"david" wrote: Irony? You having a bad day at thee office? Neither.When you post a link to a 54min video and then pull out the incredibl...

"david" wrote: ...so Louv claims that "every man and woman is a star" is now manifesting in personal youtube channels and Facebook pages. ...

Can't speak to Crowley but Paul Foster Case develops it in some detail in The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages. It's derived from the Sepher Yet...

"david" wrote: If the energy-matter model has been rendered obsolete by the information model Obsolete is a much stronger word than I'd ...

I'll note up front that this line of discussion seems to be taking this erstwhile slumbering thread wildly off course into realms of multi-dimensional...

"david" wrote: This scale analysis is interesting. I've been reviewing it. Does it allow for all sorts of non-local activity? Magic spel...

I'll give you that.

Thanks for the link, david. I have to admit, I got about halfway through the podcast and had to give up. Jason seemed like a worthwhile listen when he...

"david" wrote: "Tao" wrote: As I see the context here, this particular phrase has nothing to do with danger or alert or whinin...

"Los" wrote: It depends on exactly what you mean by "morality."There are specific criteria for practicing Thelema: discovering and carrying...

"david" wrote: If Will stops and cries "why?" Contextually, this implies danger! Alert! However, to be frank, taken as part of that whol...

Thanks for sharing, Horemakhet. Jason's name has popped up once or twice from second- and third-degree connections, always in a positive light. I look...

"david" wrote: each man interprets as he wills. That does seem to be the root of nine tenths of the world's problems.

Given what I've gleaned about you lot, I think we can safely assume that 100% (+/- 3% MOE) of those who would refuse to answer such a question must be...

"david" wrote: Anyone can see you were trying to throw out a "slow learner" insult towards me. 'Twas not an insult unless you find hone...

"david" wrote: How about I refuse to feed your ego? What... You refuse to respond to a perfectly legitimate request for clarification fro...

"david" wrote: That was a bit unfriendly wasn't it? I suggest you reread the "compliance with guidelines" section. In what way do you fe...

"david" wrote: No, I wasn't talking about that sort of stress with regards to Shiva's flustered office worker. Neither is the research....

Gaia is simply the Greek name for Mother Earth. Her protective shield is our atmosphere which, as we decimate it through pollution, is less able to pr...

"david" wrote: Someone who meditates regularly can still be stressed at work so something's wrong. Quite possibly, it's this presumption ...

"david" wrote: I'll come back to this when I re read "exo-psychology" where there is more on external techno change and it's relation to DN...

"david" wrote: "Tao" wrote: "Shiva" wrote: There is gravity on Mars, so the bone-deal might not be a big-deal, bu...

"david" wrote: On a practical level, Tao raised a good point. We can't even agree on what TW is, so how can we apply it to Leary's model? ...

"david" wrote: "ignant666" wrote: "david" wrote: Just an important reminder that "planes" and/or"sephiroth" are n...

"Shiva" wrote: There is gravity on Mars, so the bone-deal might not be a big-deal, but the CO2-Oxygen ratio might be a long-term problem, a...

"david" wrote: Bear in mind there is very strong argument to hold Dr Leary as the heir of Crowley. As soon as you clarify which argument...

Wow. Just... wow.Apparently, those of us trying to extol the benefits of psychedelic exploration might need to take a step back and learn from the mas...

Careful there, Frater. Use of the B-word is liable to get you branded as intellectually lazy by He Who Knows.

"david" wrote: I had to fish through your words for the least emotionally loaded responses and the above is the result of the filtering. W...

"david" wrote: Yes, that should have been the official public face of Thelema according to the naïve and uninformed. I have no idea what...

The only point I can discern you making in this post is: "david" wrote: Understanding true will does not necessitate a degree in philosoph...

"Los" wrote: This kind of electrochemical event in the brain has no discernable effect on most other electrochemical events, such as the el...

"david" wrote: Let me go and read some of those links for the early Leary work that Ignant provided. My theory is that True Will is a meta...

Sorry for the triple post. Missed this one in the stream. "david" wrote: "psychedelic work is not "just a transitory intoxicating private p...

"Tao" wrote: "david" wrote: These 8 circuits are not necessarily only opened by chemicals. Yes, that's exactly what The Boo...

"david" wrote: "Reason is a whore". What a strange non sequitur.I hear that some of the great Zen masters (and probably most ancient Ind...

"david" wrote: These 8 circuits are not necessarily only opened by chemicals. Yes, that's exactly what The Boo Hoo Bible quote is saying...

"david" wrote: I'm neutralizing your circuit 2 shennanigans here. You make use of anal-territorial semantics for the second time with me i...

"david" wrote: What is the actual problem you have? The actual problem I have have is that you regularly create new half-witted arguments...

"david" wrote: Because Crowley thought the same as did RAWison. More on this soon. Leary's assertion that DWTW is central to Crowley's ...

"david" wrote: Yes, of course sceptics Crowley, Dr RAWilson and Dr Leary were involved in inducing "mystical states" but for Crowley and RA...

"david" wrote: However, we have a communication problem here, and Los noticed it also. I'd say it's been at the core of my posts as well...

"david" wrote: Leary even described the term "neuroses" as "metaphysical jabberwocky". Come on he was a scientist. He would've sided wit...

What does "anti metaphysical" (words that do not accurately describe Leary, as you yourself note) have to do with mysticism (something which Leary was...

You have poured the full depth and breadth of your creative soul into two poetic concretisations of your feelings about Radical Honesty and the percei...

"david" wrote: However, impoliteness and insults are not necessarily part of the equation. I was actually insulted in the RH thread. Wou...

If I'm being radically honest (and what better place?), I often get dragged into conversations like this around the web because I give everyone the be...

"david" wrote: Anyway, as I was saying, after my R.H. comment the other day, I was subsequently snubbed in a hostile manner, by him. He s...

"david" wrote: Today, I thought I might get physically confronted by someone I know, for what I said. Well, that tells us something abou...

"david" wrote: Try it and see what you think. "david" wrote: Reactions and changed behaviour in others towards me. That w...