Category: light

Sliding Light

I was listening to friends discuss “enlightenment” earlier. It’s one of those conversations I try to avoid getting into myself with said friends—the virtue of Keeping Silent has become something I’ve noticed myself doing more (sometimes, at least)—mostly because in my experience my perspective winds up being perceived as aberrant, atypical, or relies on my […] … Continue reading…Sliding Light

[NB] Leviathan Glamours

NB: From my journals, so please read the tone as more on-the-fly ponderings than anything else, but I’ve done some editing here for clarity. Heathen Chinese posted a fantastic article on TWH that links (conceptually) with my thoughts on glamours & egregores, thought-gods—of “leviathans” (via Hobbes[1] & elsewhere) as aggregate entities, social “golems” assembled in […] … Continue reading…[NB] Leviathan Glamours

[NB] Jungian Alchemy

I was reading Marie-Louise von Franz’s  Alchemical Active Imagination, & I’m only thinking how everyone wants to be who they imagine themselves to be—who they want to be? Achemy, via Dorn & the Jungians seems very much to be focused on male ejaculation: matter as feminine, embryonic, and form as male seed cast into form. Before “God” […] … Continue reading…[NB] Jungian Alchemy

Light, Shadow, Darkness (4)

We imagine ourselves all the time, even if we lump that imagining in with our everyday awareness of ourselves. Our fantasies involve us imagining what we want, imagining different situations that we may (could or wish to) find ourselves. Every action is arguably preceded by us imagining doing the action: we imagine hanging up a picture before we actually enact what we have imagined. … Continue reading…Light, Shadow, Darkness (4)

Light, Shadow, Darkness (1)

In an article about occult and paranormal subject matter, asking about such simple concepts like light and dark risks sliding into the territory of cliché. One of the central clichés of New Age writing is about “light,” which is rarely addressed in any other than uncritical and vague terms. Outside of mundane illumination, I imagine the […] … Continue reading…Light, Shadow, Darkness (1)