>>312215Thank you. One comment about how Robert Kirk Packwood describes all magicians as vampires who must prey in the shadows is close but misses the mark.
Vampire cults are focused on sucking the life blood of everyone they consider cattle (technically that's a per person basis but is still something important to consider). So big parallels to (((rabbi users of magic))).
Same stuff, money, power, prestige, laborers, being above the masses, ect. They'll eat the flesh, soul, physical or otherwise. Bringing themselves to become a superior apex predator. There is also spiritual illness (heard from other sources that is Bear Heart) that can take over a person to become a rabid creature that consumes.
Otherwise a large portion of the text is about psychological and sociological origins of mental stuffs that form ever more complex or simpler pieces.
The dominus viral pox (with the controlbots infestation), also exhibited in poltical ponerology, is valuable.
Impossibility Walls can be seen everywhere where many don't try even if a better solution exists. That mental wall has to be throughly broken, or a seemingly insane attempt for whatever reason just to try.
On all occultists being relegated to the shadows is too a mental construct he's extrapolated. If you say your a magician and can't back it up with something beyond spectacular the mundanity of life perception shuts down anything important one has to communicate.
So that is a point for beings in the shadows, and so is soft convincing.
But consider advertising that even when fully realized it's effect sometimes parts pass by. Going to the subconsious or unconsious. So being self illuminated (hmmmm) can detect and do things to that broken info being construct.
Someone who doesn't know jack about anything psychological manipulation or how advertisements work is going to be at a higher risk than someone who is aware.
But also having a resilient set of mental structures (flora and fauna) can do alot of heavy lifting in decommissioning hostile junk info entities.
Something else rather interesting that came to me as a vision of sorts (prehaps from the astral or the finalization of a new construct or something there but yet to be reviled) is that automatic writing or drawing or dancing (by this book those are called evocations) is in a similar vein to a flow state.
For creating or climbing a social hierarchy it does a good job.
Also considers how you can create a way to brick yourself if you're not careful of what imbued constructs you break willy nilly.
This book does not spend much time on the body even though the body is an important factor and companion.
Everything according to this book is a symbol and can contain or reveil embeded information. That's true. It's also true you can project what you have to sort of pick up info stuffs into a catalyst like metamorphosis. Something thag the intended outcomes from info beings may not anticipate (that... depends on the beings).
Seeing the meta symbols can be just finding metaphors or similes or foreshadowing. Other times you'll need prerequisites stuff to correctly form the intended info construct.
Now to the extremely practical part. As (evoked) automatic writing or drawing can be done this opens up many possibilities. To enact skills you may not have you can 'download' that. You could also invoke stuff (basically it's in you to be constructed inside you). Can also be applied to any thing, blue prints, music, working out, going to the bathroom, breathing, anything!
The lines between various occult stuffs is interconnected.
You can ask about things you might not know (or do know) the answer to, and that too can be considered magic. Because stuff happens inside and outside.
When someone goes to the underworld in Greek mythology to save someone to be sure to mever look behind them or else they will never be able to be brought back. That describes what happens when the information stuffs is interrupted in the middle. They become once again truly dead.
Unlike some mythological heros at times you'll have a couple attempts, but you may have to clear away old debris.
The relm of the 'dead' is the unactualized. To be in the land of the living is where physicality takes place.
To sense the not physical is the same thing. Looking with your eyes you'll not be able to also see those things.
This is squiggly characters <--- but you can also aggregate those squiggly characters and dots into something meaningful. This is for all senses, while there is a sense of intertwinedness with physical senses that doesn't have to be the case at all.
As such you can speak without speaking and write without writing. Anyway that's crazy talk for another time.