The gematria for LAM is 71, the same as Liber 71, Crowley's commentary on Blavatsky's "The Voice In The Silence." Imo, this liber is an additional key...

Crowley's philosophy of True Will is paradoxical in that the aspirant has to reach a fairly advanced level in his spiritual system to have any clue w...

Since it looks like the #Metoo movement has burgeoned into a full blown psy-ops operation, I guess it depends if Crowely was relevant to that operatio...

Crowley's pharmacist ,Whineray, prepared the first tincture of mescaline that he tried. Here is a Masters Thesis, written by Patrick Everitt at the Un...

Crowley said that some high level initiates of AA had no formal contact with the order. I think we can award an honorary AA grade to James just based ...

I love Dzogchen! If one could drop all preconceptions, including abstract assumptions about space / time, etc., one would be in a state of samadhi.

Nuts is a relative concept. I'm quite certain that Terrance thought that "normal people" were "nuts."

I like Ken Wilber's approach to this philsophical conundrum: "We therefore reach a startling conclusion. Since modes of knowing correspond with leve...

@duck @serpent252 As I just stated in another reply, it's in _The Brotherhood Of The Screaming Abyss_, written by his brother Dennis. It is also m...

@jamiejbarter @dom That part of the story is told by Dennis, Terrance's brother, in _The Brotherhood Of The Screaming Abyss_. It is mentioned ...

Terrance Mckenna was a bit of a con man during the last decade or so of his life. Terrance had a real bad Dmt trip in 1988 that scared the shit out of...

The Caliphate O.T.O. finished this year with a budget surplus of +6.00 USD. I have heard that they are scared to purchase real estate because of liabi...

I had tripped on LSD-25 more than 100 times before having an LSD trip break through to non-duality(and that at the end of my Abramelin Operation). Tha...

To restate my question, what is the relationhip between the the preview of the coming attractions and the grade itself?

@shiva In my experience, various trance states initiate new ways of thinking / perceiving, but ,often, that modality isn't stablized right away. For...

@shiva Where do you think that entheogenic experiences, including profound ones(chemical samadhi), fit in to the three levels of initiation that you...

Agreed.

@shiva I realize that you are ,perhaps, aware of most of the science related to entheogens that I mentioned in my last reply, but I have been follow...

@thearthuremerson Thanks for providing philosophical commentary(it has been many years since I've studied it). I have a couple of friends that are i...

@ignant666 Thanks for paging thearthuremerson for the chat about philosophy! p.s. Cool story about Sasha and Ann!

@shiva When Rick Strassman MD did a controlled study on Dmt back in the early 90's his hypothesis was that Dmt is the 'spirit molecule' that modulat...

@ignant 5-Meo-Dmt does more reliably occasion full blown mystical experiences(than nn-Dmt, or just about anything) imo. The first time that I ever ...

@shiva "But it is false that these "planes" or states are "out there," because"out there" is nothing more than a three-dimensional, holographic,...

@shiva That's awesome! I own copies of _Coruscatio_ and _Inside Solar Lodge_. I look forward to reading this one.

@ Shiva I love the way you put together this pdf with all of the images. It articulates many of the points that came up in our chat about Sahaj ...

@ignant666 I hear that the honorable profession of drug dealing is a great lesson in true laissez-faire, free market economics though.

Robert Assagioli - transpersonal psychologist - also talks / writes about True Will in a way that is obviously inspired by Aleister Crowley. In fact, ...

@nassah _perdurabo_, by Richard Kaczynski, mentions the box under Crowley's bed with hundreds of pounds in British currency ,when he was living in H...

@ignant666 Just read your reply about the village. I was in the West Village this weekend...it sure is gentrified now!!

@ignant666 "But it all comes down to this in the end: if you diligently do stuff (doesn't seem to matter what stuff) for a while, results will occur, ...

Well, in any case, you seem to be familiar with the states that I'm referring to. Yes, all of these things, dhyana, samadhi, Atmadarshana(and everythi...

@shiva Yes, Crowley's descriptions of K&C were all over the place. At this point, I see a common thread running through most of it though. For ins...

@shiva After thinking about your question more, I attribute Atmadarshana to Kether, but I also attribute this trance state to K&C, for the reasons...

@shiva 777 lists Atmadarshana at Kether. Do you have a reference for K&C being somewhere other than Tiphareth? I take that attribution from 777 wi...

@shiva Crowley changed the length of the Abramelin Operation to 93 days, and one of the other translations of the original manuscript is longer than 6...

Your comment comports with what Crowley said about the state of Atmadarshana (samadhi) being the Hindu trance state that's equivalent to our K&C.

@jamiejbarter I am fairly certain that I set myself up for samadhi with the Abramelin Opertation. That was why I mentioned that I had more than 100 su...

Please note the similarities between Crowley's instructions in Liber XVI, Liber Turris vel Domus Dei sub figurâ and the description of Sahaj samadhi a...

@shiva Yes, agreed. It was a temporary experience of non-dual consciousness. The basis of my argument that I hadn't "crossed the abyss' is Crowley's s...

@christibrany I don't think there are qualitative differences with regard to samadhi just because drugs are used...samadhi is samadhi, but there is a ...

I respectfully disagree with Jamie J Barter's statement, "So the state of Samadhi corresponds precisely with "crossing the abyss" in this respect; nev...

Here is more commentary by Ken Wilber on this topic:

Here is a little more commentary on Sahaj samadhi that comports with this argument (that Sahaj samadhi is the functional equivalent of our idea of cro...

I agree with Frater Shiva that entheogens - especially in combination with magick and yoga - lead to this result (samadhi) more quickly. However, they...

Yes, it seems that Sahaj Samadhi is the state of samadhi that corresponds with crossing the abyss.

I don't think chess did anything for Crowley except help his skills with concentration. I have an elo rating of Expert(the rating just below national...