Very good, Doktor...I have been a psychotherapist for a couple of decades now, but come from a rather eclectic background and training...spirit possession extraction, past lives, spirit walk ins, paranormal perception, on and on. I have a few patients I would DX as spirit walk ins, but I generally stick with the conventional approach unless the patient is open to see his or her's issues through this metaphysical lens. Sometimes it is a lot easier to rid them of symptoms by exorcising the "demon"...you really can look at these things from several different angles, and still be "right"...like you said, they exist as entities, and at the same time exist as something else or nothing at all.
I am reminded of the movies Ghost Busters and Ghost Busters II, when all the ghosts were released in NYC...I think what has happened in the past three years has released a whole lot of negative energy, which could take the form of demonic entities...why not? This is all going to become more "literal" than we had previously imagined...buckle up buttercup....!!
Ah, I didn't know about that side of your background! Certainly the music. In the end, we have to enter people's reality or belief system. In a sense, the ultimate "banishing ritual" is sleight of mind straight into a Richard Dawkins' mindset... you're fine immediately. In a sense you've charged your reality. You jump from one paradigm to the next. I'm not sure how easy that is to teach people, though. Belief is a very powerful "engine." For me, I go with Robert Anton Wilson, "Neither believe nor disbelieve anything." And cycle through beliefs.
I like the Ghost Busters' analogy. You're right. Things are likely to become "real" and apparently take on form... Real and not real at the same time. Eregors born of negative energy. Poltergeists on the loose. Whatever the last three years have been, they have unleashed something... so yep, we'll have to hang on to our hats!
Is it Robert Anton Wilson who said that? I would like to find the quote. Although I didn't read it from him, it fits my world view perfectly. I think I wrote an article about that..."Believe It or Not" https://www.shrewviews.com/p/believe-it-or-not
I have always used the phrase "consider everything, believe nothing"...I read that somewhere...and like it. I like Wilson's better, "neither believe nor disbelieve anything."
Yeah...I used to also be really into crop circles, which you mentioned in another comment. Belonged to a Crop Circle group (still do) lectured several times at a Crop Circle conference in Wiltshire, since Covid and the shutting down of any human gatherings for conferences and such I lost interest. You can't really "do" crop circles on Zoom.
I also used to be (still am) an avid alternative Egyptology researcher...travelled to Egypt four times, was going to lecture there as well but all that was shut down too. With the vaccine passports coming out I figure my travel days are over. I also have been overwhelmed with focus on all this nonsense so do not have time for all of my other interests.
Your Eregore article is one of the best summaries I've read. A lot in there to muse upon. It's hard to get our minds around the notion that maybe all we see, hear and feel is a creation much like the thoughtform or Eregore in the "Phillip" case where a psychical research group apparently created a fictitious ghost. What if our "reality" is actually that - created by mass human minds... a consensus reality that kind of works... but perhaps we should be careful about it.
The Druidic caste in Celtic society made laws (if I remember rightly) outlawing satire... satire was a curse. So in some sense older societies were custodians of reality - or the human creating a reality... satire being a way of undermining somebody. Yes, it can certainly be amusing, but it is, in a sense, a curse.
With Bob Wilson, I can't be 100% certain he was the first to say, "Neither believe nor disbelieve in anything", but it was throughout his Prometheus Rising book, maybe Cosmic Trigger too.
Very good, Doktor...I have been a psychotherapist for a couple of decades now, but come from a rather eclectic background and training...spirit possession extraction, past lives, spirit walk ins, paranormal perception, on and on. I have a few patients I would DX as spirit walk ins, but I generally stick with the conventional approach unless the patient is open to see his or her's issues through this metaphysical lens. Sometimes it is a lot easier to rid them of symptoms by exorcising the "demon"...you really can look at these things from several different angles, and still be "right"...like you said, they exist as entities, and at the same time exist as something else or nothing at all.
I am reminded of the movies Ghost Busters and Ghost Busters II, when all the ghosts were released in NYC...I think what has happened in the past three years has released a whole lot of negative energy, which could take the form of demonic entities...why not? This is all going to become more "literal" than we had previously imagined...buckle up buttercup....!!
Ah, I didn't know about that side of your background! Certainly the music. In the end, we have to enter people's reality or belief system. In a sense, the ultimate "banishing ritual" is sleight of mind straight into a Richard Dawkins' mindset... you're fine immediately. In a sense you've charged your reality. You jump from one paradigm to the next. I'm not sure how easy that is to teach people, though. Belief is a very powerful "engine." For me, I go with Robert Anton Wilson, "Neither believe nor disbelieve anything." And cycle through beliefs.
I like the Ghost Busters' analogy. You're right. Things are likely to become "real" and apparently take on form... Real and not real at the same time. Eregors born of negative energy. Poltergeists on the loose. Whatever the last three years have been, they have unleashed something... so yep, we'll have to hang on to our hats!
Is it Robert Anton Wilson who said that? I would like to find the quote. Although I didn't read it from him, it fits my world view perfectly. I think I wrote an article about that..."Believe It or Not" https://www.shrewviews.com/p/believe-it-or-not
I have always used the phrase "consider everything, believe nothing"...I read that somewhere...and like it. I like Wilson's better, "neither believe nor disbelieve anything."
Yeah...I used to also be really into crop circles, which you mentioned in another comment. Belonged to a Crop Circle group (still do) lectured several times at a Crop Circle conference in Wiltshire, since Covid and the shutting down of any human gatherings for conferences and such I lost interest. You can't really "do" crop circles on Zoom.
I also used to be (still am) an avid alternative Egyptology researcher...travelled to Egypt four times, was going to lecture there as well but all that was shut down too. With the vaccine passports coming out I figure my travel days are over. I also have been overwhelmed with focus on all this nonsense so do not have time for all of my other interests.
Did you see my article on Egregores? https://www.shrewviews.com/p/manifestation-of-evil-the-egregore
Your Eregore article is one of the best summaries I've read. A lot in there to muse upon. It's hard to get our minds around the notion that maybe all we see, hear and feel is a creation much like the thoughtform or Eregore in the "Phillip" case where a psychical research group apparently created a fictitious ghost. What if our "reality" is actually that - created by mass human minds... a consensus reality that kind of works... but perhaps we should be careful about it.
The Druidic caste in Celtic society made laws (if I remember rightly) outlawing satire... satire was a curse. So in some sense older societies were custodians of reality - or the human creating a reality... satire being a way of undermining somebody. Yes, it can certainly be amusing, but it is, in a sense, a curse.
With Bob Wilson, I can't be 100% certain he was the first to say, "Neither believe nor disbelieve in anything", but it was throughout his Prometheus Rising book, maybe Cosmic Trigger too.