hackingthelema

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by hackingthelema 5y ago
> In terms of beliefs, I think there’s a tonne of massive, unanswered questions about the universe, and it’s certainly possible that there are forces out there that resemble spiritual concepts. Something vaguely resembling a soul, or an
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I just checked, it is 'Low Magick' by Lon Milo DuQuette. The entirety of Chapter 11 is on 'Pop Goes Ganesha'. It might sound a little irreverent, but here is a snippet from the book -- > I first created it to be a whi
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Fortune cookies are one of my favourites, too. I tend to use coin flips a lot. Occasionally I'll draw a rune or a tarot card, but I find I don't always understand what they're trying to say until after it's happened. &gt
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by hackingthelema 5y ago
> "Bad" feelings have lost their edge. When I sat with the feeling I discovered there is nothing "bad" about it. [...] With this I have become lighter, freer, happier and more at peace with the experience just as it i
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by hackingthelema 5y ago
> I'm open to the possible existence of the paranormal, but I do not trust it at all and would question the intentions of such entities. I think you're already making a mistake in thinking about it as 'entities' and
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I practice mysticism and magick. Essentially it breaks down to Raja Yoga-style mysticism and Western tradition occultism (i.e. in the style of the Goetia and Book of Abramelin). I tend to view things through a Thelemic lens: 'Every ma
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I've not read that one, but I also found his Dhammapada and Upanishads to be quite nice. His name on a work is a good sign, to me!
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by hackingthelema 5y ago
To speak to its English contents, not the translations it hosts, as most are speaking of -- 'Thelema' is a decent section, but sometimes the versions on https://hermetic.com/ are better (footnotes linked, proper u
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by hackingthelema 5y ago
Have you read Eknath Easwaran's translation of the Bhagavad Gita? Its structure is Chapter-Introduction, Gita Chapter. If I remember correctly, the authenticated background information is mostly what goes on in the introduction to each
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by hackingthelema 5y ago
The record of the Babalon workings of Jack Parsons with Hubbard are on there, at least: https://sacred-texts.com/oto/lib49.htm More on it @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babalon_Working
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by hackingthelema 5y ago
> Its more than that. I have a few dispensarys in CA and the experience is shit. The places are loaded with cash because they cant legally accept credit or debit cards. So you have to bring cash or use their ATM and get charged a withdra
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by hackingthelema 5y ago
> There are a few non-fiction books, though I'm blanking on the key author's name. I don't know if he is who you had in mind, but Robert Anton Wilson -- who was one of the writers on the Illuminatus! trilogy -- has at le
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by hackingthelema 5y ago
In Discordianism, there is something called the Law of Fives[1], which says, 'all things happen in fives, or are divisible by or are multiples of five, or are somehow directly or indirectly appropriate to 5.' There is also a memo
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by hackingthelema 5y ago
Have you read Hacker News' approach to comments and site guidelines? https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html > Which brings us to the most important principle on HN: civility. Since long before the web, the an
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by hackingthelema 5y ago
Have you tried going 'inside'? Meditation can teach you to observe your own states as an outsider and affect them, kind of like hooking up a debugger to your own mental 'programs'. Once you notice yourself feeling stress
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Aleister Crowley had some thoughts on geniuses (specifically religious geniuses, but he believed genius didn't end there) and how any human being can attain towards this level of consciousness: https://sacred-texts.com/