There is nothing exterior. (sometimes I think that I am an agnostic! Then, I'm reminded of where I get my metaphysics from. Ah, I'm a Satanist...I'm a Satanist. LOL!!)

My understanding of reality and the metaphysical claims I accept came from my studies into science and philosophy. My philosophical and moral views and personal use of symbolism match up most closely with Satanism, which is why I consider myself a Satanist. I've never looked to Satanism for answers or reassurance of belief.

I recently went to a talk on Buddhism and meditation, and one of the statements made was that the brain is not the mind. This ties in with certain scientific thought on quantum physics and metaphysics. This is a fascinating subject and i believe it bears strongly on magicical practice. Reading books about science made me believe in magic whereas prior to this it was all so much superstition and hokum.

As much as Satanic philosophy is concerned, I have a statement to make: to each person, they can take whatever they can use.

When I take a look at something of interest, I like to concretely visualize all that is possible with its utility in my life.

It's applicability to how I live life occupies the primary reason why I gravitated towards it in the first place. I enjoy collating Satanism with life; therefore, making a bolder impression on my outlook of it.

What would make for interesting reading though is to have further sentences detailing what philosophical viewpoints you find illuminating, what kind of moral stances you take in relation to Satanism, etc. etc. (Just a suggestion)

The Objective Universe (OU): This is the physical totality of matter & energy, including your own physical body, extending in four dimensions.

Where I disagree is the idea that the SU is so separated from the OU. The psyche results from the brain, and the more I learn about brain structure and the utility of these different structures, the more confident I become in making that statement. I do not think that when I die what will be left is a "mindless mind." I expect there to be no mind at all, just as there would be no capacity for language if the language centers of ones brain were severely injured.

When you perform GM, you are messing around with your own psyche, but you are also messing with the way the neurons are wired in your brain, which is definitively part of the OU. With the performance of GM, you can change your own psyche and your own brain, but beyond that the only change that may occur from beyond the psyche is how others react to the change you've made within yourself.

This is what I think is actually holding magic back, magicians sit in poorly lit rooms with candles, or whatever they personally do, and try to influence events by thinking about it really, really hard.

I'll admit, as I had before, that this can be very beneficial if used with an understanding that you are only manipulating yourself. You can use it to make yourself more confident, more optimistic, think about the ways you can accomplish something, and what you might have to do if it fails. However, you still have to actually do something. Your body language, tone of voice, and actions will match that of somebody who is confident, optimistic, and knows what's going on, because you actually are confident, optimistic, and you've made sure you know what's going on. That will help you out in just about anything you do, but you need a goal and you need to take real action.

If an individual consciousness (ka, psyche, soul) fears, denies, and or rejects its distinction and isolation from the OU, it seeks to rejoin it, to be absorbed into it, to become indistinguishable from it. It attempts this through the generation of a SU which is as identical to, or at least as harmonious with the OU as possible, then obliterating its distinction and difference from that OU. This, in its many varieties, is WM. Its theoretical culmination is known by such names as Grace, Samadhi, Nirvana, etc. However WM is nevertheless an illusion, an act of self-deception or self-anesthetizing. It is never actual absorption into the OU, but only a SU construction of same. The most that the isolate consciousness can do is to stupefy itself until its physical extensions cease [in "death"], whereupon it lacks all coherence, becomes a "mindless mind": existing but having no focus or concept of this existence.

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