tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post4441942069296703739..comments2024-03-18T17:03:17.871-05:00Comments on Augoeides: Intent and ProcedureScott Stenwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12389664381513219613noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-76226652990256074842019-02-07T17:19:15.202-06:002019-02-07T17:19:15.202-06:00Offerings are always helpful, if you are working w...Offerings are always helpful, if you are working with planetary spirits. Alcohol of whatever sort generally makes a good offering. You can pour out a cup of whatever and dedicate it out loud to the spirit that is doing the work.<br /><br />You can also do some work with the ceremonial forms. LIRP/LIRH (the "invoking field") is good for boosting ongoing operations. You could do that for, say, a week, following it up with the Greater Invoking Ritual of the Hexagram for the planet attributed to the day. Bonus points if you can do it in the hour as well, though sometimes that isn't practical.<br /><br />You can also do both - precede your offering for the day with those forms. You should see at least a bit of a power boost for your ongoing operations, likely more than a bit.Scott Stenwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389664381513219613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-19800957668923239702019-02-07T15:23:13.617-06:002019-02-07T15:23:13.617-06:00Can you answer me a question?
Scott, I have severa...Can you answer me a question?<br />Scott, I have several planetary petitions coming from successful rituals, but some of them already have a lot of time.<br />Is there a generic ritual that I can lightly recharge on all of these petitions at the same time?RobLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01407765378911265950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-41815671870328527762019-01-29T11:27:47.675-06:002019-01-29T11:27:47.675-06:00(continued)
To clarify a bit, your brain does do ...(continued)<br /><br />To clarify a bit, your brain does do a lot of unconscious processing. But none of is really self-aware or fully coherent in the same way that our conscious minds are. Nearly all autonomous processing is unconscious, with the partial exception of breathing (which can be both consciously manipulated and autonomous). Likewise, the conditioning system is unconscious until a conditioning loop activates. But again, not a mind.<br /><br />If you study Behaviorism you can quickly find all the rules that the conditioning system uses to create links. All it does is signal you to repeat behaviors for which you have been rewarded in the past whenever a situation comes up that's similar enough to one you previously experienced. That's it. Even if your condition system is pushing you to do ineffective things, it doesn't "want you to fail." It doesn't "want" anything - it's basically little more than a simple computer that slavishly runs programs.<br /><br />The conditioning system can push you to do ineffective things precisely because it has no real awareness or capacity for reflection. Situations change, but conditioning loops keep running. Compare this to the idea in Buddhism about how attachment causes suffering because of impermanence. I'm convinced that describes the same issue.<br /><br />Another useful piece of data. In the same set of experiments that found psychoanalysis no more effective than sham therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy DID show improvement over the sham condition. That probably is because unlike psychoanalysis, it directly addresses conditioning loops from the standpoint of classical and operant conditioning.<br /><br />Neuroscience has exploded over the last twenty years. I'm pretty sure you can Google just about anything in this comment and find some supporting data. What I find especially weird about psychoanalysis is that it so thoroughly has permeated our culture even though it has no scientific basis whatsoever and is probably based on outright fraud.<br /><br />Freud should still be given credit for the idea that patients could get better if you talked with them instead of, say, chaining them to walls and spraying them down with fire hoses. But really, that's a pretty low bar. Maybe he thought that exaggerating his method's effectiveness would help end some of those abuses or something like that - which I have to say, I wouldn't entirely fault under the circumstances.<br /><br />But we are long past the time when psychoanalysis should be considered serious mental health treatment or used as any sort of cognitive model. There are still people who want to treat it as some sort of model for magick, which is hopelessly misguided. You might as well base your magick on phrenology.Scott Stenwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389664381513219613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-47223578953840048312019-01-29T11:27:33.381-06:002019-01-29T11:27:33.381-06:00That is an interpolation from several different ob...That is an interpolation from several different observations, but here is the gist. We know that memory is not indelible and it also is not "all in there." Memories actually fade out if you don't access them - they aren't "repressed" in some way that makes them entirely present but still unavailable to the conscious mind.<br /><br />Every time you remember something, your brain rebuilds it using a combination of base assumptions and a few key data points. The more often you remember something, the more likely it is to be accurate. But there is an enormous amount of data now showing how easy it is to induce false details and entire false memories. <br /><br />The "Satanic Ritual Abuse" scare of the 1980's and early 1990s depended almost entirely on the idea that memories could be "recovered," but subsequent medical testing identified all sorts of things that alleged survivors remembered, but which were entirely impossible. The FBI debunked the whole thing in 1991 and I think you can still find the report online.<br /><br />More recently evidence has come to light that Freud falsified many of his clinical case studies so that they would fit his theories. That adds a whole other dimension to what may or may not have been going on while he was developing psychoanalysis.<br /><br />The Freudian model absolutely cannot survive without persistent memory and the repression effect. If memory is not persistent, it means that you don't need a sort of "psychic censor" to explain why we all don't have photographic memories. Without the psychic censor, the tension that is supposed to arise from repression and create neuroses doesn't exist. And so on. The whole thing falls like a house of cards.<br /><br />Other key pieces of evidence - in controlled scientific studies, psychoanalysis performs no better than "sham therapy" which involves meeting with subjects and talking about nothing in particular. Also, what we know about PTSD completely contradicts the Freudian model. Psychoanalysis would propose that PTSD sufferers should be unable to recall traumatic memories because of the psychic censor, but in fact the usual problem is the PTSD sufferers can't stop remembering the trauma they experienced.<br /><br />Scott Stenwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389664381513219613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-16640099814955206552019-01-29T03:11:58.198-06:002019-01-29T03:11:58.198-06:00Great reading, thank you. Can you elaborate or sha...Great reading, thank you. Can you elaborate or share a link or two on this: <br />"Thanks to neuroscience we now know that the "unconscious mind" isn't a real thing, in that unconscious brain processing doesn't organize itself into anything resembling a mind. We know that the Freudian "iceberg model," in which huge portions of your mind are always running on an unconscious level, is also wrong."Sampsahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03608849248233908644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-58426331328838655272019-01-28T15:56:40.683-06:002019-01-28T15:56:40.683-06:00You are very welcome!You are very welcome!Scott Stenwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389664381513219613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-76926348420552203762019-01-28T15:21:50.575-06:002019-01-28T15:21:50.575-06:00This is my favorite post of yours in ages. Really...This is my favorite post of yours in ages. Really nicely done, my friend.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09394892615762408206noreply@blogger.com