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Post by B'Lahk'Neeth on Sept 29, 2008 13:39:16 GMT -6
i was falling asleep when suddenly the black void of Azathoth popped into my head. all i saw for a few seconds was the slowly swirling abyss and deep space. i thought nothing. outside of this visualization there was nothing. i was blank. nothing.
like in the Tyson Grimoire... the Way Of Azathoth, meditation on nothing, emptying your mind... for a few short seconds it happened to me this morning, without warning.
it was maddening. i could imagine living anymore. or doing anything. there was just this black hole in my mind's eye and no point to anything else. just NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING. its hard to put into words exactly how it made me feel and think. but it kind of scared me to tell you the truth.
but, at the same time... i got the hugest sense of liberation. to be free from the material and trivial thought fetters of this life for just a few seconds... no worries, no bills to pay, no politicians, no negative self-image.... just the gently turning void....
i may try and visualize this each night before going to sleep now. empty my mind of the day's bullshit, hopefully prepare me for some gnarly dream adventures also.
anyone's thoughts?
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Post by I AM the Way on Sept 29, 2008 20:58:45 GMT -6
yes, this is one of our chief goals. to become the void. not easy to do, but it is an essential part of the Cult. total freedom is a frightening notion. most people can't handle it.
keep emptying yourself of all life's garbage and the nothingness shall purify you.
VS
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Post by B'Lahk'Neeth on Sept 29, 2008 22:36:16 GMT -6
yes, this is one of our chief goals. to become the void. not easy to do, but it is an essential part of the Cult. total freedom is a frightening notion. most people can't handle it.
keep emptying yourself of all life's garbage and the nothingness shall purify you.
VS whats crazy is that i didnt work at it. i wasnt meditating. i thought about going there and being empty of everything and BOOM there i was. all of a sudden. i dont know if that will happen again like that but im definitely going to meditate on the void every night now. |
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Post by Lord Void Bharam'ka on Sept 30, 2008 1:20:31 GMT -6
I've experienced The Void many times... And yes I agree it can be horrifying... It can also be very intense. (I try to draw a distinction between the two) There are many Voids within The Void. Each brings its own madness... Its own... personality if you will... It's Liberating and Addicting... I'm hooked on "Chasing the Dragon" of The Void. After a while you might to permanently Void Out... All states of Consciousness begin to blur... Dream and Reality Overlap, becoming One and the Same... Shit seems less real to me at times... Dreams within Dreams... Ones that only Poets, Mystic and Madmen may comprehend... I'm Rambling... |
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Post by Xor'Nefthrahm on Sept 30, 2008 12:49:41 GMT -6
That is also the path of Shamanism.. many Shaman are/were considered Mad, but their wisdom is unbeatable! They eventually walk and see the spirit world just as well as the physical one.
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Post by Zirna'ritee-sigth on Jan 22, 2010 7:27:02 GMT -6
I rememember distinctly when I was a child a night when I stepped into the void. I am sure I came back somehow different, or that something had latched onto my exsistence and has been with me ever since. I still try to fathom the truth ov the event.
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Post by Kai'Sigth on Jan 31, 2010 15:24:51 GMT -6
I have been able to experience the sense of emptiness and detachment from reality while in a conscious state only a couple of times now. The last time that this happened was the strongest and most successful experience I have had with this.
Friday, when I was being taken home from work a barrage of questions where assaulting my mind, I simply was questioning everything I could. This was causing my reality to crumble as it often does when I attempt to answer things that go beyond my understanding. I was pushing at my mental barriers and for a few moments I was able to detach completely.
What I felt is hard to explain, a sort of terrifying yet comfortable/familiar horror. I saw in my mind all of humanity floating in blackness and a line/cable of some sort coming from all of our heads and arching into infinity.
Awake!
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Post by leo666 on Jan 31, 2010 17:29:40 GMT -6
ok that's a very interesting spiritual experience!
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Post by A'Zodul F'eid on Jan 31, 2010 21:02:21 GMT -6
Only once have I experienced anything half so intense. I am jealous, but also timid in light that I too shall surely know such terror.
Awake!
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Post by Kai'Sigth on Feb 1, 2010 11:49:57 GMT -6
Only once have I experienced anything half so intense. I am jealous, but also timid in light that I too shall surely know such terror. Awake! It may be attributed to the fact that I already live on the threshold and often I feel as if reality is a blur and a strange far away detachment sometimes fills my conscious state. I was also extremely tired as it was the end of the work week, so my physical exhaustion led a hand to this experience. I believe anyone can achieve this given the correct exertion of will, simply allow yourself to go mad, and do not fear the horrors of your realization. I hope to experience something like this again in the near future. Awake! |
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Post by I AM the Way on Feb 1, 2010 13:02:23 GMT -6
This is how I describe a brief glimpse into the void: the simultaneous understanding that we are utterly helpless and vulnerable in our prison, as well as, having the potential to be in complete control of our self and by extension the universe. Man is truly a microcosm. In time, self-mastery will lead to domination of all reality.
Awake!
Venger As'Nas Satanis
Cult of Cthulhu High Priest
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Post by egodiabolus on Feb 3, 2010 17:52:47 GMT -6
I agree. Domination is a key component to our efforts. We are trying to dominate our perspectives, to dominate how we interpret reality for ourselves, as opposed to letting reality be defined for us by social-pressures. As Satanists and Cultists we work to forge our own paths, and that may mean sometimes bulldozing down trees if it is expedient to our goals (as opposed to the idea some in this forum have suggested about moving with the "landscape"). We do not wish to be shaped by the hill, but rather to have the hill conform to our own will. We know that hills will conform, whole cities have been built upon this principle. The problem is that the forces that are shaping hills are also in the business of shaping reality for the majority, and we rally against this!
I, for one, am weary of being told what to do by my environment. Mankind's evolution has involved the mastery of the environment to suit the needs of man. Having accomplished this, evolution has for all intents and purposes stopped. It is up to individuals who wield the tools to shape the environment and their own perspectives, to put themselves to the hazard and spur their personal evolution.
I do agree with the suggestion made in conjunction with the "landscape-conformist" view that taking back our own resources is a part of our eventual domination. Things that were once free; food, shelter, water, are now sold in trade for our time and the "magic-paper" handed out in exchange for our lives! Until we have rested from the control of others the very basic staples of existence, we will always be trapped within the social-prison. Grow your own food if you are able, but not for some sense of social-belonging and cultural-identity (another prison), but so you are free of one more fetter holding their other slaves in bondage!
Awake!
Ego Diabolus
Priest of R'lyeh
Cult of Cthulhu
*This post has been modified due to the removal of the post it was in response to. Thanks for being so tenacious in your convictions that you let them stand in plain sight when faced with opposition. Oh, wait, that isn't what happened at all, now is it? You know who you are.
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Post by I AM the Way on Feb 3, 2010 18:03:46 GMT -6
I'm not sure what part you disagree with or why you disagree with it...
Awake!
Venger As'Nas Satanis
Cult of Cthulhu High Priest
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Post by Sarak G'hash on Feb 3, 2010 18:18:21 GMT -6
I respectfully disagree. Domination is a key component to our efforts. We are trying to dominate our perspectives, to dominate how we interpret reality for ourselves, as opposed to letting reality be defined for us by social-pressures. As Satanists and Cultists we work to forge our own paths, and that may mean sometimes bulldozing down trees if it is expedient to our goals. We do not wish to be shaped by the hill, but rather to have the hill conform to our own will. We know that hills will conform, whole cities have been built upon this principle. The problem is that the forces that are shaping hills are also in the business of shaping reality for the majority, and we rally against this!
I, for one, am weary of being told what to do by my environment. Mankind's evolution has involved the mastery of the environment to suit the needs of man. Having accomplished this, evolution has for all intents and purposes stopped. It is up to individuals who wield the tools to shape the environment and their own perspectives, to put themselves to the hazard and spur their personal evolution.
I do agree that taking back our own resources is a part of our eventual domination. Things that were once free; food, shelter, water, are now sold in trade for our time and the "magic-paper" handed out in exchange for our lives! Until we have rested from the control of others the very basic staples of existence, we will always be trapped within the social-prison. Grow your own food if you are able, but not for some sense of social-belonging and cultural-identity (another prison), but so you are free of one more fetter holding their other slaves in bondage!
Awake!
Ego Diabolus
Priest of R'lyeh
Cult of Cthulhu
This is exactly what I was saying in my last post. We have become waaay too dependent on outside sources for things we once provided for ourselves. Awake! |
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Post by egodiabolus on Feb 3, 2010 19:18:04 GMT -6
Okay, gang.
There was a post in here by Apologist1(?) that was basically stating that High Priest Satanis's statement about domination was in error, and encouraged conforming to the nature of reality and fostering some sense of cultural union with the greater society, equating this somehow to the principles of Satanism. I see now that the post has been removed, and now, I look like an ass refuting somehow Lord Satanis's message.
Guess I should learn to do the whole "quote" thing.
My bad, boss.
ia ia Cthulhu fhtagn!
Ego Diabolus
Priest of R'lyeh
Cult of Cthulhu
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Post by Sarak G'hash on Feb 3, 2010 20:51:38 GMT -6
Okay, gang.
There was a post in here by Apologist1(?) that was basically stating that High Priest Satanis's statement about domination was in error, and encouraged conforming to the nature of reality and fostering some sense of cultural union with the greater society, equating this somehow to the principles of Satanism. I see now that the post has been removed, and now, I look like an ass refuting somehow Lord Satanis's message.
Guess I should learn to do the whole "quote" thing.
My bad, boss.
ia ia Cthulhu fhtagn!
Ego Diabolus
Priest of R'lyeh
Cult of Cthulhu
Ego Diabolus, you could never look like an ass after all the incredible work you have done here! This is exactly why members should keep up with the posts. Awake! |
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Post by I AM the Way on Feb 4, 2010 11:35:31 GMT -6
No problem. I suspected that you were disagreeing with another post earlier in the thread somewhere, which is why I asked.
Yes, quotes are handy. ;D
His ichor cleanses the sin of all mankind!
Venger As'Nas Satanis
Cult of Cthulhu High Priest
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Post by Blackness of Darkness on Feb 19, 2010 23:58:10 GMT -6
i was falling asleep when suddenly the black void of Azathoth popped into my head. all i saw for a few seconds was the slowly swirling abyss and deep space. i thought nothing. outside of this visualization there was nothing. i was blank. nothing. You "saw" it? Of course, everyone will most likely have an opinion on this; but that matters not to me. I did not read all the other posts, so if mine contradicts yours, then just disregard it. Upon "seeing" the Void, which is absent of everything and nothing, concluding that it is something that cannot be "seen", would also justify the fact that you saw nothing and experienced NOTHING, by which case you, as a human, would not be able to remember anything that might have occured, because there wasn't anything to experience or see . Do you understand? The human mind cannot be wrapped around an infinity. This makes your experience void. Thus, you did not experience The Void, only a hollow piece of your mind. This is not an insult. |
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Post by Draelloathe on Feb 20, 2010 14:01:53 GMT -6
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