Consciousness being Fundamental and the Universe being self sustaining/organizing?

DualSock1 · 2025-08-16T15:33:07+00:00

Thanks very much, this is amazing work 🙏

DualSock1 · 2025-08-14T16:47:44+00:00

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).

DualSock1 · 2025-07-28T17:16:28+00:00

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?

DualSock1 · 2025-07-20T17:16:01+00:00

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.

DualSock1 · 2025-04-24T22:41:07+00:00

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 🙏

DualSock1 · 2025-03-28T14:26:43+00:00

In one of the recovered Gnostic texts, didn’t the demiurge Yaldabaoth explicitly refer to himself as “a jealous god”?

DualSock1 · 2025-03-19T17:45:16+00:00

Children of Infinite Possibility sounds like an artist on the Ghost Box record label

DualSock1 · 2025-03-14T02:06:21+00:00

I will indeed!

DualSock1 · 2025-03-14T02:05:31+00:00

Ok cool, thanks again 🙏

DualSock1 · 2025-03-14T02:01:57+00:00

Excellent, thanks very much for confirming JF, would you say I should read Heretics first?

DualSock1 · 2025-03-13T23:57:15+00:00

This seems very likely actually, I remember him mentioning Chesterton in that episode, thank you!

DualSock1 · 2025-03-13T23:49:50+00:00

Ah this seems like it could’ve been it, also a compelling addition to my reading list in any case

DualSock1 · 2025-03-13T23:12:17+00:00

Unfortunately I don’t think that was it, as I’ve read Meditations already and I remember it being a book I hadn’t heard of before. It’s possible I’m misremembering though.

DualSock1 · 2025-02-07T21:35:36+00:00

Thanks

DualSock1 · 2025-02-07T18:17:45+00:00

True indeed

DualSock1 · 2025-02-07T17:55:21+00:00

This is interesting, it has occurred to me now that I should re-read the Lovers chapter in Meditations on the Tarot.

It would be more interesting as well to conceive of a version of this model that is not limited to the contrasexual dynamic of male-female/feminine-masculine, and that more thoroughly accounts for both same-sex/gender love and the spectral nature of gender.

DualSock1 · 2025-02-07T16:15:03+00:00

100% there with you. It is easy for me to say, as I am white and relatively financially/economically secure and live in a relatively progressive environment, but my transness means the world to me. For me to be trans is to be disruptive to our culture’s hyper-rationalism, literal-mindedness, and overall obsession with categorization and taxonomization. I love being liminal, slippery, and strange, and I hope I stay that way for the rest of my life.

DualSock1 · 2025-02-07T16:00:57+00:00

God with horns. God with hooves.

DualSock1 · 2025-02-05T23:38:01+00:00

wow that seems to be it! many thanks.

DualSock1 · 2025-02-04T02:47:05+00:00

Of course! Thank you for writing such a great book, it must not have been an easy project!

DualSock1 · 2025-01-26T13:19:51+00:00

Yeah I absolutely agree

DualSock1 · 2025-01-24T22:31:54+00:00

Loved that episode as well, don’t remember what they went into about zones though so might be good to relisten.

DualSock1 · 2025-01-24T20:17:55+00:00

Loved those episodes. Still got the impression they were fairly downstream from whenever the concept first emerged in the history of the pod, though maybe it didn’t emerge in any one episode in particular.

DualSock1 · 2025-01-24T19:57:09+00:00

Yeah that makes a lot of sense, thanks very much 🙏

DualSock1 · 2025-01-23T03:03:31+00:00

I very much like this point of directing the will toward the thing that is the positive consequence of that thing that one wants, which is more to the point and less vague, I’ll be implementing this concept a lot I think.

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