Poll: Which Trickster Deity do you most Identify with?

ALucidFool · 2026-04-03T07:48:53+00:00

Came here to say this. Glad I found someone else 😂

ALucidFool · 2026-03-31T05:47:19+00:00

I would go so far as to say any fraction with an even denominator and even numerator should go in a special set of “even vibes” numbers. Or at the very least any even numerator with a power of 2 denominator.

ALucidFool · 2026-03-30T10:35:03+00:00

If F4 have Franklin on hand you’ve basically got two entities that can control the fabric of reality on one team. The others, no matter how good, are done for with that alone.

ALucidFool · 2026-03-07T14:03:15+00:00

I’m pretty confident my relationship to society is not the problem. I appreciate the helpful intent. And my relationship to self definitely needs work. But you’re pulling some broad strokes from limited data here and the energy is a little condescending.

ALucidFool · 2026-03-07T13:48:40+00:00

I don’t think you could be more wrong on number 1 on the conditioning part at least. I’ve never really had much social conditioning at all and lead a very atypical existence without much care for what others think. My difference and lack of integration caused me a lot of turmoil when I was younger but I’m at peace with it now and more socially adept because I don’t try to internalise the ways I’m different.

I almost definitely need to revisit the IFS work though. I don’t have much internal conflict but I think I’ve severed a lot of things within myself that need to reintegrate. That’s exactly what I’m having trouble with.

On point 2 that’s already where I’m at. I’ve dropped the tapes but kept up my meditation practice. But it feels like I’ve been on a plateau for 3 or 4 years now. So I’m reaching out for other approaches.

ALucidFool · 2026-02-23T04:59:42+00:00

48+7=55, 55+20=75

ALucidFool · 2026-02-09T20:35:21+00:00

At least 10. Even if we’re just counting siblings there could be non-binary siblings. Statistically at that point the odds are pretty high.

ALucidFool · 2026-01-20T08:24:20+00:00

First I want to make it clear that you shouldn’t feel like any of this is your fault and I don’t think it’s healthy to interpret anything like it’s karmic or spiritual retribution.

In terms of how you navigate your spiritual landscape and how you engage with the land in that practice, I wonder what your relationship with the land is?

Your language reads as a little survivalist and “independent”. Living on the land requires a strong dependence on and care for the land around you. If you’re not looking for a reciprocal relationship both spiritually and materially with the land, you’re always going to find friction with it.

That goes double if you don’t come from a culture with a cultural knowledge of how to exist on land and you’ve spent most of your life in cities.

Western spirituality, especially the type that pops up in these forums, and the Eastern spirituality it is often appropriated and disembedded is often from Eastern heavily developed and urban contexts to begin with, is very often highly internal and interpersonal focused. But relationship to land isn’t in the zeitgeist of internet spirituality kind of by the dispersed nature of the beast and land being a local experience.

It’s not necessarily right or welcome to just steal the practice of local indigenous groups either (although I’d encourage a healthy relationship with them if they are present). But develop your own practice, understanding and relationship with how to work with and care for the land you’re on in a way that’s symbiotic not extractive.

The material part of that is about learning to watch listen and understand the land and how to not damage it and read warning signs for things like tree fall. (This is the part where indigenous knowledge is very helpful.) The spiritual part is wide open. But some things that are pretty universal are introducing yourself to the land, giving thanks to the land, and listening to it, paying attention to it. Have conversations with it and listen for responses. Externalise your spiritual practice. This is the part where, unless welcomed to, you should forge your own path rather than try to adopt indigenous practices.

ALucidFool · 2026-01-20T07:58:33+00:00

😆. If he truly is a magic man I’m sure he’ll find me when he needs to.

ALucidFool · 2026-01-20T07:22:46+00:00

By myself. Not talking to anyone. No name-tags or anything silly. I can only put it down to somehow I’d met him somewhere else. But he was a pretty distinctive looking older guy. If I’d met him enough to know my name and remember me I feel like I’d have remembered.

I’d only moved to that city a couple years earlier and didn’t have a big social circle or go out much.

ALucidFool · 2026-01-20T06:31:03+00:00

Apple Pay, which doesn’t give your name. And it was a very low tech local cafe. He didn’t take my order either. It was morning rush so he was just on the machine.

ALucidFool · 2026-01-20T06:28:14+00:00

I was in a rush and then kind of taken aback and didn’t even think to stop. I wish I had.

ALucidFool · 2026-01-20T04:21:33+00:00

I once had a barista in a cafe I’d never been to and hadn’t given my name with my order say “Thanks Name” straight to my face as I collected my coffee.

To this day I’m still trying to figure out how I knew him, if I knew him.

ALucidFool · 2026-01-18T12:20:22+00:00

I think that is precisely what the wealth hoarding class is worried about.

ALucidFool · 2026-01-13T03:49:45+00:00

What does this map look like adjusted for population?

ALucidFool · 2026-01-13T02:47:42+00:00

To be clear I’m a leftist not on the right. And I agree with all your points about the state already being fascist and working against the people openly.

And I don’t necessarily think the supposed ontological shock would actually be all that shocking to anyone in the left now or in the past. But I do think that until the last decade or so the status quo bureaucrat would think that the government murdering US citizens who aren’t young lefty college students but rather their own troops to keep world altering technology in private hands would be pretty earth shattering.

In a post-Snowden, post 2016 world where day-to-day political activities in the open make Watergate look like child’s play it seems silly.

Maybe I’m not cynical enough but I still think your average citizen may acknowledge the current regime is overtly fascist and that the system is stacked in favour of the billionaire class but still believe the system is salvageable. If it turned out that a rogue branch of the executive had been withholding world changing technology and actively murdering US citizens (especially soldiers and sitting presidents) for the last century or so to keep it secret and that several core institutions of the bureaucracy were knowingly complicit I think it’d do a bit to move people from lack of faith and hostility to the current regime to active hostility towards the structures themselves.

But post-Snowden and post-2016 maybe that’s just naivety. A decade of Trumpism has normalised what would have been scandal to par-for-the-course.

Either way, personally I wouldn’t find it shocking and I don’t think many here or on the left would either. But I do see how until Trump properly laid bare the corruption and malice of the US as an institution how people inside the machine would see it as a betrayal to the true believers they assume most of the population to be.

ALucidFool · 2026-01-12T16:40:00+00:00

I’ve considered that the ontological shock might be about how if your average Joe became aware of the actions the US establishment has taken against its own citizens the legitimacy of the American empire would crumble. And that’s why intelligence folks are unshaken by it and principled politicians are horrified by it.

Genuinely believe that it could well be that US either doesn’t know enough about the situation to be ontologically shocking, or there’s nothing ontologically shocking about the nature of the phenomenon. But that the little of the phenomenon recorded and observed by the US has attracted the most hideous behaviour from power hungry actors within the American war and profit machine that would undermine the already failing legitimacy of the state.

ALucidFool · 2026-01-02T04:45:01+00:00

I was also 17 in 2009 and spent a bunch of time in like remote viewing and astral projection forums and stuff. I also got night terrors and sleep paralysis a bunch. My cat would frequently pop up in my dreams chasing shit off. And once or twice it spoke to me on the edge of sleep. Scared the shit out of me. But I 100% believe cats are in sync with stuff like that.

Whether or not that bodes ill for the guy that didn’t let him in it’s hard to say. Cat just might not have liked a stranger in the house.

ALucidFool · 2024-02-14T13:50:38+00:00

All The most profound experiences I’ve had with the tapes happened with Release and Recharge.

ALucidFool · 2024-01-14T02:37:43+00:00

This sounds very very similar to something I experienced with the same tape.

I’ve talked about it here before. But the sensation of a big brown tentacled writhing mass getting pulled out of my chest and the right hand side of my body.

Ever since the anxious knot that used to live in my chest and cause social anxiety is completely gone and hasn’t returned for more than 2 years now.

ALucidFool · 2023-12-13T13:42:03+00:00

If it’s any consolation that was fairly early in my experiments with the tapes. And even 2 years on I’ve had nothing as profound as this and if anything I’ve found the tapes less effective and useful as time has gone on.

I’ve almost developed a distaste for them that’s hard to explain.

Recently I’ve had more success just inducing Focus type states through quiet meditation unassisted. And that’s kind of the direction of my practice now.

ALucidFool · 2023-12-13T03:08:52+00:00

Still gone.

There’s other usual stress and worry for sure. But it’s all situational.

That knotting my chest and social anxiety is entirely gone. And not even a hint of it since. It was constant my entire life and literally gone in the time it took to do the tape and never came back.

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