004 Trauma For Your Own Good

The presence of a stalker; previous experiences of stalkers from our Open Enlightenment project; well-intentioned stalkers and stalkers with a malevolent intention; confrontation with the current stalker; this person’s tactics: fake accounts, on-line harassment, smears, and misattribution; the assumption of good faith; the actual indifference of the stalker to the ideas they pretend to care about; the stalker’s participation in a magical working to contact the Third Order / Great White Brotherhood; our experience of these beings from the Tempe workings; the mistakes we made and the necessity of learning from mistakes in magick; the nature of these beings and of the prophecies they provide; the mistakes made in the working to contact the Third Order and its embarrassing results; the implications for the stalker of being told “f**k you!” by the Third Order; the ethical conduct of the stalker during this working and its effects; the prophecies made during the working; on the warpath against the Third Order and the Arcanum Arcanorum; criticisms of the lineage of the Arcanum Arcanorum; the current tendency to depose the prophets; the possible motivations of post-Crowleyism; the way back from mistakes in magick; how mastery in magick depends upon the recognition of delusion and the willingness to confront it; the warpath prophecy; binding practice and its difference from “binding” in the sense of enchantment; the working to contact the Third Order as an origin scene explaining the role of the stalker and the constant humiliation in which it results; how the stalker says no to the practice yet is continuously attracted to it; a personal example of attraction to something in order to try to negate it; the line between criticism and harassment; the process of initiation as turning the right way up what is fallen; the ill-will of the stalker; the analogy of the bees, butterflies, and spiders in Magia; the spider and the narcissist; the use of narcissism as an insult and its difference from true self-love; narcissism and control; the difference between narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder; the challenge of changing narcissistic behaviour; the inner void from which the narcissist is hiding; the fire of awakening as an illumination of the void; questioning the notion of narcissism as a block to awakening; the examples of Andrew Cohen and Jiddu Krishnamurti; the importance of personal responsibility in the face of cultural delusion; the contemporary discourse around the divine and magick, which both entail confrontation with the inner void; cultural narcissism; a personal example of the horror of the inner void; how our culture pretends it is the goal of history and that the prophets and the divine never existed.

The livestream of the working to contact the Third Order mentioned in this episode has recently been withdrawn from public access. However, for anyone interested, a written transcript (with commentary) entitled "The Demonstration" is available at: https://tinyurl.com/2cym69eb. (Direct link to PDF file: https://tinyurl.com/5zwfhnt4.)

BBC Select (2021). Was Andrew Cohen's EnlightenNext group a cult? https://tinyurl.com/2p9dfmhm (youtube.com). Accessed December 2022.

Stephen LaBerge (2009). Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life. Boulder, CO: Sounds True.

The Open University (2022). Charles W. Leadbeater, https://tinyurl.com/2jtnj55e (open.ac.uk). Accessed December 2022.

Richard Whittaker (2011). Interview with Peter Kingsley: Remembering what we have forgotten, https://tinyurl.com/mr2wmsc7 (conversations.org). Accessed December 2022.

Intro music by Alan Chapman. Outro music from loops by users mildperil, Tumbleweed, and VladEisch at looperman.com.

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