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Bybyots
reply to post by 1ofthe9
Drug use/ritual sex?
Are you serious? I'm really asking; if you don't want to talk about it, I understand, not everyone is interested in this stuff.
Also, we have been easily throwing UFOs, World Mythology, Folklore, and shady government black-projects together willy-nilly for some 79 pages (over 1580 posts) of this thread and you draw the line when it comes to any correlation between the occult and the CS at Honorius and Albertus Magnus.
Okay, grimoires are off the table.
P.S. C'mon 1ofthe9, you've been a strong participant in these threads, is that your final answer: drugs and ritual sex?edit on 4-3-2014 by Bybyots because: . : .
...then the 'occult' lineage of all that we are discussing is fairly well defined and a well-worn path.
...nor do I have the means to really attempt replication of the Babylon Working or anything.
Bybyots
reply to post by 1ofthe9
1ofthe9,
You don't have to be initiated in to anything to realize that Crowley demands the attention that he does because he put the blood, sweat, tears, and especially the hours in to reading, writing and arithmetic, pretty much in that order.
Bybyots
The only thing that I am in consensus with is that it is a well worn path to publication*.
Unless you infer that the history of the occult/paranormal is all hoaxing and/or self delusion for profit? In the last case, that would leave scientific materialism as your category.
...what constitutes this other intelligence that Vallee hypothesizes attempts to rearrange our consciousness/society?
Bybyots
reply to post by The GUT
Unless you infer that the history of the occult/paranormal is all hoaxing and/or self delusion for profit? In the last case, that would leave scientific materialism as your category.
Not at all, what I am saying is that it is all writing. The best of it is writing based on a lot of reading and studying.
There are plenty of hoaxes, literary hoaxing is an art form that some types can't resit attempting, like Michael Chrichton with Eater's of The Dead and of course Levenda's Necronomicon. I have been led to believe at times that Crowley's Book of The Law was his own contribution to the tradition. *Oh, I almost forgot, all of the foundational texts of the Theosophical Society are texts that were feverishly driven to publication by whatever need it is that some possesses some authors to possess the minds of their readership.
And it is competition, as much as folks don't want to hear it sometimes, author's and journalists get very competitive, and if you look at the era, Crowley was writing against literary foes, that's what drives the boutique-y little self-published limited editions: vanity and competitive drive. Not Aiwass.
But in the end it is all just a heap of writing.
Crowley cut out his chunk of the dance floor by writing it in to existence. The interface is the writing itself. That's what Tlön is about.
edit on 5-3-2014 by Bybyots because: *
Can the interface be accomplished solo, or do you have to gently induce it into the noosphere?
Also whats wrong with replication?
Bybyots
Deconstruction is not gentle. We need to remove variables, not add to the complexity. Like the Simon Necronomicon, despite the pretty Path Walker blogs, we can remove the Simon Nec, all of it's derivatives and all of Grant's Qlipphotic-tunnel crap and toss the carcass right in the trash while retaining the golden nugget of whatever the heck one might learn from all that.
Unfortunately, the writers that got us to where we are have to be devoured to provide the energy to move forward. But do not pity them, it is their destiny to die in this way...
We want to kick the Pantomime CS in the nuts, not tickle it in to a replay so that we can compare notes with Bashar or the Cassiopeia crowd.
(7) No solution will be found by mediocre, amateurish research.
Are you saying that there isn't any sort of control system and/or non-human intelligence at work in the phenomenon---only the persuasive writings of the self-deluded and/or conmen?
Can you dumb that down?
Strieber says those techniques work...
Christmas is coming, and with it the 17th anniversary of my close encounter experience of December 26, 1985.
digitalseance.wordpress.com...
"Then came the close encounter. In January, I went to William Segal and described the experience to him. He said, “fifteen minutes with them, fifteen years of meditation.” (Me: What a load of malarcky!!) I could not have agreed with him more. Even while I was with the visitors on that night, so lost in fear that my first title for Communion was to be Body Terror, I knew from the way they moved and acted that they were, in the context of Gurdjieff’s theories, ‘awake.’"
Same link
If you meditate in the manner prescribed by him, (Gurdjieff didn’t this as meditation. ed) dividing your attention between inner and outer life—forming what he called the ‘double arrow’ of attention—you become able to see when others are doing this as well. (This is Strieber’s assertion and distortion and not part of the Gurdjieff teaching – ed).
Same link
"I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate... 'Whitley' ceased to exist. What was left was a body and a state of raw fear so great that it swept about me like a thick, suffocating curtain, turning paralysis into a condition that seemed close to death...I died and a wild animal appeared in my place."
-Whitley Strieber, "Communion"
...and Streiber has some kind of weird connection with Vallee.
"The 'medical examination' to which abductees are said to be subjected, often accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation, is reminiscient of the medieval tales of encounters with demons. It makes no sense in a sophisticated or technical framework: any intelligent being equipped with the scientific marvels that UFOs possess would be in a position to achieve any of these alleged scientific objectives in a shorter time and with fewer risks."
-Dr. Jacques Vallee, "Confrontations"
"These entities are clever enough to make Strieber think they care about him.
Yet his torment by them never ceases. Whatever his relationship to the entities, and he increasingly concludes that their involvement with him is something 'good,' he also remains terrified of them and uncertain as to what they are."
-John Ankerberg, "The Facts on UFOs and Other Supernatural Phenomena"
"I felt an absolutely indescribable sense of menace. It was hell on earth to be there in the presence of the entities, and yet I couldn't move, couldn't cry out, couldn't get away. I'd lay as still as death, suffering inner agonies.
Whatever was there seemed so monstrously ugly, so filthy and dark and sinister. Of course they were demons. They had to be. And they were here and I couldn't get away."
-Whitley Strieber, "Transformation"
Now is this because there is an occult connection, or is it because that is what has been written...