October 26, 2006
and so we round up this first phase of systematic for the people, in a nice tidy box of grandiose visionary experiences and textbook mysticism.
I’d like to leave these eight as a clear backbone for everything else. You can play around all you like, but these foundational techniques have stood the test of time. ignore at one’s own peril.
While the series will continue, I might play around a bit with some other stuff first. It would probably be worthwhile to re read some of the alchemy for the braindamaged stuff, for a nice psychological spin dry cycle, if you hadn’t already. You may find the difference interesting once you’re moving a bit more energy around with that brain of yours, to play some of the language and imagery games I present there with more fuel in the furnace.
so be carefull, y’all.
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October 21, 2006
As we come to our penultimate chapter dealing with the limbs of ‘yoga’, I have to cease my relentless browbeating and instead exhort one to love, reflection, relaxation and release from false evidence appearing real.
In so doing, the door opens to infinity, or at least some really kickass moves on the basketball court.
Peak experiences, boundry dissolution, foci for concentration, and why some things are easier to focus on than others.
as tyler durden once said; you are not special, you are the same decaying organic matter as everything else. Who knew he was referring to the fundamental unity beyond the ego?
step right in, space monkeys…
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October 17, 2006
If you’ve ever wanted to be a radiant loci of mind force, surrounded by swooning tantric initiates, drunk on the ecstacy of your own communion with primordial mind, throwing off sparks of yogic power to be harvested by the devoted and virtuous… well this is how you do that.
If you just wanna kick some ass on PS3, then this is also how you do that.
If you just wanna know how to sit still for a hour without losing your mind, you are also in luck.
It’s concentration, baby, and there is no accomplishment without concentration.
on another note, many thanks to those who took a hit so far for the donations jar. My hosting is taken care of for a few months already. you will probably notice me experimenting with some google ads on my libsyn page and in the thee tomb of horror, in the next little while, hopefully not too jarring. if you’re like me you hardly notice them by now. binding the demons of commerce is my new spiritual discipline.
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October 13, 2006
…and now for the hard stuff.
I get the dubious privelage of leveling an across the board critique of pretty much all western esotercism from the last hundred years at least.
And it’s all rooted in a simple idea: that consciousness should not be led around by the senses.
The name of the game is pratyahara, and in so playing we brush upon john lilly, the master therion, the road of excess, staring into the toilet bowl and spiritually conscious outlets for jacking off.
Yes, sometimes even I wonder where I come up with this shit, but I’m getting a thousand downloads every 6 days or so, so I must be doing something right. Thank you for your kind indulgence.
and now that I mention it, if some of ye multitudes were to wander over to my donations page and drop a few bucks, that would be swell. I’d like to quit my job now. I’d ask for worshipfull groupies, but I doubt Alaina would dig that very much, so it’s the tip jar or nothing, girls!
Off you go!
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October 8, 2006
Ok. Up until now you could probably get away with screwing around with this stuff. Even going as far as asana will make you significantly harder than most of the people in this game.
But if you start doing some of these pranayama excercises and you don’t do your homework, and you don’t lay down some preparations for a potentially rude awakening, then I take no responsibility for what happens to you.
The mental health ‘industry’ is slowly defining a category for people who fuck themselves up with practices like this, so tread carefully.
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October 5, 2006
I’m going to assume that you don’t want to be decrepit and sick, that you want to live long and stay active, that you’d like to be able to fight and win when you need to, and hold your ground in a clash of wills.
with that in mind I feel good in recommending the practice of asana. it’s not like pilates. although you ‘d probably end up with a decent six-pack anyway if you tried hard enough. magick is good for all kinds of things…
so suck it up, stand up straight, and get ready to pull your shit together.
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September 30, 2006
Say it with me: crap practice equals crap results.
So with that in mind, we strive at the outset to make sure that you take all your newly pent up energy and do something useful with it, in hopes of you not ending up some sad, crazy, burned out fucker who thought he/she was too hardcore or sophisticated to follow the rules, talking shit about all your ‘attainments’ to a bunch of neophytes who might eventually know better but probably won’t.
…inner and outer hygiene, contentment, building up heat, hitting the books, and surrendering to real power.
cleanse your jaded pallete and hook yourself up with some basic training here
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September 26, 2006
The hour is late, and the stakes are high. Time to sweep aside the cowards, flakes, basket cases and fantasists. Leave them to trade their debased currency among themselves.
There is no mystery to magick. It’s a tool for a job, and if you want to get the job done, you better turn to someone who knows how to use the tools.
If you want it done right, you turn to a professional.
What the fuck does all this mean? and does this signal the long-dreaded return of aggro drill sergeant zac?
No mysteries here. We strive for professionalism, and we align ourselves squarely with the professionals.
welcome to the system.
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