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Well, great googly-moogly!
The algorithm just rolled this video as I was sitting to do some work.
I saw this just after talking about Jason Black's childhood trauma (link to thread below)- so it’s just a little a bit eerie that this guy is talking about how people project their parental trauma onto their experience with daimons.
Everything You've Been Taught About Demons Is Wrong (Here's What They Actually Are)
I really started the video fully expecting either some fear-based New Age hysteria, true-believer dark fluff, or more diabolist pagan explanationism - but this is shockingly close to my own experiences and overlaps much with my current view and intellectual framework.
Like, WTF? I really wondered for a second if he's been reading my notes here on WF? More likely it's just that time for the core ideas to come around.
To add to this, the daimons sometimes say they are beings left over from the primordial darkness - which he mentions here - and I sort half believe them, but I never take anything anyone says totally at face value.
Yes, I have shockingly found they will assist you in your spiritual evolution.
My early approach was far more Trad Cath (accompanied by my very secular, modernist brain) , than my current take which I half-jokingly call Daimonic Idealism.
I have found they act like Orphic-Neoplatonic Wrathful Buddhas and burn the crap off your soul, and will even heal you and give you powers. But I am also not exactly sure how to trigger that level of immersion, and entanglement so can only talk about what I did and how I approached the practice overall.
One quibble:
Not all demons are dissolvers and removers of attachment. Some appear to inflame a love of physical reality (the Passions) and immersion in it, but probably in a effort to help you see it.
As always, your mileage may vary.
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The algorithm just rolled this video as I was sitting to do some work.
I saw this just after talking about Jason Black's childhood trauma (link to thread below)- so it’s just a little a bit eerie that this guy is talking about how people project their parental trauma onto their experience with daimons.
Everything You've Been Taught About Demons Is Wrong (Here's What They Actually Are)
I really started the video fully expecting either some fear-based New Age hysteria, true-believer dark fluff, or more diabolist pagan explanationism - but this is shockingly close to my own experiences and overlaps much with my current view and intellectual framework.
Like, WTF? I really wondered for a second if he's been reading my notes here on WF? More likely it's just that time for the core ideas to come around.
To add to this, the daimons sometimes say they are beings left over from the primordial darkness - which he mentions here - and I sort half believe them, but I never take anything anyone says totally at face value.
Yes, I have shockingly found they will assist you in your spiritual evolution.
My early approach was far more Trad Cath (accompanied by my very secular, modernist brain) , than my current take which I half-jokingly call Daimonic Idealism.
I have found they act like Orphic-Neoplatonic Wrathful Buddhas and burn the crap off your soul, and will even heal you and give you powers. But I am also not exactly sure how to trigger that level of immersion, and entanglement so can only talk about what I did and how I approached the practice overall.
One quibble:
Not all demons are dissolvers and removers of attachment. Some appear to inflame a love of physical reality (the Passions) and immersion in it, but probably in a effort to help you see it.
As always, your mileage may vary.
Author - Jason S. Black’s notes from 'Pacts with The Devil' (1993)
The macro-level topic here might be 'Shifting into a Daimonic Universe.' More below. I'd been meaning to post these excerpts from the early 1990's book Pacts with the Devil (by S. Jason Black & Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph. D., New Falcon Press, 1993) as the evocatory bookend to the simple but...
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