Initiation & the Pilgrimage of the Fool [Setting Sail] “This town don’t feel mine I’m fast to get away far I dressed you in her clothes Now drive me far away It feels good to know you’re all mine Now drive me far away I don’t care where, just far away.” ~Deftones – Be Quiet and Read More…
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Dive Manual: A Prose of Alchemy & Analytic Psychology – Chapter Three
Transpersonality: Trees of Life & Death [Shoreline] “One thing meanwhile stands firm: the real, the original, way from the whirlpool lies in heaven. With this finding, one may plunge again into the bewildering jungle of ‘earthly’ myths concerning the Waters from the Deep.” ~Giorgio de Santillana & Hertha von Dechend [Hamlet’s Mill: An Essay Investigating Read More…
Beginner’s Guide to Metaphysics – Part 6: The Mystery Initiations of Greece and Egypt
Originally posted April 15, 2016 The “Mysteries” of ancient Greece and Egypt were, in a sense, the original formation of secret societies with ancient knowledge, and were the original formation of this knowledge concentrated within family blood lines. However, this is not meant to demonize the Mystery Initiations with such an equation, but Freemasonry would Read More…
Beginner’s Guide to Metaphysics – Part 5: Gnosticism
Originally posted April 10, 2016 The keepers of the Library of Alexandria, and the upholders of the secret Mystery Initiations of Greece and Egypt (See Part 6), Gnosticism remains one of the most poignant parallels to scientific thought out of all mysticism. Deriving its concept of divinity from “gnosis,” which means knowledge, Gnosticism can very Read More…
Dive Manual: A Prose of Alchemy & Analytic Psychology – Chapter Two
From Alchemy to Psychoanalysis [Map with an ‘X’] “I’ve been crawling on my belly Clearing out what could’ve been I’ve been wallowing in my own confused And insecure delusions For a piece to cross me over Or a word to guide me in I wanna feel the changes coming down I wanna know what I’ve Read More…
Beginner’s Guide to Metaphysics – Part 4: Abrahamic Mysticism – Catholicism, Kabbalah and Islam
Originally posted April 1, 2016 Abrahamic Mysticism consists primarily of the metaphysics of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. While these religions today are heavily used throughout society with little incorporation of metaphysic understanding, mysticism would not be the same without them. Easily the most dominant contribution to the occult of these would be Judaism, through a Read More…