The Matter and Semantic of Spirits.
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@Uni_Verse said
"Hm, while reading over some of the replies, I did a bit of thinking:
There what the spirit/spirits are no only changes with the system but also at one point a person is in that system.At the outset of a persons spiritual journey, for all intents and purposes, spirits existed outside the person.
Rather, they are outside a persons conscious awareness and control (though, perhaps they may be directed - but that is a slight divergence from my point).
As a person progresses, becomes aware, integrates those entities into their consciousness, for all intents and purposes they become a part of them in whatever fashion suits the spirit(s) in question.This may make it detrimental to hammering out a definitive empirical placement.
As the Adept who says "they are part of me" might confuse and hamper a Neophytes process of developing awareness with the goal of integration.Anywho, I hope I did not add to the confusion."
no thank you this is very insightful indeed! it does make the territory more complex, because this would suggest that perhaps spirits are no more than a component of our psyche to begin with to have such a feature.
For example, in my most recent explorations, the world of Vegatalismo from the Amazon. The most common practice amongst the vegatalistas is the 'dieta', where one goes into isolation and drinks, consumes a particular master plant mixture (non hallucinogenic) for a period of time. The process is very alchemical - the practitioner literally has to break down the cells in the body by consuming very little food and what food they consume is bland and devoid of salts, sugars, etc etc. During this process, the 'master teacher' , that particular plant spirit, comes to literally reside in the cells of the body, and is indeed apart of the practitioner physically, and then the practitioner can call on that spirit through an icaro and have the 'powers' of that particular spirit come to aid him/her. So spirits in this manner of a quite distinct order of being if they can be present to multiple people at different locations at once! I hope this does not come off as trite.
Also, as Jim said that the plant spirits of the amazon would be the same as the plant spirits of shinto or the amazon as they would in the west, I am still not convinced they are. I believe there would be some cross over, but the plant spirits of the amazon appear to have many of the same abilities as angels or higher order beings in western magick.
Also, interesting enough, in the amazon there has been much convergence with this practice and outside religion, such as christianity. However, there are many traditions down there that have fused with Rosicrusianism, and blend european esoteric traditions. Indeed, a few shamans claim to use ayahuasca to call in 'the european doctors' as they are called into the room! This is a matter of great interest to me.
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double post again, sorry I am in formatting hell.
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@Frater Potater said
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@ldfriend56 said
" Is it only measurable through our ideas and concepts (creating abstractions) about it?"This is the real tricky part.... because the mind is so easily deceived. On top of that, you have everyones conflicting ideas and abstractions competing with each other, and forming into dogmas."
oh yes exactly - and this is what makes the process entirely subjective. Which is how it has become that I want to remodel all of this in as objective as a form as possible.
Take ideas (there does not seem to be much interest here in addressing the relationship between ideas and spirits, but I'm hoping a few will chime in) and even dreams. We all experience ideas and most have dreams, so although the experience of ideas is quite subjective, the fact that we all share some experiential information in common that we refer to as 'ideas' is objective - so relating 'spirits' to ideas seems like a nice foundation to begin.
thoughts here?
My previous comment: How I interpret this so far, and please if anyone can chime in and make a correction if I am veering or straying to far. Under the circumstances Jim explained quite eloquently. Empirically, we can accept that human beings have access to information that, at present time, does not appear to have any physically measurable component. This information can take the form in experience as thoughts, feelings, concepts, ideas, abstractions, but it can also take the form of an 'other' such as Spirits, Gods, angels etc. Ancient philosophies from antiquity suggest that the realm of the physical, which is simply 'content' in the realm of phenomenology (1st person experience) - share a 'mother' substance in common with all non- physical substance. This substance (SPIRIT singular and proper?) is not measurable and not accessible in the world of the measurable senses - so to even begin the pursuit of discovering empirically this substance in measurable form may be impossible.
" I'm wondering what the actual value of this "information" is. What do we get from the experiences if we can't confirm or substantiate anything?"
If we cannot substantiate any information we receive from * heightened personal experience* (a broader term which includes dreams, meditations, visions, communication with other intelligences) through experimentation, trial and practice in practical every day life, then of course it's value objectively is close to zero I imagine.
Consider; how is this not any different from information we receive from the pure experience of having 'ah-ha!'s? Ideas, the experiences therein, also deliver information that is not yet substantiated. The world of the sciences also receives this conundrum that is also rooted in personal experience epistemologically speaking.
How we substantiate any information naturally would make quite a difference I imagine. Human Intelligence appears to me to play a role here, regardless of the truth value of the sources of experience, is that Human Being appears to, objectively speaking that is, be a moderator of information - we naturally organize any information by it's truth value (relational to our points of view, and thelemically, we could even say 'Wills'.) If spirits do or not exist objectively, this is still true either way. If Spirits are true, however, it also may suggest a wider relationship our quality of sentience plays in the universe, which can tell us something about the universe we objectively inhabit. That's another way of looking where I am at in my broader view.
I sort of fumbled the formatting in this post so I am going to address the rest of your post in the next reply.
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Frater Potater says.
"Is there a reason to believe in spirits, or is magic (without a k) just another faith based religion that doesn't give us any answers beyond a feeling of inner certainty?"
back to moderating information. From my POV, it's best to moderate some information by keeping it in the unknown or mystery and allowing the mystery to occupy the truth value until we can determine what is useful and what is not useful. I believe the responsibility to determine this rests squarely on the individual. - Any ideas that suggest an order to our lives also face this same issue though, right? Even academia and science. If you want to see what faith based frenzy material models of science can also invoke, have a trip over to reddit.com/r/atheism
"If these things are substantial, than where do we begin to study spiritual phenomena in an empirical sense? Is it neurological, is it psychosomatic, etc.?"
I believe at this time that it is through the study and listing of ideas as a dynamic and key component of first person experience, and finding what sort of information ideas and spirits share in common. Ideas too are a huge unknown neurologically, we still have not found an 'idea'. Funny that the thing that unites all of us about this strange phenomenon is that we all experience them and that is what we collectively hold to be objectively true.
Here is where i am sure thee is broad agreement on this forum
Bodies are physical and measurable. Ideas and spirits are not measurable and non physical.
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We all experience consciousness in a body.
It's a faulty instrument though. All we can do is hope to train the mind so that it presents us with the purest form of "idea, concept, abstraction, etc." that is available."
absolutely agreed!
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double post, sorry!
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@OldFriend said
"I said: Imagine my map is for someone who has no experience in such matters, is cosmologically agnostic (potentially even atheist), and needs a map that can provide them an overview of what they can experience (i.e. thoughts, ideas, feelings) and expand upon those experiences (spirits, subtle energies, healings, etc) while providing an empirical overview of the relationship of consciousness to the content to which it perceives.
"I'm sorry. I got nothing for ya.
But if what you really want is what's written above and nothing more, what prevents you from going ahead and creating such a map? If the map is intended to be entirely empirical and suited to the agnostic/atheist, with categories that do not require other esoteric experiences or knowledge, then what do you require that you cannot provide yourself?
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@Bereshith said
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But if what you really want is what's written above and nothing more, what prevents you from going ahead and creating such a map? If the map is intended to be entirely empirical and suited to the agnostic/atheist, with categories that do not require other esoteric experiences or knowledge, then what do you require that you cannot provide yourself?"I've had a little bit of an ah-ha from these discussions, something that helps me clarify my query. It's more to do with the distinctions of the experience that spirits can take. Jim mentioned in any early post that contacting spirits is easy and we do it all the time, all we need to do is get a little punch drunk and viola. So this suggests that the experience with spirits does not mean one is having an experience of spirits.
So what are the variations of the experiences of 'spirits'? I'm going to meditate on this one.
That is the question and thank you all for helping me understand my query better.
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@ldfriend56 said
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really? I'm interested more here - it's been years and years since I played with the tree, and my understanding probably needs an update, but what is the tree if not a map to place our experiences of the subtle realms? it's those subtle realms that I am defining as 'esoteric'.
"I would say your understanding requires an update....
The tree is not a map to place our experiences of the subtle realms.
It is a map to place our EXPERIENCES. (<- note the period
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"I would say your understanding requires an update....
The tree is not a map to place our experiences of the subtle realms.
It is a map to place our EXPERIENCES. (<- note the period )."Malkuth - physical results, sounds, materializations
Yesod - Visions, dreams
Hod - scientific knowledge, ideas
Netzach - desiresehhh... I'd have to start thinking harder to go further up, but maybe you get the idea.
But if you resist the format because it requires extra knowledge on the part of the intended audience or the tacit acceptance by them of occult philosophy, then you gotta make that part yourself based on something you think that they would or could accept.
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@Bereshith said
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Malkuth - physical results, sounds, materializations
Yesod - Visions, dreams
Hod - scientific knowledge, ideas
Netzach - desires"
Just as one might propose this map of how humans experience, it can be also used to map out a particular experience.
Take, for example, a personal favorite of mine : geometry.
0/1 - Point / Circle or Circle / Point
2 - Line
3 - Area (Shape)
4 - VolumePerhaps "organization tool" would be a better description than "map."
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Or as a map of human consciousness it's looked at from the bottom up.
Malkuth: I am a man of earth and flesh. I know my body. I understand the need to work. I feel hunger and cold and heat and all these things. Perhaps that is all there is?
followed by
Yesod: I believe this is how the world works. Someone or something seems to be behind it all. There's a great deal that seems invisible about it, how fascinating.
balanced with
Hod & Netzach
Hod: These are the rules behind this seeming order I perceive. Cause leads to effect. If I do this, I have come to expect that. 1+1=2. Blue is a good color to wear when I want to influence people in a positive, beneficiary way.
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Netzach: I have these feelings about all this. One seems to follow the other, and my emotional rate is quite palpable and comparative to what else is around me. I also have a sense that the conditions of others and their emotions, these things seem directly influential as well. Even inanimate things now have personality!and so on up the Tree.
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Your physical and aethyrial dimensions also change and evolve as these thoughts evolve, going up the tree.
Here, viewing the universe at Malkuth, we are not even Ishim yet, or individual, balanced souls of flame. Our bodies will eventually be tossed, turned, pulled, and pushed through the divine Fire to become these Ishim.
This is all a very lengthy process that one might grasp if one is having problems feeling out their own personal definition of the Tree in their mind.
After humans, elves, and finally Ishim, we are expected to climb the tree, (and have to, by ALL means, unless you wish to fall down and down into the dusk of death and become at best a black brother, at worst a weak one.)
So there's not just integrating experience of the other sephiroth in mind, emotion and body here at Malkuth, but the mountain of Abeignus we must climb certainly takes the form of the sephiroth and paths of the Tree.
Kerubs, what we will become after climbing to Yesod, are described almost erroneously in the old testament as having four wings. Later on in the bible, I forget exactly where but Revelations is one of the places, Kerubim are described as having six wings, just like the Seraphim.
If a visionary, (
), prophet in the old testament, probably "eating the grass of the Arabs", and "Manna," had a dimension of the universe hidden from him for his own psychological protection, you can imagine the games we animals play to keep the truth of the Tree and all that goes with it from blasting us with that Divine Light.The man needs a dose of what Nuit has strangely to offer.
Of course I mean Love, balance, and a circumference view of the Universe as a whole. Love must be kept in the mind as the reason for doing anything and everything, being the Law of the Universe. -
I love Pie.
Have not checked out Lloyd Pie though, Miss Dara.
From what I can gather at a first glance is he is one of the chosen to release information to those who wish to know more. Now, we must remember the divine patterns of this when contemplating:
For David Icke, and many like him, are "placed" where they are by those who control information. However, many things I have read by him corroborate with my experiences.
[I used to be obsessed with "aliens" when I was younger, mainly because they entered my room at night when I was very young, dragged me out of my bed, into flying machines, tied me down on metallic chairs and tables, and did their little theatrical dance of "fear" in front of me to try to help me coordinate myself while in the most agonizing, terrible fear. Physically, the "greys" are future versions of ourselves from a f@!ked tangent where we tried to take over the power of the Sun with technology.
They come back in time to try to correct this mistake, they themselves trapped in a place where they are forced to collect genetic "life material" from us, their past selves, in order to survive. So no more meat, no more veggies, just fluids from humans and cows. Every once in awhile, a farmer military personnel will find a completely drained human in areas close to White Sands and whatnot, letting those who know, know that they are uncontrollably persistent in "survival", and that they will probably go very far to do so. A warning.
Since then, I have come to the realization that they are illusory aspects of ourselves that we must try to balance with these strange drugs, meditation, Magick and Kabbala.]Honestly, I stopped watching these kind of things years ago, however I still watch or read something like this once in awhile to let myself know how far I have come from my fear of the unknown.
(They scared me so bad as a child I could not sleep in my own room until I was six or seven. My dad, ironically, has had plenty of experiences, was the lead investigator for MUFON in our state, but when I identified pictures of greys as the reason I could not sleep in my room, he only responded with, "Oh, you're just having nightmares. Just forget about it." Making me feel completely alone in the predicament.Interesting story, when I was seventeen, I ate lysergic acid diethylamide for the second time, this time combining it with cannabis, and the first vision I had, unexpectedly, was an entire legion of greys, billions of them, all around me, which might have made me void my bowels if not on the acid, for I took one good scary look around, got bored of them, rose above them, the vision of them dropping off and disappearing. I have not had fear of them since that amazing night.
Star-f#!ked is a word I came up with that night to describe my state of being.
I note that your reply was number 93.
I bid thee a fair day, Miss Dara.
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Well Dara, from what I can gather there are many greys in the Universe. And yes, after the huge technological/nuclear fkup, they needed the Annunaki to hook up their genetics right, in order to survive. Happens to a lot of species, including us.
A huge revelation if you would be interested, Miss Dara, the Annunaki are just "future" versions of greys that are a part of an even bigger disaster, though they have some leverage in Creation. They fixed their own genes, if you catch me.
This ties directly into the theory that when people eat animals, they eat another being's body, another soul's physical incarnation. When people eat plants, they are just eating a part of themselves that their souls are connected directly to.
It's really just divinity's way of slowing down the process of creation so we can catch up. What's wrong with a "lesser", slave future version of yourself burning up as long as you are made to survive by it. Everything is enveloped by fire to evolve, nature is trying to take it easy on us.
From all else I can gather, the greys from zeta reticuli used to be like us, ended up making millions of planets of their past selves to devour, took way too much advantage of nature's leeway, and lost their connection to "regular" incarnation, no genetic material to eat, just gradually falling deeper in space where the fire will eventually devour them.
"We", as Earthlings, still have a chance to turn this horrible catastrophe around, and our current social and magical resonance proves this. We can certainly feel some uncertain disaster in the works of the future, however we can feel the Great Work, and it's divine power of evolution well above what we, as Earthlings, would consider catastrophic.
Now you've got me commenting on pure illusion.
Love Is the Law, Love under Will
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It has been a very interesting afternoon for myself, to say the least. I have not thought about this subject matter in a while.
I do appreciate your wit, wisdom and knowledge, and must thank you for the opportunity to remember and talk of these silly things I used to have unsure thoughts about.
We must remember the underlying theme to everything. There's no such thing as reptilians, greys, horse-people, or even human beings. Just a lot of confused spirits learning to coordinate themselves at this level after bidding themselves to forget what true existence was like as a Holy Guardian Angel.
Thank you, Miss Dar.
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@ThelemicMage said
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We must remember the underlying theme to everything. There's no such thing as reptilians, greys, horse-people, or even human beings. Just a lot of confused spirits learning to coordinate themselves at this level after bidding themselves to forget what true existence was like as a Holy Guardian Angel. "That one's not said enough! Amen and amen and amen.
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The same can be said of "ghosts" in this realm that do not realize they are dead.
Some wander aimlessly in the cold, dark, windy after-death realm. Some hallucinate in constant illusion, continuing the work or life they led before they died.
There is a light, "in", or just past the after-death realm. Some "psychics" and movies like Poltergeist would lead us to believe that this light is "heaven", "paradise", or "home". One would certainly see a connection to "home", since after reincarnation, one is in the home of the soft, warm, pink womb.
Charging into the unknown into that great Light after death brings one to the forty nine days of the great journey of death-into-life. This is the reason that Catholics think it takes 49 days for a fetus to get a "soul". This is also the reason that DMT shows up in the mouth of the fetus forty nine days after conception, gradually moving up to where it forms the pineal gland. Basically, your soul sung it's great Song of Life into it's next incarnation, Light itself is sung. (One might try DMT if it is one's will to fathom singing light.)
"Here we have a series of Oneness, expressed in manifold beauty."
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Not like I intend to comment on illusion again, fair Dara, but I would like to throw this linear "map" your way:
Humans, first level evolved animals that can talk, walk on two legs, reason with enhanced capacity, etc. (Not that many animals don't have reasoning capacity well beyond most human beings.)
Greys, "future" humans who screwed up by firing a huge nuclear laser around the sun to try to gain it's power. Survive on genetic material of humans.
Annunaki, reptilian aliens just above the level of greys, that can actually incarnate themselves into human bodies. I'll let you in on a huge deal, Miss Darr. The annunaki are reptilian because of the huge deal with Fire, if you catch me. Fire, seraphim, reptilian flying fiery creatures, you catch me. You are correct on your assumption of evolution of Annunaki. They will eventually evolve into what a human would term as seraphim. (However one must not directly map this idea with the Geburah sephira seraphim.)
Now, Annunaki eat a substance a human might term as "space fluid". This "fluid" is a combination of many levels of greys that have fallen into the fire and their energy, (for god sakes it can't be that horrible can it?), is eaten up by the Annunaki. The universal cloak and joke on this is that the Annunaki are just devouring "lower" levels of themselves like this, making it even harder for them to evolve properly, though they need this "fluid" to survive.
That's the open idea on this. One might say that any creature can evolve past what they are and do so with help of divine intervention, (HGA, Federation of Planets, etc, Angels, etc.) if it is worth the weight of the Universe(s).
We must not forget, that there are levels above Annunaki that feed on the evolving/burning Annunaki, (being just "future" versions of themselves as well.) However, as you've noted, Annunaki are closer to humans in a flowing genetic way than any other kind of "space fluid" devouring/related alien. This is what gives them their leverage in creation.
Now this excludes all races of the Light like the Antari, Andromedan, Pleiadian, Sirian, and Arcturian races. These are all helpful races of beings from our own Universe that can be called on for help at any time. They help with genetic "implant" activation, crystal/electromagnetic balancing/communication, etc.
The beings in the previous paragraph do not have anything to do with rigging up horrible space-fluid hierarchies of hell where they feed of themselves.
And to think, the only aliens known to the general population are greys and annunaki.
I feel like I should dose water supplies with some of Nuit's gifts that have never killed anyone. (Does not include CIA hurling people out of windows after dosing them.) But that is a dream that will go unrealized for now.
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"Not like I intend to comment on illusion again, fair Dara, but I would like to throw this linear "map" your way:"
Please take everything in the proper context.
This thread *is *about spirits, their matters and schemantics, if I am not mistaken. This pattern connects with our current conversation.
This is "serious" conversation here. Some people.
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Now, I've certainly dipped my toes in the not-immediately-explainable, but they've apparently not deemed me interesting enough for a civil conversation; just playful little nudges that my rational mind has trouble scoffing at.
Though, on the subject of spirits, I've known many-a practitioner to at least partially believe the "Enochian" entities to be aliens of some sort, the sort that would kill off most of the Earth's population in a series of catastrophes so the elite remainder would be more easily controlled. These thoughts are no fun, so I don't waste my time having them. I just keep trying to remind myself that love is the Law, and continue my life as if there's at least a semblance of sanity.
You're right about needing to confront fear; fear is a mind killa!!