Astral and Etheric Pyramids
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kimberlysteeleThere must be something in the air because I suddenly have the urge to talk about etheric and astral pyramids. Human language is a faulty, lousy way of trying to express abstract concepts of this sort, especially from such a flawed source as me. I was a staunch atheist ten years ago. It has been a short and strange ride into my current polytheistic faith, which as I explained in a recent podcast, involves a great deal of discursive meditation, divination, and daily banishing rituals. Somewhere along the way I put my own spin on old Western occultism theory of the subtle planes, and this writing reflects a portion of my current thoughts on that topic.
For a quick breakdown of what the planes are, permit me to quote one of my own essays on the astral plane:
Another metaphor I have made about the subtle planes one I call the Stick Figure Family analogy. If you are familiar with the kind of sticker that shows up on SUVs depicting family members and their pets, that is what I am talking about. On the physical plane/Meatworld, the window cling film is made of plastic, which is the long-decomposed parts of plant and animal matter we have processed into a sticky film. The etheric plane is where the sticker gets the static electricity that gives it the ability to stick. Though static electricity is invisible, we recognize it as present and we can feel it if we shuffle across the carpeting in a cold and dry room. The next plane "upwards" or "inwards" is the Astral Plane, the plane of ideas and images. When we see a crude stick drawing and associate it with a family of four with a dog and a cat, it is our Astral Plane development that enables us to perceive the drawing as a depiction of a family. Non-human animals do not have the same ability to translate that sort of visual symbolism, and that is the main thing that separates us humans from them. The Mental Plane is the concept of family and the ancient force that causes humans to band together in the first place. Humans do not understand this level of existence very well, but the few who do are often perceived as masters, gurus, or yogis. The Causal Plane is the divine force that created all of this stuff to begin with, and I won't even pretend to understand the first thing about it except that it is there.
As I mentioned, the Astral is the realm of images and the Etheric is the plane of of electricity and energy. The Spiritual lasts longer than the Mental. The Mental lasts longer than the Astral. The Astral lasts longer than the Etheric and the Etheric lasts longer than the physical. As we descend towards Meatworld and below it to the Demonic, phenomena become more temporary and short-lived. For example, let's say someone we know is lazy; we will call him Lazy Larry or Larry for short. In the physical world, Larry has a messy room, a bunch of clothing piled on the floor, and terrible breath from sleeping until 2:47pm and generally not brushing his teeth on a regular basis. Larry's etheric energy is troubled: he always feels tired, despite sleeping from 5am until 3pm every day. On the Astral Plane, his imagination is stuffed full of images from the games, movies, and television series he entertains himself with during his waking hours: he often thinks of the fictional people and situations presented in entertainment as more real than people and arrangements he must deal with in day to day life. On the Mental Plane, Larry's lack of drive and refusal to take life by the horns will recur in his future lives, so when he is reborn as Lazy Lisa, former Larry will be thrust into worse circumstances and a harsher environment until the lesson of "just do it" is internalized and learned. The Causal/Spiritual plane is the timeless part of Larry/Lisa's soul that caused him/her to be incarnated in the first place.
The Pyramids
Humans are always either building or participating in astral and etheric pyramids whether we like it or not. Anytime there is an official or unofficial hierarchy, an astral pyramid has been erected with its apex being the chosen leader. The base of the pyramid is comprised of "everyone else". We can witness astral pyramids everywhere. All families, whether there are children or not, are astral pyramids. Corporations, churches, organizations, fanbases, towns, cities, and countries are astral pyramids. Communism and socialism, both of which claim not to be astral pyramids, are absolutely astral pyramids. Energy flows upward in an astral pyramid towards the top most of the time. The reason creating an astral pyramid is desirable is because of the upward flow of energy. Astral pyramids are essentially feminine in this respect because they always seek to absorb, siphon, and intake energy into their beings in order to alchemize it with their own energy.
Etheric pyramids are an inversion of astral pyramids, which is to say they draw their power from the astral and distill it into individual points as a means of distribution. This makes them essentially masculine because they scatter their seed throughout the physical and provide energy via a spouting effect. Two different examples of this phenomenon are cooking and nostalgia. In the case of cooking, the cook accesses the astral plane of images for what dish to create. Then the energy work begins of manipulating physical plane ingredients. The etheric plane work of the chef imbues the food with potent life force, which is then distributed to whomever eats it. In the case of nostalgia, the astral plane's images from the past touch the etheric, creating a vibe which is felt deeply and uniquely by the individuals subjected to it. Collected images from the astral are distilled into an overwhelming feeling or sensation in the individual which captures the essence of being transported into the past on the etheric plane.
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Though non-human incorporeal entities also build astral pyramids, the ones we are concerned with in this limited discussion are human-created astral pyramids. Humans, as stated earlier, either create or join astral pyramids all the time. Some humans prefer to be part of the pyramids of others to building their own. Some only want to build their own. Any given astral pyramid can only exist if there is energy at the bottom in the form of joiners. For this reason, most people want others to join their pyramid regardless of their status as creator or participant. There is strength and power (and size) in numbers.
When I was in my childbearing years, I felt unduly pressured to have children despite my own wishes not to have children. I believe this happened because of the pyramidal force of people who had chosen to have children. When people have children, they join the pyramid of those who have made similar choices. Whether they personally are happy or miserable, they love company because it reinforces their decision and gives it power on the astral plane. That is why the Child-free movement used to be appealing to me -- an astral pyramid of childless people was built to counter the force of the Child-full people.
Religions are always seeking recruits in order to sustain and expand their pyramids. Christianity especially seeks to seduce people into its pyramid and has even been known to coerce or force its pyramid upon others who have zero interest, hence its bad reputation. People sell the merits of their chosen town, country, or lifestyle because of the unseen pressure to build pyramids they are part of or have created themselves.
Parties: The Hostess with the Mostess Wins!
Any type of party, from the tiniest group of seven year olds at their friend's house to the grandest of televised Oscar bonanzas, operates in order to build astral pyramids via the etheric plane. When people gather in groups, they create etheric energy bonds that bind them together as a pyramid base. That energy is siphoned up by the host, who in turn gathers astral plane energy and distributes it to the party's guests.
In exchange for material (physical plane) gifts and temporary shelter, energetic interaction with other guests, and potential connections, the party's host receives a huge pulse of energy from everyone at her party. Her astral pyramid increases in size and power, and if she does her job correctly as hostess, people repeatedly attend her soirees and increase her status.
Let's say things don't go according to plan. If the hostess is negative and abusive and fails her guests, she accesses the negative part of the astral or poisonous images and emotions. She ends up filling the guests with dread, fear, and anger, potentially pitting them against one another. In this case, her pyramid will fall apart or worse: it will grow as it attracts others of like mind who fill their imaginations with hatred, fear, and animosity.
School and work cultures were irreparably damaged by the lockdown and isolation hysteria of 2020-2022 because the etheric links between humans were kneecapped by social distancing, masks, and staying home. To this day, help wanted signs litter every storefront and JOIN US! entreaties litter every churchyard because of the damage inflicted by the absence of human gatherings for two years. Once people realized they didn't have to go back to work, school, or church, they took their energy away and the bases of those pyramids became riddled with holes.
If you've ever experienced live music versus its recorded counterpart, you most likely understand the power of music on the etheric. Music, although mental and astral in the way it lives in our brains, is primarily an etheric or energy plane phenomenon. When someone performs or sings music live and in person, etheric energy pours out of them and into you. For this reason, people who inflict loud music upon others are much like those who wear strong perfume: it may be what they like, but when you are forced to hear or smell it, it is obnoxious and causes a headache.
Of course I could be wrong, but I feel these forces are coming at us all of the time, and many pyramids have become utterly septic. Pyramids morph, bleed, and bump into one other in a tumultuous sea. Though I cannot help anyone in any direct way, I hope that being able to see some of these otherwise hidden aspects of the world can ameliorate the confusion that arises from dwelling in Meatworld. As a former atheist, I think I can safely say that being unable to perceive anything beyond the material sucked almost as much as Meatworld itself.
For a quick breakdown of what the planes are, permit me to quote one of my own essays on the astral plane:
“If each human’s existence is likened to the Everlasting Gobstopper/Jawbreaker, the material plane is the sour candy shell on the outside. One layer in, there is a different flavor called the etheric plane. This plane of energy is what Chinese people call “chi” and Indians call “prana” and is what feng shui, acupuncture, and Ayurveda works with. The etheric is invisible to us humans while we are awake in our stodgy plane, but some sensitive people can see it and most can feel it whether they realize it or not. The next candy layer in is the astral plane, which is most easily understood as the world of dreams you go to when you sleep. The dream world is part your own brain and part collective, meaning, other peoples’ dreams are part of your world/vice a versa and you can interact with them and they with you. Dreams are not what you choose them to be: just like other people’s emotions or the weather, they aren’t controlled by the dreamer. There are rules and limits to them just as there are rules and limits on the physical plane. Of course these rules and limits are different than the ones on the physical plane. The next layer in is the mental plane, which is the plane of learning and mastery that separates humans from other animals. For instance, being able to figure out how fast an object falls to the ground because of scientific laws falls under the mental plane category. Another layer into the Gobstopper is the spiritual plane, which is the primary reason you were incarnated and is the core from which all of the other layers of the Gobstopper emanate and cannot exist without. Take note that all the planes are the same Gobstopper, they are just different layers of a whole candy.”
Another metaphor I have made about the subtle planes one I call the Stick Figure Family analogy. If you are familiar with the kind of sticker that shows up on SUVs depicting family members and their pets, that is what I am talking about. On the physical plane/Meatworld, the window cling film is made of plastic, which is the long-decomposed parts of plant and animal matter we have processed into a sticky film. The etheric plane is where the sticker gets the static electricity that gives it the ability to stick. Though static electricity is invisible, we recognize it as present and we can feel it if we shuffle across the carpeting in a cold and dry room. The next plane "upwards" or "inwards" is the Astral Plane, the plane of ideas and images. When we see a crude stick drawing and associate it with a family of four with a dog and a cat, it is our Astral Plane development that enables us to perceive the drawing as a depiction of a family. Non-human animals do not have the same ability to translate that sort of visual symbolism, and that is the main thing that separates us humans from them. The Mental Plane is the concept of family and the ancient force that causes humans to band together in the first place. Humans do not understand this level of existence very well, but the few who do are often perceived as masters, gurus, or yogis. The Causal Plane is the divine force that created all of this stuff to begin with, and I won't even pretend to understand the first thing about it except that it is there.
As I mentioned, the Astral is the realm of images and the Etheric is the plane of of electricity and energy. The Spiritual lasts longer than the Mental. The Mental lasts longer than the Astral. The Astral lasts longer than the Etheric and the Etheric lasts longer than the physical. As we descend towards Meatworld and below it to the Demonic, phenomena become more temporary and short-lived. For example, let's say someone we know is lazy; we will call him Lazy Larry or Larry for short. In the physical world, Larry has a messy room, a bunch of clothing piled on the floor, and terrible breath from sleeping until 2:47pm and generally not brushing his teeth on a regular basis. Larry's etheric energy is troubled: he always feels tired, despite sleeping from 5am until 3pm every day. On the Astral Plane, his imagination is stuffed full of images from the games, movies, and television series he entertains himself with during his waking hours: he often thinks of the fictional people and situations presented in entertainment as more real than people and arrangements he must deal with in day to day life. On the Mental Plane, Larry's lack of drive and refusal to take life by the horns will recur in his future lives, so when he is reborn as Lazy Lisa, former Larry will be thrust into worse circumstances and a harsher environment until the lesson of "just do it" is internalized and learned. The Causal/Spiritual plane is the timeless part of Larry/Lisa's soul that caused him/her to be incarnated in the first place.
Humans are always either building or participating in astral and etheric pyramids whether we like it or not. Anytime there is an official or unofficial hierarchy, an astral pyramid has been erected with its apex being the chosen leader. The base of the pyramid is comprised of "everyone else". We can witness astral pyramids everywhere. All families, whether there are children or not, are astral pyramids. Corporations, churches, organizations, fanbases, towns, cities, and countries are astral pyramids. Communism and socialism, both of which claim not to be astral pyramids, are absolutely astral pyramids. Energy flows upward in an astral pyramid towards the top most of the time. The reason creating an astral pyramid is desirable is because of the upward flow of energy. Astral pyramids are essentially feminine in this respect because they always seek to absorb, siphon, and intake energy into their beings in order to alchemize it with their own energy.
Etheric pyramids are an inversion of astral pyramids, which is to say they draw their power from the astral and distill it into individual points as a means of distribution. This makes them essentially masculine because they scatter their seed throughout the physical and provide energy via a spouting effect. Two different examples of this phenomenon are cooking and nostalgia. In the case of cooking, the cook accesses the astral plane of images for what dish to create. Then the energy work begins of manipulating physical plane ingredients. The etheric plane work of the chef imbues the food with potent life force, which is then distributed to whomever eats it. In the case of nostalgia, the astral plane's images from the past touch the etheric, creating a vibe which is felt deeply and uniquely by the individuals subjected to it. Collected images from the astral are distilled into an overwhelming feeling or sensation in the individual which captures the essence of being transported into the past on the etheric plane.
Please Join My Cult
Though non-human incorporeal entities also build astral pyramids, the ones we are concerned with in this limited discussion are human-created astral pyramids. Humans, as stated earlier, either create or join astral pyramids all the time. Some humans prefer to be part of the pyramids of others to building their own. Some only want to build their own. Any given astral pyramid can only exist if there is energy at the bottom in the form of joiners. For this reason, most people want others to join their pyramid regardless of their status as creator or participant. There is strength and power (and size) in numbers.
When I was in my childbearing years, I felt unduly pressured to have children despite my own wishes not to have children. I believe this happened because of the pyramidal force of people who had chosen to have children. When people have children, they join the pyramid of those who have made similar choices. Whether they personally are happy or miserable, they love company because it reinforces their decision and gives it power on the astral plane. That is why the Child-free movement used to be appealing to me -- an astral pyramid of childless people was built to counter the force of the Child-full people.
Religions are always seeking recruits in order to sustain and expand their pyramids. Christianity especially seeks to seduce people into its pyramid and has even been known to coerce or force its pyramid upon others who have zero interest, hence its bad reputation. People sell the merits of their chosen town, country, or lifestyle because of the unseen pressure to build pyramids they are part of or have created themselves.
Parties: The Hostess with the Mostess Wins!
Any type of party, from the tiniest group of seven year olds at their friend's house to the grandest of televised Oscar bonanzas, operates in order to build astral pyramids via the etheric plane. When people gather in groups, they create etheric energy bonds that bind them together as a pyramid base. That energy is siphoned up by the host, who in turn gathers astral plane energy and distributes it to the party's guests.
In exchange for material (physical plane) gifts and temporary shelter, energetic interaction with other guests, and potential connections, the party's host receives a huge pulse of energy from everyone at her party. Her astral pyramid increases in size and power, and if she does her job correctly as hostess, people repeatedly attend her soirees and increase her status.
Let's say things don't go according to plan. If the hostess is negative and abusive and fails her guests, she accesses the negative part of the astral or poisonous images and emotions. She ends up filling the guests with dread, fear, and anger, potentially pitting them against one another. In this case, her pyramid will fall apart or worse: it will grow as it attracts others of like mind who fill their imaginations with hatred, fear, and animosity.
School and work cultures were irreparably damaged by the lockdown and isolation hysteria of 2020-2022 because the etheric links between humans were kneecapped by social distancing, masks, and staying home. To this day, help wanted signs litter every storefront and JOIN US! entreaties litter every churchyard because of the damage inflicted by the absence of human gatherings for two years. Once people realized they didn't have to go back to work, school, or church, they took their energy away and the bases of those pyramids became riddled with holes.
If you've ever experienced live music versus its recorded counterpart, you most likely understand the power of music on the etheric. Music, although mental and astral in the way it lives in our brains, is primarily an etheric or energy plane phenomenon. When someone performs or sings music live and in person, etheric energy pours out of them and into you. For this reason, people who inflict loud music upon others are much like those who wear strong perfume: it may be what they like, but when you are forced to hear or smell it, it is obnoxious and causes a headache.
Of course I could be wrong, but I feel these forces are coming at us all of the time, and many pyramids have become utterly septic. Pyramids morph, bleed, and bump into one other in a tumultuous sea. Though I cannot help anyone in any direct way, I hope that being able to see some of these otherwise hidden aspects of the world can ameliorate the confusion that arises from dwelling in Meatworld. As a former atheist, I think I can safely say that being unable to perceive anything beyond the material sucked almost as much as Meatworld itself.
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Date: 2024-01-18 12:18 pm (UTC)Thank you for sharing this.
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Date: 2024-01-18 05:07 pm (UTC)Not
Date: 2024-01-18 02:37 pm (UTC)I suspect we humans, and the world in general, experience this kind of astral storm every few thousand years in order to clean and refine the spark of life emanating from the causal plane. The Hindu mythology calls it the Kali Yuga and the Inca are said to have left incarnation in order to avoid it. Thankfully we can learn to avoid the interwebs and cults to engage with real life, human and nonhuman,to build meaningful, positive, life affirming pyramids. A worthy challenge in any age.
Gawain
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Date: 2024-01-18 05:12 pm (UTC)I have experienced this particular metaphor over and over in my current incarnation. There are billons of pyramids and pyramid-builders that have become desperate and hungry in the worst sort of way. At least half the time, joining someone else's pyramid is going to hurt more than it helps, and there is always a careful dance of avoidance. I don't even know how most people survive without a daily banishing ritual, meditation, divination, and prayer these days.
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Date: 2024-01-18 07:36 pm (UTC)If any of that is accurate, what are the implications of the apparent rising rates of autism out there? What would it mean if a huge subset of the population was unable to energetically self-contain in a healthy way? Part of me looks back to the late/senescent Roman empire and the birth of monasticism. Why *did* all those guys head out to the desert to live in caves?
Will we get our own version of that? Every cave in the hills with its own autist, getting away from the nonstop tech-enabled totally intolerable degree of *connection*?
(sorry, musing out loud mostly)
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Date: 2024-01-19 04:37 pm (UTC)As for the energy vampire, it's such a common and known thing that it has shown up in a comedy television series. What We Do in the Shadows is a mockumentary that follows a house-full of vampires. Think The Office combined with Dark Shadows. One of the vamps is not like the others: he is Colin, an energy vampire who annoys people in order to steal their energy. He is the only vampire who can withstand sunlight and that is why he works in an office. One day, he meets his match when a new woman starts working in the office named Evie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHy5YROllws She is a next level energy vampire -- an EMOTIONAL vampire who thrives on the pity she gets from others via her sob stories and self-deprecation.
Sadly, I think I know where a large faction of autistic adults will be headed as their parents become elderly and die. The "lucky" ones will be set up in assisted living group homes where they will largely be left to their own devices. This sort of nursing home is where many autistic adults live at the moment; it's a bunch of little apartments with kitchenettes and bathrooms and a few common areas. There is a phone line that can be called for a nurse. The not-so-lucky ones will die horribly of neglect. There have been a couple of stories in the news that I believe will become far more commonplace as time goes on. One is of poor Lacey Fletcher, whose parents yanked her out of school at the age of 16 because she was likely having issues with autism such as agoraphobia and allegedly becoming increasingly antisocial. Lacey sat down on the couch one day and literally never got up again for 12 years. She died of the worst and cruelest forms of neglect. Her parents, who said "We didn't sign up for this" are currently facing prison time, and I'm thinking they will both be tortured and killed in prison by other prisoners for the horrors of what they allowed to happen to Lacey unless they are put in solitary the entire time. But future Lacey Fletchers won't be avenged if they are even caught because it will become par for the course. Caregiving has become a multi-billion dollar industry only possible because of cheap petroleum wealth and like other things attached to that kind of wealth, I see the caregiving industry falling away. There will be many parents who say "I didn't sign up for this" despite my emphatic belief that they signed up the moment Mr. Happy entered the inner sanctum.
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Date: 2024-01-19 05:03 pm (UTC)Re: Not
Date: 2024-01-23 12:45 am (UTC)I don't know if there's a specific subset of energy vampire which feeds off mischief, but yeah... that was me in my teens. I really did get some kind of psychic rush off causing practical jokes, particularly if they scared someone, or playing some variant of the transactional analysis psychological game called "Let's you and him fight". I wasn't the best adolescent crow. I don't do those things any more though...
JMG mentioned something on Magic Monday the other week about the mental sheath developing in one's twenties, which explains why people grow up a lot more around then. I don't know if an inevitable consequence of that is that the more philosophical one is, the tougher one's mental sheath is and therefore the less they get drawn into the lower-level pyramids? I think several people commented a while back on how their autistic/Aspergers-y traits diminished after age 25. I paradoxically became more socially aware about then, but less socially-inclined. Even as a child though, solitary confinement actually just sounded like a nice break from people and a chance to sit and read or think uninterrupted. People are exhausting to be around.
Autism is unfortunately a pretty broad label which gets applied to everything from "doesn't play well with others", through to "unable to feed or dress self at age 30", whilst making stops at "manipulative psychopath", "views humans as objects or playthings" and "just really into bugs" on the way. Pretty much all the definitions relate to a difficulty or unwillingness to neatly fit into social hierarchies or pyramids though, which makes handling them difficult from an authority point of view. I've seen it written before that HR departments are basically for the purpose of screening out problematically autistic employees who might ask awkward questions in public settings. (Non-problematically autistic employees are to be encouraged, as they work harder and complain and chat less, and can be used to bolster 'neurodiversity' metrics)
And what is a company if not just one big astral pyramid for the purpose of making money?
I had a very Aspergers ex-girlfriend, and I think she used to leech the life out of me both sexually and emotionally (there's probably a karmic lesson in that, as I met her towards the end of my mischievous stage - act like a parasite, attract parasites). She didn't do it deliberately, I don't think, but looking back on it, I believe her etheric body was extremely leaky and she subconsciously knew that she could replenish it from a willing mate. The more sensible approach, obviously, is to fix the leaks, but that assumes knowledge of things that our culture tells us don't exist. Ironically, she would be the poster-girl for non-problematic autism, as she would put up with all sorts of completely unacceptable stuff from employers to "prove herself". Unfortunately, that's likely to be the other fate of many autistic (primarily female) adults - they will become someone's slave. If they're lucky, it will be their elderly parents, or a semi-benevolent spouse. There are also likely to be many who take the breakdown of society as an excellent opportunity to escape to the woods/mountains and live out a solitary existence in nature. Apparently this happened a lot at the end of the Roman empire (which I think about maybe 2 or 3 times a week, as per the tiktok trend a few months ago).
Anyway, when having to interact with people now, I visualise putting on the relevant 'mask' (a business mask, a party mask, etc) and draw a psychic bubble around myself. I think it helps?
Mr. Crow
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Date: 2024-01-23 05:38 am (UTC)I have worked with quite a few autistic students over the years: the symptoms of autism are almost always worse in younger years. One thing I feel that nobody is willing to say is that there is a great deal of laziness in autism. I believe autism is a condition of hypersensitivity, especially on the subtle planes. The reason I believe autistic people, including myself, have such a hard time looking at people in the eye is because we sense and remember people via their subtle bodies -- visuals in Meatworld are often a lie and it is as if autistic people know it. I think autistic people are actually far better equipped to sense and communicate with the unseen ecosystem around them if they can just get over the overstimulation and oversensitivity problem. Without daily spiritual practices, especially banishing, I don't see how any autistic person can ever get a leg up on the astral bombardment/assault of modern day incarnation.
Of course JMG always says one size does not fit all -- I don't think my mental sheath made any real strides until my 40s.
Yes, companies are astral pyramids; making money is not a good cap to put on any pyramid. The blowback sucks. There is a commercial real estate company in my area and I am about two degrees of separation away from them. I am glad I am not the one in charge of all their overpriced strip malls and empty buildings, despite the knowledge of these people living in the lap of luxury and never having to worry about money like I do. Their karma is absolutely horrible and though I could be wrong, I suspect they will spend many lifetimes learning why unearned wealth carries with it fates far worse than death.
I am one of those autistic females that put up with unacceptable stuff from employers back when I felt the need to prove myself. Luckily, I had enough self-preservation and straight up anger to walk away from quite a few of them.
As you probably know, autistic girls are great maskers. In my case, my musical ability to mask and take on different personas makes me a pretty decent karaoke singer; this is also useful when I am teaching different styles. I am a big proponent of the "mask collection" in social situations. I have a different face for every person and every situation and I think my masks have helped me tremendously. Masks are more about what is not said. Honesty is not the best policy in most matters. The honest part is my effort to hold myself to a standard of decency underneath it all. I don't drink much, but if someone likes alcohol, I will turn the conversation towards margaritas. My mom likes Hallmark movies, so that's what we watch together and that's when I shut up about the Mary Sue plots. If I am tempted to criticize, I simply stuff my face with more popcorn. My students get Ms. Steele, the middle aged music teacher with a sense of humor. And so on... masks make the world go round!
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Date: 2024-01-20 01:47 pm (UTC)I don't hate them any more than the opossum or bacteria, they provide a vital service after all, but I definitely try to avoid them. Autism may be a form of defense against it all.
Gawain
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Date: 2024-01-22 10:04 pm (UTC)Christopher Kinyon
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Date: 2024-01-23 05:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-01-23 07:57 pm (UTC)BTW good insights from methylethyl above. The reality is that etheric and astral hygiene is a must, and the people you're around can definitely impact your health on those planes, which will trickle down to the material as well.
PS Speaking of pyramids, I grew up right next to a wetland. When I was a teenager, I took some magic mushrooms. This was long before I had any kind of spiritual awareness and I was basically an atheist then. At one point, looking outside, I could see a gleaming crystal ziggurat looming over the wetland. Now maybe I just hallucinated that, or maybe it was a reflection of the life of that wetland on the subtle planes. The pyramids are probably as real for other forms of life and aggregates of life as they are for us.
-Deneb
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Date: 2024-05-25 02:43 pm (UTC)—UKT
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Date: 2024-05-25 08:10 pm (UTC)