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
every aspect of having a pregnant wife is almost designed to be a thought experiment that illuminates 1000 aspects of our culture that are always there, but mostly invisible - and therefore difficult to grab until they’re impressing upon you - then suddenly, they’re right there.
consider: the due date. how do they know what day your baby is supposed to be born? well, they give you this date. they don’t tell you, generally (lets presume not out of malevolence) that something like 5% of babies are actually born on their due date. almost no one knows this.
so, your wife naturally tells people this, because everyone asks. if she doesnt tell them (maybe she says “late november”) people flag it as weird. “late november? what do you mean? they didn’t give you a date?”. okay. now you’re kind of crypto-hassling my wife. lets ignore that.
one thing i've enjoy about the internet is getting a window into aspects of people's story that they would never share in normal everyday life. if you're interested here's one of mine.
my life changed forever here, off the main street in burlington vermont. it looks like this:
i was somewhere around my early teens, in a bookstore. i looked up on a bookshelf and saw a purple book spine. i just grabbed it. there was some feeling of providence about this book. i was called to take this book from the shelf.
this is the book. it's called stencil pirates.
it's about doing graffiti with stencils. the idea is that you cut a design into a hard surface, then spray paint it, and the paint just goes through the part you cut out, leaving your image. pretty simple.
if, at some point, you lived around a TV, you may be familiar with ‘festivus’: a holiday george costanza’s father created on seinfeld. as a resident atypical american religion enjoyer, let’s take a slightly academic religious ethnography pass over this (there will be magic).
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festivus is presented as a holiday created by george’s father as a reaction against commercialism. this holiday is then actually celebrated, and becomes a family tradition.
consciously crafting religion - live. a joke, but its real. is there an existing framework for this? yes.
discordianism is the exact meeting point for the above concepts. it is basically a joke religion, started by nerds, who found religion interesting. the dense node at the center being - if people actually “do it”, in terms of religious scholarship - then its real. it becomes real.
johnny hart was an american cartoonist who started a comic called B.C. in 1958. he also created another popular strip called 'wizard of id'.
he was called "the most widely read christian of our time," by a former director of the office of public liaison at the white house.
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that designation may seem somewhat absurd, but he was still doing B.C. when he died in the 2000s. considering he made two of the most popular american newspaper comics, and ran them for about half a century - in light of how many people read books, it might actually be the case.
his primary topic, prehistoric man, only makes it more interesting that he was a christian. he was raised christian, but after a father son team installed a satellite dish at his home and apparently had some type of gospel conversation with him, he became more serious about it.
bizarre unnavigable part of being a parent is that there is no way to reveal the information that you dont give your kid any screens without making other parents upset. even if you intentionally set out to not tell them, if they dig enough, and find out, they then become upset.
you can laugh about it, or blame it on any reason, or pad it infinitely with how much you love screens, or how youre just an idiot and dont know anything about parenting and are just winging it: doesnt matter. people just become upset at the information. its upsetting information
a weird parallel is the home birth thing. im self aware enough to not flex about something my wife did or to make other people feel like i know what medical decisions they should make. but if i need to mention it in a conversation, people likewise take it as a type of challenge.