tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096181321093826610.post4110726611052698721..comments2024-03-28T14:36:00.074-07:00Comments on Tek-Gnostics Net: State of Play – Magical ThinkingJack Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07601886076987129483noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096181321093826610.post-32777558286222815052021-01-23T10:52:44.393-08:002021-01-23T10:52:44.393-08:00Additionally... as early 2020 began with the impea...Additionally... as early 2020 began with the impeachment of 45... so too does 2021 mirror this cosmic-trigger event in the timeline, with a second impeachment of 45... arguably an extension of the first impeachment. Stay tuned!Jack Hearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07601886076987129483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096181321093826610.post-16749133782428014002021-01-17T08:36:39.046-08:002021-01-17T08:36:39.046-08:00No need to invoke wrathful deities. The dualistic ...No need to invoke wrathful deities. The dualistic universe is breached by the middle path. Do no harm! Mindfulness and compassion have no time for foolish phantasms. See through one's own 3rd eye and let your love light take you home! To shine forth is key! 87Dennis/87https://www.blogger.com/profile/03703473570098929681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096181321093826610.post-60140390279009659132021-01-17T01:40:05.554-08:002021-01-17T01:40:05.554-08:00Not sure that all Buddhists believe in the Tulpa a...Not sure that all Buddhists believe in the Tulpa and in recent times it appears to be more of a western Theosophist thing taken from Tibet. It is one of those things which appears to be magical or eastern but if you look at Marxist dialectical materialism it is compatible with the concept of reification. You could say the central drive of Marxism is the reification of what he called class consciousness, in order to change the world. For a materialist it is necessary for a concept or word to take some sort of physical form in order for it to be satisfying.<br /><br />I believe the tendency to be a "concrete thinker" who is frustrated by the lack of physicality of ideas is a personal characteristic rather than a universal rule. Perhaps concrete thinking is something which unites us all even if for some it is a phase they go through. Drax the Destroyer from Guardians of the Galaxy has a very charming child like view of the world, but he is also someone who is only capable of concrete thinking. Myself I am more of a "sensitive" type than a "worldly" type. I do not immediately ask myself if ideas are real or actionable, but questions like how they make me feel. If they are original, exciting, positive, and so on.Garmrnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096181321093826610.post-88871462054059581942021-01-16T14:01:27.771-08:002021-01-16T14:01:27.771-08:00The pursuit of personal magical thinking is akin t...The pursuit of personal magical thinking is akin to other technologies of freedom, such as the noble eight-fold path of Buddhism. Such technologies facilitate liberation from suffering, as a means of awakening. It is worth noting that Buddhist traditions also warn of a non-physical entity, similar to a egregore, known as a Tulpa. Such psychic critters have been around for a long time, it seems…Jack Hearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07601886076987129483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096181321093826610.post-27048442370470819072021-01-16T11:33:36.297-08:002021-01-16T11:33:36.297-08:00Magic like most forms of language can easily be vi...Magic like most forms of language can easily be viewed as a game. I am not convinced by many magicians, however, as they feel that the game can be beaten by ignoring the rules or the state of the board. Well, the rules are what you can get away with but if you are not getting away with it, you can only get so far by pretending you are.<br /><br />Video gamers, not larpers, who are small minority, became a valuable asset for the far right US billionaires and their internet campaigns. In the "gamergate" affair they successfully proved how the conventions of civil discourse on social media were not enforced rules. The protest was about the cultural gatekeepers in the industry who had formed a clique and established themselves as people who could not be ignored in the video games hobby. So it made sense to demonstrate how irrelevant and powerless they actually were.<br /><br />The beneficiaries of this were not gamers, however, but the highly profitable corporations who now had even fewer people to keep them in check than before. This power was put in their lap while they could give lip service to how they themselves are really nice, sweet and progressive or whatever. Ideal!Garmrnoreply@blogger.com