04-15-2013, 10:54 PM
It's refreshing to read a different slant on conventional metaphysical understandings. (Thanks to Sifter) for this interesting site...
"The 'dark force'" is a term of convenience that I have been using for some time now, albeit now generally preferring to replace that with "the garbage" wherever usage of the latter word would be properly understood, to signify an extremely troublesome non-physical influence that interferes with every single person on the planet, whether or not they recognise that interference or even acknowledge its existence. It constantly puts illusory manifestations into people's minds and cultivates actual illusory realities there, so all the time obscuring its true nature while it goes about interfering with those people in very specific ways that are all based on a consistent, purposeful and extremely harmful 'agenda'.
![[Image: me-icon_wink.gif]](http://www.clarity-of-being.org/me-icon_wink.gif)
It is thus only a figurative expression, which I have always used only very reluctantly because it seemed to me that all the better terms I had come up with would be completely unfamiliar to other people within this particular context, and it would undoubtedly create still more confusion if I switched over to using one of them publicly instead of 'dark force'. My own 'internal' personal term for the 'dark force' is the 'garbage', and that is the term I use in my own personal daily journal. However, that would be too confusing for me to use generally in public, except in particular circumstances where it was clear to everyone what I was referring to. Other terms for it that I have come up with include 'the universal cack' (probably the best term to use in a formal treatise; very likely capitalized), 'the cack influence', 'the caco-influence' and 'the naff influence' or even just 'the cack' or 'the naff'.
A really suitable term would be at least reasonably free from pre-existing connotations - and therein lies the BIG problem with calling this troublesome influence the 'dark force', because the latter term embodies almost universal misconceptions of what this influence actually is, and triggers a whole lot of extremely unhelpful fear in people almost universally - albeit some people responding in a distorted, inverted manner to that fear by being drawn to what they are calling 'dark' and playing about with it, much to their and many other people's major detriment. At least I seek to emphasize the figurative nature of the term as I use it, by always enclosing it in single quotes.
In February 2013 I decided to take the bull by the horns and actually switch over to using primarily 'garbage' on this site rather than 'dark force' - but with enough uses of the latter term to make it clear what I am referring to, and also to ensure that Internet search queries for 'dark force' still find all the relevant pages on this site.
You can read further below how the garbage not only causes people all sorts of personal problems directly, but, as part of all that, distorts every person's perception of the nature of reality and indeed the nature of the garbage itself. Thus, what I have written below will challenge almost everyone's beliefs and preconceived notions about the nature of reality, of ourselves, of any supposedly higher realities, and of course the nature of the garbage itself, and of what appear to be non-physical beings (no matter whether supposedly 'high', 'divine', 'lower' or indeed 'dark'). Inevitably also the true nature of what people refer to as 'spirituality' comes under the magnifying glass here, and I show how it is something that people who really understand would avoid like the plague.
NOT force / forces / spirit of Nature!
Before moving on from defining what I mean by the garbage, it is as well for me to lay to rest an insidious distortion of 'understanding' about it that is maintained by probably a large majority of those who actively consort with or otherwise muck around with it, getting some perverse 'kick' or thrill out of their 'playing with fire'. Typically, Satanists and others who deal with the garbage seek to justify their 'dark' practices and dealing with the garbage (variously named) by claiming that what they are dealing with is actually the 'forces of Nature' (or a similar term) - then going on to claim that as 'the dark forces' are just forces or spirits of Nature it is better that we work with them rather than against them.
That latter claim can sound horribly convincing until you actually stop and think about it properly. The obvious question that such people are begging is, "Where has this notion come from, that what is widely known as 'the forces of darkness' or similar terms is really the force / forces / spirit(s) of Nature?". Tell me even just one means by which I can verify that this extremely troublesome influence is simply an essential part, or indeed the 'driving force', of 'Nature' (and also, please include your definition of 'Nature')!
There is only one possible source of such notions, and that is, directly or indirectly, the garbage itself! - And the garbage is honest and accurate in telling people what it is, huh? - See if you still believe that after reading through this mammoth report!
So far I have seen no sign that a single one of those people holds that view about the garbage being the 'force(s) of Nature' on the basis of anything other than a belief that they have taken on, effectively to try to cover over the subtle and 'quiet' warnings that they are each getting from their own deepest aspects, that their involvement with the garbage is extremely harmful and for the benefit of the garbage only and not for the benefit in the slightest degree of any person in the whole of 'Existence'.
It is no good, of course, my trying to convince any of those misguided individuals that they are off the rails and in seriously deep trouble, because of the way their beliefs and garbage control operate. However, at least it is worthwhile for me to counsel here to other people to stop and think before they seal their more or less horrendous fate by buying the story that the garbage is something to do with what we loosely call Nature, and using that then as a supposed justification for dealing with what, for good reason, I prefer to call 'the garbage', but could equally call 'the people destroyer' and similar terms.
Please read on here and see for yourself whether there is really a rational basis for thinking or indeed just assuming that the garbage is anything to do with 'Nature' or is otherwise anything that makes sense for anyone to be dealing with...![[Image: me-icon_confused.gif]](http://www.clarity-of-being.org/me-icon_confused.gif)
Scary stuff!? -- Boll*cks, no!
The title and indeed subject of this page may initially seem to you very scary indeed. But let me reassure you that the only 'untoward' result of your reading this page would be untoward for the garbage and not you, for you could find yourself understanding sufficient to start becoming to some extent a weakening influence upon the garbage and its manifestations (yes, I do mean you, yourself could!), at the very least through ceasing to keep reinforcing it in ways that you have so far been unawarely (or even in some cases maybe awarely?) doing. Fear is based in confusion and failure to understand. Thus, what I am doing on this page, through disseminating knowledge and understanding from the basis and viewpoint of real practical experience and clear-mindedness, is to actually enable readers to weaken and eventually eliminate the hold upon them of the mortal fear, dread and terror that the garbage has cultivated in them in order to keep them away from ever finding out what that troublesome influence really is, and thus from ever doing anything effective about it.
My 'message' is thus NOT one of paranoia but one of simply clear-mindedly looking at what is really there and then getting to understand how that 'ticks', and then using that understanding to do down-to-earth and practical things to enable us at the very least to minimize, and potentially even altogether to resolve, this pressing problem that the existence of the garbage has been presenting to us.
Is that not really the intelligent way to address ANY problem? So far people have attempted to address the garbage problem by 'throwing beliefs at it', or by going into denial (which is really just another belief) and lamely claiming that the so-called garbage is just manifestations of particular people's wayward imaginations (or 'sick minds'). In other words virtually universally people have been wasting their time chasing after or battling against the illusory paper tigers (posing as their adversaries) that the garbage presents them with, or simply 'burying their heads in the sand' and thus letting the supposedly nonexistent garbage quietly walk all over them while they hope and assume that it does not really exist or at least has not noticed them if by any chance it really does exist. However, now, at last, we have a chance to cut through those wool-gathering and completely futile types of strategy and go about the task in a way that actually works and brings great benefits!
Illusory identities of the garbage ('dark force')
Virtually universally, the garbage, usually described more diffusely as 'the forces of darkness' or similar, has got itself identified in people's minds as various kinds of 'dark' being or 'entity', such as Satan, Lucifer, 'dark' spirits, demons, 'lower astral beings', archons, astral lords, dark angels, dark guides, forces / spirits of Nature, and so on, which are perceived as being pitted against 'positive' or 'higher' beings and presences such as God, the various angels and archangels, and other 'higher' beings such as 'ascended masters' and a whole 'menagerie' of supposedly highly beneficial astral gods / goddesses. Further below I show how wide of the mark the popular notions of the nature / identity of those various beings / entities / presences really are - i.e. according to the working model that I developed in order to usefully explain the masses of observations of mine that were not helpfully explained by the angles on major troublesome influences that are presented by the various traditions and belief systems.
Thus the real polarity that is maintained by the presence of the garbage ('dark force') is NOT dark vs light but confusion plus inner captivity vs clarity plus inner freedom.
What is the 'force' of clarity and inner freedom, then? -- Nothing less than our own deepest nature - fundamental consciousness and all that emanates directly from it. That is why we are so completely off the rails when we look outside ourselves for a 'force of light' as means to counter the the supposed 'dark force', and why self actualization* is the only fully effective means to get clear of all garbage interference from oneself. That is also why the garbage is constantly and strenuously seeking to get every single person, each in their different way, looking either outside themselves or to outright denial for his means to supposedly avoid or clear himself of garbage interference.
A surfeit of 'dimensions' - and of 'divinity'!
People with 'psychic' perceptions or who channel 'information' from non-physical sources have very widely come up with variants of a model of 'reality' that splits it into a number of levels or 'dimensions' (there are commonly claimed to be 13), giving the physical level as being the 3rd dimension, with the 4th commonly being called the astral dimension and the 9th being the place where all the angels and archangels hang out. However, as I now only too well understand, ALL such scenarios and stories are bogus - inventions of the garbage, which mediates in ALL channelling done by ANYONE, and similarly mediates in ALL supposedly clairvoyant perceptions.
The actual situation appears to be as follows. We are basically consciousness that is going through the experience of seeming to be in a physical body in a physical 'reality'. The deepest aspects of each of us as consciousness are very subtle and are actually the all-pervading 'universal' consciousness, which I am calling fundamental consciousness (I do not use the definite article with that term, because it is even less a 'thing' than water or air or 'space' is).
When we become enlightened we perceive directly that deepest and most fundamental reality and recognise it as our true nature and identity. That level of consciousness is non-dual and apparently totally devoid of concepts, and thus within it you cannot say that anything exists or not; you simply experience. This is the aspect of consciousness out of which all experiences arise but, however, that fundamental consciousness remains pure, unsullied and apparently concept-free no matter what you are experiencing.
Thus, provided that no external influence has somehow inserted particular distortions into us as pure consciousness, each of us would be a continuum of consciousness from fundamental consciousness to our superficial, ordinary 'minds', with NO discrete or identifiable levels of consciousness / reality, and there would be no semblance of non-physical 'dimensions', nor supposed 'higher realities' apart from one's own deepest aspects. - And this is the situation that is perceived by a truly enlightened person without garbage interference.
So, apparently, from the viewpoint of a person who is sufficiently free of garbage interference, the locations in which all supposedly 'higher' non-physical beings and presences are believed to reside simply do not exist, and thus must be illusory or indeed completely fictional! What are we to make of this?!
Yes, the clear implication is that not only the 'bad', 'lower' or troublesome beings / presences have no objective existence, but also neither do any of the supposed 'higher' beings / presences either!
So, now we need to look more closely at how it is that all those apparently non-existent non-physical 'realities', and the beings and presences that they supposedly contain actually seem to many people to be 'real'.
Getting clear about what 'astral' means
There appears to be another broad, non-physical aspect of consciousness or reality, which is strongly dualistic and conceptual and thus very different from fundamental consciousness, and yet which is not that of our worldly or physical awareness. It is this that I am calling the astral sub-reality, which the troublesome garbage has got people to notionally divide up into 'dimensions' and all manner of supposed 'higher' realities. I myself had 'bought' the story of all these 'dimensions' of supposedly higher reality, but it never matched up with my direct perception of myself as simply a manifestation or micro-facet of fundamental consciousness - in which the perception of specific levels or dimensions of 'higher' reality simply did not make sense, and neither did the notion of higher beings make sense to me, because I as an Earthly human was already a manifestation of 'the Ultimate', so, where was the room for beings that were 'higher' than me?
So, although it could sound more familiar for me to talk of the astral 'level' or 'dimension', really it would be most helpful always to talk of the astral sub-reality instead.
The astral sub-reality is the aspect of reality into which we
project all our illusions, beliefs and distorted perceptions.
Each belief that a person creates or picks up is the most tangible aspect of a corresponding illusory reality that is usually more or less concealed within the person's mindspace. The garbage (often but not necessarily posing as one of it plethora of illusory identities such as 'astral beings') ruthlessly exploits that fact for its seriously nefarious purposes as I shall explain further below.
While I am on the subject of illusions, please note something important here - of especial importance to put psychiatric workers in their place and get them thinking awarely about their own situation. A delusion is an illusion that is believed, and which is hung onto in the face of contradicting evidence. Indeed, if you stop and awarely think about it, every held belief of anybody's is a delusion. If something is really true, there is no good cause to hold a belief about it anyway. So, if you are, for example, a psychiatric worker and believe that there is no non-physical reality and that non-physical entities, the garbage and so forth are just 'imagination' or creations of people's sick minds, then you yourself have a delusion right there in holding that belief. A favourite delusion of psychiatric workers is the notion that so-called mental health issues can usefully be addressed by means of medication and ECT rather than finding and addressing the underlying causes of the particular problems. So, when a psychiatric worker talks of another person as 'having delusions', with no reference to any delusions of his/her own, (s)he is actually saying something absurdly funny (that is, it would seem funny if one turned a blind eye to the tremendous harm that that sort of outlook has brought to so many victims of such psychiatric workers)!
A fully open, belief-free mind is the only helpful way forward" (Philip Goddard 1/2" down).
http://www.clarity-of-being.org/dark-for...nature.htm
"The 'dark force'" is a term of convenience that I have been using for some time now, albeit now generally preferring to replace that with "the garbage" wherever usage of the latter word would be properly understood, to signify an extremely troublesome non-physical influence that interferes with every single person on the planet, whether or not they recognise that interference or even acknowledge its existence. It constantly puts illusory manifestations into people's minds and cultivates actual illusory realities there, so all the time obscuring its true nature while it goes about interfering with those people in very specific ways that are all based on a consistent, purposeful and extremely harmful 'agenda'.
Quote:* You will read further below just why I broke with convention / tradition and came to use the term 'dark force' in the singular - and, as you will see, my reason for doing so was far from some petty little quirk of mine.'Dark force' is a great term for what I am writing about here, except that the latter is not dark and it is not a force in any helpful sense!
With regard to the very notion of there being a 'dark force', this is nothing to do with 'the Force' in the Star Wars TV series - except that the writers of that were, awarely or unawarely, presenting a fanciful and thus more or less distorted version of the actual 'dark force'. So, those who dismiss my writings because my talking of the 'dark force' is, according to them, just presenting a "junky Star Wars type of scenario" are making complete fools of themselves. In reality, Star Wars has been presenting simply a junky, trivialized depiction of the actual 'dark force', which latter is what I myself have the dubious 'pleasure' of going on about on this site.
It is thus only a figurative expression, which I have always used only very reluctantly because it seemed to me that all the better terms I had come up with would be completely unfamiliar to other people within this particular context, and it would undoubtedly create still more confusion if I switched over to using one of them publicly instead of 'dark force'. My own 'internal' personal term for the 'dark force' is the 'garbage', and that is the term I use in my own personal daily journal. However, that would be too confusing for me to use generally in public, except in particular circumstances where it was clear to everyone what I was referring to. Other terms for it that I have come up with include 'the universal cack' (probably the best term to use in a formal treatise; very likely capitalized), 'the cack influence', 'the caco-influence' and 'the naff influence' or even just 'the cack' or 'the naff'.A really suitable term would be at least reasonably free from pre-existing connotations - and therein lies the BIG problem with calling this troublesome influence the 'dark force', because the latter term embodies almost universal misconceptions of what this influence actually is, and triggers a whole lot of extremely unhelpful fear in people almost universally - albeit some people responding in a distorted, inverted manner to that fear by being drawn to what they are calling 'dark' and playing about with it, much to their and many other people's major detriment. At least I seek to emphasize the figurative nature of the term as I use it, by always enclosing it in single quotes.
In February 2013 I decided to take the bull by the horns and actually switch over to using primarily 'garbage' on this site rather than 'dark force' - but with enough uses of the latter term to make it clear what I am referring to, and also to ensure that Internet search queries for 'dark force' still find all the relevant pages on this site.
You can read further below how the garbage not only causes people all sorts of personal problems directly, but, as part of all that, distorts every person's perception of the nature of reality and indeed the nature of the garbage itself. Thus, what I have written below will challenge almost everyone's beliefs and preconceived notions about the nature of reality, of ourselves, of any supposedly higher realities, and of course the nature of the garbage itself, and of what appear to be non-physical beings (no matter whether supposedly 'high', 'divine', 'lower' or indeed 'dark'). Inevitably also the true nature of what people refer to as 'spirituality' comes under the magnifying glass here, and I show how it is something that people who really understand would avoid like the plague.
NOT force / forces / spirit of Nature!
Before moving on from defining what I mean by the garbage, it is as well for me to lay to rest an insidious distortion of 'understanding' about it that is maintained by probably a large majority of those who actively consort with or otherwise muck around with it, getting some perverse 'kick' or thrill out of their 'playing with fire'. Typically, Satanists and others who deal with the garbage seek to justify their 'dark' practices and dealing with the garbage (variously named) by claiming that what they are dealing with is actually the 'forces of Nature' (or a similar term) - then going on to claim that as 'the dark forces' are just forces or spirits of Nature it is better that we work with them rather than against them.
That latter claim can sound horribly convincing until you actually stop and think about it properly. The obvious question that such people are begging is, "Where has this notion come from, that what is widely known as 'the forces of darkness' or similar terms is really the force / forces / spirit(s) of Nature?". Tell me even just one means by which I can verify that this extremely troublesome influence is simply an essential part, or indeed the 'driving force', of 'Nature' (and also, please include your definition of 'Nature')!
There is only one possible source of such notions, and that is, directly or indirectly, the garbage itself! - And the garbage is honest and accurate in telling people what it is, huh? - See if you still believe that after reading through this mammoth report!
So far I have seen no sign that a single one of those people holds that view about the garbage being the 'force(s) of Nature' on the basis of anything other than a belief that they have taken on, effectively to try to cover over the subtle and 'quiet' warnings that they are each getting from their own deepest aspects, that their involvement with the garbage is extremely harmful and for the benefit of the garbage only and not for the benefit in the slightest degree of any person in the whole of 'Existence'.
It is no good, of course, my trying to convince any of those misguided individuals that they are off the rails and in seriously deep trouble, because of the way their beliefs and garbage control operate. However, at least it is worthwhile for me to counsel here to other people to stop and think before they seal their more or less horrendous fate by buying the story that the garbage is something to do with what we loosely call Nature, and using that then as a supposed justification for dealing with what, for good reason, I prefer to call 'the garbage', but could equally call 'the people destroyer' and similar terms.
Please read on here and see for yourself whether there is really a rational basis for thinking or indeed just assuming that the garbage is anything to do with 'Nature' or is otherwise anything that makes sense for anyone to be dealing with...
Scary stuff!? -- Boll*cks, no!
The title and indeed subject of this page may initially seem to you very scary indeed. But let me reassure you that the only 'untoward' result of your reading this page would be untoward for the garbage and not you, for you could find yourself understanding sufficient to start becoming to some extent a weakening influence upon the garbage and its manifestations (yes, I do mean you, yourself could!), at the very least through ceasing to keep reinforcing it in ways that you have so far been unawarely (or even in some cases maybe awarely?) doing. Fear is based in confusion and failure to understand. Thus, what I am doing on this page, through disseminating knowledge and understanding from the basis and viewpoint of real practical experience and clear-mindedness, is to actually enable readers to weaken and eventually eliminate the hold upon them of the mortal fear, dread and terror that the garbage has cultivated in them in order to keep them away from ever finding out what that troublesome influence really is, and thus from ever doing anything effective about it.
My 'message' is thus NOT one of paranoia but one of simply clear-mindedly looking at what is really there and then getting to understand how that 'ticks', and then using that understanding to do down-to-earth and practical things to enable us at the very least to minimize, and potentially even altogether to resolve, this pressing problem that the existence of the garbage has been presenting to us.
Is that not really the intelligent way to address ANY problem? So far people have attempted to address the garbage problem by 'throwing beliefs at it', or by going into denial (which is really just another belief) and lamely claiming that the so-called garbage is just manifestations of particular people's wayward imaginations (or 'sick minds'). In other words virtually universally people have been wasting their time chasing after or battling against the illusory paper tigers (posing as their adversaries) that the garbage presents them with, or simply 'burying their heads in the sand' and thus letting the supposedly nonexistent garbage quietly walk all over them while they hope and assume that it does not really exist or at least has not noticed them if by any chance it really does exist. However, now, at last, we have a chance to cut through those wool-gathering and completely futile types of strategy and go about the task in a way that actually works and brings great benefits!
Illusory identities of the garbage ('dark force')
Virtually universally, the garbage, usually described more diffusely as 'the forces of darkness' or similar, has got itself identified in people's minds as various kinds of 'dark' being or 'entity', such as Satan, Lucifer, 'dark' spirits, demons, 'lower astral beings', archons, astral lords, dark angels, dark guides, forces / spirits of Nature, and so on, which are perceived as being pitted against 'positive' or 'higher' beings and presences such as God, the various angels and archangels, and other 'higher' beings such as 'ascended masters' and a whole 'menagerie' of supposedly highly beneficial astral gods / goddesses. Further below I show how wide of the mark the popular notions of the nature / identity of those various beings / entities / presences really are - i.e. according to the working model that I developed in order to usefully explain the masses of observations of mine that were not helpfully explained by the angles on major troublesome influences that are presented by the various traditions and belief systems.
Quote:Please note the special use of the term 'entity' that is widely used for any sort of non-physical being or 'spirit'. Generally a more or less 'low' or in some way 'negative' or harmful being is implied by that term. Thus, a supposed angel would technically count as an entity in this special sense, but in practice that term would not be used for any such supposedly 'higher' beings - and for many there is a certain loading of fear / menace in use of that word.I remind that the notion of 'dark' here is useful ONLY as a figure of speech to indicate something unwholesome for us, for it has nothing to do with actual darkness, whether physical or non-physical - except that it does signify confusion and thus not being able to see what is really there. (Please note the latter carefully, because that is one of the key aspects of this whole issue.) And also, as I came to recognise when I 'uncovered' the postulated cacoprotean network as being the primary aspect of the 'dark forces', really it is totally inaccurate to talk of the 'dark forces' in the plural like that, for it cannot help but really be the ''dark force'' (singular), although, of course, it has countless ramifications through the astral sub-reality in order to give uniquely tailored interference to every single human-type being in the whole of 'Existence'.
Thus the real polarity that is maintained by the presence of the garbage ('dark force') is NOT dark vs light but confusion plus inner captivity vs clarity plus inner freedom.
What is the 'force' of clarity and inner freedom, then? -- Nothing less than our own deepest nature - fundamental consciousness and all that emanates directly from it. That is why we are so completely off the rails when we look outside ourselves for a 'force of light' as means to counter the the supposed 'dark force', and why self actualization* is the only fully effective means to get clear of all garbage interference from oneself. That is also why the garbage is constantly and strenuously seeking to get every single person, each in their different way, looking either outside themselves or to outright denial for his means to supposedly avoid or clear himself of garbage interference.
Quote:* This is actually the same as the proper meaning of 'self realization', which is the more popular term in 'spirituality' circles.
A surfeit of 'dimensions' - and of 'divinity'!
People with 'psychic' perceptions or who channel 'information' from non-physical sources have very widely come up with variants of a model of 'reality' that splits it into a number of levels or 'dimensions' (there are commonly claimed to be 13), giving the physical level as being the 3rd dimension, with the 4th commonly being called the astral dimension and the 9th being the place where all the angels and archangels hang out. However, as I now only too well understand, ALL such scenarios and stories are bogus - inventions of the garbage, which mediates in ALL channelling done by ANYONE, and similarly mediates in ALL supposedly clairvoyant perceptions.
The actual situation appears to be as follows. We are basically consciousness that is going through the experience of seeming to be in a physical body in a physical 'reality'. The deepest aspects of each of us as consciousness are very subtle and are actually the all-pervading 'universal' consciousness, which I am calling fundamental consciousness (I do not use the definite article with that term, because it is even less a 'thing' than water or air or 'space' is).
When we become enlightened we perceive directly that deepest and most fundamental reality and recognise it as our true nature and identity. That level of consciousness is non-dual and apparently totally devoid of concepts, and thus within it you cannot say that anything exists or not; you simply experience. This is the aspect of consciousness out of which all experiences arise but, however, that fundamental consciousness remains pure, unsullied and apparently concept-free no matter what you are experiencing.
Thus, provided that no external influence has somehow inserted particular distortions into us as pure consciousness, each of us would be a continuum of consciousness from fundamental consciousness to our superficial, ordinary 'minds', with NO discrete or identifiable levels of consciousness / reality, and there would be no semblance of non-physical 'dimensions', nor supposed 'higher realities' apart from one's own deepest aspects. - And this is the situation that is perceived by a truly enlightened person without garbage interference.
So, apparently, from the viewpoint of a person who is sufficiently free of garbage interference, the locations in which all supposedly 'higher' non-physical beings and presences are believed to reside simply do not exist, and thus must be illusory or indeed completely fictional! What are we to make of this?!
Yes, the clear implication is that not only the 'bad', 'lower' or troublesome beings / presences have no objective existence, but also neither do any of the supposed 'higher' beings / presences either!
So, now we need to look more closely at how it is that all those apparently non-existent non-physical 'realities', and the beings and presences that they supposedly contain actually seem to many people to be 'real'.
Getting clear about what 'astral' means
There appears to be another broad, non-physical aspect of consciousness or reality, which is strongly dualistic and conceptual and thus very different from fundamental consciousness, and yet which is not that of our worldly or physical awareness. It is this that I am calling the astral sub-reality, which the troublesome garbage has got people to notionally divide up into 'dimensions' and all manner of supposed 'higher' realities. I myself had 'bought' the story of all these 'dimensions' of supposedly higher reality, but it never matched up with my direct perception of myself as simply a manifestation or micro-facet of fundamental consciousness - in which the perception of specific levels or dimensions of 'higher' reality simply did not make sense, and neither did the notion of higher beings make sense to me, because I as an Earthly human was already a manifestation of 'the Ultimate', so, where was the room for beings that were 'higher' than me?
So, although it could sound more familiar for me to talk of the astral 'level' or 'dimension', really it would be most helpful always to talk of the astral sub-reality instead.
The astral sub-reality is the aspect of reality into which we
project all our illusions, beliefs and distorted perceptions.
Each belief that a person creates or picks up is the most tangible aspect of a corresponding illusory reality that is usually more or less concealed within the person's mindspace. The garbage (often but not necessarily posing as one of it plethora of illusory identities such as 'astral beings') ruthlessly exploits that fact for its seriously nefarious purposes as I shall explain further below.
Quote:You may realize from the above that, to a fair extent, concepts like the Jungian 'common unconscious' and also the 'collective Human consciousness' recognised in various healing and New-Age related traditions, can be equated with at least part of the astral sub-reality as I define and describe it. To whatever extent they do not tally with it, they are likely to be confused / false information that has come from the garbage to 'throw people off the scent'.Now, if we recognise the astral sub-reality as being the aspect of reality / consciousness in which resides all major and in any way enduring illusion, perhaps you can see the sense in my otherwise very likely seemingly outrageous assertion that all apparently aware non-physical beings that interact with us are invariably illusory, and there cannot be such a phenomenon as actual, 'real', conscious beings in the astral sub-reality. As I explain further below, as far as I can tell, ALL the supposed higher realities that people believe in, which supposedly contain actual conscious beings, are simply different 'faces' presented to them of the illusions in the astral sub-reality - so, it would appear that there is no such thing as a 'real' non-physical being - at least, that we could ever know of.
While I am on the subject of illusions, please note something important here - of especial importance to put psychiatric workers in their place and get them thinking awarely about their own situation. A delusion is an illusion that is believed, and which is hung onto in the face of contradicting evidence. Indeed, if you stop and awarely think about it, every held belief of anybody's is a delusion. If something is really true, there is no good cause to hold a belief about it anyway. So, if you are, for example, a psychiatric worker and believe that there is no non-physical reality and that non-physical entities, the garbage and so forth are just 'imagination' or creations of people's sick minds, then you yourself have a delusion right there in holding that belief. A favourite delusion of psychiatric workers is the notion that so-called mental health issues can usefully be addressed by means of medication and ECT rather than finding and addressing the underlying causes of the particular problems. So, when a psychiatric worker talks of another person as 'having delusions', with no reference to any delusions of his/her own, (s)he is actually saying something absurdly funny (that is, it would seem funny if one turned a blind eye to the tremendous harm that that sort of outlook has brought to so many victims of such psychiatric workers)!
A fully open, belief-free mind is the only helpful way forward" (Philip Goddard 1/2" down).
http://www.clarity-of-being.org/dark-for...nature.htm
