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Astra-Nautics 101

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On January 14, 2017

In Philosphing

Derived from the Emerald Tablet, we have the old saying, “As Above, So Below”. In the Bible we find reference to man being created “in the image” of God. Hermetic writings sometimes refer to Liber Munde; The Book of the World.

These concepts are all related and deserve much thought but I don’t want to get bogged down trying to explain them with words. We are skirting on the very edge of where labels are useful.

That help? It is the modern astronomical symbol for the sun but it’s origins lay in the realm of alchemy. What does it mean in plain language? Voltaire once took a crack at it, “God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”

See? You’ve got to get up above the words to understand this stuff.

Okay, what we are dealing with here are the Qabalistic emanations of God and the fact that all things are a reflection or an image of the God-head (Kether). Therefore, we can often learn to comprehend higher spiritual concepts by using everyday relationships as a symbolic representation of the Celestial. I know how hard this can be to understand but stick with it. This is the language of wizardry.

How’s you imagination? Have you ever day-dreamed? Do you lose yourself in dreams while your body sleeps? If the answer is “no”, then go watch television or something. You’re wasting your time here.

Picture something in your imagination that doesn’t “really” exist.  How about an eight-legged kitten? Can you see it in your mind’s eye? Skittering across the room like a great, furry spider (but cuter)? See it scramble up a tree-trunk? Wow! Now notice that you will experience some mild emotional reaction to “seeing” this creature. How would you react if this thing actually ran across in front of you right now? Amazement? Laughter? Wonder? Fear? Disgust? A little of each?

Is this thing you’ve imagined real? Of course it is. You just created it. It will fade away from your awareness when you stop thinking about it. But it might come back tonight in your dreams. And then that thing will be as real as can be. And your emotional reaction will be a whole lot stronger too. If you are scared by the spider-kitten (spitten?), you might deem it a nightmare and try to wake yourself up. As Above. So Below.

Although you are dreaming, some part of you knows it’s a dream and can wake you up when you no longer want to be in the dream. As Above, So Below.

A “lucid dream” occurs when that same part of you realizes that you are dreaming. You then “wake-up” within the dream. You are still in Wonderland but it is no longer in control. You are. The world hasn’t changed. You have. And now you have Powers. As Above, So Below.

In occultism, you will find references to the “astral” world. This is simply an old word for the imagination, the dream-scape. There is a very important clue hidden here. Why use that particular word?

“Astral” – “of, relating to, or coming from the stars” – Merriam-Webster

What in the world do stars have to do with the imagination? With dreaming?

Alright, deep breath. Here it is…

The stars and galaxies and universes are infinite. Really, really think about that. Infinite. Now, in a truly infinite universe, any world you can imagine exists out there somewhere. And you can visit any of them by using your imagination. (Of course, that’s a two-way street…)

Everything is Real.

As Above, So below.

Ego Me

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On January 8, 2017

In Poeting

Boasting, bursting ego,
how you’ve borne and bored me
across the many years.
Wounded by the merest pin-prick.
Sick with shame when others blame
or laugh
at your struts and raves
upon the Stage.
Giving form to a costume worn,
you look at yourself and fleetingly see…
You clown!
You puppet!
Me!

Gray Expectations

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On January 8, 2017

In Wagging Tales

Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away…

There developed a civilization. It came about by the usual (although extremely unlikely) process. Simple cells to animals. Animals to people. The early people (like primitive folks everywhere), were deeply aware of the spiritual currents that flow beneath physical reality. This understanding allowed some to become magicians of great power who could bend reality itself through the subtleties of their minds.

Vast ages passed and the people gradually developed technology. It started with a hide-scraper but eventually it led up to lasers and nukes. Due to this blossoming of science and it’s mastery over the physical world, the people’s relationship with the spirit world atrophied. The magicians became technicians and the magic was lost.

Then something happened to destroy their civilization. Some of the people survived the catastrophe but were thrown back into the stone-age. After a few generations, all ability to reacquire their technology was lost. A new cycle began.

This is the usual way of civilizations. Magic; Science; Magic again. Perfectly normal.

But this time something very unusual happened. Somehow, in some way, the high technology survived in an unknown form that was rediscovered after they had re-evolved their psychic abilities. In this completely unprecedented manner, the wizards became space-farers.

Not only did they get off of their home-world (which almost never happens before the collapse of a civilization), but they retained the abilities of their shamans. They became gods.

And they knew how to create other gods. It was fairly simple. Locate a developed civilization. One who’s science was almost to the point of physical mastery. Gather their knowledge and samples of their technology. Put it all someplace where it will stay safe and intact for a few eons. (Perhaps inside a hollow moon orbiting their planet.) And then you just obliterate them.

Not all of them, of course. You leave behind a viable breeding population that you have genetically tweaked here and there. Then you just wait for a very long time. When they learn and evolve to again be spiritual masters, you give them back their science and teach them how to use it.

And thusly do gods beget gods.

Children of the Sun

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On December 23, 2016

In Poeting

In star-swept darkness filled with light,
a thousand suns are burning bright.
Action into form absorbs
and manifests a fiery orb.
Entropy, vibration slows.
Cooler now, it starts to grow.
Something moves upon it’s face,
the elders of the coming race.
Eons pass and forge the links.
One stands up and lo, it thinks!
Action acts upon itself,
the pieces set, the cards are dealt.
Conflict now, a stage of growth,
wisdom listens to them both.
Here and there, an open I,
into It the free shall fly.
Toss aside the cast off shell
and learn to cast a higher spell.

Nourished by the flame on high,
science fails to question why.
Weak of will and whimsy-tossed,
each is part and nothings lost.
Relative, the shades of worth,
lovers now, their child is Mirth.

Hurtling children of a star,
bloody circus that we are.
Behold the fierce and mighty sun,
the splendor of the only One.

Still Cool

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On December 18, 2016

In Scraps

In 1937, scientists Pyotr Kapitsa and John Allen first observed and described the strange super-fluid state of  helium at near-absolute zero temperatures. They found that when they cooled the liquid helium down below the lambda point (2.17 Kelvin) the boiling liquid suddenly fell still and took on amazing new properties. The individual helium atoms blurred into one another and became a single super-atom known as a Bose-Einstein Condensate.

This was a demonstration of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, which states that the more precisely the momentum of a particle is determined, the less precisely its position can be known. Particles below the lambda point have almost no movement so their momentums are almost entirely “known”. Therefore their positions become so inexact that they begin to overlap each other. In this situation atoms stop acting like discrete things and become nebulous smears of quantum probabilities.

If you physically scoop up a portion of the super-atom, the elevated part acquires more gravitational potential energy than the rest. Since this is not a sustainable equilibrium for the super-fluid, it will flow up and out of its container to pull itself all back into one place. It will also flow with zero friction since it has no energy to lose.

Naturally Unnatural

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On December 17, 2016

In Philosphing

  • “Is this product all-natural?”
  • “It’s a shame that humans keep spoiling all the natural beauty.”
  • “I only like the natural kind. Not the man-made stuff.”
  • “If we could only learn to live more naturally.”

We are all familiar with phrases similar to these. They are everywhere we turn. In news articles and Hollywood movies; at the mall and on the hiking trail. Likening the human race to a tragic disease inflicted upon a poor, innocent planet. A plague of locusts stripping away and consuming every resource to their own future detriment. The seething, unwashed masses who are mindlessly ruining it for the rest of us!

And that can’t be natural!

Can it?

Art. Artifact. Artifice. Artificial.

Made by the hand of man as opposed to springing from the bosom of nature.

Is a forest “natural”? How about a mountain or an ocean? Is a beach on the shore of that ocean “natural”? What about a sea-shell washed up on that beach by the (presumably) natural waves?

We need to think about that last item. Hmm…

That shell is a construct. It was made by something else. Is it in fact… an artifact?

We would really have to say “no”. Although it was created by an animal to serve as it’s home, the shell is every bit as natural as it’s (former) occupant.

Let’s move farther up the brain chain, shall we? How about an eagle? Birds are certainly natural. What about the eagle’s nest? Oh oh. A sea-shell is one thing. It came into being as a part of a living creature. But a bird’s nest? Assembled using gathered materials. On purpose.

Nope. I’m afraid bird’s nests aren’t natural. Gotta draw the line somewhere.

Birds good. Bird’s nests bad.

Bees good. Beehives bad.

(Pre-Paleolithic) Man good. Buildings bad. (Just plain unnatural.)

Am I missing something here?

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