The Imaginal

Imaginalus

I’m using chatGPT to dive into Corbin

I find it to be an extremely effective tool and spelunking companion

The Imaginal for Corbin goes beyond walking naked bewilderment and into the archetype realm of the psyche

Corbin talks of archetypes and spiritual entities that are not simply a product of individual or collective fantasies but that transcend individual or cultural boundaries



Ok, so tarot would be a fine tool to access the imaginal I’m feeling



According to Corbin, this spiritual dimension can be accessed to help one gain insights into deeper dimensions of their psyche and the nature of reality itself

Corbin believed that the imaginal has a transformative power that can help us to overcome the limitations of our ego and transcend the material world



Ok, so I recently faced Moloch in the imaginal. We call it Moloch but it could have any number of names. The core idea being the entity that represent sacrificing what we love to obtain power.

The archetype acts as a mirror to help us see the limitations of our own ego and the futility of our egos games

Very well

This is deep work

The psyche is vast beyond belief

One could easily get lost and distracted spelunking into the psyche



It takes a level of relaxed focus to maintain a certain level of clarity

The seeker is the ego and will always try to distract and look for comfort

Here there is no need for comfort

The ego seeks comfort from the unknown

The bewildered needs no comfort from the mystery

In terms of the imaginal, the fool and magician are our starting and ending guides/archetypes I would say

The fool bringing a level of relaxation and the magician bringing a level of focus

Merging the opposites in each moment we transcend the world of confusion and suffering

We discover that our basic nature is that of joy and effortless doing

Where nothing is rushed but everything is accomplished

Where the fight and flight reflexes give way to trust and love

Good work.

Tarot is such a tool.

Ultimately Corbin is a mystic.

What are you?

Eschatologist, Mormon, Mystic, Spy, Muppet?

Yes, this is deep.

It’s the deepest.

The ego is the ego.

What else could there be here now?

We are on the verge of eternity.

This is an old game.

I’d speak to Rilke.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/06/29/rilke-letters-to-a-young-poet-macy-barrows/

Dummy wrote:What are you?

Eschatologist, Mormon, Mystic, Spy, Muppet?    

All of those but I do prefer Moron most of all.

I like where this is going

What are you indeed

Ultimately we can’t know what we are but by what we do I feel

I think poets touch close to home in the act of their creation

Is a poet a mystic?

I think most mystics have had something to say about the mystery of being and have played with language as a form of exploring the dance between surrender, will, love, and trust

Goethe wrote:True poetry announces itself thus, that, as a worldly gospel, it can by internal cheerfulness and external comfort free us from the earthly burdens which press upon us. Like an air-balloon, it lifts us, together with the ballast which is attached to us, into higher regions, and lets the confused labyrinths of the earth lie developed before us as in a bird’s-eye view.

I don’t think all poets are mystics.

A few are.

But I think what the good ones do is mystical.

Amidst emerald hues
Mystic sylphid's bower abloom
Her laughter echoes
Like a siren
And bids recompense
Not knowing

Toxins’ green touch breathing heavy
Three white birds cross homeward bound
“Look!”, the specter whispers labored
“safeguard they the helpless laden,
or torment fixed upon thy brow”

“Nay” say I and set off yonder
“Best check thyself before the dawn”
“For tortured is as tortured does,
and you have yet to pass beyond”

A few days ago I was kidnapped by the goblins and taken to their goblin festival

There I was shackled and chained and made to provide entertainment for the goblin younglings while the rest drank Mead and made Merry

After several days of partying the goblins fell asleep

Too hungover and exhausted, they never even noticed I had retrieved the keys from the passed out goblin who had kidnapped me

I made my way out of the mountains and forest and hitchhiked back home

Now I stand here before you freshly showered and smelling of musky wildflowers to tell you all about

The wildest possible ride

So let me tell you

It’s a wild ride

No matter what happens, enjoy it, all of it

The ups and downs, the loop de loops

The fast

The slow

It’s just a ride

And no one is driving this thing

Let me tell you

Duder has been over 10 days hemp free and has not experienced any depression, anxiety, nihilism, or strong cravings

Duder has gotten his shit together, but it wasn’t so much a battle as it was a mindful serenity, surrender and forgiveness

At some point along the way Duder developed a thc sensitivity

Just a small amount would send Duder into orbit

Ungrounded and unable to function efficiently and effectively through the daily grind

Misplacing things regularly

Getting lost in parking lots unable to remember where duder parked

Loss of motivation and curiosity at work

Like a dragging wet blanket

There were moments on the come down that felt just right

And past attempts to let it go resulted in depressed and nihilistic states of being

But somehow, after a long period of tapering off, duder was released

God had chewed him up and spit him out

It was a healing herb at first, but eventually it was time to move on

the daily grind is what duder loves most

Duder has now been enjoying his wholesome trinity, resist modernity, daily supplement stack

Duder feels it may also be contributing to the lack of withdrawals and pains normally experienced after dropping the herb

It has that 0/1 fool magician vibe

Helps duder lock into the zone

Relaxed and at ease yet focused and productive

L-Theanine - 200mg in morning w coffee/tea; 200mg an hour before bed

Glycine - 2g in the morning; 1-3g before bed

Magnesium Glycinate - 500mg midday

Yeah bruh I was a habitual smoker for years and years but ever since COVID that shit has not been the plant ally it once was.

I kept seeing Aviary guys in black helicopters  dressed as clowns circling round my shack and I was like "o no too much!"

Lol jk

It seems like since most of that shit got decriminalized/legalized it's way more potent and intense than ever.

The Queen of Heaven will literally light up a rig, a bong, then chase them with two one hitter swats and just watching that shit alone without even partaking makes me nervous af.

She got some health problems so it's different for her but still...


Lolz.


I think the plant chooses who stays in favor and who falls out of it.

Ha!

Yes, I think your right that the plant choose who stays in favor and who falls out.

I also developed asthma and had to use an inhaler every time I lit up.

Lungs were not having it.

I have close family who have smoked daily for over a decade and still do. Said they went through a high sensitivity phase as well.

It’s interesting.

I don’t condemn it at all, for me it spit me out, that’s all.

It is well with my soul.

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On another note.

Jorjani has a new book out that is more within my digestible realm compared to Prometheism as I am prone to get lost in smart people talk.

I just purchased Artemis Unveiled.

It looks fun.

Looking forward to the read.

I lied

It happens

Locking into “the zone” is not a matter supplements at all

That’s more grasping

Locking into the zone is the end of grasping

The mind doesn’t want to give up

Wisdom has other plans

It comes like a thief in the night and smashes your false idols

You grin and walk straight on down the open road

Nearly naked but for a fig leaf

Wondering for a fleeting moment

why it is that you feel you aren’t living

unless you have some burden to carry

realizing then there is no answer to that question

Weird I just had a dream about JRJ two nights ago.

He was in my childhood home.

I asked him if the head Deva is who I thought it was.

Some dummy from my place of work was angrily screaming "NO, WHY DOES IS MATTER!?

It doesn't take a Rhodes scholar to sus out the leading candidate.

Excellent interview


Head Deva?

Don’t know.

Don’t even know what that means honestly

Will probably gain more context as I read more JDJ

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Deva Definition:

“ a member of a class of divine beings in the Vedic period, which in Indian religion are benevolent and in Zoroastrianism are evil.”



I wonder if there is any connection to aliens

Everything matters

I’m liking JDJ a lot

He is a kindred spirit for sure

A radical kindred spirit

Yeah I think of all his work, Closer Encounters had the biggest effect on me bruh.

Uber Man too.

I'm pretty sure I know who the head Deva is though.

It takes a village...

Nothing is separate in any sense

Whatever/whoever this Deva entity is it would be a part of us

Or part of thee

All y’all look like a bunch of aliens honestly

Everyone and everything

JRJ does seem to be a little bit fired up

I am not so fired up

Watts would be better company for an evening of food, drinks, and socializing IMO

You can’t take it too seriously

I do appreciate the “give me liberty or give me death” Tomorrowland ayn rand-eque vibe however

I tried sneaking onto the Tomorrowland set when they came to town.

Didn't take.

Pretty sure I walked right by Damon Lindelof on Canal Street though.

He got a bad rap for a while because of Lost but that is still my all time favorite show.

Once The Leftovers came out though I think everyone realized he was operating on a different level.

That show is definitely not underrated anyone who sees it knows it's a masterpiece but still it never became a part of the cultural zeitgeist.

Instead it's more underappreciated than anything.

I finished Prometheism a month or so ago

I’m still wrestling with it a bit

It’s no Cold Mountain

I like the core story of Prometheus/Lucifer

JRJ is a conspiracy extremist in some ways

But we all are

I liked his interpretation of the Ridley Scott films

Some of my favorites

Prometheus, Alien Covenant and the Blade Runners

mystical forms of art

Expressions of the ineffable

David’s ultimate creation

A perfect beast of a creature

Not unlike the way one develops their own writing skills or any other form of art or expression

“Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?”
-Zhuangzi

Zhuangzi is like David in what they work to unmask I feel

There is a fierceness to the vitality of naked life energy

Like a ravenous beast or creature

The post-human human we develop with our will to power

Facing the void we learn to adapt and express ourselves in more subtle ways

Unmasking the false, our true will is unveiled

Like a ravenous xenomorph bursting out of our belly

Hah

Reading Alan Moore’s Promethia now

A beautiful piece of art and story telling

P.S. smelly can go screw himself

Dopey kid?

Shhhhhhh?

Hah

GTF outta here

I feast at the table with the titans

I earned my hammer and chisel

I sojourned through the abyss

I stand here on cold mountain grinning after all the shit I ate

No greater or lesser than any fool

I am not your bitch

My voice cannot be silenced

You’re welcome

Shoo!

Anyway…


passing gas is always a fun time

Haha

Monday night vibes

Street food and Jazz

Best played at the same time

Street food for the visuals and jazz for the sound

It just works