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@ivankiss The more you are involved in a craft, the more you forget about your self; The more you forget about your self, the more you see the self for what it is, embracing the infinity of experiencies beyond it. So it is not a surprise that many at the top of their Arts know what's up. And this include Writers, Musicians, Directors, Philosophers, Painters, Sculptors and anyone who treat life as an instrument of Knowledge, consciously or not.

@Lila9 War ended 50 years ago, Israel won and borders were established. What you call "war on territory" shouldn't even be happening because settlements shouldn't be there. And yet it still occupies territories(according to the U.N.) over which it doesn't have any right (west bank, golan), and segregate a minority group in a concentration camp (gaza). So yes i wuold say that etchinic cleansing, segregation, concentration camp and occupation are suitable word IF you look up the definitions. And before you say it: Yes, Hamas BAD. @zazen exactly

@Lila9 The settlers occupation shit can be considered ethnic cleansing, look up the definition. Ethnic cleansing doesn't require direct killing.

Agalloch is a Post/black/doom/folk metal band from USA.These 2 tracks contains little vocals but good examples to give you a taste of the sonic landscape that they can create. They have full instrumentals aswell. Their in general so good at conveying in music the solemn immensity of mistery of Life. The whispering, the acoustic guitar, the choirs, ambient sounds, the pauses, darkness and clarity, the drums,: all adds up to the result.

@PepperBlossoms I have no direct experience with entities/demons, but i do know that Magic work their purpose if correctly executed. So, given the big literature and testimonial about it, It doesn't seem strange to me that poeple could come in contact with intelligencies with no body. How do they burn themselves? Take human beings. we don't consider a fellow human an "entity", as much as we don't consider the sun a star, but that's what it is. If you befriend the mafia for example, you might qiucky get money, sex, status, but the chanches of getting shot, arrested, betrayed rise up significantly. If you befriend a drug dealer, you get the best drug, but you also increase the chanches of getting a stroke, and so on. The same happens with non-material entities. An entity is a kind of energy/idea/information that incarnates and becomes "conscious" and invoking it will make you come in contact with that particular energy. But you must pay attention what energies you interact with. If you evoke the God of War, you might become more combative a work, but your collegues might start looking at you bedly. This can help you. This guy is does Cerimonial Magic, was on death row for nearly 20 years passed the time studying this stuff.

@Nivsch I think it is usually better to negoitiate rather than bombing if you want hostages back. (not to mention some of them will die in the bombings) The lesser of two Evils. Iran and Hezbollah benefit from having Hamas there, if they disappear they won't just stay and watch I agree that the Palestinians would be better off Hamas, but i'm afraid the way Israel is dealing with the problem is the worst possible, for reasons i mentioned before. Israel made the worst mistake by recluding Palestinian in the strip thinking whis would hold problems at bay. They basically created a safe space for radicalization to spread and Hamas is the result. The world commmunity should impose their will because everyone in the area has proven incapable of dealing with it. I'm not confused i meant what i meant. Aid and Crisis are two different things. The bombings will cause a H. C. because 100's of thousends of pople won't have a home at the of the conflict. And many more will die and get injured. Not to count the fact that the strip already has little access to drinkable water, electricity and power. And not just beacause of Hamas.

@Leo Gura Yes. Too many errors from every side unfortunately.

Occult does't equal satanism. Occultism is a general term that indicates many traditions. Occultism is like fire. You can use to bake a cake or you can burn your fingers. finding a teacher is preferable. Some poeple use it for Evil, Yes. And then they usually burn their fingers

@Leo Gura Even if, after months, they're going to defeat hamas, Israel is going to deal with humanitarian crisis of immense proporsion, that i bet they have literally no idea how to manage, looking at how they dealt with the conflict so far. The bombing could backfire. Of course if they sweap clean the strip Hamas desappears(civillians included), but at that will provoke a reaction from Iran and Hezbollah, resulting in an even bigger escalation and threat for Israel. The biggest problem is that every state in the area is so militaristic(obviously) and rely upon weapons to solve problems. it will never work. Best short term action could be political, like proclaiming ceasefire and softening te sanction on Iran, but it's never going to happen with these poeple in power.

@Twentyfirst Got ya! @Breakingthewall Sure, it's logical.

@Twentyfirst I don't know exacly what you mean, but to get things clear, yes Hamas is as bad for the well being of palesinians as Israel right wing fundamentalism is for the Israelis.

@Leo Gura Most war analyst agree that bombing isn't the most effective way to cancel Hamas. The thing is, the way the operation are carried really make poeple wonder whether Israel wants to actrually destroy Hamas or intentionally kill civilians. Best thing would probably have been a decade-long agent infiltaration operation in the strip to slowly weaken them from the inside. What they are basically doing right now is trying to get rid of a virus by physically hammering the computer to peaces. So question is: Do the leaders of Israel want to actually help Palestinians but are too short-sighted and a-systemical to see that this approach won't work, or they are actual snakes using the excuse of Hamas to kill as many palesinians as the world community would tolerate before intervining?

Truth can't be spoken, true. But i'm confident that it can certainly be pointed at with right speech, action and heart.

@ActualizedJohn1- There is only One consciousness bubble, the one you are experiencing right now. 2- This bubble is limitless. There is no inside nor outside. To the point that even the term bubble is misleading, because bubbles presuppose a limit. 3- Notice how the thought "there are several bubbles" can only appear in your bubble/experience. 4- So, every division/border/content of experience is fabricated/imagined/Hallucinated. 5- So is there a imaginator/creator? No, it's an impersonal process, there is no actual ground one or source. The concept of a "source" is an object appearing in your experience. The answer you your question is: The splitting is imagined and is going to be real for you as long as it is imagined to be real. You are part of an imagined narrative. So since it is fabricated, if the "Me" in the narrative realizes that division is part of the narrative, the narrative will change accordingly Notice: everything i wrote above is still part of the narrative.

@Dodo I with you on that, Being can't be spoken. Since we're on a forum though, that is the only thing we can do here i write about, fortunately or unfortunately.

@DodoI assumed all those things about you because to justify your statement you uselessly brought up the usual talking points of materialists. It seemed as if you were criticising the mechanic the metaphor is pointing to, which is fitting. To explain your point you could have just said "the statement is not meant to be taken literally, but it points to the mechanic of the dream" So next time get straight to the point

@Dodo You got caught into a very basic misunderstanding of this teaching. When it is said that Life is a dream, it means that, like in a dream, the content of reality doesn't have inherent material existence and it's a groundless fabrication/creation/production/hallucitantion. So it is a statement on the Nature of reality not on the content. So we still have perfectly fixed rules with this this reality/dream is organized. The rules aswell are fabricated/created/produced/imagined etc. Leo has certainly touched upon this topic, watch some of his content.

@HMD You said it yourself, There so need of an attachment o the "I" for breath to keep occurring. This waking state has fixed laws that can't be broken. Breath is a fundation as much has gravity is. Without a building's fundation, it wouln't be possible fore you to go up to the 73d flor and observe the view from the window

i think both of you @ardacigin and@Leo Gura are misunderstanding each others positions. You guys call quasi-identical concepts different ways and from that stems misunderstandings. Anyway i guess leo's definition of "Mind" would include what you discribe as Ultimate Reality I don't think Leo has ever claimed that being Mind means being able to manipulate Mind.

@davecraw can you provide evidence that the difference between imagination and "concrete reality" is NOT imagined?

@Leo Gura Would you agree then that your God awakinings are a fantasy and a dream aswell? If not what the difference? i'm not trying to disprove you, just cheching if you're still coherent

@WeCome1 literally every thing you said is incorrect and stems from a lack of knowledge, but hey, keep your opinion and attitude. Taking Castaneda's books to the letter is already a signal you were doing thing wrong. And Nothings gonna change the fact that there are safe ways to do it and they work.

@Holykael bs. good and evil are a on the same coin by definition. When you are a baby you are not even aware that such duality exist. You can only think it was "good time" in retrospect This is true, but doesn't negate the fact that you will be served both, otherwhise you won't know the distinction.

@WeCome1 Dealing with any kind of altered state of conscousness can create problems, but with the right amount of cationusness you can keep them at bay. You just have to take baby steps, use protections and have some kind of failsafe. Furthermore, Magic doesn't always require spirit work.

@BojackHorseman so, let's begin Actually, if you have these kind problems, rituals should be easier for you to follow, because we can say that the practice of magick is a "meditation in motion", often requiring you to bounce from a place to another with attention. If deep down you know these "forces" are utlimately you, you won't have a problem dealing with them. Also, not every type of magic deals with spirits and entities Es.: check "Advanced Magick for Beginners" by Alan Capman. The path i'm following give you a ritual that doesn't involve entity, and it is used both fot spiritual and material attainment. My statement was "way i be able to recieve 50€ by 18/05/23". I did recivie the money through a football bet and long due loan coming back. The next day i found 130€ on the ground of a metro station. It was the first time i did magic to obtain something a never found free money on the ground before, let alone so much. So it definetly isn't just a motivation enchanter. But you also need "magical links" to make this procedures work. Jeson Miller "The Elements of Spellcrafting" has been a good read recently, and it delves into these mechanics. This is another misconception. Magick is actually highly logical, the problem is that at first it seems nonsensical because it deals with so many unknown factor, and it takes time to understand these factors. When i look at old books like Agrippas "Three Books of Occult Philosophy", i can't help but think this guy knew so much stuff we don't. And if you know a bit of spirituality you also know that science is great but has it's dogmas as everything else. I see were you are caming from. That's me aswell. I've always tried to understand "how it works", but there so much confusing shit that makes it difficult for you to get an opinion of it. Skimming through though, there is good stuff. All im going to share an overview of what the field has to offer. notice that magic functions both spiritual work and material attainment. i'm avoiding super old stuff as is kind of hard to read (avoid Crowley at first). Advanced Magick for Beginners by Alan Capman The Elements of Spellcrafting by Jeson Miller Financial Sorcery by Jeson Miller High Magick by Damien Echols Rituals by Damien Echols Practical Sigil Magick by Frater UD Kabbalah for Health and Wellness by Mark Stavish You may also find important to learn the meaning and corrispondences between The Tree of Life, The Planets and The Zodiac Signs ------- In video format, search into these two channels and you will have a good overview of what magick is and what it can do.