Saturday, December 19, 2009

-- It Snows on Neptune between 9 and 11 and 11 and 1 --

the powers of the sphinx
will not support you in this
such designations and mysteries
are for the uninitiated

Of Neptune we speak
the seven Princes of Light
At the top of your head
in a three-fold delight

breaking over the sword
its hot tempered seal
tliob g monons
manin od butmona

carma de zimz
niisa de tianta
luciftias peripsol
quasahi poamal

and the arrow of light
heading straight to the moon
between 9 and 11
and 11 and 1, Neptune

Let it Snow
Let it Snow

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Relativity Mind

Meaning and Belief are bound by contexts. Contexts themselves are boundless.

Allowing this form of awareness to settle in can take some time. Even though the Magician can do anything or be anything, without rules or limitations ... these powers are seemingly meaningless from the time they are granted/gained. They inevitably amount to little more than masturbation from the transcended height that allows them to be.

Relativity Mind is fully encompassed in an Integral Awareness, which allows right and wrong to exist as they are, present, and real. This is the Magnum Opus itself. It is this sense of 'The Great Work' that becomes the anchor for which meaning and belief can become real and absolute things in themselves.

Whereas meaning and belief based on a structure of cultural moors and parental habits are themselves a living and sensible karma; meaning and belief based on a transcendence (itself intimately aware of a divine Gnosis) are more purely real. Both versions of meaning and belief are bound by context, but the latter transcendence negates the duality of the 'lower' context; whereas the former karma is completely involved and subject to it.

Ken Wilber is fond of saying 'the subject of one stage (context) becomes the object of the subject of the transcendent stage (context)'. This is thoroughly correct.

For Magicians who cannot transcend, what awaits is a pointless, meaningless, Nietzschien and Existential Void. Everything is feasible because nothing that 'is' is fundamentally real. This is a precarious stage of growth to be in, and there is no guarantee that growth out of this void is going to happen within the life span. There is no anchor in reality that makes decisions different, let alone worth making in the first place. This is variously called the 'Vacuum and Dispersion of the Abyss', the Demon Choronzon, 'A Black Frater', D'aath, etc. etc.

However, the true void; beyond the dualities but yet embracing them, is the home of all sweet succor of Divine Delight, sachchidananda, and other forms of Divine Gnosis that have provided inspiration to human brains, and are the very same powers which presently caused/cause/causing the entire pageantry of involution/evolution. These Divine Gnosis', infinite and yet one, take hold of our lower parts, negate their dualities, and find their delight in the dance of Magnum Opus.

The self, the karma, has become transparent. The ego does not die, dissolve, or disappear. In fact, the ego tends to swell to more epic proportions as its sense of fear is dissolved, for the transcendent Gnosis' has never entered into the stream of time, and is more intimately the 'Self' (I-I) than any ego could be. It possesses the ego such as it is, ready or not. (This is why it is recommended for Magicians to have a psychotherapist, who can work on integrating the ego into a fuller expression of itself)

The Divine Gnosis is the thinker, doer, mover, maker, watcher, and knower of the entire knot of suffering and samsara the ego finds itself in. By transcendence, we realize we are not that in us which is afraid to die. From this position, real life decisions have a right and a wrong, and there is but one choice ... Magnum Opus, the Great and Divine Work. This is Relativity Mind.

Friday, December 4, 2009

The Perception of Form

Belief is a tool. This is the basic tenet of what is known as Chaos Magick. Its applications however, are more far reaching than one simple branch of magick. Annihilation of the Ego brings with it a sense of unreality. This unreality can become a full blown existential crisis. The common cry of 'God is Dead' captures this sentiment exactly.

Reality is unfolded by belief structures maintained by the subconscious mind in its interaction with the unconscious awareness. It is intuitively clear that these belief structures hold sway over the way in which each individual perceives their reality experience. Shared sets of fundamental belief structures, commonly referred to as culture, provide a communal experience which is fundamental to humanity. Each person however has a very unique set of experiences which color and flavor even a common set of shared beliefs.

These belief structures are maintained by the subconscious mind, and for a majority of the human race, never change. A Magician understands the nature of belief, and utilizes belief itself in order to unfold a specific experience of reality.

This is not a 'fake it till you make it' type of experience even though it may start out that way in its infancy. The subconscious mind does not readily change its program. The physical brain itself, while maintaining a changeableness known as 'neuroplasticity', is still hardwired with a neural net that will continue on its programmed course until its demise.

It is however possible to grow and maintain new neural pathways, and atrophy old ones. This process can be achieved in as little as one hundred days for an experienced practitioner. A new set of neural pathways properly initiated and maintained will literally unfold a new reality to the perceiving conscious mind. It will seem as if a magickal effect has taken place. This is the point.

Since all belief is based on perceptions, which are themselves false and dualistic, everything is permitted. I can be a Christian one day, and a Satanist 100 days later. These sets of beliefs will unfold vastly different versions of reality. Perhaps the best tool to demonstrate this to oneself, is to assimilate that which one is repelled by, and ignore that which one is attracted to. This practice taken to an extreme will reveal very simply the false and plastic nature of all belief.

For instance, if you hate Oysters, then eat oysters. If you practice this long enough, you will find yourself enjoying Oysters one day.

You may ask, what the hell is the point?

Apropos:

The brain secretes and transmits to the body the most potent and fundamentally efficient and brilliant chemicals when falling in love. Being able to fall in love at will then becomes a tool for providing a very specific and miraculous reality to the conscious perceptions.

In Maat magick, we see this notion in the romantic 'Dancing of the Mask'. Since the fundamental reality is formless and radically empty (not two and not one), we are always wearing a mask anyway. Many people have many masks and become different people in different situations. A magician wears whatever mask he feels like, based on a knowledge of what reality that will unfold. i.e. There is no mask, and there is no dancer.

A mask is a belief structure, and so is the dance. This is the Perception of Form.

Relativity however, alters the game slightly.