this thread will document some interesting things i come across as im working on a project called PSIDAR, (psychological spiritual imagery demonic archetype research).
the images can be read on a phone but they load compressed on a computer so ill include links.
this thread isnt the reason im doing this but i figure as i come across interesting data i may as well share it.
in case its not clear each single image will always be one person talking unless clearly indicated.
001 - 004
001: person who has never done psychedelics sees baphomet while meditating spontaneously, doesnt know what it is.
002: person on dmt meets a demonic entity that seeks to control them
004b (gonna use the system of one person will be 004, 004b, 004c etc from now on)
same guy from before who "went to hell", after hundreds of dmt and ayahusca experiences, is converted from disbelief to a conventional model of demons and stops using dmt
guy does form of ayahusaca with a whore that has a mystical aura. shes silent then presses her head to his. he feels a "voodoo spirit" enter his head + sees baphomet. starts to believe "simpler ideas" about death + god. no trip posts after this
non-religious guy concludes the positive things about DMT world are a facade concealing something sinister + "satanic", experiences demonic possession, very dark visions, beings cutting into his body, stops using DMT and still feels off months later
popular shamanic teacher hangs himself in a peru apartment, obviously after extended ayahuasca use and searching for knowledge along similar shamanic paths. journalist close with him says he hung himself to intentionally cross over to the other side
after recently deciding that "nothing matters, theres no absolute", man smokes DMT and meets a dark evil jester shadow entity in a red realm of blood visions, the being torments him and tells him "if nothing matters, you should kill your friends".
lots of really weird hostile responses to this thread. not that i care but i will just address this one time. im not trying to "prove anything" here, just documenting interesting phenomena. as an artist + person into mystical things, naturally this type of thing would interest me
ill be documenting various archetypes in this thread, some that overlap, some that do not, for a variety of reasons. if you're drawing some odd macro conclusion based on this youre probably projecting your own feelings onto me.
we now return to regularly scheduled programming.
009: guy is possessed / assaulted by dark energy possibly left behind by a friend
010, 010b: guy meets mayan god and starts a relationship with these beings (+ a jester)
011: guy is tortured by beings that look "devilish" and look like an aztec being
016, 016b: john c lilly, famous psychonaut, eventually came to the conclusion that he had been ushered into a cosmic hierarchical order that had some role in orchestrating things on earth, also experiences "psychic surgery"
018: across the spectrum of those experimenting with esoterica, the occult, amateur shamanism, and/or psychedelics, the idea of being inducted into a cosmic hierarchical order of higher beings is extremely common + has strange overlap across time + place
a spectre is the 2024 internet man. and that spectre is:
the difference between modernism and post-modernism.
this has been a huge part of my "navigating people trying to force you to do stuff" studies. it is useful.
know the difference. it could save your life.
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my education is native to postmodern world. this isnt really a flex at all, because its a terrible place to start. you essentially start off with everything disassembled, and then you have to work backwards and figure out why people disassembled it. really, its a horrible set up
that being said, it's almost a joke now that people use post-modernism as a blanket term online without really referring to anything specific. we can imagine the ancient "everything i dont like is hitler" meme reset with "postmodernism" at the end. at least, thats the perception
one of my favorite weird internet things. was in a program like this around 3rd grade. in retrospect, makes no sense. was taken out of school half a day once a week and taken to a non-school building to do weird puzzles and take strange tests. generic name, 0 record of it online
i remember being in the basement of our school, a huge grey room, with all the kids there sitting very far from each other. they gave us a test with lots of images. me and three other kids got in, and they’d take just the three of us on this bus to the program with the other kids
the building they took us to was not a school building, the only adult there was whoever the “teacher” was. we took bizarre tests that usually involved working around a problem, a logical trick, or inventing something to solve an elaborate complex problem. zero normal “learning”
today is st.martin's day, also known as martinmas. the story of st. martin is that he had a coat, and cut part of it off to help another man keep warm
a lot of waldorf (anthroposophy) stuff is about catholic saints. on martinmas, they do a lantern walk. aesthetically, its cool:
the kids line up with lanterns they made and walk out into the darkness in a line. it has an obvious symbolic component: being the light in the darkness, going into the dark part of the year - st. martin's act, and others like it, that we can do, as illuminating a dark world:
its hard to find good pictures of it, probably because it has a reverent vibe, and its not really a "take out your phone" environment... plus its dark. but seeing the kids walk out all together with these paper lights is very cool. its become a "start of winter" thing for us.
after elections, much is made about how the educated vote vs the uneducated. ive benefited from education and am generally a book nerd, but there are dimensions to the educated vs uneducated dichotomy that dont fit into intelligent vs unintelligent. one is: cause and effect
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when you receive education, you are not “a cause”: you are “an effect”. you are receiving. you are there to be the effect of the educational institution. some people that are well educated have been in this state for years - this receptive state has been the focus of their life.
because education “is good”, some people never snap out of this, and never become “a cause”. they just stay receptive - they stay “the effect” forever, even after leaving. contrast this with someone uneducated - its possible they’ve been “pure cause” for almost their entire life
appalachia is a crazy place. “first and last frontier”. millions of people, but only one state is fully in it (west virginia) so it flys under the radar as a region - unlike the pacific northwest, the midwest, the south, which you can associate with many full states.
appalachia took the brunt of having no environmental regulations at the time. they basically blew off the tops of mountains to strip them and things like that. in my opinion you can kind of code the increasing environmentalist vibe as you scan america east to west, starting here.
the mountains themselves also retained a lot of “original” culture, as an isolating or shielding force. horace kephart was something like a mega-librarian who went to live up in the mountains around 1900 and happened to notice how much language they retained even back to chaucer: