Yeah, both grandparents were over 90, and my grandma had dementia, so neither of them died badly, but I was still sad to lose my grandad as he was mentally and physically still very active, and had a great sense of humour. He seemed glad to go at the end though, he was very tired.
Yep, Scientism is the correct word for it, it's a belief system now, not a methodology or toolkit. But it's a godless one, and so has no inbuilt error-correction. This will likely be its imminent downfall, as it's completely open to demonic (or just terrestrial) takeover, as it cannot comprehend that it could be wrong and cannot see its own blind spots. Covid is just the start of this process, in my opinion.
I may also do a more detailed post one day about what I call "white man's magic", which is effectively an anti-magic that stops magic from working around it. For example, maybe the Native American Spirit dancers really were bulletproof... but not when facing white settlers with their anti-magic. Ever seen X-Men 3, with the character called Leech, who stops other mutants' powers from working? It would explain why even the well-researched examples of cold fusion, homeopathy, etc, or any other technology based upon the subtle senses seems to fail in the presence of hardened Scientism sceptics - they make it fail simply by their presence.
The Tibetan book of the dead, or the Bardõ, to give its proper name, is a really good read. It goes into what you've mentioned on how to make the proper preparations for the dying and rituals for the recently passed, but also basically states that everyone goes to hell for a bit, unless you escape the cycle of samsara via enlightenment. Some of it lays it on a bit thick, such as how many millenia of suffering killing an ant will get you, etc, but overall it's interesting.
Book-wise, sorry, I can't remember the exact ones, as they were mentioned on the podcast "Everything Imaginable" (which I'd recommend) whilst I was driving home, so I couldn't note them down, and now I can't find the episodes! From a quick search, this book from the 70s seems to be on the same topic though: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reincarnation-Christianity-Rebirth-Christian-Thought/dp/0835605019 The authors interviewed on the podcast (there were 3 separate ones on separate episodes who were all doing basically the same thing) went back to the earliest copies of the Bible they could find, which were in Hebrew, and started translating them literally, word-for-word (rather than transliterating them into modern English, which is more subjective) and came across a lot of mentions of prophets being literal rather than figurative reincarnations of previous prophets. There also seem to be a lot of references to mysterious "sky people" as well, which slowly got transliterated into a singular "God", but that's a topic for another time. I'll do some digging and get back to you if I can find the specific books though.
I also remember JMG saying how you die can potentially affect your mental make-up in your next life - I posted before about the Aspergers-y mental traits I had when I was younger, and my lack of what is known as "hot" empathy (where you actually feel what someone else feels, rather than "cold" empathy, where you can understand what someone else feels, but don't feel it yourself. It won't surprise you to learn that psychopaths score high on the latter and low on the former) might be the kind of brain damage you'd expect from being shot in the back of the head. But I imagine a few lifetimes as an assassin and/or spy would develop the same characteristics. Language-wise, I took to German very easily when learning it at school, and was also good at French, I just didn't like it. And I started learning a little Japanese before I was going to go to Japan in 2020, and read books about Japanese culture - all the stuff that was supposed to be 'weird' to a Westerner I found perfectly logical though!
I also don't know if you know of the Myers-Briggs test, but I am an INTJ - there was a discussion about this on JMG's covid posts a while back, and *loads* of people on there were INTJ, and none of them got the jab. However, INTJs only make up around 5% of the population, but their 'superpower' is that they are totally immune to peer pressure and have high critical/lateral thinking abilities. I remember this from university drinking games - I just said "This is stupid" and refused to participate, or pretended to drink, or just subtly switched my vodka for water (drunk people are easy to trick). It's also kind of hard to exclude someone as a punishment when they actively dislike being around other people. I've seen a load of memes where INTJ is basically characterised as the 'assassin' archetype as well, blending into civilised society, yet following their own secret missions and objectives.
There's some occult teachings (Dion Fortune in particular goes into this) that people don't reincarnate randomly, and nor do they experience *everything*, but just the lessons they need to learn, following their own "ray". It ties into the idea of soul clusters of similar souls moving through lifetimes. What this would mean is that one's core personality is not truly reset with each lifetime - it may vary somewhat, but based on the comparative similarities I've mentioned above, I would not suddenly expect my next life to be say, as a professional dancer, as that would not be on my ray. I know you shared your past lives before, and there were similarities over time, such as musical ability. I work with machines a lot better than people, and spy gadgets were a particular source of fascination for me as a child (fun fact: I always liked the character "Q" a lot better than James Bond in the movies. He made the fun gadgets and didn't get shot at!) Part of why I dislike the internet age so much is that everything is so *boring*. There's no need for an exciting laser pen to help you break into an office when you can just hack the laptop of an inept intern from another continent. Le sigh.
That's interesting about the etheric sacrifices to the Mayan/Aztec gods - maybe they instead got a karmic culmination in the sense of civilisation-ending plagues (it was actually a combo of 3 diseases - smallpox, measles and typhoid, which accounted for the 90% fatality rate, not a single virus) from the Conquistadors, in a "be careful what you wish for" sort of way. Kind of like the Final Destination films, where trying to escape your fate just ends up causing it (man, those films creeped me out as a teenager).
You may also note from my post above that I believe my most recent incarnations have followed on more or less immediately from each other. I think you wrote an essay a while ago about your soul feeling tired from the frequent incarnations. That is exactly how I feel, despite being reasonably young, healthy and active. I just want a break for a few centuries to work through and process things. I have asked my gods in advance not to come back for 1000 years when I die, but I don't know if this will be granted.
Mr. Crow
Ps. I went back and re-read the message I'd left on the Scottish essay, as I couldn't remember how crazy it came across. I guess it was maybe a '6' on the scale of 1-to-bananas. Creepily though, the picture you had of the oubliette for that essay - only a few days afterwards, I read about a scientific 'study' from the 70s in which monkeys were put in something very similar to that diagram for basically no reason other than to watch them suffer. It's one of the most horrible things I've read about for a while, so I won't send you a link, as you won't like it. The synchronicity of it unnerved me though. And again, evil Scientism.
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Yep, Scientism is the correct word for it, it's a belief system now, not a methodology or toolkit. But it's a godless one, and so has no inbuilt error-correction. This will likely be its imminent downfall, as it's completely open to demonic (or just terrestrial) takeover, as it cannot comprehend that it could be wrong and cannot see its own blind spots. Covid is just the start of this process, in my opinion.
I may also do a more detailed post one day about what I call "white man's magic", which is effectively an anti-magic that stops magic from working around it. For example, maybe the Native American Spirit dancers really were bulletproof... but not when facing white settlers with their anti-magic. Ever seen X-Men 3, with the character called Leech, who stops other mutants' powers from working? It would explain why even the well-researched examples of cold fusion, homeopathy, etc, or any other technology based upon the subtle senses seems to fail in the presence of hardened Scientism sceptics - they make it fail simply by their presence.
The Tibetan book of the dead, or the Bardõ, to give its proper name, is a really good read. It goes into what you've mentioned on how to make the proper preparations for the dying and rituals for the recently passed, but also basically states that everyone goes to hell for a bit, unless you escape the cycle of samsara via enlightenment. Some of it lays it on a bit thick, such as how many millenia of suffering killing an ant will get you, etc, but overall it's interesting.
Book-wise, sorry, I can't remember the exact ones, as they were mentioned on the podcast "Everything Imaginable" (which I'd recommend) whilst I was driving home, so I couldn't note them down, and now I can't find the episodes! From a quick search, this book from the 70s seems to be on the same topic though: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reincarnation-Christianity-Rebirth-Christian-Thought/dp/0835605019
The authors interviewed on the podcast (there were 3 separate ones on separate episodes who were all doing basically the same thing) went back to the earliest copies of the Bible they could find, which were in Hebrew, and started translating them literally, word-for-word (rather than transliterating them into modern English, which is more subjective) and came across a lot of mentions of prophets being literal rather than figurative reincarnations of previous prophets. There also seem to be a lot of references to mysterious "sky people" as well, which slowly got transliterated into a singular "God", but that's a topic for another time. I'll do some digging and get back to you if I can find the specific books though.
I also remember JMG saying how you die can potentially affect your mental make-up in your next life - I posted before about the Aspergers-y mental traits I had when I was younger, and my lack of what is known as "hot" empathy (where you actually feel what someone else feels, rather than "cold" empathy, where you can understand what someone else feels, but don't feel it yourself. It won't surprise you to learn that psychopaths score high on the latter and low on the former) might be the kind of brain damage you'd expect from being shot in the back of the head. But I imagine a few lifetimes as an assassin and/or spy would develop the same characteristics. Language-wise, I took to German very easily when learning it at school, and was also good at French, I just didn't like it. And I started learning a little Japanese before I was going to go to Japan in 2020, and read books about Japanese culture - all the stuff that was supposed to be 'weird' to a Westerner I found perfectly logical though!
I also don't know if you know of the Myers-Briggs test, but I am an INTJ - there was a discussion about this on JMG's covid posts a while back, and *loads* of people on there were INTJ, and none of them got the jab. However, INTJs only make up around 5% of the population, but their 'superpower' is that they are totally immune to peer pressure and have high critical/lateral thinking abilities. I remember this from university drinking games - I just said "This is stupid" and refused to participate, or pretended to drink, or just subtly switched my vodka for water (drunk people are easy to trick). It's also kind of hard to exclude someone as a punishment when they actively dislike being around other people. I've seen a load of memes where INTJ is basically characterised as the 'assassin' archetype as well, blending into civilised society, yet following their own secret missions and objectives.
There's some occult teachings (Dion Fortune in particular goes into this) that people don't reincarnate randomly, and nor do they experience *everything*, but just the lessons they need to learn, following their own "ray". It ties into the idea of soul clusters of similar souls moving through lifetimes. What this would mean is that one's core personality is not truly reset with each lifetime - it may vary somewhat, but based on the comparative similarities I've mentioned above, I would not suddenly expect my next life to be say, as a professional dancer, as that would not be on my ray. I know you shared your past lives before, and there were similarities over time, such as musical ability. I work with machines a lot better than people, and spy gadgets were a particular source of fascination for me as a child (fun fact: I always liked the character "Q" a lot better than James Bond in the movies. He made the fun gadgets and didn't get shot at!) Part of why I dislike the internet age so much is that everything is so *boring*. There's no need for an exciting laser pen to help you break into an office when you can just hack the laptop of an inept intern from another continent. Le sigh.
That's interesting about the etheric sacrifices to the Mayan/Aztec gods - maybe they instead got a karmic culmination in the sense of civilisation-ending plagues (it was actually a combo of 3 diseases - smallpox, measles and typhoid, which accounted for the 90% fatality rate, not a single virus) from the Conquistadors, in a "be careful what you wish for" sort of way. Kind of like the Final Destination films, where trying to escape your fate just ends up causing it (man, those films creeped me out as a teenager).
You may also note from my post above that I believe my most recent incarnations have followed on more or less immediately from each other. I think you wrote an essay a while ago about your soul feeling tired from the frequent incarnations. That is exactly how I feel, despite being reasonably young, healthy and active. I just want a break for a few centuries to work through and process things. I have asked my gods in advance not to come back for 1000 years when I die, but I don't know if this will be granted.
Mr. Crow
Ps. I went back and re-read the message I'd left on the Scottish essay, as I couldn't remember how crazy it came across. I guess it was maybe a '6' on the scale of 1-to-bananas. Creepily though, the picture you had of the oubliette for that essay - only a few days afterwards, I read about a scientific 'study' from the 70s in which monkeys were put in something very similar to that diagram for basically no reason other than to watch them suffer. It's one of the most horrible things I've read about for a while, so I won't send you a link, as you won't like it. The synchronicity of it unnerved me though. And again, evil Scientism.