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>The best defence against this sort of stuff is ignorance. When we were kids we used to mess around with Ouija boards and one of my friends had tapes made by a

>The best defence against this sort of stuff is ignorance. When we were kids we used to mess around with Ouija boards and one of my friends had tapes made by a priest that crusaded against the occult messages in Rock 'n Roll, which ironically got us more interested in the occult rather than less. I remember us playing records backwards and scaring ourselves shitless, eating apples in front of mirrors and so on. Whether that was just silly child's play or real danger I don't know, but I wouldn't mess with stuff like that now. Also as a supposed rational lapsed Catholic, you couldn't pay me to spend a night in a 'haunted' house, despite the fact that I rationally don't believe in that stuff. On the other hand, I can say that when I was a kid I had some childhood trauma to process and it may have taken the form of nightmares[1] and fear of supernatural entities. This could also explain my fascination with the topic back then---as a roundabout way of dealing with difficult emotions. Anyway, if ignorance is a defence, what made you 'eat of the fruit of knowledge' so to speak? [1] It also didn't help that my room was in the basement and so far from 'help' that I was totally on my own.

occultist_throw 10y ago
> Anyway, if ignorance is a defence, what made you 'eat of the fruit of knowledge' so to speak? It was a long string of events that started with my ex fiancee and I unwittingly witnessing a Thelemite ritual in the state park. I could feel the waves of hatred and anger off of it, even not having done anything in the occult. My ex had an instantaneous migraine. To the point of screaming for it to stop. I happened to know someone who was a practising pagan, and we explained what happened. Evidently she has had run-ins with that group before. She and I went to the site. Lets just say craziness happened. I saw 3 of them show up, like holograms over my vision. She knew 2 of them but didn't know the third. I described the third, and knew her. Nonetheless, remote viewing shouldnt be able to occur with our technology. Nor is separating the energy side of a human from their body temporarily. And other things. But I saw them. My ex felt them. And she saw them. I knew from that night, that this realm is real. Can't prove it. But I know it. And I'll figure out its laws; its rules; its physical attributes of how it works.

occultist_throw 10y ago

> Anyway, if ignorance is a defence, what made you 'eat of the fruit of knowledge' so to speak? It was a long string of events that started with my ex fiancee and I unwittingly witnessing a Thelemite ritual in the state park. I could feel the waves of hatred and anger off of it, even not having done anything in the occult. My ex had an instantaneous migraine. To the point of screaming for it to stop. I happened to know someone who was a practising pagan, and we explained what happened. Evidently she has had run-ins with that group before. She and I went to the site. Lets just say craziness happened. I saw 3 of them show up, like holograms over my vision. She knew 2 of them but didn't know the third. I described the third, and knew her. Nonetheless, remote viewing shouldnt be able to occur with our technology. Nor is separating the energy side of a human from their body temporarily. And other things. But I saw them. My ex felt them. And she saw them. I knew from that night, that this realm is real. Can't prove it. But I know it. And I'll figure out its laws; its rules; its physical attributes of how it works.