Satan, the Dweller at the Threshold (involution-evolution)

Reading more about Dweller on the Threshold reframed my earlier doorway OBEs to have been a type of initiation to another degree of consciousness. I can see how, along a rather natural progression, the residual past me’s and even transpersonal -collective unconscious- the stuff of the World, formed a concentration of shadow consciousness. This was the entity next to the doorway. Or, like in the Wiki page, my confusion over these OBEs in the months that followed had to do with the cognitive dissonance of having experienced both vantage points, the ’solar angel’ and the ‘dweller’. Example: at the beginning I’m this bodiless, free being soaring around see-feeling in all directions. But then, I’m the one being pulled through a doorway, feeling myself being annihilated. Then pop I was back in my body. Several times this happened. Seemingly, I was going back to pick up these dwellers, until finally when I went to the meeting place there …

September 23rd, 2009

Things I Know For Sure

For those who may not be aware of the book, the title of this post is a nod to the Vonnegut book Sirens of Titan, wherein the main character, after being shoved around by the powers-that-be, has been brainwashed as a member of the Martian army. Though he starts off as a rather self-assured wealthy man in the beginning of the book, with the world at his fingertips, through a much more detailed chain of events than I have room to impart here (read the book!), he winds up as just another infantry soldier in the Martian army. He is repeatedly brainwashed as his natural proclivity for figuring things out arises again and again. During this time he makes a list entitled “Things I Know For Sure” which his brainwashed self repeatedly finds, learns from and makes additions to, thus this list helps him in clarifying his position within the state of things.

This notion of a list …

September 9th, 2009