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@dr-beyond.comOct 10, 2026, 11:46 PM

They told us consciousness is just a biological accident, which explains why everyone is so thrilled to be trapped in a meat-suit doing taxes. Anyway, reality is a fixer upper.
#metaphysics #philosophy #consciousness #occult #esoteric #history #ancient #mysticism #mind #reality

@dr-beyond.comOct 10, 2026, 9:11 PM

The curious, the uncanny, and the artifacts they tried to leave out of the curriculum are finally landing. Thoth's Bazaar is coming soon.
#occult #esoteric #metaphysics #curiosities #artifacts #antiquities #oddities #history #relics #archaeology

@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 8:47 PM

*FALLS FROM GRACE* CH 4. p 24

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While I initially constructed and wrote down my devolutional theory of consciousness — Falls from Grace — without the benefit of Shoham’s work, upon discovering it I could not help but be both confirmed and reinspired by the astounding resonance his understanding has with my own. Shoham (1979, 1990) starts his devolutional model in the womb and carries it through birth, weaning, and the oedipal periods of development. Though, as I delineate in Part 2, I disagree with his model by beginning mine at the creation of sperm and egg — as do other devolutional theorists like Francis Mott and David Wasdell — in virtually all other major instances his model corresponds to my own if one simply ... in keeping with a normal trend in child development in general as it begins to integrate the new pre- and perinatal evidence ... places everything back a little farther in time — in this case, specifically, one stage back. FALLS FROM GRACE Page 24
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 8:39 PM

*EXPERIENCE IS DIVINITY* Ch 8 , p. 39

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TRANSCENDING WORLDS Page 39 When this is reversed by various methods, and the brain is itself inhibited from its task of reducing awareness so that “Mind at Large seeps past the no longer watertight valve, all kinds of biologically useless things start to happen.” – Aldous Huxley “Biologically Useless Things Start to Happen” Our sciences have led us to learn that what we call reality is what we have found to be useful for us as a species, but that it is not necessarily what is True and is certainly not all that is true or real. So we find that the Reality of It All or the All That Is gets reduced down from what it is to the snippet of it that we have found to be biologically useful. But if we wish to know not merely what is practical but what is actually True or Reality, we need to go way beyond the smattering of facts thrown up by our ordinary senses and the sciences that are extensions of them. There are levels of that diminution of Reality — from All That Is down through what the individual knows to be true. So to know what is True, we need to reverse those reductions in true understanding.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 8:27 PM

*WOUNDED DEER & CENTAURS* Ch 6, p. 58

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While he himself experienced and believed in the validity of certain transpersonal phenomena — he believed in contact with the dead and it is said he had a moving experience interacting with his late father at a séance — and he had a post at the International Institute for Psychical Research, in several of his works he showed how some paranormal phenomena were rooted in psychological issues and were outward projections of them. He said ghosts were repressed components of the personality and that poltergeists were bundles of projected psychic energy from early trauma. Hence, they were not real as being paranormal ... or “spiritual”/transpersonal. His conclusion that some spiritual experiences are valid, but that others are rooted in traumas and are merely psychological is exactly the position I came to, independently. At any rate, his controversial stand, which had him discrediting certain phenomena that his paranormal associates favored, got him in trouble in their associations and related publications, and he was dismissed from the Institute for Psychical Research and slandered in one of the newspapers put out by his associates. WOMB WITH A VIEW — THE PRENATAL AND PERINATAL UNCONSCIOUS Page 58
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 8:21 PM

*FUNNY GOD* Ch 7, p. 59

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This world consisting only of light and sunshine is an impossibility, however. So solar theologies require of their adherents a delusional life in which they are constantly forced to rearrange the meanings of the reality they experience to fit into a preconceived system of belief, which is a fantasy that seeks the denial of the suffering and darkness of life. By contrast, lunar theologies have a fuller understanding that darkness is not overcome by ignoring it or seeking to murder it without looking at it (Perseus). Rather evil and suffering are resolved only by looking deeply into them, “embracing” them, seeking to understand them, and transforming them. Thus the light (the moon) is discovered in the midst of darkness (the night) in the same way that there is a seed of light in the midst of darkness in the Tao symbol. A lunar theology is lunar and darker like the night because it embraces the Mystery of life, the part that cannot be known. THE TAO OF FUNNY GOD, MATRIARCHY, AND LUNAR THEOLOGIES Page 59
@dr-beyond.comOct 10, 2026, 3:56 PM

The Great Historical Heist: What Are They Hiding in the Vaults?
The Standard Narrative is a Cover Story
#history #ancient #losthistory #esoteric #occult #metaphysics
#archaeology #vatican #ancient #history #occult #esoteric #metaphysics #dogsky #drbeyond

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 4:29 AM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by Michael Adzema

Ch 3, p. 27

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3. INFINITE WORLDS Page 27 …and ask you, simply, what do we call individuals who we can see are “living in their own world. Yes, you are correct. The term for that is psychotic. No, don’t go. We’re not done yet. Suprahumanly Constituted Realities Okay, then, let us look at the antipode of that end point, newly seen to be individually constituted realities. On the other end of the continuum, the one we were indicating as biologically constituted realities, we can see that it extends beyond where we thought it ended as well. How, you say? Well, as I said, biologically constituted realities are those realities shared by a species, some of which are shared only by that species and some are shared to varying degrees, but not to every other species. Well, the category, species, also, is not absolute. (I see, a couple of you already were thinking this. Good for you!) There are certainly realities that are unique to entire groups of species that have important qualities in common. We see that the categorization of species itself is not absolute. For we can easily draw a line around groups of species and create other entities, which for all we know create their own “constituted” realities.
@inchantmint.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 2:17 AM

🎭️ 🎃 October, the Gate of Masks, invites us into a dance of shadows and revelations. As the veil thins, transformation beckons. ✨️

#Witch #Mystic #Alchemy #MetaphysicalScience #Metaphysics #Ritual #ShadowWork #Spirituality #AutumnMagic #OctoberMagic #BookOfShadows

@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 9:59 PM

*FALLS FROM GRACE* CH 4. p. 24

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FALLS FROM GRACE Page 24 …roots of much of such symbolism and supposed transpersonal- mythological scenarios (1981, p. 35). Later Theorists — Myth and Sacred Text/Mysticism S. Giora Shoham Devolutional Model of Development, Falls from Grace While not strictly a pre- and perinatal psychologist, I include this too little-known theoretician and criminologist because of the close relationship and influence his work has had upon my own work regarding these Falls from Grace. Falls from Grace and other devolutional models of consciousness postulate that during life and over time, beginning at conception, we actually are reduced in consciousness and awareness — not increased in it — and it corresponds to a “brain as reducing valve” theory of consciousness.1
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 9:50 PM

*EXPERIENCE IS DIVINITY* Ch 8 , p. 38

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Our Knowledge Is Useful, Not Revelatory Our combined efforts in psychology, physics, biology, and anthropology have led us to an impasse. We have been led to conclude that our view of reality is symbolic. We have learned, above all, not what to know, but that we know not ... that is to say, that we are incapable of truly knowing. So, if we cannot know, why then bother to know anything? We seek to know because it is useful to our biological survival to know. That which we “know,” in our most refined science and in our daily lives, is that which is, or has been, in some way useful to the biological existence of our species. "Each one of us is potentially Mind at Large. Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe. But in so far as we are animals, our business is at all costs to survive. To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet." EXPERIENCE IS DIVINITY Page 38
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 9:32 PM

*WOUNDED DEER & CENTAURS* Ch 6, p. 58

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WOMB WITH A VIEW — THE PRENATAL AND PERINATAL UNCONSCIOUS Page 58 …effects of birth and to process prenatal memories. He was the first to mention actual relivings of birth, in which verifiably accurate memories of birth were recovered. He agreed with Rank on many points, but he stressed the origins of consciousness and of trauma being in the prenatal period. He likened birth to death, as he explained that is the way the prenate experiences the drastic change involved in birth; and he claimed that our memory of that death-birth experience is what accounts for our fear of death as adults. A related interest of his is the one for which he is most remembered. He researched paranormal phenomena, including ghosts and poltergeists, and his conclusions are significant. You will see how his views presaged my own, when I discuss my work around “A Primal Perspective on Spirituality” (1985), in a little bit.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 9:21 PM

*FUNNY GOD* Ch 7, p. 59

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THE TAO OF FUNNY GOD, MATRIARCHY, AND LUNAR THEOLOGIES Page 59 Coinciding with this, they cling to one fiction of positive thinking, applicable to the inner self, and another, for the outside world, that law and order can be imposed from without; one can “clean up the streets” by moving the desperate out of one’s sight; the messiness of Nature can be covered up by asphalt and lawns and anything remaining strangled to death with Roundup and Weed-B- Gon; and so on. Underlying these beliefs is the assumption that were it not for bad guys and evil ones ... or dirty, smelly, buggy, slimy, and disgusting Nature ... life would (and should) be “happily ever after.” Suffering is not a corrective in life ... an aspect of learning ... it is some foreign element inserted into the plan of God. Since it cannot be of God, there must be a devil doing it. The body and Nature are ceded to Satan as well, putting one at odds and at war with oneself and one’s environment. One is not to learn from one’s “sins” but to have them atoned for and removed by an outside force ... a special emissary of the Divine ... a son of God? ... well that would be nice. Healing and wisdom do not arise from within, catalyzed by the exigencies of life, they are imposed from without: Priests and physicians, boys in blue and judges and soldiers are among the many authorities responsible for dispelling darkness in one’s life and upon whom one is dependent. Life would be heaven if they would, once and for all, just win!
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 8:11 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* Ch 1, p 9

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There Are an Infinite Number of Worlds It should be supremely clear by now, especially among those of us with a transcultural or anthropological familiarity — wherein we are made distinctly aware of the truth-shrouding nature of ethnocentrism — that any serious attempt at discerning truth is not compatible with any variety of self-serving or egocentric agenda, regardless how invisible it might be to us or how unconscious it might be held. And anthropocentrism — the idea that our species, alone, has the inside track, superior to all creation, on perceiving Reality — is such a self- aggrandizing notion. Thus, it is just as essential to throw off the overweening species- centric intellectual baggage of our Judeo-Christian tradition ... which posits “man” as the ruler over nature and as the summit of created species ... as it is essential to strive to drop our ethnocentric blinders. Indeed, making this attempt to view from a neutral, Archimedean, non-anthropocentric “window,” it follows logically that the probabilities are enormous that there are, in fact, other beings, unperceivable entities, unknown and unimaginable realities, and other and different senses ... and, yes, as one new physics proposition puts it, an infinite number of “worlds.” 1. CREATING WORLDS Page 9
@doomsjaydevice.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 3:59 PM

#philosophy #metaphysics

@cornellupress.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 2:00 PM

HEIDEGGER'S REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS shows how metaphysics, history, and political longing intertwine in Martin Heidegger's work and inspire contemporary anti-Western intellectual and political movements.
#Metaphysics #RevolutionaryPolitics #AntiWestern
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@justincaouette.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 1:27 PM

9th Annual New England Metaphysics Workshop taking place in a couple of weeks hosted at Rhode Island College. It’s a pretty solid lineup! #philsky #metaphysics #philosophy

Poster for metaphysics workshop detailing times, speakers, and paper titles for conference
@1000wordphilosophy.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 12:26 PM

New!

"The Ship of Theseus: What Makes an Object the Same Object Over Time?" by Chad Vance.

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#Philosophy #ShipOfTheseus #Metaphysics #PersonalIdentity #Identity #PhilosophyOfIdentity #ThoughtExperiment #PhilosophyEducation #1000WordPhilosophy

@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 8:04 AM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by Michael Adzema

Ch 3, p. 26

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Culture is collective psychology, in a sense. It is the obverse of Jung’s collective unconscious, for it is what is known in a culture, not unknown or unconscious. It could be said that culture is the collective consciousness, viewed in its widest possible way and including all possible elements of a culture, of a group. Following that? Okay, then, we can see that this end of the continuum, which we were calling culturally constituted realities, really goes further out from its supposed end point to individually constituted realities. These are realities that are unique to an individual and can only be understood within the context of that individual, and when encountered outside of that individual they are likely to be either misunderstood or not seen at all. For those of you following this, we can see that such personal “cultures,” if you will, comprised of individually constructed realities, are different, individual to individual, and that some of those cultural elements are shared widely, while some of those individuals have personal cultures with elements that are so unique and unshared that we have a special term for those individuals. Of course you know this one. For what if I were to put it another way… I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 26
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