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THE MATRIX IS REAL

We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives...because we are their sustenance. Just as we rear chickens in chicken coops, the predators rear us in human coops. Think for a moment, and tell me how you would explain the contradiction between the intelligence of man the engineer and the stupidity of his systems of beliefs, or the stupidity of his contradictory behavior. Sorcerers believe that the predators have given us our systems of beliefs, our ideas of good and evil, our social mores. They are the ones who set up our hopes and expectations and dreams of success or failure. They have given us covetousness, greed, and cowardice. It is the predators who make us complacent, routinary, and egomaniacal...the predators engaged themselves in a stupendous maneuver, from the point of view of a fighting strategist... They gave us their mind!...Through the mind, which is after all their mind, the predators inject into the lives of human beings whatever is convenient for them.

~The Active Side of Infinity, Carlos Castaneda.

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In his second book, Robert Monroe describes a lucid dream in which he was informed that we serve as a source of energetic nourishment for a specific type of sentient being. These beings were described as "gardeners" or "collectors". He was told that these beings feed off a certain type of energetic radiation given off by humans when engaged conflict and that they harvest this type of energy as their "crop". At some point in Man's history, these "collectors" entered the "garden" and created tools in order to maximize production of the "crop". Monroe was told that these tools include but are not limited to "love, friendship, family, greed, hate, pain, guilt, disease, pride, ambition, ownership, possession, sacrifice, nations, provincialism, wars, famine, religion, machines, freedom, industry and trade".

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First of all it must be realized that the sleep in which Man exists is not normal but hypnotic sleep.... One would think that there are forces for whom it is useful and profitable to keep man in a hypnotic state and prevent him from seeing the truth and understanding his position. There is an Eastern tale, which speaks about a very rich magician who had a great many sheep... He did not want to hire shepherds, nor did he want to erect a fence about the pasture where his sheep were grazing. The sheep consequently often...ran away, for they knew that the magician wanted their flesh and skins and this they did not like. At last the magician found a remedy. He hypnotized his sheep and suggested to them that they were immortal and that no harm was being done to them when they were skinned, that, on the contrary, it would be very good for them and even pleasant; secondly he suggested that the magician was a good master who loved his flock so much that he was ready to do anything in the world for them; and in the third place he suggested to them that if anything at all were going to happen to them it was not going to happen just then, at any rate not that day, and therefore they had no need to think about it. Further the magician suggested to his sheep that they were not sheep at all; to some of them he suggested that they were lions, to others that they were eagles, to others that they were men, and to others that they were magicians. And after this all his cares and worries about the sheep came to an end. They never ran away again but quietly awaited the time when the magician would require their flesh and skins. This tale is a very good illustration of man's position.

~In Search of the Miraculous, P.D. Ouspensky

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One can say that a human being is nothing else but a conglomerate of thousands of...twirling vortexes of energy....There are, however, six which are so enormous that they deserve special treatment. They are centers of life and vital-ity....The sixth center, located on the top of the head...has been taken over by an invader, an unseen predator. And the only way to overcome this predator is by fortifying all the other centers.

~Magical Passes, Carlos Castaneda.

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Awareness is the only avenue that human beings have for evolution, and something extraneous to us, something that has to do with the predatorial nature of the universe, has interrupted our possibility of evolving by taking possession of our awareness.

~Magical Passes, Carlos Castaneda.
http://webreathe.com/truemind/index3.htm

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Greetings Mathias!

There are definetly helpful entities, the principle one being your higher self, who can come to "the rescue", but in specific regard to "astral police" etc. please direct you attention to:



                                       Privacy, Ethics & OBE

                                         By Robert Bruce

I don't want this to seem like i am criticising Roberts' work (most of us here appreciate everything he is doing), but to unquestioningly accept Roberts theories means you are buying into his personal "belief system", which he has told us elswhere that we should only believe what we experience.
Robert says there are no occult police that Dion Fortune wrote of. If this is so, then how does he explain the "Astral Knights" that have come to his defense so often?
See the following link;

http://www.astraldynamics.com/articles/robert/articles_8.htm

for an example of the Astral Knights/Occult Police in action.

Question everything.

McArthur

"I come not to bring peace, but a sword"- Jesus

Edited by - McArthur on 15 April 2002  00:15:11

As far as i am aware, the word "demon" stems from the word "Daemon", which comes to us from the Greeks. These "divine beings" (daemons) were literally demonized by the Christian Church in its endeavour to make other religions less palatable to thier flock. The Celtic religions are a perfect example of this, where the image of the Celtic God Cernunnos, with his horns, became the typical 'devil' image. Or another example would be the typical 'devil' image with a 3 pronged fork. This comes from the Christian demonization of the Roman god Neptune and/or the Hindu god Shiva, and thier Tridents. So we could say that a lot of todays "demons" are either just yesterdays "gods" or gods from a religion that the Christian Church chose to demonize.

http://www.occultopedia.com/d/daimon.htm

Goetic Magickians tend to treat "demons" as some kind of subconscious forces/entities (in modern Psychological terms they would be called 'dissociated complexes' i believe) that can be either good or bad (read "My Life With The Spirits" by Lon Milo DuQette)





Edited by - McArthur on 14 April 2002  23:08:58

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You are a braver person than I am, my friend. If that concept even briefly entered my mind of its own volition, I think I would spend the rest of my life on my knees praying for forgiveness.

G'day Robert,

            Are you being serious about the above? What makes you believe (belief system) that you would need to spend the rest of your life on your knees, asking your Self for forgivness?
It just stuck out as a rather odd comment.

Just curious

McArthur

You might find the following lecture of interest. Its about the "Abramelin the mage" book on how to contact your Holy Guardian Angel (HGA). Here is just a small snippet from about half way through;

"KITTY JUST ATE THE NEIGHBOR'S DOG

It's possible to make a mistake and pick the wrong spirit, instead of the Holy Guardian Angel. The H.G.A. is something that you can release yourself to completely and still end up being the same individual you were in the beginning. People tend to get a little weird doing a magical retirement, so it's a good idea to keep a diary. With a diary, you can read old entries and figure out how you got to where you are now. If necessary, you can go back again. My favorite test is to take a break once in a while and go into a Safeway or something like that. If you can stand it, you're still sane. That's the definition of sanity in this culture, able to take care of the minimum. Being able to endure a supermarket long enough to harmlessly obtain food is pretty minimal. There is a thing called a lemure or Larva. You can attract a hungry spirit, usually a wandering Nephesh, something that is dependent on somebody else to stay around. You're "it"; you've volunteered as life-support. Such a spirit is willing to pretend to be anything in order to keep on sucking. That's not the H.G.A. That's just a trap that people fall into, because they have been told that's all there is. The majority of those cases are what the Romans would call lemures or larvae, the Tibetans hungry ghosts, and the Hassids Dibukim. Such spirits need attention to live. It is just like a failed relationship with a mate. If that other person is dependent on you for shelter and food or for some important but less tangible thing, they'll do anything up to the limits of their nature to keep you the way you are. If you want them to be something, they will turn into it. If you are angry, you will tend to evoke greater anger from them, resulting in passive reaction on your part. The partner in such a dysfunctional relationship may realize: "if this guy gets out of hand, all I have to do is yell at him. All I have to do is hit 'em once and 'es just as quiet as anything." People will usually do the things that get them what they want. Not every one, sometimes people are remarkably stuck in one track. These are lesser spirits, whatever you want to call them, hungry ghosts, vampires... that's what the word "vampire" really meant. It was a member of the family who hung around after he died, as long as you gave him useful things to do that weren't too difficult. Vampires aren't always considered to be monsters who make life terrible for you; they can be good to have around. They chase off peddlers, robbers, whatnot. When a stranger comes to the house, the vampire will feel very protective of the family. A "vampire" will pick up on it if a person doesn't like them: "O'h, 'don't like' means I get attention!" Then they will proceed to do more irritating things to that person. Keeping peace with the spirits of the ancestors is very important in cultures around the world. The Romans called the friendly ancestral spirits Lares and the pesky ones Larvae. You want Great Grand Mother's ghost to bark at strangers, not at reasonably behaved family members. This kind of thing isn't the Holy Guardian Angel. This kind of thing is what happens when something eats off of you. A certain amount of this is harmless, but you want to make sure that you are in charge. In some states of mind people leak like a sieve. A lot of life is being generated, not being used by the person generating it, and it's there for the taking. Something comes and says: "This is lunch. How do we make this a 24 hour diner? Very simple. Every time this person thinks; 'O'h God if I haven't ...!', he turns loose all this energy. So, let's see: 'Hay! God I haven't!' or 'Why did I do that!' -- that's a new one. That tastes better. 'Your such a bummer' -- works too. Hot damn! 'You hate hating yourself, don't you!' More food!". If you ever get really depressed, between sobs, wrenches and tremors, pick up on what you are saying to yourself. Maybe it isn't you talking. Maybe it's some astral clown saying: "Watch him go!" This kind of thing is often marked by painful ideas that relay back inwardly to create more painful ideas. In order to get rid of a depression feedback loop, you've got to realize that this isn't you. The destructive voice is not really rational. Jokes and humorous self-observations, the more tasteless and jolting the better, will break this sort of cycle. If you get that kind of thing going, realize it isn't the Holy Guardian Angel. That is a wrong turn. Go back and try again. That is a demon, and that is one of the things that the Holy Guardian Angel is supposed to help you with. It's probably a very stupid demon, who is only good at picking up on things to say. "


http://www.hermetic.com/heidrick/abramel.html

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This is such a fascinating topic Mcarthur, thanks for posting it. While I can't comment on the occult aspects I can comment on the practice of co sleeping with an infant.
When I had my eldest son in 1983, co sleeping was frowned upon to the point it was almost veiwed as child abuse by the medical community.
Nether the less I continued in secret because I just couldn't ignore my instincts that it was the right thing to do.
I have since had 3 other children and I have noticed it has been progressivly accepted. When I had my youngest in 1999 co sleeping was even presented as an option by the nursing staff.
Every one of my children easily and happily progressed to their own bed when they felt ready, usually 3 to 4 yrs old.

Hi Justine,
           it seems you must have good insticts, i suggest you follow them more often
If i was to have children with a partner i know i would take a similar approach to yours, just to be safe. Knowing that the child is further protected by your and/or your partners aura/protective energy while sleeping should be an incentive for more parents to follow this course of action. It would be much much harder for any neg to reach a child sleeping between its parents than in an isolated crib.

Something i will mention here is that i do not believe i stumbled on this topic by coincidence. I have recently (within the past few weeks) been re-experiencing childhood dreams and other phenomena that i now realize were some kind of spiritual interference. I won't go into details, but needless to say i myself am now aware of some kind of neg interefence in my baby/early childhood life.
I was drawn to Roberts work by a long string of coincidences that would take too long to explain.
The person who originally caused Ngyen to respond as he did is Lisa Gardner who i recognised (and told her so) on alt.magick from when she used to post at astralresearch.com
These things are *not* coincidence nor unconnected.
This is an important issue that needs dragging into the light of day and dealt with. When done so properly, i think it could have an enormous impact on our poor world as we now know it.

Peace

McArthur

I have not read any of Monroe's books yet but i wanted to comment on my thoughts as i read this post;

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I am currently reading Journeys Out of the Body and although the book is a little out dated, I have found it quite fascinating and full of good info.  Anyway, for those of you who have read it (and can remember), I have a question specifically regarding the chapter he dedicates to "Local III"-

For those of you who haven't read it and those who have but long ago, Monroe finds himself traveling through tunnel into a black void.  Eventually he finds an entire world like ours, with a cilvilization much like ours (with human beings, etc.)  The main difference is the technology is different, ie. trains that don't use steam or electricity, but something stored in "vats".  The automobiles are very wide and sit up to six people on wide benches and drive down very wide streets.

This sounds quite Futuristic.

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The strangest thing is that when Monroe travelled there, who would occassionaly take over the body of a man...  this man was an engineer and occassionaly he would be in control of his body during vital moments, for example once he found himself as this man in his labratory.  Suddenly the man's wife entered the room with a group of people and asked, "So, can you tell my friends what you're working on?" Of course Robert, not having any memory of the man's past or present, other than the little info he had gained when he was in his body, didn't say anything.  

Doesn't this sound very similar to the TV program "Quantum Leap"? What if Monroe was actually somehow glimpsing a future incarnation of himself? (see the article by RB "Re-incarnation-not so simple).

Astral to the Moon sounds interesting, but i would also like to see the Sun close up/inside too. Anyone here visited the Sun?
(this reminds me of a song by Pink Floyd called "Set the controls for the Heart of the Sun")

Hi folks,
         just to be clear (i should have been in the original post), the essay is not by me. I gave the link for those wanting more info.

pax

McArthur

Studies in Sabbatian Kabbalah: On "Manic-Depression"
Yakov Leib haKohain

Time and again, the issue of Sabbatai Zevi's alleged "manic-depression" is raised by his modern critics and anyone else looking for a way to dismiss or minimize him. In what follows, I propose to discuss this
problem. But first, by way of background, I think it appropriate to describe my credentials for doing so. To begin with, I took my doctorate in Jungian Psychology and Comparative Religion under my mentor, James Kirsch, M.D. -- at the time, the last surviving member of C.G. Jung's original inner circle and a founder, by Jung's personal mandate, of the first Jungian Center (Los Angeles) in the United States, where I did post-doctoral work for three years. I've also published several papers on religion and psychology, particularly Kabbalah, in several journals and anthologies. For example, my paper "For The Sake of God: An Answer to Jung" was published in the Library Journal of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco; and I contributed the chapter, "Kabbalah and the (Jungian) Interpretation of Dreams" in the Jungian anthology, MODERN JEW IN SEARCH OF A SOUL, published by Falcon Press and still available, I believe, through Amazon.com.

Having laid bare my "credentials," so to speak, in my characteristically immodest and self-serving manner, I'd like to discuss briefly the question of Sabbatai Zevi's so-called "mannic-depression." Ever since Gershom Scholem borrowed this phrase from modern clinical psychiatry it has been used repeatedly by scholars and historians to describe the cause of Sabbatai's "strange actions," as they were called at the time -- his swings between religious exaltation and inert despair -- and the
antinomian behaviors attendant on them. As Scholem points out, "His [hostile] contemporaries speak of him as a madman, a lunatic or a fool, and even his followers admitted that his behavior, at least from puberty onward, provided ample reasons for these appelations." (SS: TMM p. 125)

To begin with, such seemingly bizzare behavior is rather typical of religious figures. According to the Gospels (John 10:20) Jesus's own contemporaries said, "He is possessed . . . raving," and his relatives
worried over his sanity. There is a Sutra (I forget which at the moment) in which Buddha's followers discuss whether or not he is "insane." Sri Ramakrishna's family, according to THE GOSPEL OF RAMAKRISHNA, also worried for his sanity and came to fetch him home from the temple where
he was dressing and living as a woman. Meher Baba went through a prolonged period of what contemporary psychiatrists would call "psychosis." And St. Paul complained, "I was given a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan to beat me." (2 Corinthians 12:7)

The Prophet Jeremiah best describes such "manic-depressive" religious episodes, and the perceptions of them by others, when he exclaimed, "You have seduced me, Yawheh, and I have let myself be seduced; you have overpowered me: you were the stronger. I am a laughingstock, the butt of
everybody's derisionn. Each time I speak the Word, I have to howl and proclaim: 'Violence! Ruin!'   . . . I used to say, 'I will not think about him, I will not speak in his name any more.' Then there seemed to
be a fire burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones. The effort to restrain it wearied me, I could not bear it . . . 'Denounce him! Let us denounce him! all those who used to be my friends [would say]."
(Jeremiah 20:7-13)

Clearly, modern psychiatry would describe the Prophet Jeremiah (and others, such as Elijah) as "manic-depressive" or, at least, suffering from some form or another of "psychosis." The problem with the science of modern psychyiatry, however, is that it mistakes LABELING a particular behavior for an EXPLANATION of it. Describing Sabbatai Zevi's religious states as "manic-depression" tells us no more about them, or their causes, than calling them "uppsey-downies" or "innie-outies." All it does is provides us with a scientific "explanation" of a non-scientific event which sciences hesitates to explain in religious terms. Even the arguement that manic-depression is "caused" by an imbalance in brain chemistry (treatable by the use of the medication Lithium) is no explanation at all: is the biochemical imbalance a "cause" or a SYMPTOM of the seemingly erratic behavior? The fact that Lithium stabalizes the brain's biochemistry in "manic-depression" no more proves that the imbalance is a cause, rather than an effect, of the condition than aspirin treatment of a muscle-ache proves that it was
"caused" by sore muscles.

I'm not arguing here against the use of medication in the treatment of psychological conditions. I'm simply arguing that finding a "cure" for something, or giving it a psychiatric label, does not explain its cause. For example, Victorian medical science would have described Sabbatai's condition as the "vapours," along with giving an elaborate explanation of their "causes" which modern psychiatry now lables as "pseudo-scientific." I submit that such labels are not really created to "explain" or "describe" religious phenomena, but to dismiss them. Yet today's "science" is tomorrow's "hokum" -- ad infinitum in proportion to the capacity of the human ego to expand.

Another explanation for Sabbatai's condition can be found in Jung's statement, "The indwelling of the Holy Ghost, the third Divine Person, in man, brings about a Christification of many." (Answer to Job, par. 758) Here, Jung uses religious rather than medical metaphors to "explain" the non-medical, transpersonal condition of "God possession," as complained about by Jeremiah and experienced by Jesus, Buddha, Sabbatai Zevi, Ramakrishna Meher Baba and other great Avatars and Tzaddikim. To attribute their religious ecstasies to an "imbalanced brain chemistry" is no more accurate or useful than attributing them to "the indwelling of the Holy Ghost." it's only more comforting to those who don't understand them.
http://www.kheper.auz.com/topics/Kabbalah/manic-depression.htm

Pax

McArthur
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"God is mad. If you are ready to be a little mad, only then is there any posibility of any contact between you and the infinite. It had to be so. When the whole Ocean drops into a drop, the drop is going to get crazy. When the infinite descends into the finite, how can the finite remain sane? It has to go mad. The olf Mystics have always called it "The Divine Madness". All meditation is an approach towards divine madness. Stake all human sanity. It is better to be mad in a divine way than to be sane in a human way. i am crazy." - Osho Rajneesh

Hi Adam,
       you mentioned being angry at this 'spirit' attached to you. For now the best advice i can give you is not to show it any emotion at all, if possible. Your anger will only leave you open to Obsession by said spirit.
In "The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage" translated by S.L. MacGregor Mathers, a certain point is persistantly made. I quote;

"And immediately, on beholding your steadfastness, they will obey you; but should they not, you ought then to Invoke your Guardian Angel, whose chastisement they will quickly feel.
 Yet, notwithstanding, we should never employ harsh means,in order to have that which we can obtain by gentleness and courtesy*"

There is a note by Mathers
*"Let me here once again insist on the absolute necessity in Occult work of being courteous, even to Evil Spirits; for the Operator who is insolent and overbearing will speedily lay himself open to obsession by a Spirit of like nature."

This book is all about the evocation of various spirits in order to subject them to the Mages Will. The advice in your circumstance , i think, is still relevant. Try to keep a watchful eye on your emotions like anger etc and keep them under control.

Best Wishes

McArthur