit extremely unappealing and alien. Fascism is the ultimate human disease if there can be such a thing. I think fascism requires certain perhaps physiological but nonetheless deeply innate/archetypal views on time, essence and being/meaning/purpose that thankfully I don't have. Which is why I've never understood guenon and the trads. If we go through cycles, what's the point in organizing violence against various groups which are merely simulacrum/expressions of that temporal epoch? I choose wisdom.

> the politics of myth

Are you talking about this book? I don't think any of them are anti-Semitic in the moral sense. To have moral hate would be to project the shadow, or hold what Nietzsche called ressentiment, or believe in a super-natural truth - a Platonic form i.e. split Being from Becoming. Semitic Truth has no contact with the natural realm, it is pure fantasy and totally negates life in this world. It is dishonest and falls into dualism - I am Good and you are Evil.

Abrahamic religions are alien to Indo-Europeans. Indo-European myths are all polytheistic and naturalistic. When a polytheist goes to war he knows the gods are on both sides. If he captures an enemy combatant he does not think him Evil, he sees him as a man of honour fighting for something he believes in.

I am right-wing and anti-Semitic only in the sense that it is unhealthy and not native. You can not get the moral Semitic Evil from Indo-European myths. The Jews are dishonest when it comes to religion and believe they are God's chosen people. They think women are an abomination; that is what detaches us from nature FFS. I have no time for monotheistic Abrahamic religions.

if I've not menioned this book before...

You'll likely find a fresh take on the whole Yates inspired study I the history of western occult philosophy. There is some enligtenong commentary on both Bruno and the art of memory.

Also I highly reccomend Josh Rameys "hermetic deleuze". His commentary and insight on Bruno et al is quite interesting and much of the book can be read without any background or interest in deleuze.

Let's just take this as an axiom in order to understand /r/DarkEnlightenment:

1. Only white people actually exist. Everyone else is just dressed up in a costume made by timeline desynchrony and YHVH's sick joke called life.

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