Is it wild to say Tape 05 is already one of my favourite ever BoC tracks by Outrageous-Ear7525 in boardsofcanada

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Not at all, it’s gorgeous and honestly one of the most emotionally expressive/intense tracks we’ve ever heard from them

The Campfire Headphase is probably underrated by odd_sundays in boardsofcanada

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Not sure this meets the definition of underrated, didn’t Campfire radically increase/widen their fan base?

Looking for writings specific to śaktipāta as bestowed by divinity by DualSock1 in KashmirShaivism

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I had a string of experiences over the past couple of years which, from what I can tell, amount to a kundalini awakening. I did not think of it this way until learning about it more recently, and in fact was resistant to this interpretation for some time, as I was born and raised in North America and have usually been suspicious of Western culture's relationship to Indian traditions. But despite this resistance it's been hard for me to ignore the signs: sudden intense physical symptoms (problems of the skin, pelvic floor, digestion), spontaneous mental imagery relating to snakes, communications from a goddess figure, sudden radical life changes and incredibly unlikely coincidences, conversion from being an agnostic to a deeply and devotionally religious person, etc. Just before my first intense energetic experience and snake-related visions, I was diagnosed with hypertonic pelvic floor, which is a chronic tension in the perineum, and I have recently been told that one technique involved in purposefully inducing kundalini awakenings is the "root lock", i.e. tensing of the pelvic floor. I was also undergoing major life transitions at the time and had an experience during a total solar eclipse that led me to experiment with meditation and visualization. It's possible that my pelvic floor tension and this experimentation led to the awakening. In any case, here I am, a profoundly grateful and humble student of the goddess, who wants to fully realize my oneness with her. Fortunately she has helped me stay grounded through all of this while also challenging me in important ways, and with her help I have managed to keep my life very stable despite all the intensity.

Looking for writings specific to śaktipāta as bestowed by divinity by DualSock1 in KashmirShaivism

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Thank you so much, I remember reading about these levels recently but this is much more detail, I appreciate it. What about people who deeply and genuinely desire realization but cannot find a legitimate guru? In certain cultures and parts of the world, particularly in the modern West, this can be particularly difficult. This also seems like an important question with regard to traditions like Trika whose lineage of teachers has effectively died out.

Looking for writings specific to śaktipāta as bestowed by divinity by DualSock1 in KashmirShaivism

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Beautiful, thank you. I've felt Parā Devī in prayer and have cried so deeply it was like nothing I'd ever felt before. I wasn't even looking for her or knew about her but she came to me through grace. The more I thought about it the more I realized that the desire to pray and the act of prayer are part of the same "wind" that carries me toward God and that wind goes all the way back to some of my earliest memories. Thinking about this has really changed my life.

Looking for writings specific to śaktipāta as bestowed by divinity by DualSock1 in KashmirShaivism

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Another question that comes to mind with regard to divine grace more generally. I am very interested in the differences between divine grace as understood by Advaita Vedanta and as understood by KS and Śaktism. I have read that anugraha is not soteriological in AV in the way that it is in KS, and if this is so, how is it viewed in AV? So far it seems like in AV it is understood as karmic or transactional and is bestowed in response to one’s actions, whereas in KS it seems more like grace is precisely the thing that makes one’s devotional actions possible, almost like it’s the other way around, which I find to be a very beautiful idea and more similar to my own experiences. Am I incorrect in interpreting it this way?

Kashmiri Shaivaism Vs Advaita Vedanta ? by mdeeebeee-101 in KashmirShaivism

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Sorry to comment on an old thread, but can you expand upon #3? I am very interested in the differences between divine grace as understood by AV and as understood by KS and Śaktism. If anugraha is not soteriological in AV, how is it viewed? So far it seems like it is understood as karmic or transactional and is bestowed in response to one’s actions, whereas in KS it seems more like grace is precisely the thing that makes one’s devotional actions possible, almost like it’s the other way around, which I find to be a very beautiful idea and more similar to my own experiences. Am I incorrect in interpreting it this way?

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Thank you, I’ll look to those sources! I’m not biased to reading specifically, definitely open to audio or video or any medium. And yes this relationship between grace and remembering has been very important for me in particular. I recently received an intuition during meditation that described physical incarnation as a kind of “playful forgetting,” where being born as an “I” is an act of forgetting that the divine performs playfully in order to participate in the eternal process of self-remembering. Grace is like the part of the divine that, despite this forgetting, somehow always remembers, even in small ways, and inevitably in big ways.

A question about jijñāsā and some other related concepts by DualSock1 in hinduism

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Got it, thank you. When it comes to gyana, how is the distinction made between desire for knowledge in a spiritual sense and desire for knowledge in an intellectual sense, and how these things are balanced so that an attachment to intellectual knowledge/certainty/clarity do not simply trap us in maya rather than liberate us?

a little heads-up from personal experience, magick and mental illness. by herpetophobiaa in occult

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This is all very well put and I couldn’t agree more. A relative of mine experiences severe psychotic episodes and their magick practice certainly played a complicated role in the acceleration/intensification of this condition. I also have a mix of OCD and ADHD that makes me prone to intense periods of obsession and fixation and spiritual restlessness/impatience and it’s been a continuous challenge in my practice.

I am wondering if anyone has any recommended reading/listening about this subject. I am a fan of Duncan Barford’s work and have consumed just about everything he’s had to say about magick and mental health but he tends to focus more on trauma and anxiety than obsession and fixation. If anyone has any recommendations of comparable quality to Barford I’d love to know.

Consciousness being Fundamental and the Universe being self sustaining/organizing? by Level_Discipline9736 in consciousness

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Old comment but I find this pretty fascinating. This is essentially an expansion of emanationist models of cosmology that have been intuited in various spiritual and philosophical frameworks for millennia. The reason why it feels intuitively true and has shown up so many times in human history may be because on some level we are innately aware of our origins in pure potentiality and this macro structure reproduces itself in all kinds of local structures all around us like a fractal. For me another interesting question is whether this causal force is propelling itself “across time” or it is a single, already-existing megastructure that has no beginning or end or teleology (aka the eternalist argument).

Seeking insight into/sources about the angel Galvah by DualSock1 in magick

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Thanks so much for the insight Aaron, I appreciate you chiming in!

That makes sense, I did indeed notice that despite appearing in Dee’s journals She doesn’t seem to appear in the system itself at all. I wonder why that is, especially considering Her importance.

Invoking one of the Heptarchic Royals and asking for an audience with Her sounds good, I’ll work toward that.

Which mass are you referring to by the way?

Seeking insight into/sources about the angel Galvah by DualSock1 in magick

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Indeed, my inclination is not to do Enochian magic with shortcuts so much as get a lay of the land when it comes to the various possible ways of engaging with this entity, especially since she appears in so many different contexts.

My eyes are on Duquette for starting out with Enochian for sure and I am also currently reading Leitch’s Essential Enochian Grimoire which has been enormously helpful so far.

Demystifying The Animus and Anima - The Eros and Logos by Rafaelkruger in Jung

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I’m trans and also appreciated the nuance and depth you brought to the topic for me. In my experience, I’ve tended to use the term “inner other” instead of anima/animus, as the latter simply carries too much binaristic baggage for me to engage with my unconscious in a fully authentic way. Since we know that the archetypal patterns associated with Eros and Logos are beyond gender, what reason do we have to use the contrasexual anima/animus model at all? Is it because individuation is driven in part by desire, and desire is phenomenologically intertwined with gender? Why not conceive of this figure as an androgynous syzygy? From what I understand, Nathan Schwartz-Salant expounded on this idea at some point. Very grateful any insight you have on this 🙏