What is one occult insight that changed your perspective about yourself and the universe forever? Why?

[shsuchi1]

Also what did it uncover deep within your psyche?

 

[Ergosphere]

well, auras are a better indicator of someone's psychological state than their body language

 

[HoldAll]

What chaos magic showed me was how much wiggle room we possess as individuals, and for wiggle room read freedom to choose between arbitrary spiritual frameworks. Before I discovered this principle, I felt hemmed in by all sorts of strictures, the System, the Man, organised religion, government rules and regulations, fusty societal norms, etc. Somehow I always suspected that it was all in my head but was unable to extricate myself from that Me vs. Them mentality until I read Liber Null & Psychonaut by Peter J. Carroll. Suddenly nothing was as set in stone as it seemed, and every ideology and religion was mine to adopt and discard at random as I saw fit, without any Ultimate Truth in sight. Lots of people feel disoriented by such anarchic doctrines but for me, it was extremely liberating.

Magic for me means constructing a provisional pocket of order within a completely chaotic universe where no gods, supernatural planes, realms or whatnot exist - unless I want them to. Since my chaos magic epiphany, I've found that not all belief systems have been created equal but my personal preferences and dislikes in this regard don't change the fact that I'm free to subscribe to any faith or ideology as I please and that there's no authority whatsoever which has absolute power over me.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

The discovery that we do not change the world - we choose to experience the version of the world where the change is present.

Everything looks the same; but you think about it entirely differently.

 

[Moustache@123]

and why this book exactly ?

 

[Robert Ramsay]

and why this book exactly ?

you should use "reply" if you were talking to @HoldAll, otherwise it may not be obvious who you are replying to. Plus he literally told you 'why' in his post.

 

[shsuchi1]

well, auras are a better indicator of someone's psychological state than their body language

Could you please explain more? I mean I get what you're saying. But isn't body language analogous/reflective/subcomponent of the aura as well? What's your process of looking and analysing an individual's aura?

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What chaos magic showed me was how much wiggle room we possess as individuals, and for wiggle room read freedom to choose between arbitrary spiritual frameworks. Before I discovered this principle, I felt hemmed in by all sorts of strictures, the System, the Man, organised religion, government rules and regulations, fusty societal norms, etc. Somehow I always suspected that it was all in my head but was unable to extricate myself from that Me vs. Them mentality until I read Liber Null & Psychonaut by Peter J. Carroll. Suddenly nothing was as set in stone as it seemed, and every ideology and religion was mine to adopt and discard at random as I saw fit, without any Ultimate Truth in sight. Lots of people feel disoriented by such anarchic doctrines but for me, it was extremely liberating.

Magic for me means constructing a provisional pocket of order within a completely chaotic universe where no gods, supernatural planes, realms or whatnot exist - unless I want them to. Since my chaos magic epiphany, I've found that not all belief systems have been created equal but my personal preferences and dislikes in this regard don't change the fact that I'm free to subscribe to any faith or ideology as I please and that there's no authority whatsoever which has absolute power over me.

Totally agree with you, the moment I realized (and thus decided) that I was the creator of my matrix, every limiting belief/knowledge imposed onto me just required a nudge from my conscience to exist or not exist, breathe or to die off, I became truly mine and my world/universe became what it truly was/is, a conscious making of my own limitless creation and sovereign creativity.

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The discovery that we do not change the world - we choose to experience the version of the world where the change is present.

Everything looks the same; but you think about it entirely differently.

Perspective creates change. An individual on the path of individuation slowly finds out that he is the observer of everything - The All.

And I'd both agree and argue with you about "everything looks the same; but you think about it entirely differently. Yes, because inherently a true initiate "before enlightenment, chops wood, carries water" and "after enlightenment, chops wood, carries water."

So even though inherently everything looks the same, but the fact that he has changed (realized/actualized), produces a divine thinking, a divine creativity to look (think and observe) at the water, the wood, the carrying, the chopping, the enlightenment, the connection of them all, in a whole new light.

The true initiate still keeps on chopping wood, carrying water in a new fashion but also in the same old way altogether.

Breaking polarities and making them one, yet again.

 

[SuperSlimey]

I know it sounds a bit new age like, but to look within and feel self empowered, and that things are not as they seem, in many ways the reality is veiled.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

I know it sounds a bit new age like, but to look within and feel self empowered, and that things are not as they seem, in many ways the reality is veiled.

I am always pleased to mention that "illusion" does not mean "imaginary", it means "not as it appears"

 

[ihateclowns]

Also what did it uncover deep within your psyche?

all of us are fools with gigantic egos without any knowledge of the real workings of this universe but many believe they figured it out while very few would be humble to say they don't know.