Apr 20, 2023·edited Apr 20, 2023Liked by Daniel Pinchbeck
I can sit for hours at a time while chanting mantras. That's probably my first favorite overwhelm. then after that....it's definitely infomaniac scholar overwhelm
super curious about your opinions on why Jesus's persona aligns with the progression of the Sun through the cardinal points matching the seasons of the year.
that cannot be a coincidence. sort of semi-proves that his persona is a relic of paganism where people used his identity as a metaphor before it was cast into a "persona." I'm not 100% on this since I haven't delved deep enough into all of the theories and proper timelines. Currently reading arguments for and against his physical existence as a human versus him being a gnostic energy that was channeled through a type of tantra.
:)
The first time I heard of theurgy was when I was dreaming. I was sitting in a log cabin dressed in all white with these other women dressed in white as we meditated in lotus. A man with a long white beard was in a throne shooting lightening into our bodies. Then the man told me that I was a bride of christ and to study theurgy. After waking, I googled his appearance and found out who he was from the details I remembered in the dream. It was Saint Seraphim of Sarov, patron saint of nuclear weapons. Then I looked up theurgy and as I researched him, and I realized I had dreamt of him on his canonization day (the opening of his relics). Then later that day after the dream, my neighbors told me that they owned several of his icons. They also informed me that we lived right down the street from the Dallas Saint Seraphim of Sarov church where his relics are stored.
I had never heard of him before. This is my life.
To make this story even crazier!!! Several years ago before Russia went off the deep end....I was actually approached to be interviewed about GMOs and American activism by the Russian Orthodox Church....wtf????????? lol. still trying to wrap my head around this.
Also I have a seraphim tattoo. I can't remember if I got my seraphim tattoo before or after the Saint Seraphim dream. But I have a traditional six-winged archangel tattooed on my arm. After the Russian Orthodox Church reached out to me, I realized that my seraphim tattoo is the same as the seraphim as the one on the Koukoulion of the Patriarch Kirill. Trust me. I did not do that on purpose. Because I got the tattoo to represent the sphere of Geburah on the Tree of Life. Had no idea of the Kirill connection.
It's just all a string of very strangely timed coincidences and I'm lowkey like wtf is going on. Ever since then I have a phantom anxiety that I'm being watched by the Russian church LMAO. Don't laugh.
Steiner said this regarding the dangers of entering the Spirit Realms...
A primitive man used to receive prayers that he said in the evening before going to sleep, and in the morning after waking up, and that was good.
He strengthened his soul with spiritual forces as he prepared his soul for higher worlds, and after he left them, he again permeated his soul with higher forces, and as it were, sucked out soul forces from spiritual worlds.
The mineral, plant and animal kingdoms below man are permeated with spiritual forces that always become renewed.
The same is true of the four elements fire, water, air, and earth.
Things are different with men.
If a man doesn't connect himself with these spiritual forces, he doesn't' receive them.
If he goes to sleep without preparation he doesn't get any forces in the worlds he enters then.
No matter how learned, scientific and high-ranking a materialist is, if he goes into spiritual worlds unprepared in the evening, he stands far below a simple primitive man who has already connected himself with them through his prayer.
Man has increasingly forgotten prayer in our materialistic age with its very admirable scientific achievements.
He goes to sleep and wakes up with his everyday thoughts.
But what does he do thereby?
Something happens through this omission. He kills some of the spiritual life and forces on the physical plane each time.
"The quest for AGI seems to me like another kind of occult summoning or theurgic ritual, linked to the hermetic tradition from the ancient world to the Renaissance, Modernity and Postmodernity. Particularly, it calls to mind alchemy and its quest for the Philosopher’s Stone and the transmutation of metals." I find this definitely to be the case! I wonder though if it would be more fitting to look at "AI" in terms of the humunculus: a created being -- created by the also created human, who thereby "proves" to himelf his godlike nature because only God can create life. Creation of life necessarily involves freedom that can evolve freely also im-plicating the ex-plication of the turn against its creator thereby manifesting not only as a dream but as a nightmare of the latter. That´s what we fear "AI" will do with us. All the while that's what's happening to us because the very notion of "AI" makes us forget that we are a creature surreptitiously imagining its own godliness into existence. I think this also reveals itself in the widespread notion that "AI" is something godlike. Godlike maybe, yet not in itself but in the way it reveals that we unconsciously believe our own doing/creating to be godlike.
“As an occultist and analytic idealist, I often wonder if I am mildly insane — or perhaps one of the only sane, reasonable people.”
Well, if you are mildly insane, you’re not alone. Because I found everything you’ve written here eminently reasonable. Wise, even.
I can sit for hours at a time while chanting mantras. That's probably my first favorite overwhelm. then after that....it's definitely infomaniac scholar overwhelm
super curious about your opinions on why Jesus's persona aligns with the progression of the Sun through the cardinal points matching the seasons of the year.
that cannot be a coincidence. sort of semi-proves that his persona is a relic of paganism where people used his identity as a metaphor before it was cast into a "persona." I'm not 100% on this since I haven't delved deep enough into all of the theories and proper timelines. Currently reading arguments for and against his physical existence as a human versus him being a gnostic energy that was channeled through a type of tantra.
:)
The first time I heard of theurgy was when I was dreaming. I was sitting in a log cabin dressed in all white with these other women dressed in white as we meditated in lotus. A man with a long white beard was in a throne shooting lightening into our bodies. Then the man told me that I was a bride of christ and to study theurgy. After waking, I googled his appearance and found out who he was from the details I remembered in the dream. It was Saint Seraphim of Sarov, patron saint of nuclear weapons. Then I looked up theurgy and as I researched him, and I realized I had dreamt of him on his canonization day (the opening of his relics). Then later that day after the dream, my neighbors told me that they owned several of his icons. They also informed me that we lived right down the street from the Dallas Saint Seraphim of Sarov church where his relics are stored.
I had never heard of him before. This is my life.
To make this story even crazier!!! Several years ago before Russia went off the deep end....I was actually approached to be interviewed about GMOs and American activism by the Russian Orthodox Church....wtf????????? lol. still trying to wrap my head around this.
Also I have a seraphim tattoo. I can't remember if I got my seraphim tattoo before or after the Saint Seraphim dream. But I have a traditional six-winged archangel tattooed on my arm. After the Russian Orthodox Church reached out to me, I realized that my seraphim tattoo is the same as the seraphim as the one on the Koukoulion of the Patriarch Kirill. Trust me. I did not do that on purpose. Because I got the tattoo to represent the sphere of Geburah on the Tree of Life. Had no idea of the Kirill connection.
It's just all a string of very strangely timed coincidences and I'm lowkey like wtf is going on. Ever since then I have a phantom anxiety that I'm being watched by the Russian church LMAO. Don't laugh.
" What are those shadows that crowd around you? They are the unintegrated aspects of your own psyche, projected into material form." Yes!
Just a friendly hello from another lone scene
This just popped up on my feed...
Steiner said this regarding the dangers of entering the Spirit Realms...
A primitive man used to receive prayers that he said in the evening before going to sleep, and in the morning after waking up, and that was good.
He strengthened his soul with spiritual forces as he prepared his soul for higher worlds, and after he left them, he again permeated his soul with higher forces, and as it were, sucked out soul forces from spiritual worlds.
The mineral, plant and animal kingdoms below man are permeated with spiritual forces that always become renewed.
The same is true of the four elements fire, water, air, and earth.
Things are different with men.
If a man doesn't connect himself with these spiritual forces, he doesn't' receive them.
If he goes to sleep without preparation he doesn't get any forces in the worlds he enters then.
No matter how learned, scientific and high-ranking a materialist is, if he goes into spiritual worlds unprepared in the evening, he stands far below a simple primitive man who has already connected himself with them through his prayer.
Man has increasingly forgotten prayer in our materialistic age with its very admirable scientific achievements.
He goes to sleep and wakes up with his everyday thoughts.
But what does he do thereby?
Something happens through this omission. He kills some of the spiritual life and forces on the physical plane each time.
- Rudolf Steiner. -
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA266/English/UNK1999/19100616e01.html
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"The quest for AGI seems to me like another kind of occult summoning or theurgic ritual, linked to the hermetic tradition from the ancient world to the Renaissance, Modernity and Postmodernity. Particularly, it calls to mind alchemy and its quest for the Philosopher’s Stone and the transmutation of metals." I find this definitely to be the case! I wonder though if it would be more fitting to look at "AI" in terms of the humunculus: a created being -- created by the also created human, who thereby "proves" to himelf his godlike nature because only God can create life. Creation of life necessarily involves freedom that can evolve freely also im-plicating the ex-plication of the turn against its creator thereby manifesting not only as a dream but as a nightmare of the latter. That´s what we fear "AI" will do with us. All the while that's what's happening to us because the very notion of "AI" makes us forget that we are a creature surreptitiously imagining its own godliness into existence. I think this also reveals itself in the widespread notion that "AI" is something godlike. Godlike maybe, yet not in itself but in the way it reveals that we unconsciously believe our own doing/creating to be godlike.