93 IAO131,

Thanks for clarifying. Re-reading in the context of invoking the Higher Self it becomes clear that the text was being specific about invoking the Higher Self.

What I find surprising is that for all the illusion of the existence of sentient entities, following this line of thought it would be consistent to say that the Goetic demons and the Fallen Angels are aspects of the same higher self, or in Freudian terms they would be part of the superego.

Now does that bring into play the 'universal consciousness' in the sense that Satan, for example, can be invoked and have similar characteristics from person to person because Satan is part of the universal psyche and therefore is present in all of us?

The next question which begs to be asked is how can one explain ghosts and poltergeist effects in the same context? I have been in situations where I have experienced poltergeists and having objects fly around the room - effects which are observable by others (in my case my wife and kids) - can make it look pretty convincing that these entities are independent of one's own psyche.

93,

A good response, thanks. It is true that it is very difficult to get empirical evidence in these matters, mainly because the culprit always vanishes and can't be caught! ;) Yet ghosts and poltergeist activity are reported every day right across the world. In my case I didn't know how to get rid of them so I mentioned my problems to a Christian friend who suggested I call the local Bishop of the Church of England (I was living in England at the time).

The kind Bishop sent out someone that very evening who specialises in these matters and did a 'house blessing' for us (apparently only the Catholics call it exorcism since the movie 'The Exorcist' was released). I am happy to say it really worked, which surprised me at the time.

The creaking floorboards stopped, the woman in the rocking chair disappeared, the old man who used to attack me in my sleep never came back, remote controls stopped flying around the room and I stopped finding paintings lying on their faces when awoken with crashing noises at 3 O' clock in the morning. And the best part is I stopped getting ice cold dead walking through me in the middle of the night and standing next to me as I was having a pee in the en-suite.

Now, let us say that all of this is going on in my unconscious mind, which is projecting this exciting holographic reality of stuff flying around the room. It's a plausible theory for sure. But then it turns out that the woman I sleep with is in the same room and she is reporting the same phenomena. In fact, she was the one who woke me up to warn me!

Now the question is this: is my woman synchronising her own reality with my own, so that it is possible that she is experiencing the same 'fiction of the human psyche' at the same time as I am and can recall the same phenomena in vivid detail four years later, or is it possible that even the woman I love to shag every morning is nothing more than a 'fiction of my psyche'? Is anything at all real? Are we insane?

93,

I had to type up the whole experience for the Bishop but I still cannot offer a scientific explanation except to say that it might have been some sort of aberration of the physical reality that was powerful enough to be observed by others.

I went through a period of tripping in the astral world where I would wake up in an identical reality as the physical plane. I would wander about starting the day in the usual manner when suddenly really strange things would happen. For example, I discovered that I could fly. Other times it could get quite scary. For example, I once saw odd little folk with spears, dressed in animal skins running around my house. After several of these incidents, upon awakening I would look for clues in order to figure out which reality I was in; one of my tests was to check whether my physical body was still lying in bed.

Coming back to my question: on the one hand we observe these strange paranormal events which defy the rules of physical science and what is really interesting is that these same events are being observed by other people with whom we are interacting in the physical realm. Is it possible that all the people around us and the world itself is nothing more than the projection of a dream created by our unconscious minds?

Is it possible that all the love, joy, fear, lust, pain, sadness and happiness that we experience are no more real than the dreams we have when we are asleep? Extending this hypothesis, it means that all the people we know are not really individual stars in their own orbit; even you IAO131 are really nothing more than a 'fiction of my own psyche'. Surely this must be the logical conclusion of Thelema?

If this is the case, then there is no reason why poltergeists should not exist.

Alternatively, if my wife and kids and IAO131 exist independently of my own psyche then the physical reality must have some mechanism which allows the consciousness of other beings to interface in the physical realm. If that is true, then it is not a long leap that non-physical entities - that is to say, entities which are formed of only the unconscious mind and who have not incarnated into physical reality - may also have the power to affect our perception of the holographic physical realm.

93 93/93,

Undsalsufy