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Evaluating Integral Metatheory

Nuanced differences between Nihilism, absurdism and Existentialism

Psychological symptoms, states and processes associated with the dissociation label

Richard J. Brown, Different Types of “Dissociation” Have Different Psychological Mechanisms

Taxonomies of misdirection overview

When confronted with a magic trick, you first perceive the relevant sensory information, then store key aspects of it in your memory, and then perhaps use this to reason about how the trick was done. A magician can prevent a spectator from discovering the method by simply manipulating any one of these processes.

These categories define misdirection in terms of the psychological mechanisms affected. The first set of principles manipulate your perception, preventing you from perceiving selected parts of the performance.

—Gustav Kuhn, Experiencing the Impossible

The proposed integrative model of existential threat experiences

Daniel Sullivan, Cultural-existential Psychology: The Role of Culture in Suffering and Threat

A schematic representation of the personality system. 

‘Biological bases’ (such as genes) and ‘external influences’ (such as cultural norms) are inputs to the system. Personality traits are found in the category of ‘basic tendencies’, which are influenced by biological bases, but not external influences. Causal paths are indicated by arrows, and show that, over time, traits interact with the environment to produce ‘characteristic adaptations’ (such as attitudes), and these in turn interact with the situation to produce the output of the system, the ‘objective biography’. The ‘self-concept’ is a subset of characteristic adaptations of particular importance to self theorists. Adapted from McCrae and Costa (1996) 

The natural method involves seeking consistency and equilibrium among different modes of analysis applied to the study of some mental phenomenon…In the case of dreams, phenomenology, will supply us with first-person reports about how dreams seem, especially how particular dreams seem from the point of view of the person who has the dream.

The mental sciences—psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience—are needed to provide answers to a host of questions that are not answered by how things seem, even if we take how they seem to be as how they really are for the dreamer. The mental sciences will tell us about the objective side of dreams.

—Owen Flanagan, Dreaming Souls

To reach a true state of unity, all parts of the self must transcend beyond their separate levels. When one can succeed in doing this, he or she will have a connection to a power beyond the self.

Shanddaramon, Self-Initiation for the Solitary Witch

In classical empiricist approaches, we could say that our ways of talking depend upon the world; to the extent that our talk is rooted, or grounded in what the facts of the world will permit or allow us to say, our talk is about what we ‘find’ to be there. 

On the other hand, in line with hermeneutical or interpretive views, it is equally true to say that what we take to be the nature of the world depends upon our ways of talking about it; thus, to the extent that it is they that ‘give’ or ‘lend’ it intelligible (and legitimate) structure and significance, it is as we ‘make’ it to be.

—John Shotter, Social Individuality Versus Possessive Individualism

Bernard Baars, In the Theater of Consciousness

How to Organize Your Holon “Congratulations!      Yes,        congratulations on your decision to form your Holodynamic        Holon. A Holon is the first level of organization in the        Holodynamics Society. It consists of 6 or more individuals        who meet together weekly to study Holodynamic principles,        apply the processes, and expand their holodynamic influence        into the community and across the world.”

“Distribution for 18 fingerprint pattern types + relative effect size (arrows) in the Big Five personality dimensions Neuroticism & Extraversion, plus derived tendencies for the four classic temperaments: Choleric, Melancholic, Phlegmatic & Sanguine; displayed percentages represent the lowest- and highest value observed among the 4 personality groups (N+, N-, E+ & E-).“

Since the Torus is being simultaneously generated by matter in all the various phases of “time”, it reflects the development of the universe in the past, present and future. By reflecting on this model, it becomes possible to “see” how human consciousness brought to a sufficiently altered state could obtain information concerning the past, present and future since they all exist in the universal hologram simultaneously (in the case of the future because all of the consequences of the past and present can be seen coming together in the hologram such that the future can be predicted or “seen” with total accuracy). 

Moreover, it is possible to see how the implosion of energy patterns would cross and recross to create an incredibly complex four dimensional hologram or Torus, in spiral shape in movements of the energies which comprise the universe leave their mark and and hence tell their story throughout time.

—Declassified CIA document Gateway Process

Rosicrucian fundamentals by Plummer, George Winslow, 1876-1944

philippino anting-anting talisman vests

Spiral Calendar [full size]

All Light, Everywhere (Theo Anthony, 2021)

there we go

“There is a harmonic relationship that resonates between all the spheres of space, from the smallest to the largest. Think of all the protons vibrating and resonating with each other. Think of all the electrons vibrating and resonating with each other. Then think of all the planets, all the solar systems, all the stars, the galaxies, the superclusters that vibrate and resonate with each other in the universe. Imagine then the number of octaves existing between the proton and the universe. We are very clearly bathed in the music of the spheres.”

Nassim Haramein

favorite youtuber***

David Allen Hulse, The Eastern Mysteries—An Encyclopedic Guide to the Sacred Languages & Magickal Systems of the World

Titus Burckhardt, Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul

The real root of alchemy is to be sought less in philosophical doctrines than in the projections of individual investigators. I mean by this that while working on his chemical experiments the operator had certain psychic experiences which appeared to him as the particular behavior of the chemical process. Since it was a question of projection, he was naturally unconscious of the fact that the experience had nothing to do with matter itself . . . He experienced his projection as a property of matter; but what he was in reality experiencing was his own unconscious. In this way he recapitulated the whole history of man’s knowledge of nature. As we all know, science began with the stars, and mankind discovered in them the dominants of the unconscious, the “gods,” as well as the curious psychological qualities of the zodiac: a complete projected theory of human character. Astrology is a primordial experience similar to alchemy. Such projections repeat themselves whenever man tries to explore an empty darkness and involuntarily fills it with living form.

Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy