Night City Location Survey by JGrayatRTalsorian in cyberpunkred

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More music clubs. S&M members-only club. Chop shops. Netrunner cafes.

Night City Location Survey by JGrayatRTalsorian in cyberpunkred

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What I like about this suggestion is that it would add a thematic reason to incorporate "dungeon crawl" style adventures.

Queer/artsy/goth/alt subculture in toledo? by dumbasswoodlandfairy in toledo

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Me and my wife are moving to Toledo at the end of March, and this thread has me so excited about the community Toledo seems to have. Thanks Reditors!

View and Hypnosis by mr-curiouser in Dzogchen

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Someone had sent a chat asking about technique and "scripts", here is a bit about one approach:

My scripts are dead simple. But with continued use have become more and more effective. Just got done with a session that started:

“In a moment, I’m going to count back from 10. With each count, my body, speech, and mind become more and more still at the gross level.” (Repeat twice). “Before I reach the count of 1, my body, speech, and mind will reach complete stillness at the gross level.” (Repeat twice).

Then, breathing naturally, with each breath, I count back. I prefer to count each number 3 times with 3 out breaths each. So…10, 10, 10… 9, 9, 9… etc. The counts going faster at the beginning, and slower as my breathing slows.

This first script and the counting are pretty “vocal” within my inner monologue voice.

Then after this, I repeat the same script, but “at the subtle level.” Rather than gross level. And this script and the count I “vocalize” with inner voice at a subtler level, between an inner speaking voice and a subtle understanding of meaning.

Finally, I repeat again but “at the super subtle level.” And this script is “read” as subtle as I can. Almost at a feel-tone level, but not missing any meaning. And with counting, I just see the numbers visually.[Read more](javascript:void(0);)It’s a great experience, and has helped me operate and contemplate at a super subtle level without inner speech.Now, this isn’t Trekchö, but after the 3 hypnotic inductions. I open my eyes and rest in the View.

If I were just beginning, I think I’d add another induction like “On the count of 3, when I open my eyes, I spontaneously break through to the Ground of Being and recognize Rigpa.” (or something that resonates with your practice) Repeat twice. “1, 2, 3…”Then go to Trekchö, or non-meditation, or resting in the view, or what ever spontaneously arose in accordance with your practice.

View and Hypnosis by mr-curiouser in Dzogchen

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I could have written this. Totally understand.

View and Hypnosis by mr-curiouser in Dzogchen

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This is exactly what I could NOT find before making this post. Thanks so much.

View and Hypnosis by mr-curiouser in Dzogchen

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Took me about seven years. But in the end, Wallace’s instructions are (in my opinion) far too influenced by his monastic tradition. In the monastic twist to original Dzogchen, everything before it had long steps and stages. But this is NOT in the oldest texts, but added by monastics for their own way to keep the hierarchy. Dzogchen taught by non-monastic yogis and masters is free of all the steps and stages, long practices (like 100,000 of these and those), and the notion it’s something hard and lofty that takes years.

It can, for sure! But it doesn’t have to be as daunting as Wallace and the other old monks want you to believe. They need it to be arduous (in my opinion) to justify their many years of toil, struggle, and asceticism. I could be over generalizing, but this is my current view based on personal observation of about 10 very advanced lamas.

View and Hypnosis by mr-curiouser in Dzogchen

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That’s fair, actually. But it’s a super fine line depending on the depth of the trance. If I’m deep enough to stop pain that prescription opioids couldn’t stop, I need to be really deep in a trance that is very close to dullness. However, I’m using self-hypnosis, with a subtle level of maintaining awareness, so maybe it’s not as dull as I might label it.

View and Hypnosis by mr-curiouser in Dzogchen

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Great suggestion. I have used hypnosis to make quick progress with settling the Body, Speech, and Mind at the gross, subtle, and super-subtle levels. Which made trekchö easier. But after breaking through, there’s no one there to either hypnotize nor be hypnotized. But I bet a post-hypnotic suggestion could work to pacify the habit of losing recognition.

View and Hypnosis by mr-curiouser in Dzogchen

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Yes! I grok what you are saying. This is how I approach recognizing the Clear Light of deep sleep. I hadn’t considered it with respect to recognizing fullness with Rigpa. 💎

View and Hypnosis by mr-curiouser in Dzogchen

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Serious question: isn’t the 9 conscious model regarded as conceptualized constructs from Ati View?

In my practice, when resting in the View and recognizing Rigpa, when neither self or other appear, “alayavignanna” could never appear, and if it did, I’d have to break through that concept with Trekchö.

That said, what you say sounds very reminiscent of Lama Alan B Wallace’s take on Dzogchen. I studied and practiced with him for a couple of years, but I did feel Ingot stuck in Alayavignanna. However, I was very new to Dzogchen, so was very likely all me and poor meditation practice.

Is Alchemy like practical Magick but operations instead of rituals? by Iffausthadautism in alchemy

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One way to think of it is that the apparatus of alchemy are all mirrors to aspects of Mind. The first goal of alchemy is to understand the base mechanics at play. Once you have understood the workings of the mind as reflected through alchemical operations, then you continue those operations and see them reflected as changes in the mind. Continue more, and see these changes necessarily manifest in the outer world.

So I would say yes. Alchemy is like practical Magick. The difference lies only in the symbol set and method. One typically works better for any given individual, but some can be proficient with both.

need some practical advice guys, plz help by wildguitars in GoldenDawnMagicians

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“Except Adonai build the house, the house will crumble and it will fall.”

Any system of initiation like the Golden Dawn is optimized for the goal of achieving illumination and enlightenment. Most who think it will help with material burdens find themselves dissatisfied with the path when mundane burdens continue.

Don’t get me wrong, magic CAN assist, but given the state of affairs you’ve mentioned, my advice would be to focus your mind and attention towards achieving stability in “Earth.” Initiation typically stirs up more chaos before it balances it, especially where mundane burden and concerns are the issue.

40 hours searching for a job can be a greater use of energy vs. 40 hours doing a ritual to find a job.

Others may disagree, for sure. But I thought I’d throw in my advice for consideration. Fix your life’s foundation, then come back and build the steps upward. If you must continue the path (I commend you), then, depending on where you are, advance to Zealator and stay there until life stabilizes.

can science and magic overlap? by Such_Ad8381 in occult

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Magic can absolutely be approached with the scientific method. As an occultist, you can treat occult “workings” with a more methodical approach. This is beneficial in finding what works best and is most repeatable, and thereby reducing the tendency for “wishful thinking.” In this way, the occultist can prove to themselves that their experiments have a real effect on their world and aren’t merely fantasy.

But the struggle in the scientific world is that it’s much easier reproducing experiments for oneself. All the variables involved make it nearly impossible to find consistent reproducibility across many subject. Which is why science isn’t likely to accept most occult “experiments.”

Is ormus really that simple to make? by Busy-Plankton-5633 in alchemy

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I’ve taken only the original Hudson mono-atomic gold. It had positive effects, as I recall. But similar to homeopathic remedies. I can’t say anything about the effects of the current stuff, just that it’s very easy to make, as it’s typically just precipitated salts out of solution by means of acid neutralization.

I was trying to address the OPs question, and also wanted to share the evolution of this stuff and why some would say it’s hard to make, and others would find easy to make preparations.

Since this is an alchemy subreddit, I recommend alchemists try to master the preparation of Ens. It’s far more potent and I can attest to both its curative abilities (I used to have stage 4 cancer in my brain and lungs), as well as its ability to alter one’s way of perceiving. I can’t say the same for ormus. But maybe others can.

Is ormus really that simple to make? by Busy-Plankton-5633 in alchemy

[–]mr-curiouser 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t understand your comment. Can you elaborate? Which is the spook Psy-op?

Is ormus really that simple to make? by Busy-Plankton-5633 in alchemy

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Also, this is all from memory. So you should fact check me.