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Actually no. It was the local press that labeled him as such, after the Rites of Eleusis (that were open to the public and declared openly the "Do what thou wilt"). He just called himself "Master Therion 666" at that time, (i.e. The Great Beast 666) for numerical motives coming from the Book of Law and Aiwaz etc., and yes, also for provocation, naturally.

When he was called "the wickedest man in the world"  he rejoyed from the metaphorical/phylosophical meaning at beginning and either utilized himself the phrase with pride, but then, later, he was also sad when people did take that sentence in literal terms and in fact, many years later he hated the term greatly.

I think my quote was misunderstood.  He perpetuated the idea of being wicked and evil because in all honesty he was ridiculously smart and the people around him didn't understand him, not even his students and fellow "magicians".  What they saw as evil, he saw as mastery of reality.  he was beyond morality in the sense of good and evil, it was "beneath him" as it were.  So he built it up and allowed the "impression" of being the most wicked man in the world (not necessarily the actual phrase) to continue without dispute.  Becuase he understood something that they didn't.  He was also full of himself.....perhaps rightly so.

And after reading "The Stargate Conspiracy", I don't know how I feel about Graham Hancock, Bauvall their cohort.  And it wasn't Bauvall that found the water damage, it was Robert Schoch.  He's actually a geologist, not a "new age archaeologist" who meshes new age metaphysics with the study of alternative history.  Bauvall was the guy who wrote about how the pyramids are aligned to mirror orions belt (which isn't 100% accurate).

think.

paradox solved.

man, i just registed www.ether2rules.com too!!

screw you ether, i'm keeping the website.

There have been remote viewing exercises pertaining to mars for many years.  very interesting stuff.

thanks for sharing.

and screw pluto, lol.  new horizons will be there soon enough, give us some good pictures (Aprilish 2015).

*sigh*

this kundalini business always cracks me up.

"kundalini is no laughing matter!  if you do it wrong your head will explode through your genitals!!!"

lol.

just live your life addict.  keep doing your meditations and your being will grow and develop as it should.  forget about buzzwords like kundalini.  just do what you do.   

If you're into that sort of thing, Robert Bruce gives some pretty good advice on how to judge the character of beings you meet whilst OOB.

I understand the concern when discussing such things in a psychiatric setting, I'm about to be getting my bachelors in psychology and lord knows they hate it when I talk about this stuff in class.  When I told one of my statistics professors that I was interested in consciousness research through altered states of awareness, she called it parapsychology and told the class that it was their mission to change my mind before the end of the semester.  *sigh* that's not even what parapsychology is.  nevertheless, i fully understand the concern, but that's not what i meant, so it's all good.

a hoot and a half. 

A lot of you are crazy/confused.. DMT Is a forced OBE at a decent dose..


Call it a "drug" or whatever you want, we release a certain amount of DMT every day of our lives during sleep.

Not necessarily denying that, but it's still not the same as a controlled and meditatively induced OBE.

Zahi Hawass resigned as he claimed the artefacts were not being protected since the police withdrew. Don't know what happened since then though. He was always the one holding things back and refusing to cooperate. Darn, he's back again
http://bikyamasr.com/wordpress/?p=36964

That sucks.

There was an article in a magazine I read recently that said he was being brought up on charges for some reason or another.  Then there was the "spin" of his excuse, which you just shared.  But yea, he keeps coming back. 

I just don't trust him, or anyone in mainstream archaeology for that matter, and he stands in the way of some of the most impressive construction artifacts on the planet (not to mention the hidden artifacts that we have yet to find, but may well change our whol perspective of our history).

food for thought.

there isn't some spectrum where science is on one end and spirituality is on the other.  they can absolutely coexist.

it's the people, not the methods.

if that's round trip snatch it.

from texas to chicago round trip for 375, yea.

the only way it's really going to be cheaper is if you wait till the last minute.

*facepalm*

Talk about conspiracy theory.

That article just stomps on all of us.

Making sure that anyone who is vaguely interested doesn't proceed with their investigation.

welcome.

just google progressive muscle relaxation.

its one of the most common techniques for relaxation.  it's not a mental exercise in that you are imagining the tensing and releasing, you actually tense up specific muscle groups, hold for like 10-20 seconds and then slowly release the tension.  you progressively move through all of the muscle groups in your body to relax your whole body.  if you take the time to do this and make it routine, it is very helpful and you'll find that by the end you're damn near asleep already.

I don't know about OBE (though you might read up on people like Charles Tart and John C. Lily), but you can always look into stuff like the Institute of Noetic Sciences (www.noetic.org).  They do what research into "parapsychology", or psychic abilities, ESP, etc.

In the "professional" world of psychological/parapsychological research, you have to know the key words to look for.  Noetic sciences or psi research is what you have to look for. 

Hey Sion,

If your looking for a great author who utilizes the shamanic way of journeying, including reentering dreams, but built for a contemporary Westerner, I would recommend Robert Moss and his series of books, especially Conscious Dreaming. 

I have his book "Dreamways of the Iriquois".....I was less than impressed.

That said, his book "Active Dreaming" is quite good.

It is hard to say. The Chinese are on a decisive economic upswing, and are biding their time well, waiting for the proper time to come into full influence reflective of their material and martial strength.

they have a debt-free economy based on monies exchanged for goods and services (versus the common system in the west of using private central banks to create principal with interest - meaning that a country like the US perpetually creates debt and can never pay it off).  that is the RIGHT way for a nation to create money and build an economy. 

though their social system is lacking.  too many people.

some say that there is a chinese economist who is responsible for the current economic crash in america because of a formula he developed that ignores risk assessment.  as soon as the formula was implemented on a grand scale in the states, this dude took off to china and got a job.....assessing risk in the market!  lol.  anyway, some people believe this to have been a deliberate act of economic warfare on the part of the Chinese, as a way of saying to the west, "we're not going to be a part of your private banking economic scheme and our system is better".

shamanic journeying is more akin to phasing in method, because it usually involves a "visualization journey".

that said, it is also usually quite dependent on preconceived notions as you have discovered with the distinction between worlds.  i'm not saying that's a bad thing at all, it's actually a useful guide, the trick is just to find the tradition that provides the proper myth for you to follow.  "shamanic" journeying typically is quite nature focused, whereas something like christo-pagan pathworking might be more focused on something like the arthurian legend or greek myth.  or you might be more inclined toward the more modern hermetic approach and use "traditional pathworking" vis a vie the tarot and the kabbalistic tree of life. 

but in the end, same place.

i've found that the only distinction that is necessary is between this world and the other world.  any destination can be attributed to one or the other (in effect).  in truth, there isn't a here or there, there is just a here and the perspective by which we choose to observe that here.  we call these different perspectives things like "AP/OBE/LD/etc.", and each of these is very different, but it is only a different way of looking at the one reality, not a different reality.

I've referenced this analogy before.

Achieving OBE/AP is like climbing a mountain.

When you do it through dedicated practice, you learn the topography of the path like the back of your hand and could navigate the way "with your eyes closed", to the peak and back down the mountain.

Using hallucinogens is like strapping on a jet pack and shooting to the top.  You get there, but you have no idea how you got there or how to get back down.  You didn't learn anything along the way so the context of the experience is completely different.  That's not to say that this experience is bad or wrong, it will just be different.  However, there is also the chance of completely over-shooting the summit and winding up on the other side of the mountain (which could refer to you being in a completely different mental context after the experience, i.e. psychologically pathological....crazy).

Either way is valid because you're still getting there.  However, hiking up the mountain provides you with more details and contextualizes the experience so that you have a better understanding of what it is to be on the top of the mountain.  It also provides you with a "map" so that you might return to the summit anytime you choose to do so, not just when your jet pack has been refueled and tuned-up.  In addition, the map you gained from hiking allows you to retain what you gathered at the summit and again, it puts it in proper context because "the journey back down" provides you with the means to assimilate the new knowledge.

I think you totally misunderstood my comment.

I didn't mean unstable as in pathological.  Ease up on the defensive pedal.

I meant that perhaps your normal mental state is unbalanced or unstable, as in maybe something is going on in your life right now (whether or not your consciously aware of its effect on you) that is throwing your mind off balance.  This may result in you feeling spaced-out or "just not right" in your normal daily awareness.  It happens to everyone from time to time.  Point being, if that's the case, it can seriously disrupt your meditation based practices (i.e., AP/OBE/LD). 

If you want it in "new age/metaphysical" terms, you may be 'ungrounded' or 'uncentered'.  This could be the result of an energy blockage or some other imbalance. 

Though I prefer to stay "grounded in reality" as it were, and say that perhaps your mind (energy) is off kilter (ungrounded) because of some unrecognized stressor (energy imbalance). 

So calm down, I was legitimately trying to help.  No ill intent or jokes at your expense.

firstly, i only half understood that response.

secondly, wait....no secondly, i didn't understand any of your response, so nevermind.

i know what you meant by "zeitgeist movement", but that doesn't take away from the fact that there is no such thing as a "zeitgeist movement" unless you mean to imply that you hop on the bandwagon of whatever movement is hip right now, because that's what zeitgeist means.  you can't just take a word and change the meaning to suit your context.

lol.

*applaud*

good show NoY.

you may be ungrounded or otherwise mentally unstable.

some people believe that celestial bodies/events can effect projection ability if you're not very practiced.

its probably just something in you.  stress maybe.