In The Between

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do you ever think about how you can own mushrooms that can kill people but its illegal to own the ones that let you see colors and feel things

Even in places like Oregon, where psylocibin mushrooms have been sort of legalized, they still want to strictly regulate them (requires supervision by someone who paid thousands of dollars to obtain a license) and even then they restrict the dosage to such ridiculously tiny microdoses that it's not therapeutic. And most counties have opted out of allowing even that

The Boa Island Janus & The Lustymore Figure. From the Irish early Christian period.

Hyde Park Pet Cemetery, London (Opened by accident in 1881)

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No

There have been times I’ve found myself at the bottom of my despair, thinking there was no way out of the hole I had dug for myself.

I had contemplated THAT way out.

But, like a bolt of lightning,

NO.

It came from somewhere deep inside. I stopped. Perhaps I hadn’t thought of all the possible outcomes.

Something told me it was my mind that was the problem. I began to explore other modes of thought, seeking the kernel of what I am.

I delved into the rational side of my brain. C followed B, as B followed A. There were more questions than answers.

I reveled in my emotions to the point of hate, fear, and ecstasy. They are good for the moment, but only the moment. There is so much of life that happens in-between.

I slowly heard the voice of that third part of me. Call it a conscience, call it the voice of reason, I don’t care. I have found that part of me always seems to know better. And, the older I get, the more the self I consider to be me lives in that third place.

- confessions of a 40 year old hippie

This Presence - I don't know what to call it - is what I encountered during my near death experience. It communicated directly with my mind. We exchanged thoughts at incredible speed, and it immediately got right to the heart of the matter. It conveyed to me that I had a choice whether to live or to die, but that dying was not preferable. I resolved to live, and immediately felt new strength surging through me. At the same time, I communicated to the Presence why I had decided to live, and resolved what would be the purpose of the remainder of my life: to bring joy to my husband, and to teach if called upon.

Sometimes now when I'm in a deep meditation I can reconnect with that Presence and continue our exchange. It has revealed some unexpected insights into the roots of my personality and how I live my life.

Once in deep meditation I asked the Presence for a name by which I could call it. It came to me: I Am.

Not God. Not YHWH. Not Jehovah or any other god. None of Earth's religions.

I Am.

An “initiation well,” used in magical rites, which was excavated at the Quinta da Regaleira estate in Sintra, Portugal.  

no new content for a while, have a self-reblog cuz I’m thinking about this again. I’ll have more content eventually. been busy. ily all <3

Hell is a state of our own making. We can always leave, any time we choose. All we have to do is set the intention to leave, and we will be liberated.

IT TAKES TWO TO DISCUSS UNION

As we continue our conversations on Kabbalah let us pause for a moment and discuss Chesed in relation to Gevurah. In many ways we can’t discuss one without the other. Could divine love pour through the universe if there were no people to experience it? Occultists recognize this as the principle of polarity. It’s a necessary component of existence itself. Rock with me as we seek understanding.

The duality of opposites, or nonduality, or the mirroring principle, is a common repeating pattern across major religions. It's the basis for the I Ching, with its 64 hexagrams looking at different aspects of Yin changing into Yang and vice versa. You see it in Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, Zoroastricism; you see it in Alchemy, in Fractal Geometry, and you see it in Kabbalah. It suggests to me that nonduality is in some way fundamental to the workings of the cosmos. It gets at Einstein's greatest question: did God have any choice whether to create the Universe?

Synchronicity is a psychological concept, that's its whole point. An coincidence like a shared birthday is just a matter of ordinary probability and statistics. But as C.G. Jung defined it, a synchronicity is a meaningful coincidence - it's a coincidence that reinforces a psychological message. Statistics can't address meaning, so it just ignores it. To truly understand synchronicity requires a rough sense of the odds of an event as well as the psychological context that only the recipient can provide.

Synchronicity can hit with the force of a lightning bolt between your eyes. It can shake you right down to your socks. I was once the sole witness for a nearly-impossible event - a randomly generated outcome that repeated itself 26 times in a row - and only I understood that the coincidence was even greater in the context of what was happening in my life at that very moment.

Thoughts and Prayers, Sara Gewalt

Quote of the day...

Ancient Egyptian funerary mask, inlaid wood, about 1400-1300 BC, late 18th dynasty.

Irks me when paranormal settings portray demons as irrational for hating God as if he didn’t unleash plagues, floods, and knocked up a married woman. God: I will make mortals desire food but sometimes the food will hurt them Angel, seconds from rebellion: what the fuck is wrong with you

Gustave Doré, Paradiso, Canto 34, 1868

The Atacama Giant is a large anthropomorphic geoglyph in the Atacama Desert, Chile.