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Our own civilization has moved into an epoch of permanent crisis and upheaval, and we are beset with a plague of wizards.
Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987)
To explain their occult and mystical experiences, magicians are forced to develop models beyond the scope of materialistic or religious systems.
Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987)
The complete failure of contemporary psychology to create anything other than a vocabulary of intellectual rubbish has encouraged astrology to resurface.
PsyberMagick (1995)
Kia cannot be experienced directly because it is the basis of consciousness (or experience), and it has no fixed qualities which the mind can latch on to.
Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987)
We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable.
PsyberMagick (1995)
Does some mysterious circularity in time connect consciousness and the very existence of the universe?
Most Neo-Pantheists like to think so.
The Apophenion (2008)
Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize.
The Apophenion (2008)
Does the universe as a whole exhibit any kind of consciousness that we can interact with? Does the universe seek to evolve greater complexity and more sophisticated consciousness?
The Apophenion (2008)
Space, time, mass, and energy originate from Chaos, have their being in Chaos, and through th agency of the aether are moved by Chaos into the multiple forms of existence.
Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987)
It has taken us two million years to elevate politics from the level of a monkey squabble, to a level comprehensible to a six year old child.
PsyberMagick (1995)
In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects. To fully realize this is to face a terrible freedom in which nothing is true and everything is permitted, which is to say that everything is possible, there are no certainties, and the consequences can be ghastly.
Liber Kaos (1992)
Many people hear voices without suffering any of the debilitating and dysfunctional effects associated with schizophrenia, some treat these as sources of inspiration of develop religious ideas around them, others become mediums or occultists.
The Apophenion (2008)
But by all means have a go....
PsyberMagick (1995)
If you do not believe this, then attempt to confine your conscious attention to the dot at the end of this sentence without involving yourself in any other form of thinking, including thinking about the dot.
Liber Kaos (1992)
In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight to a dark cemetery for sacred sexual intercourse. Thus he achieves union with his god.
Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987)
Flat Earth theory serves well enough for a trip from the cave to the water hole and back, and a third dimension going up into the sky and down underground serves to accommodate gods and devils — A lot of people still think like that, believe it or not.
The Apophenion (2008)
If corn circles came from enlightened aliens,
Rather than Wiltshire pranksters on cider.
If channellers could speak in hieroglyphics,
Instead of pop-psychological twaddle.
If sharing, caring, non-sexist men,
Could do anything useful in a crisis.
PsyberMagick (1995)
It is a mistake to consider any belief more liberated than another. It is the possibility of change which is important. Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents. There is no freedom from duality on this plane of existence, but one may at least aspire to choice of duality.
Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987)
Matter can be conveniently divided for descriptive purposes into space, time, mass, and energy. However we can only describe any one of these phenomena in terms of the other three. Any definitions we care to make about matter are thus tautological.
Liber Kaos (1992)
New Age-ism : I could Love it … If corn circles came from enlightened aliens, Rather than Wiltshire pranksters on cider…